Locals, train staff, rail fans and others welcomed the restoration of service on March 14 to part of the JR Joban Line in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, closed since the nuclear disaster ...

The East Japan Railway Company (JR East) has awarded a contract to Thales to design a communications-based train control system (CBTC) for Tokyo’s 30km-long Joban suburban line. The new CBTC system ...

In rail-reliant Japan, trains come and go with such frequency that most stations don’t bother to have an actual employee individually announce each arrival and departure. Instead, there’s usually a ...

Evacuation orders in the towns of Futaba, Okuma and Tomioka - imposed after the March 2011 accident at the nearby Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant - are to be partially lifted in early-March. The ...