Travelers were forced to improvise and find alternate ways to their destinations as the Tokaido Shinkansen Line was partially suspended on July 22, stranding an estimated 250,000 passengers during ...

Central Japan Railway Co (JR Tokai) said it will start replacing almost half of the shared toilets with women-only toilets on shinkansen trains this month, with work to be completed by March 15. JR ...

A Tokaido Line N700S shinkansen bullet train is seen in Obu, Aichi Prefecture, on July 1, 2020. (Mainichi/Koji Hyodo) TOKYO -- Women-only washrooms will soon be installed on shinkansen bullet ...

All Tokaido and Sanyo bullet trains will include female-only toilets by next spring. Operator Central Japan Railway's 16-car bullet trains currently have only unisex toilets on each end of odd ...

By Joumana Khatib and Emma Lumeij Bloom Books took off with the help of E L James, the author of “Fifty Shades of Grey.” It broke with tradition and became the fastest-growing imprint in romance.

Here are the year’s most notable picture, chapter and middle grade books, selected by our children’s books editor. By Jennifer Krauss The protagonists of “A Day With Mousse,” “Little ...

Additionally, the single will include “Bokura no Tabi wa Owaranai,” a collaboration song with the JR Tokai Tokaido Shinkansen's 60th Anniversary Oshi Tabi campaign.

Research by the Open University shows that teacher knowledge of contemporary children's books makes a big difference when it comes to instilling a love of reading in pupils. Our bi-annual Book ...

That high-speed line between Tokyo and Osaka – the Tokaido Shinkansen – became known ... explore off-the-beaten-path corners of Japan. My guide, Hashimoto Yukinori, or "Yuki", invited me ...

New editions of books by John Dickson Carr, Tom Mead and Edna Sherry remind me why I loved them the first time. The first two books of “On the Calculation of Volume,” by Solvej Balle ...

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