Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) and Shizuoka Prefecture on Saturday signed a letter of agreement regarding water ...

China has set a global record by accelerating a ton-scale test vehicle to 700 kilometers per hour in just two seconds, marking the fastest performance of a superconducting electrodynamic suspension ...

A forest fire that started Thursday in the city of Uenohara, Yamanashi Prefecture, continued to spread Friday as firefighters and the Self-Defense Forces conducted aerial and ground firefighting ...

Central Japan Railway President Shunsuke Niwa has stressed that the company will continue promoting the construction of the Chuo Shinkansen, the high-speed magnetic levitation train line that has ...

Chinese scientists have achieved a milestone in magnetic levitation technology. Researchers at China's National University of Defence Technology successfully propelled a one-tonne vehicle to 700 ...

It's simple: The Shanghai Maglev is one of the fastest passenger trains in the world. Traveling at about 270 miles per hour, this train is the adult equivalent of the theme park ride, especially since ...

Workers at a traditional dessert shop in the central prefecture of Yamanashi are busy making rice cakes for the New Year. The store in Kofu City has been in business for 104 years. It devotes time to ...

Firefighters continued to battle a wildfire on Jan. 10 on Mount Ogiyama straddling the Yamanashi Prefecture cities of Uenohara and Otsuki two days after being reported. Helicopters dumped water onto ...

China’s latest maglev experiment is not just a laboratory stunt, it is a blunt demonstration of how far the country is willing to push transport technology while the United States and Europe argue ...

Pakistan, Dec. 29 -- Chinese scientists set a new world record as a maglev train reached 700 kilometers per hour in just two seconds. The experiment, conducted on December 25, used a 400-meter-long ...

NAGOYA, Japan -- Central Japan Railway, known as JR Central, has ambitions to take its proprietary magnetic levitation technology to markets overseas, President Shunsuke Niwa says.

Areas along the Sea of Japan side continue to face heavy snowfall on Sunday, with snow accumulation since Wednesday having ...