Local governments and railway officials are warning that the extension of the Hokkaido Shinkansen Line could lead to the ...

The Hokkaido Shinkansen line went into service between Shin-Aomori Station in Aomori Prefecture and Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto ...

The Fair Trade Commission on May 19 searched nine railway construction companies and a government agency over allegations they rigged bids for contracts in the multi-trillion-yen Hokkaido Shinkansen ...

A river in the Hokkaido town of Kuromatsunai is seen with almost no flowing water on Aug. 20, 2024, with construction work for the extension of the Hokkaido Shinkansen Line thought to be the cause.

Amazon Japan has started using the country's iconic bullet trains to move packages between facilities across different ...

Japan's Fair Trade Commission on Tuesday conducted on-site inspections over alleged bid-rigging for a project to lay tracks for a planned extension of the Hokkaido Shinkansen bullet train line, Jiji ...

Give someone the prompt “The shinkansen is _____”, and they’re almost certain to complete it with “fast.” Sure, theoretically “awesome,” “convenient,” and “a surprisingly tasty source of ice cream” ...

The Sasson Tunnel construction site in Otaru, Hokkaido, is filled with soil and debris - Courtesy of the Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency HOKKAIDO: At an excavation site of ...