Paid visitors will be allowed to board the Shinkansen track-testing trains known as Doctor Yellow and East i this month as railway companies try to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.
HIROSHIMA A new documentary video produced by a nonprofit organization shows the late Lee Jong-keun, an ethnic Korean who grew up in Japan, telling his life story of overcoming discrimination and surviving the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) is auctioning off old railway items such as station signboards to commemorate the opening of Japan’s first railroad 150 years ago.
Much has changed since the country’s first railway line between Tokyo and Yokohama laid the foundation for a world-renowned network of trains to be created.