A blink and you will miss it test ride on the maglev Chuo Shinkansen Line offers some idea of the potential of traveling at ...

NAGOYA—Soft ground in Aichi Prefecture will delay completion of a tunnel for the magnetic-levitation (maglev) Chuo Shinkansen ...

Japan is well known for its high-speed bullet trains. The Japanese maglev train is a marvel of engineering, reflecting a significant leap forward in the future of high-speed rail technology. In a ...

Commuters in Japan may be able to get around quite a bit faster in coming months. Central Japan Railway Company's maglev Shinkansen train — which travels at the breakneck speed of 310 mph — was opened ...

Central Japan Railway Co.’s ongoing project to build a maglev train system linking Tokyo and Osaka is finally in full swing. Early this month, JR Tokai released a list of probable locations for ...

Trains might have been the icon of the American Old West, but after the era of the automobile began at the turn of the 20th century, the locomotive slowly faded into the background of popular ...

When the record-breaking Shinkansen high-speed rail line opened in 1964, it was perfect timing. That year, Tokyo hosted the Summer Olympics, and Japan hogged the spotlight to debut the world’s first ...