On my first trip to Tokyo, Japan, I took the subway from Haneda airport to my hotel in Shibuya with hardly a hiccup. The subway, which has operated since 1927, has had nearly 100 years to perfect ...

Japanese-style pub operator Watami has announced the acquisition of Subway Japan in a strategic move to diversify its ...

Japan leads the world in per capita sales of adult diapers. Japan’s population is getting so old that one major diaper manufacturer is now making products only for adults, not for babies. Japan’s ...

And that may be true in the States, but in Japan, all you have to do is visit the subway station. Much like the notion that some of the best food comes from unassuming hole-in-the-wall restaurants ...

An curved arrow pointing right. This video shows passengers boarding a subway train in Tokyo during rush hour. Despite the train looking overloaded, people keep squeezing in until there is almost ...

Restaurant chain operator Watami Co. announced it has acquired the Japanese arm of U.S. sandwich chain Subway. Subway currently operates 178 outlets in Japan, but Watami plans to expand that ...

In order to mitigate flood damage, cities across Japan are implementing large-scale measures.

Tomoyuki Todoroki, a professor of transportation engineering at Nihon University, pointed out that eastern Tokyo has some of the most congested subway lines in Japan and that the extension would ...

Railways across Japan are installing doors on platform edges ... system had safety doors as of March 2023. But one of the two subway operators, the Toei subway network, finished installing doors ...