The company’s executive vice president and chief safety officer was summoned over recent issues such as disruptions on the ...

A power outage occurred near JR Ueno Station in Tokyo at around 7 a.m. on Friday, prompting the partial suspension of ...

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On Jan. 30, a power outage at JR Ueno Station in Tokyo led to the suspension of rapid and local train services on the JR Joban Line. The incident required some passengers to be guided down onto the ...

The outage occurred at Ueno Station at around 6:55 a.m., halting 81 trains for up to seven hours, News.Az reports, citing ...

Stranded passengers had to alight on railway tracks between stations. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

The East Japan Railway Company (JR East) has awarded a contract to Thales to design a communications-based train control system (CBTC) for Tokyo’s 30km-long Joban suburban line. The new CBTC system ...

Train services on East Japan Railway Co.'s Joban Line were partially suspended for about seven hours Friday after an overhead power line snapped at Tokyo's Ueno Station. The power outage occurred ...

In rail-reliant Japan, trains come and go with such frequency that most stations don’t bother to have an actual employee individually announce each arrival and departure. Instead, there’s usually a ...

TSUCHIURA, Ibaraki Prefecture--A Joban Line train struck a car being chased by police early on March 26 in a fiery crash here, derailing the train and partially disrupting service along the line for ...

Train services on East Japan Railway Co.'s Joban Line were partially suspended for about seven hours Friday after an overhead power line snapped at Tokyo's Ueno Station. The power outage occurred ...