The live-in facility southwest of Tokyo offers what rail operator JR Central describes as an "intense education" for future conductors ... From Bullet Train to Symbol of Modern Japan." ...

It has been a while since station attendants disappeared from ticket gates and the number of trains without conductors grew. Nearly half the train stations in Japan today are unmanned. Could the ...

Japan's famous bullet train used to make a loud BOOM sound when it travelled through tunnels. But, thanks to a spot of bird-watching, an engineer was able to fix the problem after he was inspired ...

OSAKA -- A passenger on a bullet train that had stopped ... like passengers to find the conductor and contact them directly instead of pressing the button." (Japanese original by Kana Takagi ...

A beloved conductor who, as one musician remembers it, introduced Japanese food to his orchestra back when there was little ...