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When you look for iconic images of public transportation in Tokyo, this is the first one that comes to mind: During rush hour, people on a subway platform are pushed into far too full carriages by ...
Japan on Thursday marked the 30th anniversary of the nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system by the AUM Shinrikyo doomsday cult, ...
Life in Tokyo, whether business or pleasure, revolves around trains and rail stations. Experts say that's no accident.
Shizue Takahashi will on Thursday morning take a rush-hour subway train to Kasumigaseki Station in the heart of Tokyo, Japan. There, she will pay her respects with a small knot of station staff ...
Aum members released sarin in train cars on three subway lines in the capital during the morning rush hour, leaving 14 people dead and over 6,000 others injured. At 8:16 a.m. that day, the Tokyo ...
Thirty years after the deadly sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system, some survivors are still suffering debilitating afte ...
People in Japan are remembering the victims of the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system on the 30th anniversary of the deadly incident on Thursday.
Americans have a certain fascination with Japan, and who can blame us? It’s a place full of intriguing culture, delicious ...
On the morning of Monday, March 20, 1995, publishing house employee Junichi Sugiyama had planned to head to Tsukiji, a Tokyo district ... at the peak of morning rush hour, members of the doomsday ...
Japanese spend a lot of time thinking about manners, and spend a lot of time riding trains too. So that means, of course, that people in Japan also spend a lot of time thinking about manners related ...
“It’s been a long 30 years,” Takahashi, 78, told reporters on March 20 at Tokyo Metro Co.’s Kasumigaseki ... during the morning rush hour. Fourteen people, including Takahashi’s husband ...