Super Komachi

By Jerri-Lynn Scofield, who has worked as a securities lawyer and a derivatives trader. She is currently writing a book about textile artisans. Just finished reading Agatha Christies Murder on the Orient Express and am planning an upcoming European trip, so …

Disabled air travellers are still not getting the help they need, the BBCs security correspondent has told a conference in London. Frank Gardner has been using a wheelchair since he was shot six times in an al-Qaeda gun attack in Saudi Arabia in 2004, and co…

Maglev trains, a term that comes from a blend between magnetic and levitation, offer so much promise. You may have heard of the so-called floating trains, and the term is accurate and deliverable today. So where are they? What is a maglev train? The idea be…

The Melbourne-Sydney air corridor is now the second-busiest in the world. Thats true for either the number of passenger planes flying between the two airports or by counting actual passenger numbers, now over 9 million passengers a year. Thats an increase of …

A Kyushu Railway Co. 800 series Shinkansen bullet train arrives at Kurume Station in Kurume City, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, Oct. 11, 2016. Activist investing in Japan is on the rise, a gradual but marked change for a country long hostile to "foreign vulture…

Best known for its dichotomy between ultra-modern cities and ancient cultural landscapes, Japan has an annual tourism growth rate among the highest in the world. Equally notable is its population of over 89 percent native Japanese people. While there’s been a…

Heavy rainfall hit parts of western Japan beginning early Friday, forcing more than 800 people to evacuate their homes and disrupting train services throughout the region. In Hiroshima Prefecture alone, 775 people had fled to shelters as of 10 a.m. Friday, w…

Uber has announced a new helicopter service operating between New York City and John F. Kennedy (JFK) International airport. The Uber Copter, due to begin operations on 9 July, will transport passengers between Lower Manhattan and JFK in just eight minutes a…

In a move to better compete with a rival train operator's famous "seven-minute miracle" for cleaning a bullet train between its arrival and departure, Central Japan Railway Co will shave off two minutes from its own shinkansen cleaning work, beginning next sp…

Traveling to Jigokudani Snow Monkey Park in Japan to view the famous Japanese snow monkeys was a delightful experience. We previously wrote about our visit but have since received several reader questions asking about travel logistics.  So, we put together a …