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The number of passengers on shinkansen and limited express trains during this year's Golden Week holidays plunged 95 percent from a year earlier amid the coronavirus outbreak, data from six major railway companies showed Thursday. The decline was the sharpest for the holiday period since the six train operators --…

The number of passengers on shinkansen and other express trains during the recent Golden Week holiday in Japan plummeted to a record low amid the coronavirus crisis, traffic data showed Thursday.The six passenger service companies of the Japan Railways Group — East Japan Railway Co., West Japan Railway Co., Central…

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AP Photo/Jae C. Hong Before I traveled to Japan for the first time in 2014, I read as much about the country as time allowed. Japanese culture and ecology had interested me since I discovered anime in the fifth grade; I read books by Pico Iyer and Donald Richie, novels…

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The coronavirus outbreak has left the sports world in a state of suspended animation, with the 2020 Tokyo Olympics among major events put on hold.But while Tokyo must wait until next year to put on its second Summer Games, it is no stranger to adversity when it comes to staging…

Pedestrian traffic dropped between 50 and 80 percent in major urban areas over the weekend as the central government continues to weigh an extension of its nationwide state of emergency declaration.According to data gathered by NTT Docomo Inc., urban foot traffic on Sunday afternoon across the 47 prefectures was 50…

Coronavirus fears left the nation's normally jam-packed bullet trains and expressways deserted on the first day of Golden Week on Saturday as the pace of infections showed little sign of slowing.Many of the shinkansen leaving Tokyo Station Saturday were over 90 percent empty, railways said. Golden Week, a string of…