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A panicked man said to have been injured before climbing onto a Shinkansen (bullet train) was arrested after intentionally smearing what was believed to be blood across several seats, which he did because he grew frustrated with the staff’s response to his plea for help. The 61-year-old Tokyo man complained…

Short-term ‘minpaku’ accommodation hosts are starting to exit the short-term letting market. As of April 2020, the number of hosts that de-registered their properties topped 4,100 since the registration system was introduced in mid-2018. There are currently 25,000 registered minpaku properties across Japan. Guest cancellations started to pour in from…

The Ford Mustang Hybrid was slated to arrive in 2020, but it will now reportedly not arrive until 2022 when the redesigned Mustang launches. The new Mustang's launch was pushed back when the focus shifted to the Mustang Mach-E, which will arrive later this year as a 2021 model. The…

The postponement of the Tokyo Olympics from 2020 to 2021 was an emotional blow to the sporting community, with athletes and competitors having waited four years for the spectacle of the highest level of international competition. However, there’s something anime fans have been waiting even longer to see, and it now turns…

Hiroshi Hara's monumental Kyoto Station features in the latest short movie by architecture video blogger Martin van der Linden, as part of his contribution to Virtual Design Festival.Dutch architect Van der Linden came to Japan from Europe to work on the huge complex, which was completed in 1997 and is…

The cocktail napkin sketch is a tired cliche of creativity, but that is how the Bugatti Veyron came to be, almost. The Veyron started out as an impromptu sketch, but on the back of an envelope, not a napkin. In 1997, Volkswagen Group CEO Ferdinand Piëch was a riding a…

Seat reservations for shinkansen bullet train and limited express services for the upcoming Golden Week holidays have plunged 90 percent to a record low in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, data by six major railway companies showed Tuesday. Total seat reservations as of Monday at East Japan Railway Co,…

The number of people who commute using shinkansen bullet trains from rural areas to central Tokyo is said to be on the rise.Local governments suffering a loss of working generations in their communities to urban areas are providing assistance to such commuters to encourage them to settle in rural communities.…

Shoppers did not seem too concerned about social distancing at the Nojima electronics shop in the ... Aeon Kanazawa Hakkei shopping center in Yokohama on April 11, 2020, the fourth day of Japan's coronavirus state of emergency. Photo by Joel Rush The first weekend under the state of emergency in…

In Japan, the street in front of JR Tokyo Station is nearly deserted early Saturday, April 11, 2020, after a state of emergency was declared. JAPAN NEWS-YOMIURI By JAPAN NEWS-YOMIURI Published: April 11, 2020 Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See other…