This is a massive win for travellers hoping to hit Japan's most popular cities. The first leg of the Chuo Shinkansen line ...

NAGOYA -- Central Japan Railway does not plan to charge licensing fees in the U.S. for technologies for its maglev train, aiming to promote the system for a proposed high-speed rail line between ...

At 603 km/h, the new maglev train sets a record and changes how distance is experienced. The remarkable part is not just that the maglev train hits 603 km/h, but that it appears completely normal and ...

Four major general contractors suspected of fixing bids for contracts on work to build a maglev high-speed train line may have also been involved in rigging bids for contracts on seven projects won by ...

China should accelerate the pace of performance verification and commercialization of its 600-kilometer-per-hour magnetic levitation trains to better compete with established global peers, said the ...

China recently set a global record by accelerating a ton-scale test maglev to 700 kilometers per hour in just two seconds, making it the fastest superconductive electric maglev in the world, according ...

The maglev station currently being built at Shinagawa Station in Tokyo was opened to the media for the first time Friday since work began last year. Central Japan Railway Co (JR Tokai) showed media ...

ROME (Reuters) - An Italian company has conducted what it says is the first test of magnetic levitation (maglev) transport on an existing railway track, a technology that has the potential to reduce ...

Researchers at China’s National University of Defence Technology have successfully accelerated a tonne-class vehicle to a record speed of 700 km/h (435mph) within just two seconds on a 400 metre ...