Life in Tokyo, whether business or pleasure, revolves around trains and rail stations. Experts say that's no accident.

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 ...

The worst terrorist attack in Japan's modern history happened 30 years ago, on March 20, 1995, during the morning rush hour on the Tokyo subway system. Members of a violent cult called Aum Shinrikyo ...

Thirty years after the deadly sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system, some survivors are still suffering debilitating afte ...

Japan on Thursday marked the 30th anniversary of the nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system by the AUM Shinrikyo doomsday cult, ...

Just as she has done on the anniversary of her husband’s death for the last 29 years, Shizue Takahashi will on Thursday morning take a rush-hour subway train to Kasumigaseki Station in the heart ...

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.

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 ...

On the morning of Monday, March 20, 1995, publishing house employee Junichi Sugiyama had planned to head to Tsukiji, a Tokyo district served by the Hibiya Line subway station of the same name.

Shizue Takahashi can still recall details of the day when she learned her husband died a hero during an unthinkable terrorist attack. “It’s been a long 30 years,” Takahashi, 78, told ...

Russell is a Science Writer with IFLScience and has a PhD in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology. It was a Monday morning like any other in mid-March 1995. But then again, that’s ...