Could the answer to endless hours on BW Parkway, calamitous commutes, and a region’s rage against the trappings of traffic come from a breathless feat of engineering, a bullet train found floating ...

Maglev sounds as sci-fi as teleporters and hovercars. A train that levitates above a track using electromagnets and cruises at aircraft speeds? That couldn't possibly be a reality. Except it is. China ...

TSURU, YAMANASHI, JAPAN – It is a streak of quicksilver shooting through the foothills of Mt. Fuji, a vision of the future spotted instantly within a tranquil tableau. The world’s fastest train – ...

Japan is about to unleash the fastest train the world has ever seen - the Superconducting Maglev, or SCMaglev. Capable of hitting a jaw-dropping 503 km/h, it will shrink the journey from Tokyo to ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Asia-Pacific news every morning. On October 1 1964, nine days before the last Tokyo Olympics, the Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train began ...

Japan’s SCMaglev will be the world’s fastest train, gliding at 500 km/h and cutting Tokyo–Osaka travel to just over an hour. But with sky-high costs and global skepticism, will this bold leap in ...

Station construction in Japan for the SCMaglev set to link Tokyo with Nagoya by 2027. While a central goal is to make maglev construction and operation imperceptible at the surface, specific ...