Travel in Japan is about to get easier thanks to the launch of the Welcome Suica app, scheduled to debut March 6. Developed by JR East, also known as the East Japan Railway Company, iOS users will be ...

International donors have pledged almost $6.5 billion in aid for Syria. They hope to encourage the new leaders of the ...

TOKYO — U.S. troops and other commuters in Japan will soon be able to purchase unregistered Suica and Pasmo smart cards again, following a nearly two-year pause due to a global semiconductor ...

Currently, passengers must press their Suica cards at automatic ticket gates to enter and exit stations. Yoichi Kise, the president of JR East, said at a news conference that day that the company ...

After a hiatus of nearly two years, the providers of Tokyo’s two main IC transport cards – Pasmo and Suica – will finally resume sales of unregistered prepaid cards. Registered cards were ...

The launch of the Suica Mobile app for iOS is a game-changer for Singaporeans travelling to Japan. It eliminates the need for ...

People check the damage of a building in the Shuja'iyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City, on March 18, 2025. The Palestinian ...

€5.8 billion ($6.3 billion) was pledged in aid to Syria at the 9th annual donor conference held Monday in Brussels. “I have ...

Commuters in the Tokyo, Sendai and Niigata regions typically rely on two kinds of IC cards: Suica cards sold by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East), and Pasmo cards from other railway and bus ...

European countries have strongly condemned the latest deadly Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip and called for an ...