The ruling on March 1 found Taisei Corp. and Kajima Corp. guilty of bid-rigging for construction of the Linear Chuo Shinkansen Line. The companies were each fined 250 million yen ($2.3 million).

NAGOYA—Soft ground in Aichi Prefecture will delay completion of a tunnel for the magnetic-levitation (maglev) Chuo Shinkansen Line by more than five years to the end of January 2030. The soft ...

When completed, the Linear Chuo Shinkansen will cover the 285.6 km between Tokyo and Nagoya in just 40 minutes. That's right. When you want to raise the speed of the railway line, you have to ...

When it enters service, the Maglev Chuo Shinkansen will be the world's fastest bullet train. A test run in 2015 already set a world record by clocking 603 kilometers per hour. It will link the ...

The president also revealed a plan to introduce a new type of train car on the Yamanashi maglev test track for the Linear Chuo Shinkansen project around this summer with the aim of reducing the ...

Separately, ground subsidence has also been reported near another Linear Chuo Shinkansen construction site in the Okute district of Mizunami, Gifu Prefecture. During a residents' meeting on Jan ...

The president also revealed a plan to introduce a new type of train car on the Yamanashi maglev test track for the Linear Chuo Shinkansen project around this summer with the aim of reducing the ...