For the week of Dec. 23, nearly 70% of trains were on time compared to just over 30% for the week of May 13. Trains were ...

This was adequate when the fastest mode of travel was a galloping horse, but when railroads arrived, local time went off the rails. Trains relied on exact timing to get to their locations when ...

Europeans often feel lucky when their scheduled train is on time - especially in Germany, where more than a third of long-distace trains were late in 2022. But in Japan, lateness almost never happens.