"Running Boy" was born in 1973, when road fatalities in Japan had soared to an all-time high. The social welfare office of Higashi-Omi, a city of about 100,000 outside Kyoto, asked a local sign ...

As well as tackling a trucker shortage, the road could reduce carbon emissions. Test runs are expected to begin in 2027 and it could be up and running by the mid-2030s. Japan is planning to build ...

It isn't enough that Japan already has its iconic bullet train that's the envy of the world. No: it must now construct an entire "conveyor belt road" to embarrass us all. Also referred to as an ...

A computer graphics video made by the government shows big, wheeled boxes moving along a three-lane corridor, also called an “auto flow road”, in ... societies like Japan, not sprawling ...

Japan is planning to build an automated cargo transport corridor between Tokyo and Osaka, dubbed a "conveyor belt road" by the government, to make up for a shortage of truck drivers. The amount of ...

While a road like the Hakone Turnpike is deeply anchored in Japanese automotive culture and finds itself located in one of Japan’s busiest hot spring towns, a road like the Suzuka Skyline finds ...