"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 ...

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 ...

In the Edo period (1603–1868), the Tōkaidō was one of Japan’s Five Highways radiating ... This included the addition in 1624 of the last of the road’s famous 53 post stations at Shōno ...

Japan is looking to up its world-leading mass transit game with a "conveyor belt road" meant to be a 320-mile automated cargo transport corridor that will link Tokyo and Osaka. This "autoflow road ...

Japan’s mired economy, which would sink into complete bankruptcy if it were not for American food and raw materials, had to be headed on a new road leading toward economic self-sufficiency.