"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 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 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 ...

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.

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 has been a fan favorite at the last two Rugby World Cups for its underdog victories over top-tier teams. Its win over the Springboks in 2015 has passed into lore (and a movie) as the Miracle ...