From the 1964 Shinkansen to today’s CR400 Fuxing and the Shanghai Maglev, this countdown breaks down the trains pushing ...

The Maglev train, developed by Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central) in collaboration with the Railway Technical ...

Japan's state-of-the-art maglev train clocked a new world speed record Tuesday in a test run near Mount Fuji, smashing through the 600 kilometre (373 miles) per hour mark, as Tokyo races to sell the ...

Central Japan Railway Company's high-speed maglev train has been busy setting records and then breaking them again in the past week. Most recently, the test train hit a top speed of 603 km/h (375 mph) ...

Nov. 19 (UPI) -- A group of former U.S. politicians are being wooed by the Japanese government in the hope of selling their high-speed maglev train technology. The former politicians visited Japan for ...

In a speech given in front of the New York Stock Exchange, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in late September pitched the use of Japanese maglev train technology to connect New York and Washington ...

TOKYO – Prosecutors have formally charged four of Japan's biggest construction companies for allegedly colluding on bids for a multibillion dollar high-speed maglev train line connecting Tokyo and ...

The technology behind Japan's magnetically levitated train system, which whooshes passengers to their destinations at speeds topping 300 mph, could come to the U.S. without a traditional license fee, ...

TSURU, YAMANASHI, JAPAN — Two hours from Tokyo’s blinking neon center, the sleek white train shoots out of a mountain tunnel at nearly 311 mph — levitating about four inches above its guideway as it ...

TOKYO — A Japanese maglev that is the fastest passenger train in the world has broken its own speed record. Operator JR Central said the train reached 375 miles per hour in a test run Tuesday, ...