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How to Avoid Golden Week Crowds
Golden Week is that time of the year when multiple national holidays are packed into a span of a few days. Millions of locals ...
T rains have been popular in cinema arguably since the beginning of film, when the Lumière brothers’ “The Arrival of a Train ...
Looking like something out of Minecraft, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force has released a new image of its latest ...
The plan then goes underway, and of course, it all pays off. The two switches are pulled at the exact moment they should be, ...
This week on It’s All Right There In The Title Theater is Bullet Train Explosion (now on Netflix), which seems poised to get a lot of international eyeballs on a rechewed premise. It’s a Japanese ...
Netflix's 'Bullet Train Explosion', by Japanese filmmaker Shinji Higuchi and starring Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, is the latest ...
Shinji Higuchi ("Shin Godzilla") delivers an "Apollo 13"-style story about ordinary people coming together to resolve a ...
The highspeed bullet train says Japan as much as Godzilla, sushi and Mount Fuji. And it takes center stage in Shinji ...
Before we pour billions into a maglev line between D.C. and Baltimore, let’s step off the platform and ask: Does this make ...