Incredible things have been happening in Japan. This is the country that gave us karaoke bars, sushi conveyors, and square watermelon — not to mention those high-tech toilets. Undergirding these ...

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Workers in rural Japan built a new train station in just six hours between the last train of the night and the first one the next morning. The new structure replaced a 75-year-old wooden station ...

Japan's summer holiday travel rush got underway Saturday, with many shinkansen bullet train services and flights fully booked as people returned to their hometowns or set off on domestic and overseas ...