Railways across Japan are installing doors on platform ... of platform doors has to synchronize with the opening and closing of train doors. Information about the location of doors, the number ...

Higashi-Nemuro Station marked its final day of operations Friday, with local residents and rail enthusiasts bidding farewell to the easternmost train station in Japan. The unstaffed station in the ...

The sight of suit-clad office workers desperately scrambling to catch the last train at stations throughout Tokyo became something of a hallmark of postwar Japan ... safety doors at many of ...

Drivers will be able to check the platforms and open and close the doors while the train is in automatic mode ... the expected labor shortage. East Japan Railway Co., for example, plans to ...

West Japan Railway Co. debuted a prototype ... the 9-cm one in distance between the train doors to the platform to 3 or 4 cm. If trains close their doors, the ramp automatically stores itself ...