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Subtle design details make the station and its passengers feel much more calm and pleasant.
Test program could help Tokyo commuters go from crazy crowded commutes to simply very crowded commutes.
Police are looking for attacker seen in security footage whose actions also injured innocent woman.
Cram school’s message would be ordinarily be inspiring, but takes on an inadvertently dark, potentially dangerous atmosphere.
Timing of government’s extension of nationwide state of emergency could be contributing to worse commuting conditions.
Our reporter worried she and her baby would be harassed on the trains, but what she experienced was quite unexpected.
Video shows more than a dozen men getting immediately and physically punished for violating subway rules.
Tokyo’s last trains are too early for many travelers and partiers, but they’re a God-send for overworked office employees.
Verdict handed down in multi-year fight between facial hair and Municipal Transportation Bureau.
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