As the global car market trends toward decarbonation, Japanese automakers are now struggling to regain lost ground in their own homeland’s electric bus industry. Electric vehicle (EV) buses are ...

As Japan heads into another busy tourist season, bus companies across the country are struggling to keep the wheels turning with driver shortages forcing route cuts and service reductions.

Japan has launched a sleeper bus with fully flat seats that could help concertgoers and tourists avoid having to pay for a hotel. Bus operator Kochi Ekimae Kanko has unveiled their new double-decker ...

KARANGANYAR, Indonesia – With Japan’s bus industry facing a serious shortage of workers, hopes are high for Indonesian bus drivers who have obtained a “specified skilled worker” visa. At a ...

Japan will unveil its first-ever double-decker sleeper bus on March 4, travelling between Tokyo and the southern city of Kochi, located on the island of Shikoku. Operator Kochi Ekimae Kanko calls the ...

The year 2024 saw some train and bus operators in Japan switch to contactless credit card fare payment systems in lieu of transportation IC cards widely adopted nationwide. This is because of hefty ...

For long-distance travel in Japan, most people’s first transportation choice is the shinkansen, followed by a plane if their destination isn’t easily accessible via the bullet train network. But for a ...

TOKYO -- Japan looks to ease language requirements for foreign bus and taxi drivers entering the country via its specified skilled worker program, lowering what some observers argue has been a barrier ...

TOKYO -- Japanese authorities are offering taxi and bus driver's license tests in more languages, in a bid to ease an acute labor shortage in the transport industry by lowering hurdles for foreign ...