Eight railway operators in the Kanto region are switching to tickets printed with a QR code to cut the maintenance costs of automatic gates and promote the recycling of used tickets.
Sober-faced Suntory officials are removing a prominent sign for a shochu highball at a train station in Tokyo over complaints that the ad for an intoxicating beverage is unsuitable for a public facility.
Seiji Okamoto was getting desperate as his supervisor continued pestering him to come up with a money-saving solution for a new safety project along a Tokyo subway line.
Massive redevelopment projects are accelerating around Tokyo’s sprawling Shinagawa Station with the planned opening of the ultrafast maglev Chuo Shinkansen Line that will connect Tokyo and other regions.