The government plans to delay its plan to extend the Hokkaido Shinkansen Line, Japan's northernmost bullet train route, to Sapporo by eight years to March 2039, partly due to tunnel construction ...

The Japanese government announced that it needs to delay its plan to extend the northern Hokkaido Shinkansen Line.

Starting at the now-defunct Hiroo Station in Hokkaido and ending at Makurazaki Station in Kagoshima Prefecture, the route covered 13,319 km, almost equivalent to the diameter of the Earth, he wrote.

SAPPORO, Japan -- With the extension of shinkansen bullet train service to Sapporo now delayed until the end of fiscal 2038, communities along the planned link in Hokkaido are fretting over the ...

Local governments and railway officials are warning that the extension of the Hokkaido Shinkansen Line could lead to the collapse of the nationwide food distribution system. After the bullet train ...