A small serpent caused a substantial delay on one of Japan’s Shinkansen bullet trains, shaking up the country’s typically timely rail service routine. More than 600 passengers experienced the unusual ...

TOKYO — It’s likely some of the tens of thousands of passengers were hissing with anger after a snake brought Japan’s busiest bullet train line to a halt. The 39-inch reptile slithered onto an ...

Almost nothing stops Japan’s famous high-speed bullet trains from running exactly on time – but a tiny snake slithering through a passenger carriage will do the trick, albeit for just 17 minutes. On ...

April 17 (UPI) --One of Japan's famously punctual high-speed bullet trains experienced a rare 17-minute delay when a snake was found in a passenger car. The Central Japan Railway Company said the ...