A "stowaway" snake brought a Japanese high-speed bullet train to a standstill on the Nagoya-Tokyo route yesterday, with a delay of nearly 20 minutes on the famously punctual service. The reptile was ...

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 ...