Japan’s first “ride-sharing” service started in Tokyo on April 8, allowing ordinary people to use their own cars to transport customers during times of taxi shortages. Unlike popular services abroad, ...

A Tokyo taxi driver apparently abruptly stricken by an unspecified health problem slammed into a sidewalk in the capital's Chiyoda Ward on Sept. 11, killing one person and injuring four others, before ...

USING taxis in its Tokyo electric vehicle trial has provided six years of valuable experience in just six months, Better Place says. Tokyo's 60,000 hard-working taxis, and their unfailingly competent ...