GRAND FORKS – What are the odds? That’s what Peter Meberg has been asking himself ever since, on a recent vacation in Japan, he noticed a young man in an Future Farmers of America jacket walking ahead ...

Not even the frenetic train terminals of Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto can match the Instagram appeal of this obscure whistle-stop ...

Commuters try to squeeze themselves into an overcrowded train during morning rush hours at a Tokyo train station in 2019. As a child growing up in Watertown, Jade Harrelson dreamed of owning a home.

TOKYO — Hundreds of thousands of commuters in Tokyo got a free ride to work this morning after a systems glitch caused more than 7,000 ticket gates at 662 railway stations to fail. The gates, which ...