TOKYO (AP) — A passenger spotted a snake curled around the armrest of another passenger's seat on a Japanese Shinkansen "bullet" train on Monday, forcing the train to make an unscheduled stop. No one ...

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 ...

An unlikely stowaway on a Japanese bullet train (shinkansen) forced the country’s usually uber-punctual rail service to make an emergency stop Monday. A female passenger glimpsed a brown snake wrapped ...

Tokyo police find a man's illegal snake collection after he is bitten by one. TOKYO, Japan, Aug 27, 2008 — -- Japanese police arrested a 41-year-old man in Tokyo on Wednesday on suspicion of ...

A snake was fried after it slithered into an electric substation in Japan last week—and then 10,000 people felt pretty hot as well as air conditioners were wiped out across the city due to the ...