Scooter modding really booted off in the late Seventies and early Eighties, when DIY custom car and bike culture reached fever pitch. Being easy to modify, scooters started to be hacked with a ...

Japan’s electric scooter users will no longer need a driver’s licence from July, though minors under 16 will be banned from riding them, the National Police Agency said on Thursday.

TOKYO — Starting in July, operating an electric scooter in Japan will no longer require a license or a helmet, though wearing one is encouraged, the National Police Agency announced recently.

Uber Technologies Inc.-backed Lime is entering Japan’s growing e-scooter ride market in a foray that pits the San Francisco-based startup against homegrown Luup KK. Lime, which has a global ...

The average number of monthly accidents involving electric scooters has shown a six-fold rise in Japan after the country started allowing users to ride the vehicles without a driving licence in ...

WAKO, Japan — The green fad in Japan is expanding from cars to bikes with Honda’s zero-emission super-quiet electric EV-neo scooter. The EV-neo, shown Tuesday at Honda’s research facility in ...

TOKYO -- Japanese startups want to ease the country's curbs on the use of electric scooters, hoping to spur use of the vehicles even as safety concerns grow in other parts of Asia. Speedy, easy-to ...

Tokyo - A Japanese zero-emission "hybrid" scooter to be released next year runs 10 times as economically as a petrol engine bike and can be assisted by human pedal power, its maker said on Thursday.