After the Tokaido Shinkansen began service, new Shinkansen lines were built in various directions in Japan. The author, involved in these projects, was faced with various challenges, especially in the case of the Tohoku and Joetsu Shinkansen lines into Tokyo, due to construction delays, and he prepared to submit a letter of resignation. After the privatization of Japan National Railways (JNR), each railway company, reflecting its own circumstances, strove to create the world's best railway in its own way, including increase in speed and transportation capacity. Meanwhile, France and other European countries also worked to increase speed in accordance with their national conditions. All of them were aiming to become the world's best railway. The author looks back on the evidence of how Japan and those countries' high-speed railways mutually stimulated each other and brought about technological progress, and explains the differences in their respective policies, not from the viewpoint of a mere engineer, but from that of an executive manager who served as chairman of East Japan Railway Company.


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    Title :

    Developing the World’s Finest Railway


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    If there were no Shinkansen ; Chapter : 8 ; 173-190


    Publication date :

    2024-08-31


    Size :

    18 pages




    Type of media :

    Article/Chapter (Book)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English