Yesterday, the nation reportedly signed a three-year agreement with Spanish Railways to explore the feasibility of bullet trains.
He's most excited about his assignment for Amtrak, which is slated to roll out 150mph bullet trains next fall.
Most public transit in Tokyo has been suspended, and bullet trains to and from northern Japan have been cancelled.
Mr. Abe's push to sell Japan's shinkansen bullet trains was met with the agreement for a joint-feasibility study for its Mumbai-Ahmedabad route.
Yet Sanjiang South station was in operation, with state-of-the-art bullet trains gliding up near-silently to the platform before zooming off and reaching speeds of up to 350kmh.
Already, rail officials have slowed down some bullet trains -- originally planned to run as fast as 380 kmph (236 mph) -- to make the service safer and cheaper.
At peak times, up to 16 bullet trains an hour travel each way along the densely populated coastal plain that is home to over half of Japan's 128m people.
But there is still money to be made, especially by the foreign firms that have provided the technology to allow China's trains to overtake Japan's bullet trains and France's TGV.
There they warned officials 80 seconds before the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami hit, giving them just enough time to stop bullet trains heading toward peril, thus saving thousands of lives.
Passenger loads on the 787 have been higher than other flights, indicating popularity of the new plane, ANA said, and the carrier believes the 787 is drawing travelers away from competing airlines and bullet trains.
Automobile traffic crawled on smaller, two-lane roads as power outages left the sleek, electric-powered "bullet trains" -- shining examples of Japan's advanced technology, normally capable of speeds nearing 200 mph -- sitting motionless on their tracks.
To the Westerner, it can seem as if there are two contrary Japans one a slow, peaceful land of Shinto shrines and tea ceremonies, the other a jangling zone of automation, neon signs, and bullet trains packed with commuters.
In the shinkansen case, large slabs of concrete peeled off tunnel walls and slammed into the passenger compartments of passing bullet-trains.
The event saw two Eurostar trains and a Hitachi Bullet Train, which will shuttle spectators to and from the 2012 Olympic Park, arriving at St Pancras.
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