If there were no Shinkansen
High-speed rail experience from its birth to today in Japan
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Product details:
- Edition number 2024
- Publisher 東京新聞出版局 Tokyo Shinbun Publishing Bureau and 朝日新聞社 Asahi Shinbunsha
- Date of Publication 31 August 2024
- Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book
- ISBN 9789819988891
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages243 pages
- Size 235x155 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations XVI, 243 p. 64 illus., 43 illus. in color. Illustrations, black & white 592
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Long description:
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This book is the first book written in English about the secret story of the birth of the Shinkansen in Japan and its subsequent developments. The author, Mr. Shuichiro Yamanouchi, a former chairman of East Japan Railway (JR East), addresses what the essence of Shinkansen technology is and how it could be achieved in such a short time. And the book, written based on his long experience in railway engineering and management, gives readers a bird's-eye view of the Japanese railway as a whole, and the technical philosophy of his great career behind it.
In this book, its whole picture is clarified, that is, the world's first 200 km/h running, dealing with troubles after the opening, and development of the 300 km/h commercial operation after that, including the failure stories encountered in the process. These gave a big stimulation to the development of other high-speed railways, and this book helps readers to learn about the accumulated experiences of Japanese high-speed railways that have not been revealed so far, such as railway safety, noise against the environment, railway privatization, harmonization of management and engineering, and so forth.""
Table of Contents:
The Great Railroading Nation of Japan.- Trying for 200 Km/h.- The Curtain Goes Up on the Era of the Express Trains.- The Struggle of the Technicians.- Computers Appear on the Scene.- Safety and a Comfortable Ride.- Competition with Europe Over Speed.- Toward the World’s Best Railroad.- Privatization was a “Cultural Revolution”.- The Next Generation of Railroads.
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