How the Shinkansen bullet train made Tokyo into the monster it is today
How the Shinkansen bullet train made Tokyo into the monster it is today Philip Brasor and Masako Tsubuku 30 September 2014 The Guardian Fifty years ago on Wednesday two Shinkansen bullet trains completed their first journeys, kickstarting a high-speed rail network that would transform Japan Shinkansen bullet trains at a depot in Fukuoka in 1975. Photograph: The Asahi Shimbun/G..