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9 July – 26 August: The 2018 Northeast Asia heat wave kills least 116 people, due to heat-related causes, and at least 22,000 more suffer from heat strokes. 20 July: Mamoru Hosoda 's Japanese animated film Mirai is released in cinema. 26 July: A fire at under constructing technology centre fire in Tama City, Tokyo.
Japan’s first train line opened nearly two decades later in 1872—twenty-nine kilometers of rail connecting Shimbashi in Tokyo with Yokohama. The railway became a symbol of Japan’s efforts to Westernize, and was even depicted in ukiyo-e woodblock prints. The Tokaido Main Line, completed in 1889, stretched all the way from Shimbashi to Kobe.
April 18, 2024. Collaborating to Revive Japan's Stations. Passenger numbers for local railway lines across Japan continue to fall as the population declines and more people opt to drive. Stations ...
Mar 28, 2024 · You will fall passionately in love with trains in Japan.. Japanese people didn’t invent rail travel, but they arguably perfected it. Whether you’re on the newest shinkansen (bullet train) zooming across the country at 320km/h (199mph) or an elderly regional railcar, you can count on your train being scrupulously clean, safely operated, highly reliable, famously punctual and generally a joy ...
Nov 2, 2023 · They have been called the greatest privatization success story in J apan’s history: railways.The ir on-time record is the envy of the world.In its best year in nearly six decades of service, t he Tokaido Shinkansen carried more than 477,000 passengers a day along its 550-kilometer route between Tokyo and Shin-Osaka stations –– and yet the average delay per train was less than 1 minute.
