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If there were no Shinkansen : High-speed rail experience from its birth to today in Japan / Shuichiro Yamanouchi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yamanouchi, Shuichiro, author.
- Standardized Title:
- If there were no Shinkansen. English
- Language:
- English
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- High speed trains--Japan--History.
- High speed trains.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 243 pages) : illustrations (some color)
- Place of Publication:
- Singapore : Springer, 2024.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 10, 2024).
- ISBN:
- 9789819988907
- 981998890X
- Publisher Number:
- 90100410745
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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