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The Shinkansen 500 series was retired yesterday, after 13 years of service. It was the first train in the world to attain the top speed of 300 km/h in service, so the fans gathered at Tokyo Station, yesterday, to say Sayonara to a marvelous piece of Japanese railway technology.

It was bad enough that China beat Japan into space, but now we get word that China has surpassed Japan in a technology that Japan has had a lock on for at least 45 years

The train connecting the modern cities of Guangzhou and Wuhan travel at an average speed of 350 kilometres (217 miles) an hour.

Tokyo’s contribution to the Olympic Movement when they played host in 1964 to the Games of the XVIII Olympiad.

Tokyo Metropolitan Police today announced the second arrest in the widely-publicized-thus-less-effective-than-it-would-have-been-if-it-was-a-complete-surprise anti-train groper campaign that was launched earlier this week.

Turn down the Lights,Slip on the Cans and keep an Eyeout for Kitty - rem

In Japan they have a word for me and people like me (no, not that word (-: ). They call us “てっちゃん” pronounced tecchan. If you live here in Japan you see these guys all the time. They stand at the very front or very rear of the station platform, with a camera, sometimes even a tripod taking pictures of arriving and departing trains…And they start young, just like I did.

A senior official of the Federal Railroad Administration expressed hope Thursday that Japan will provide technical cooperation with the United States in building a high-speed railway network.

"I think Japan is one of several very good systems that we're interested in looking at," said Karen Rae in a telephone interview with Kyodo News.

Japan's Shinkansen bullet trains now are fearuing wireless LAN from Tokyo to Osaka.

From inside the train, users should enjoy speeds of 2Mbps even through tunnels, while those waiting at station concourses will be blessed with speeds up to 54Mbps.

Riding Japan's Superconducting Maglev "Linear Motor Car" Train at 502 kilometers/hour on a beautiful day at JR Railway Technical Research Institute's Yamanashi Maglev Test Line. (3min, hits 500km, shortly after there is a pass by shot)

New Year travel plans were thrown out for nearly 140,000 people Monday after a computer glitch disrupted more than 250 of Japan's bullet trains, the operator said.

The trouble came a day after heavy snow and strong winds separately forced the company to suspend 35 bullet train services, also in eastern and northern Japan, affecting more than 30,000 passengers.

Female train crew members on the Tokaido Shinkansen line are each being given a pepper spray to protect themselves. The move follows the rape of a female crew member on a first-class JR Tokaido Line train in April and the attempted rape of another in March.

One of the first-generation "0" Series Shinkansen bullet trains built in the early 1960s will find a new home - the Railway Museum in Saitama.