The accident prompted Chinese authorities to slow expansion of the bullet-train system.

WSJ: Chinese High-Speed Rail Section Collapses

Having worked for many years in Tokyo, with family in Osaka, your correspondent has made the two-and-a-half hour journey on the Tokaido bullet-train many times.

ECONOMIST: High-speed trains

California wants a share of that bullet-train hubris.

ECONOMIST: High-speed trains

It's worth repeating: The Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport is the fastest production car in the world--faster than an underwater torpedo or a bullet train.

FORBES: Magazine Article

The storm caused two-meter-high (six-and-a-half-feet) drifts and was blamed for derailing a bullet train in Akita prefecture, south of Hokkaido, on Saturday afternoon.

NPR: Snow Kills 8 In Japan, Including Family In Car

There were tears in the foyer as hotel staff queued up to take pictures of the press corps - then sent a couple of brave porters on to the bullet train platform to pursue us out of the station waving the flag of St George.

BBC: World Cup memory lane

The hyper-efficient public transit system zips people around and between cities, with more than 300 bullet train departures daily between Tokyo and Osada and nearly 2 million commuters rushing each day through the busiest station, Shinjuku, one of Tokyo's most crowded commercial areas.

FORBES: Japan's Green Gold Mine

These days he runs against ever-dwindling fields -- on this occasion just three rivals went to the start, and that included stable companion Bullet Train, whose sole purpose in life is to give Frankel a flying start in his races then humbly fade into obscurity in the final furlongs.

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