Then he or she might usefully ride the bullet train from Tokyo to Osaka.
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The train she was on had just crashed into bullet train D3115 outside the city of Wenzhou.
If horses were capable of sibling rivalry, then Bullet Train would surely be a candidate for the psychiatrist's couch.
In return, the main reward Mr Obuchi will be seeking is a shinkansen (bullet train) contract for the Beijing-to-Shanghai route.
That accident which involved one bullet train rear-ending another in the eastern China city of Wenzhou killed 40 people and injured 172.
Meanwhile, California's bullet train, beloved by liberals, will slash through Mr. Vidak's district and raze hundreds of farms, homes and businesses.
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The front page of the L.A. Times today features the policy debate around a high speed bullet train in California.
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This time he is promising a bullet train between Karachi and Peshawar.
When I returned home from my China adventure, highlighted by a bullet train ride between Shanghai and Hangzhou, I met with similar skepticism.
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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.
Located on top of Kyoto Station, guests at the Hotel Granvia Kyoto can step out of bed and straight onto the bullet train.
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The Shinkansen bullet train services were temporarily suspended in the north.
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And if an earthquake above a certain magnitude strikes, the bullet train will stop and nuclear and other plants will automatically go into temporary shut down.
The event saw two Eurostar trains and a Hitachi Bullet Train, which will shuttle spectators to and from the 2012 Olympic Park, arriving at St Pancras.
The accident occurred at about 8:30 pm local time on Saturday on a track near the city of Wenzhou in Zhejiang state when bullet train no.
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The passengers of the Kodama, a bullet train that passed there every night, could have heard my brother's trumpet mixed with the whistle from the train.
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The terrible crash at Wenzhou earlier this year in which 40 people died when one bullet train rammed into another has also caused alarm bells to ring.
"I think the bullet train system is not stable and may break down in extreme weather conditions, " said Professor Zhao Jian, a transportation expert with Beijing Jiaotong University.
In Japan, such contextual use of Big Data enabled officials to stop every bullet train and factory only seconds before the devastating Tohoku earthquake and tsunami struck in 2011.
Led out, as usual, by his big brother and pace maker Bullet Train, Frankel destroyed the field with such insouciant ease that at times the race resembled a time trial.
Mr. Sharif is positioning himself as a pragmatist who would steer Pakistan out of its economic tailspin with big infrastructure projects, including a bullet train he envisions running across the country.
And because the bond vote in 2008 required the issue to be matched, dollar for dollar, by money from the federal government, the future of California's bullet train has begun to look decidedly hazy.
The Sina Weibo sensation, for example, has fused in the minds of ordinary Chinese people the inequities of state crony quasi-capitalism, the deaths of babies drinking tainted milk and people dying in a bullet train derailment.
Should he win national office again, Mr. Sharif whose government succeeded in building a highway between Lahore and Islamabad in the 1990s has promised a bullet train that will move passengers from Karachi on the country's south coast to Peshawar in the northwest.
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.
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.
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.
The accident prompted Chinese authorities to slow expansion of the bullet-train system.
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