{"id":67011,"date":"2024-09-29T18:00:30","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T09:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/29\/japans-magic-bullet-60-years-of-the-train-that-helped-rebuild-the-idea-of-a-country"},"modified":"2024-09-29T18:00:30","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T09:00:30","slug":"japans-magic-bullet-60-years-of-the-train-that-helped-rebuild-the-idea-of-a-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67011","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s magic bullet: 60 years of the train that helped rebuild the idea of a country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over just a few days in 1964, the launch of the shinkansen and the Tokyo Olympics trumpeted the emergence of a new economic and democratic power<\/p>\n<p>At 6am on 1 October 1964, two trains set off in opposite directions in a \u00addaring \u00adexperiment that&nbsp;would quickly turn them into \u00adsymbols of Japan\u2019s \u00adtransformation from \u00admilitarist pariah to global \u00adeconomic powerhouse.<\/p>\n<p>Black-and-white <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.nhk.or.jp\/archives\/movies\/?id=D0009030060_00000\">footage<\/a> shows smartly dressed men, women and children marvelling at the countryside whizzing past their windows, some perhaps trying to calm their nerves at being whisked along at speeds unheard of in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/travel\/railtravel\">rail travel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/29\/japans-magic-bullet-60-years-of-the-train-that-helped-rebuild-the-idea-of-a-country\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over just a few days in 1964, the launch of the shinkansen and the Tokyo Olympics trumpeted the emergence of a new economic and democratic powerAt 6am on 1 October 1964, two trains set off in opposite directions in a \u00addaring \u00adexperiment that&nbsp;would&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,766,2368,527,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-rail-transport","category-rail-travel","category-travel","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67011"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67021,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67011\/revisions\/67021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}