Perhaps the most high profile initiative was the construction of the Tōkaidō Shinkansen bullet train between Osaka and Tokyo, which demonstrated Japan’s industrial and technological strength to the rest of the world and has since carried more than 5.6 billion passengers.
http://www.olympic.org/news/tokyo-1964-created-lasting-olympic-legacies/239087
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Keith Conning: My son Andrew Conning married Chisato Shukumo of Okayama, Japan in 1996 in Japan. Our whole family went to the wedding. We flew into Tokyo and then took the Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train to Osaka. We should build a high speed rail line in California from San Francisco to Los Angeles.
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