In 2027, ‘shinkansen’ will superconduct you from Tokyo-Nagoya in frictionless 40 minutes
The fiscal 2012 budget plan, now in front of the Diet, calls for setting aside a bundle for three new sections of shinkansen bullet train lines.
Perhaps it will be money well spent. But the billions of yen on table cannot keep commuters from looking around the bend, where a next-generation shinkansen project is already under way. …