Japan Upgrades High-Speed Bullet Trains
Japan's famous Shinkansen bullet trains will be getting an upgrade. The folks at JR-East -- the East Japan Railway Company -- have already ordered 590 of the aluminum alloy cars (which will comprise 59 trains), and promise that they will top out at 320 kilometers per hour (199 miles per hour for us Standard folk), versus the 270 kilometers per hour (or 168mph) that current Shinkansen trains can ...








