In 1961 a loan from the World Bank to the Japanese national railways helped finance one of the most technically advanced railway projects in the world - the New Tokaido line (the Shinkansen project) between Tokyo and Osaka that carried the famous bullet trains. In order to promote long distance through transportation, the railway nationalization law was enacted whereby the government purchased all privately-operated railways, except those serving...
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تفاصيل
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2016/1/01
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ورقة عمل
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104633
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2016/4/08
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Disclosed
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The Bank and Japan’s bullet trains
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freight train