Shinkansen: From Bullet Train to Symbol of Modern Japan
Chapter 4: Whose line is it anyway?

Chapter Four covers perhaps the most infamous aspect of the shinkansen. For almost without fail, when Japanologists speak of Japanese politics, they raise the issue of ‘pork-barrel’ politics, with the most well-used example of this being the Jōetsu Shinkansen that links Tōkyō to former Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei’s home constituency of Niigata.
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