By SHINYA MATSUMOTO/ Staff Writer
March 15, 2021 at 17:45 JST
The Shooting Star Shinkansen at JR Kagoshima-Chuo Station attracts a crowd of media and onlookers right before its departure for Fukuoka on March 14. (Shoma Fujiwaki)
KAGOSHIMA--Ten years after being fully launched, a bullet train dubbed the "Shooting Star Shinkansen" finally got the send-off it wanted but canceled due to the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami. [Read More]
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