I get on the Shinkansen by business now.

The operation start of the Shinkansen was in 1964.

Tokyo - Osaka took 12 hours in the fastest express train in those days.

In the reader's column of the then newspaper,

"Who needs the mobility that can move just four hours between Tokyo and Osaka? The Shinkansen is a useless thing."

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There has been opinions of "what the value of moving so fast?" everywhere every time.

In the British an academic society of the end of 19th century, I heard that the paper was published that "If the human being moves more than 37km per an hour, they will die soon"

(To be continued)