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How to Avoid Golden Week Crowds
Golden Week is that time of the year when multiple national holidays are packed into a span of a few days. Millions of locals ...
This Anzac Day, when Whitmore pulls on his blazer that’s adorned with medals to attend the ceremony at Tauranga cenotaph, his ...
One viral TikTok is putting a major hole in one of the most common arguments against high-speed rail in the U.S.
The highspeed bullet train takes center stage in Shinji Higuchi’s new film, “Bullet Train Explosion,” premiering on Netflix ...
Netflix's 'Bullet Train Explosion', by Japanese filmmaker Shinji Higuchi and starring Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, is the latest ...
TOKYO — The highspeed bullet train says Japan as much as Godzilla, sushi and Mount Fuji. And it takes center stage in Shinji Higuchi’s new film, “Bullet Train Explosion,” which premieres ...
It absolutely drives me up the wall. So, when I heard that Netflix’s new film, Bullet Train Explosion, is all about Japan’s love for the Shinkansen bullet train, I just had to check it out. After all, ...
The bullet trains have long been a symbol of Japan’s blossoming as a modern economy and peaceful culture in the decades following World War II. The first leg, connecting Tokyo with Osaka, opened ...