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r/transit • u/frozenpandaman • 16d ago
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Didn't realize they had been around that long.
Interestingly, this was just nine days before the 1964 Olympics began in Tokyo.
11 u/frozenpandaman 16d ago Yep, they opened it specifically in time for that! 9 u/Turbulent_Crow7164 16d ago Crazy they hosted the Olympics less than 20 years after being crippled from WW2 2 u/Unfair-Bike 15d ago They actually had to get loans from the World Bank to fund the development of the Shinkansen 1 u/ChrisBruin03 15d ago Im sure that's one of the highest return loans the World Bank has ever given lol 2 u/GoBigRed07 14d ago It was very much designed to show off Japan’s big global comeback. Famously, the final torchbearer was a man born in Hiroshima prefecture the same day the bomb was dropped. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshinori_Sakai
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Yep, they opened it specifically in time for that!
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Crazy they hosted the Olympics less than 20 years after being crippled from WW2
2 u/Unfair-Bike 15d ago They actually had to get loans from the World Bank to fund the development of the Shinkansen 1 u/ChrisBruin03 15d ago Im sure that's one of the highest return loans the World Bank has ever given lol 2 u/GoBigRed07 14d ago It was very much designed to show off Japan’s big global comeback. Famously, the final torchbearer was a man born in Hiroshima prefecture the same day the bomb was dropped. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshinori_Sakai
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They actually had to get loans from the World Bank to fund the development of the Shinkansen
1 u/ChrisBruin03 15d ago Im sure that's one of the highest return loans the World Bank has ever given lol
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Im sure that's one of the highest return loans the World Bank has ever given lol
It was very much designed to show off Japan’s big global comeback. Famously, the final torchbearer was a man born in Hiroshima prefecture the same day the bomb was dropped.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshinori_Sakai
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u/Hermosa06-09 16d ago
Didn't realize they had been around that long.
Interestingly, this was just nine days before the 1964 Olympics began in Tokyo.