...Caitlin Meagher The history of the shinkansen encapsulates a number of complex negotiations over meaning, power, physical space, social distance, and identity at a number of levels—municipal, regional, national, and international—at a time when Japan was reconstructing itself literally...

... construction of the high speed Joetsu Shinkansen rail line been given to the existing Japan Railway Construction Corporation, which formerly specialized in construction of politically motivated, economically inefficient rural branch lines, rather than to a new, separate company for Shinkansen construction...

... population is expected to grow from 1.39 million people in 2009 to 1.43 million between 2010 and 2030 (p. 169). Christopher Hood investigates the extensions of the Japan National Rail's Shinkansen into rural areas such as Hachinohe (2002) and Shin-Aomori (2011) in the Tohoku area (pp. 135–56), whereas John...

... of Hieizan by Oda Nobunaga in 1573, to a comparison of this violence with Allied bombing raids over Japan in World War II. While the pace is 624 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES lively, the details can get blurred from the speed of passage, a bit like the view from the Shinkansen when one passes through an urban...

... of public construction funds to Niigata to build roads, bridges, dams, and nuclear facilities. These efforts have provided the third district with one of the most advanced POLITICS IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN 331 transportation networks in the country, including four stations on the Shinkansen (bullet train line...

... lifelines were severed. The Hanshin Expressway collapsed in over a dozen places, the San'yō Shinkansen rail line was broken, and subway tunnels collapsed. Many buildings in city centers lay in ruins. The relentless footage of fallen highways and burning streets stunned television viewers across the country...