Shinkansen bullet train
1964 · Event
First high-speed rail line, Tokyo to Osaka, opens ahead of 1964 Olympics; spawns a global industry.
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More from Japan
- Edo period (1603)
- Perry Expedition to Japan (1853)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543)
- Battle of Sekigahara (1600)
- VJ Day / surrender of Japan (1945)
- Kamakura shogunate established (1192)
- Oda Nobunaga (1534)
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi unifies Japan (1590)
Around 1964
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- The Troubles (1968)