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
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- Edo period (1603)
- Commodore Perry opens Japan (1853)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543)
- Battle of Sekigahara (1600)
- VJ Day / surrender of Japan (1945)
- Kamakura shogunate established (1192)
- Oda Nobunaga (1534)
Around 1964
- The Beatles (1960)
- Events of 1968 (1968)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Pop music: the 1960s (1960)
- Pop music: the 1970s (1970)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Hey Jude (The Beatles) (1968)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- She Loves You (The Beatles) (1963)
- Construction of Berlin Wall (1961)