At 186 miles per hour, the landscape starts to blur. A mile disappears every 20 seconds. An entire town can blink by in the time it takes to remember its name. High-speed trains are, as the name ...

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In the first week of June, I took a high-speed train between Osaka and Tokyo, Japan's two largest cities. It was seamless, fast and efficient, and part of the allure of visiting a land where tradition ...