{"id":33525,"date":"2021-05-15T23:28:33","date_gmt":"2021-05-15T23:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=33525"},"modified":"2021-05-15T23:28:33","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T23:28:33","slug":"driving-japans-first-bullet-trains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=33525","title":{"rendered":"Driving Japan&#8217;s first bullet trains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The fastest train the world had ever seen was launched in Japan in 1964. <\/p>\n<p>The first Shinkansen, or bullet train, ran between Tokyo and Osaka, and had a top speed of 210km per hour. <\/p>\n<p>Isao Makibayashi, one of the train&#8217;s first drivers, spoke to Witness History about his excitement at working on the bullet train line.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p004t1hd\" class=\"ssrcss-9nsdc6-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">Witness History<\/a><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">: <\/i>The stories of our times told by the people who were there. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/stories-56918684\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fastest train the world had ever seen was launched in Japan in 1964. The first Shinkansen, or bullet train, ran between Tokyo and Osaka, and had a top speed of 210km per hour. Isao Makibayashi, one of the train&#8217;s first drivers, spoke to Witness History about his excitement at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hindi-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/p09g0vh7.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}