To a Japanese, "Shinkansen bullet trains" sounds very odd because "Shinkansen" literally means "bullet trains". :-) One thing that I find most impressive about

To a Japanese, "Shinkansen bullet trains" sounds very odd because "Shinkansen" literally means "bullet trains". :-) One thing that I find most impressive about Shinkansen is not mentioned in the article. It is its extraordinary safety record. There has not been a single fatality due to train accidents in the last 50 years!