Senior officials from 9 countries ride maglev train

TSURU, Japan - Senior officials from nine countries ride Japan's state-of-the-art magnetically levitated train Jan. 17 on an experimental line in Yamanashi Prefecture, west of Tokyo. The train hit a top speed of 452 kilometers per hour.

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