Driver of 1st shinkansen train recalls ride 50 years ago

Driver of 1st shinkansen train recalls ride 50 years ago

TOKYO, Japan - Kazutaro Oishi, who drove Japan's first bullet train on the shinkansen line in October 1964, poses in the cockpit of the original "0 series" bullet train transferred to a special exhibition in Tokyo in July 2014, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the operation of the Tokaido Shinkansen Line.

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