B&W Photographs; Spine ends & corners of book covers have a bit of light bumping and rubbing. Light brown / bronze paper covered boards have a black cloth spine with bronze gilt lettering. Text pages are clean, bright and without chips, tears, discoloration or wear. Endpapers are a plain white. Spine ends & corners of dust jacket have a bit of very light bumping & rubbing. Overall, a nice bright copy. "In the decade when the United States was building its costly but convenient interstate highway system, Japan, after intense soul - searching, opted to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on a transportation technology that many believed to be outmoded. The result was Shinkansen, the Bullet Train system that stitches Japanese cities together with amazing efficiency, economy, and convenience."

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