Japan’s Shinkansen bullet trains have achieved one of the greatest engineering and safety accomplishments in transportation history: moving over 10 billion passengers across the country at high speed for 60 years without a single passenger fatality caused by a train accident. This unmatched record has made Japan the global gold standard for rail safety and reliability. • The Shinkansen network operates trains at speeds up to 320 km/h, yet maintains split-second precision and near-perfect punctua