Dream Super-Express: A Cultural History of the World's First Bullet Train, Paperback/Jessamyn Abel

How the various, often contradictory, images of the Tôkaidô Shinkansen prompted a reimagination of identity on the levels of individual, metropolis, and nation in a changing Japan. About author(s): Jessamyn R. Abel is a historian of Japan and Associate Professor in Asian Studies at Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of The International Minimum (2015).