A expanded version of this series with more details, photographs, tables, and reference materials was published as JAPANESE RAILWAY TECHNOLOGY TODAY (230 pp.) by Railway Technical Research Institute and EJRCF on 1 December 2001.
Joint editors: Railway Technical Research Institute
East Japan Railway Culture Foundation
Publisher: East Japan Railway Culture Foundation
Distributor: Transportation News Co., Ltd.
Price: 3,000 (+ 5% tax if resident in Japan) + postage
ISBN: 4-330-67201-4
This 230-page A-5 book, written in English and published on 1 December 2001, is an easy-to-understand guide to Japan's latest railway technologies. Based on the 13-part series Railway Technology Today published in the quarterly magazine Japan Railway & Transport Review, it covers rolling stock, power supply, signalling and telecommunications, construction and maintenance, accident and natural disaster prevention, environmental protection, and various new guided transportation systems. It describes recent developments in information technology and future prospects for railway applications.
All the contributors are active engineers from the Railway Technical Research Institute and other companies working at the cutting edge of railway R&D. Eight pages of colour photographs and many illustrations and tables make this book a good primer on railway engineering for general readers without technical knowledge, and it can also serve as a concise handbook for experts.
CONTENTS
Colour Photographs and Illustrations Preface and Foreword
Capter 1   What Drives Electric Multiple Units?
Capter 2   How Bogies Work
Capter 3   Shinkansen Bogies
Capter 4   Braking Systems
Capter 5   Railway Electric Power Feeding Systems
Capter 6   The Mechanism of Railway Tracks
Capter 7   Signalling and Telecommunications Systems for Safe Railway Transport
Capter 8   Railway Construction in Japan
Capter 9   Protecting the Trackside Environment
Capter 10   Minimizing the Effect of Natural Disaster
Capter 11   Passenger Service Technologies
Capter 12   Magnetic Levitation (Maglev) Technologies
Capter 13   New Types of Guided Transport
Capter 14   Information Technology in Railways
Capter 15   When Train Stations Become CyberRail Stations

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A expanded version of this series with more details, 600 photographs, tables, maps and reference materials was published as A HISTORY OF JAPANESE RAILWAYS 1872-1999 (270 pp.) by EJRCF on 30 March 2000.
Publisher: East Japan Railway Culture Foundation
Distributor: Transportation News Co., Ltd.
Price: 5,000 (+5% tax if resident in Japan) + postage
ISBN: 4-87513-089-9
This 270-page B-5 size book, published on 30 March 2000, is the first complete history of Japanese railways written in English. It is based on the 12-part series entitled Japanese Railway History first published in Japan Railway & Transport Review.
The substantially rewritten content and many additional photographs, maps, and tables give a more comprehensive understanding of Japanese national and private railways.
CONTENTS
Colour Photographs, Paintings and Prints Preface
Chapter 1   Dawn of Japanese Railways
Chapter 2   Expansion of Railway Network
Chapter 3   Transition from Imported to Domestic Technology
Chapter 4   Nationalization of Railways
Chapter 5   Development of Light Railways
Chapter 6   Technical Improvements in Nationalized Railways
Chapter 7   Golden Age of Government Railways
Chapter 8   Development of Urban Rail Networks
Chapter 9   Rural Railway Construction by Government Railways
Chapter 10   Wartime Railways and Transport Policies
Chapter 11   Birth of JNR as Public Corporation
Chapter 12   Railway Modernization and Shinkansen
Chapter 13   Improvement of Urban Railways
Chapter 14   Decline of Rural Railway Lines
Chapter 15   Decrease in Rail Freight
Chapter 16   JNR's Last Days and Prifvatization
Chapter 17   Twelve Years of JR
Appendix and Full Colour Maps