From the old military technology in Japan to the railway technology of the Super express "Shinkansen"
Toru KOYAMA
Saitama University (Visiting professor)
Abstract:
The research and development for Super express "Shinkansen" were done mainly in the actual test in Railway Technical Research Institute, Japanese National Railways (RTRI, JNR) and the testing track. The RTRI had superior talented people who supported Japanese military technology during the World War II. The non-railway technical experts above all, who lost their jobs of the aircraft and the shipping relation, were there. The RTRI adopted in 1945, for example, 85 newly graduated people and 124 graduates from previous years, 82 out of the latter had antecedents in the army and the navy and the Central Aviation Research Institute.
Though all of the non-railway technical experts in the RTRI did not concern the research and development for Super express "Shinkansen", they brought a theoretical analysis method and a new phase from the outside into the exclusive railway technology that was a hard mass of the experimental engineering, and produced the Super express "Shinkansen" in addition to the railway revival.
Key Words: Shinkansen, Military Technology, Non-railway Technical Expert
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