Yoshiyuki Kasai, a Japanese train executive who turned ambitious plans into reality, died with his grandest project still under construction
Former bullet-train CEO Yoshiyuki Kasai advised former prime minister Shinzo Abe and was strong pro-U.S. voiceChieko Tsuneoka/The Wall Street JournalYoshiyuki Kasai, a Japanese train executive who turned ambitious plans into reality, has died with his grandest project still under construction.
Mr. Kasai, who died of pneumonia in a Tokyo hospital on May 25 at age 81, spent his final years pushing a magnetic-levitation train that would connect Tokyo and Nagoya, a distance of about 170 miles, in just 40 minutes.
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