The chairman of Central Japan Railway, operator of Japan's oldest and busiest bullet train link, has denounced China's growing high-speed rail industry for “stealing” foreign technology and compromising safety.
Central Japan Railway, or JR Central, operates the 46-year-old Shinkansen high-speed link between Tokyo and the western city of Osaka, and is competing with China's state railways for overseas business.
“The difference between China and Japan is that in Japan, if one passenger is injured or killed the cost is prohibitively high,” Yoshiyuki Kasai told the Financial Times. “It's very serious. But China is a country where 10,000 passengers could die every year and no one would make a fuss.”