Even though the Tokaido Shinkansen boasts ... of a local subsidiary in Texas. Asahi: Taiwan’s high-speed rail network opened in 2007, based on JR Tokai’s N700 series train.

On the Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen lines, all seats on the N700 series bullet trains have been nonsmoking since their introduction in 2007, as on a subsequent model. But smoking rooms outside ...