What began as an inquiring observation of a bird ultimately transformed high-speed rail design. Though bullet trains gain hugely from such sophisticated aerodynamic engineering, city train ...

However, the most striking feature of the bullet train is not its speed but its front end, which is designed to resemble the beak of a bird. Well, this design comes from Japanese engineer Eiji ...

Shinji Higuchi ("Shin Godzilla") delivers an "Apollo 13"-style story about ordinary people coming together to resolve a ...

For the Japanese filmmaker Shinji Higuchi, an interest in trains on screen dates back to at least 1975, when he saw The Bullet Train as a fourth grader. Fifty years later, it remains one of his ...

Nakatsu and his team started to rethink the bullet train's nose. Instead of the usual blunt front, they proposed a long, tapered, and aerodynamic nose that copied the bird's beak. The new design ...