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Japan’s special Imperial train

Emperor Akihito and King Juan Carlos of Spain got to travel to the Tsukuba Space Center yesterday using the Japan’s special Imperial train:

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Royal passengers

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It marked the first official use of this particular Imperial train, which was completed by JR in 2007. Only one car of the express train was exclusively built for the Imperial family’s use, while 5 other luxury cars attached are occasionally used by JR for special events.

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23 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - November 13, 2008 at 7:32 am

Categories: Celebrity News Tags: royal family

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Bad Wolf

I wonder how much that cost us.

Jax143

Japanese people not gaijins were the ones paying for it…
Jax143

“us” how do we gaijin pay for something that the japanese people payed for??

http://whatjapanthinks.com Ken Y-N

Jax143, if you pay taxes in Japan, you pay for some small part of it.
parcivale

Because gaijins aren’t exempted from paying taxes. Tax payers in Japan paid for that train no matter where they were born.

I think the only gaijins who don’t have to pay taxes on income would be diplomats or US military personnel posted here.

Anonymous

You want to work in Japan, but don’t like having an emperor? Simply GTFO. Go live somewhere without a monarchy.

This train has an air of awesomeness surrounding it. Every country with a monarch should have one of these puppies.

mee

..and JETs

parcivale

JETs don’t pay taxes? Why? Other government employees do.

Jake

Because it makes the job more attractive without raising salary beyond 4 million yen (and thus beyond the level of some salarymen for doing a simple ALT jopb)

Jerry

One question, does it turn into a robot that fights?

me

har-dee har har.

helical

What? I think it’s a perfectly valid question.

Karasu-kun

Totally. I’d like to hear the answer to this one as well.

http://www.hormel.com VonSkippy

From the looks of it’s passengers, I hope all the faucets dispense prune juice.
http://nonplayercharacter.blogspot.com/ NPC

That’s classy! Classier than a private Jet plane IMO.
kenji

why are some of you whining about paying higher taxes for the construction of this train??? if you dont like the japanese government paying extra money for an imperial family you can quietly leave japan. you dont know the importance of the imperial family to japanese people. why even make such a ridiculous argument…

The Overthinker

“You don’t know the importance of the Imperial Family to Japanese people.”

Nor do a lot of Japanese people. Or care, rather.

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bigfoot

Just like Tiger Tanaka’s private train in You Only Live Twice.
vincent

it’s rude for someone that didn’t understand other ppl culture and making unnecessary comment about it.
dogtato

so did the reign from spain stay mainly in the train?
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