DANGAN-TRAIN continued to Tokaido Shinkansen

The Shinkansen under construction was still afflicted by the financial deficit.
Many of the Diet members were dissatisfied with JNR. "Why do you use precious funds for an outdated railroad?", they criticized. JNR submitted a courageous idea. They took out a loan of 80 million dollars(1$=360yen) from the World Bank for this project on May 1st, 1961. This amount of money was a large amount, too much. There were many opposing opinions in the World Bank but, they decided to approve the loan. Incidentally, the payments were completed on this loan in 1981.
The Shinkansen project turned into a national project of Japan by having taken out this loan. Japan under revival from the war took a heavy responsibility. It was no longer allowed to call off the Shinkansen plan according to the domestic situation. The failure meant influencing other national development programs of industrial technology. There was an unexpected ally. The tunnel made at the time of construction of the DANGAN-TRAIN was utilized. Also, there were many of the purchased lots remaining. These, which were considered as useless, were utilized for the Tokaido Shinkansen. This was the reason that the Tokaido Shinkansen was completed in a short period of time of five years. Therefore, the DANGAN-TRAIN plan of the phantom was the leading role of the success of the Tokaido Shinkansen. TOGAWA and YASUZIRO(The father of HIDEO SHIMA) were officers of the South Manchuria Railway. The phantoms of the South Manchuria Railway and the DANGAN-TRAIN continued to the Tokaido Shinkansen.