Posts Tagged ‘Japan’

Burberry Black Label

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Burberry Black Label

Japanese girls can’t have all the fun right? With the large success of the Burberry Blue Label line for girls, Burberry spun-off another line exclusively for guys named “Burberry Black Label,” available only Japan.

Burberry Black Label

Focusing on young men, Burberry Black Label injects younger, more tempting and dynamic uses of the Burberry checker pattern.

Burberry Black Label

Japan gets official on plans and details for world’s fastest maglev

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

Fastest Maglev

We’d already heard about Central Japan Railway Company’s not-so-near-term intentions to deploy a speedy new maglev system in the country, but it looks like it’s just now getting official with things, and it’s still promising to have it up and running no sooner than 2025. By then, there should be 180 miles of track stretching from Tokyo to central Japan, which’ll accommodate a maglev train capable of topping out at 310 miles per hour, apparently making it the world’s fastest. That, as you might have guessed, comes at a fairly hefty cost — $44.7 billion, to be specific — which makes some similar, but decidedly less speedy systems pale in comparison. As The Register points out, however, while Japan’s train will be the fastest maglev system, it won’t quite keep up with the fastest conventional trains around, or whatever else might be around in the year 2025.

[Photo courtesy of FYS]