TOKYO -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe talked up the country's iconic shinkansen with his Malaysian counterpart, Najib Razak, pitching a bullet train solution for a planned high-speed rail slated to connect Singapore and Kuala Lumpur in 2026.
"We had a very good discussion," Abe said at a joint press conference following the meeting. "I expressed strong expectations regarding the adoption of Japan's bullet-train technology."