Japan's shinkansen train cuts transport time of goods to Singapore by 20%

JR East-JAL team delivers pears from orchard in northeast to city-state in 19 hours

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Boxes of pears are carried onboard a shinkansen train at Sendai Station in northeast Japan, left, and after arrival at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, right, a worker loads them in an airline cargo container the same day, Oct. 7. (Source photos by Kyodo and Yuki Kohara)

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TOKYO -- Cozily cushioned while riding on Japan's shinkansen high-speed rail system were about 300 prized passengers headed for Singapore.

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