TOKYO -- Cozily cushioned while riding on Japan's shinkansen high-speed rail system were about 300 prized passengers headed for Singapore.
JR East-JAL team delivers pears from orchard in northeast to city-state in 19 hours

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