Japan will help Russia to extend the TRANS-Siberian railway to the island of Hokkaido

Japan will help Russia to extend the TRANS-Siberian railway to the island of Hokkaido

Russia to Japan via Sakhalin source wikitravel.org

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The government of Japan offers Russia a plan to extend the TRANS-Siberian railway to the Northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, the newspaper reports the Sankei Shimbun.

The government of Japan offers Russia a plan to extend the TRANS-Siberian railway to the Northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, the newspaper reports the Sankei Shimbun.

Japanese authorities offer Russia a project to extend the TRANS-Siberian railway to the island of Hokkaido. A Japanese company has created a programme for the modernisation of the railway between Kazan and Vladivostok to increase the speed and volume of traffic. Under the bill, the Japanese offered to connect Sakhalin island with the mainland by an underground tunnel through the 7-kilometer Strait. The builders of the Rising Sun are ready to supply for this purpose in Russian trains, signalling systems and new railway tracks.

These projects, if their implementation can bring great benefits to both countries, according to Japanese experts. Expansion and modernization of the TRANS-Siberian railway will increase the flow of goods, and also activates the tourism and other contacts. In addition, Japan considers 50 projects of mutually beneficial cooperation that developed ahead of the visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin in Tokyo.

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