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Title	Author	# of Pages
Old Man Thunder: Father of the Bullet Train	Bill Hosokawa	224

Contents

Introduction    (p. i)
The Birth of the Bullet Train    (p. 1)
Big Brother's Sacrifice    (p. 8)
Love and Marriage    (p. 18)
Hard Lessons About Railroading    (p. 25)
Introduction to America    (p. 34)
Moving Up    (p. 46)
Earthquake Emergency    (p. 56)
The Bribery Scandal    (p. 66)
Clouds Over Manchuria    (p. 87)
War Comes to Manchuria    (p. 87)
Turmoil    (p. 101)
A Fling at Politics    (p. 108)
Pearl Harbor    (p. 119)
The Plot    (p. 127)
After the Surrender    (p. 137)
Challenge    (p. 149)
Battle of Gauges    (p. 159)
Decision to Gamble    (p. 169)
Sayonara, Kiku    (p. 179)
Charging Ahead    (p. 184)
In Pursuit of Dollars    (p. 196)
Well Done, Sogo-San    (p. 202)
Silent Thunder    (p. 214)
Epilogue    (p. 216)
Glossary and Terms    (p. 220)
Index    (p. 221)

Note: Photographs follow pages 80 and 144