The Shinbashi Station started its operation as the strating point for the first official railway service in Japan in 1872 between Shinbashi and Yokohama. Until the Tokyo Station was constructed in 1914, Shinbashi was the terminal station in Tokyo for national railroads that ran as far as Kobe
It might be a kind of Revelation that the memorial steam engine displayed in front of the Shinbashi Station has an ID number "C11292," since Mr. Ozawa's group got only 129 ballots while Mr. Kan polled 291 votes in the election for the head of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan held in the morning of June 4, before Mr. Naoto Kan was elected as prime minister of Japan in the National Diet in the afternoon of the same day.
The focus in the Japanese politics is now on whether Mr. Ichiro Ozawa, the most powerful lawmaker, would still try to control the party after the summer Upper-House election, if he should not be prosecuted...