中日高铁的发展历史似乎有着惊人的相似。尽管日本媒体给中国高铁贴上“爱面子”这个标签,但是翻开日本历史,却发现如出一辙。当初日本修建新干线的时候未得到民众的充分支持,由于预算资金不够不得不向世界银行贷款,最终费用为起初预计的两倍。1959年,国际奥委会正式决定1964年的奥运 The history of the development of Sino-Japanese high-speed rail seems to have an astonishing similarity. Although Japanese media labeled “love face” to China’s high-speed railways, it turned out that Japanese history was the same. When Japan initially built the Shinkansen without the full support of the general public, its budget was doubled from the initial estimate due to insufficient budgetary resources to lend to the World Bank. In 1959, the International Olympic Committee officially decided the 1964 Olympic Games