A group of nine Japanese companies and two Taiwanese firms said Thursday it has landed an order from Taiwan High Speed Rail Corp. to lay the northern 150-km section of a bullet train line in Taiwan, in addition to the order it landed for the southern 180-km section.
The value of the new order amounts to 100 billion yen, bringing the tally of orders related to the bullet train system obtained by Japanese companies so far to 537 billion yen, it said.
The Taiwan project signifies the first time Japan to export its shinkansen system.