A country gets back on track:
Kohaku has details:
To celebrate the first run of the rainbow-colored Shinkansen from Kagoshima to Hakata in Kyushu, more than 15,000 people doing a "human wave" across the island were filmed from inside the train. 100 hours of filming were compressed into 50 minutes of video, from which the final (and unusual) 180-second commercial was pieced together.
The song in the commercial is called "Boom!" by the Japanese-Swedish artist Maia Hirasawa. She wrote the lively tune after being commissioned by JR Kyushu for a song that will "bring smiles to people's faces". It will be available as a mini album from May 8.
Online reactions of people have been enthuasiastic with comments like "It brings tears to my eyes every time I watch it", "I like Japan even more!", "I hope people in Tohoku would have this kind of power".
The reader who sent the link adds:
I rode the Shinkansen trains in Japan, and I get their enthusiasm. Americans just don't know what they are missing.
The Dish 