Japan eyes universities for bullet train training centre

Japan is eyeing three Malaysian universities as partners to set up a training centre in Malaysia to produce skilled manpower if it wins the bid to build the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High-Speed Rail, billed as Southeast Asia's largest infrastructure project, reports Bernama.

This will be the core of Japan's technology transfer and human resource development plan to enable Malaysians and Singaporeans to acquire the Shinkansen bullet train technology which Japan invented over 50 years ago, to operate the system in the two countries, said Japanese Ambassador to Malaysia, Dr Makio Miyagawa.

He said academic institutions, such as Universiti Teknologi Malaysia and Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, both in Johor, as well as Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, all of which lie along the alignment of the high-speed rail, would become perfectly well-located centres for training and excellence.
Full report on the Bernama site