>>132448
It's relatively proprietary and completely incompatible with existing infrastructure in every way possible. Same way nobody wants to buy Transrapid despite it being around since the 1970s.
As for selling abroad, it's both tactical and because the companies and government are comfortably in bed with each other in some way or another. The idea being using it to promote ties and feed money. More on the former, the idea is that they sell the maglev first, then use conventional HSR as a "discount option".
>Oh that's too expensive? Why not buy this cheaper product from us instead and save $XX billion?
But in practice, nobody's actually going to buy it any time soon unless they build a fully fledged line in Japan to demonstrate it first. Never mind the cost. Then the same could be said for the Shinkansen. They (JR, as opposed to the train manufacturers) want to sell the Shinkansen as a whole package of both rolling stock and infrastructure because the trains are widebody. In the end, the closest they got to doing that was THSR, but really the non Shinkansen parts like signalling were due to the Eurotrain conflict.
The financing part? The Japanese government hardly has any wealth to loan from its own pockets. JR is owned by various banks and they're more than likely the actual source of money by proxy.
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