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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
World
Justin McCurry in Tokyo

Japan plans ‘conveyor belt road’ linking Tokyo and Osaka amid delivery driver shortage

This illustration taken from the government's official YouTube video shows a conveyor belt road.
This illustration taken from the government's official YouTube video shows a conveyor belt road. Japan is planning to build such a road between Tokyo and Osaka. Photograph: AP

Six decades after the bullet train first whisked passengers between Tokyo and Osaka, authorities in Japan are planning to do the same for cargo, with the construction of a “conveyor belt road”.

The automated cargo transport corridor, which will connect the capital with Osaka, 320 miles (515km) away, is seen as part of the solution to soaring demand for delivery services in the world’s fourth-biggest economy.

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