| It is said that Western countries expressed admiration for the fact that Japan, an island nation in the Far East which had been closed off the world for a long time, completed own railways in only several years after the Meiji Restoration. |
なお欧米では、極東の鎖国をしていた島国であった日本が、明治維新より僅か数年で自前の鉄道を完成させたということには、驚嘆の声が上がったといわれる。 |