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[–] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The Tokaido Shinkansen, the first high-speed railway in the world, was partially funded by loans from the World Bank. Link in Japanese here.

Oh whoops that was the World Bank not the IMF, my bad.