The most famous voice in Japan

The World

Donna Burke has the most famous voice you’ve never heard about. The Australian first moved to Japan in the 1990s, hoping to make it as a singer. Now, she’s the voice of the Tokaido Shinkansen, commonly known as the bullet train, and her announcements are heard by more than 400,000 people in Japan every day.

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