Important (good) news update: despite all the scary things happening in the U.S., Japan has created the only train I ever want to ride again: a Hello Kitty bullet train. West Japan Railway Company unveiled the vehicle, adorned with Hello Kitty inside and out, yesterday in the country's Nakagawa-machi, Fukuoka Prefecture. The Hello Kitty Shinkansen train will travel between Shin-Osaka and Hakata starting on June 30. This is real, guys. Take it in:

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There's a Hello Kitty train conductor statue in one of the cars for the only selfie opportunity I'll ever condone. There are Hello Kitty seat covers on every chair.

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Every desk and luggage shelf has a happy Hello Kitty on it:

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Wonderful things can and do still happen.