like doing ...

perhaps the paragraph could be improved

JUST like taking a ride on the Shinkansen....

For the sake of understanding it is better to shorten rather than lenghten a sentence with too many details. Break it up to smaller sentences. It is okay for a novel but when writing technical reports or conveying vital information simplicity is the rule. Ambiguity can create disasters if a wrong interpretation is taken of the information conveyed. Complex sentences are for snobs or professors who deliberately compose dense prose to impress their academic fellows to set up themselves up as a class above the crowd.

I hope you would know better.

You are inferring that knowledge is blameworthy.

What you say can be true in some cases but in the vast majority complex sentences are needed to explain complex concepts.

Saying that you can explain complex matters with simple phrases is just plain wrong...

If you read the part about VITAL information and reports you see what I mean. I wrote instruction manuals for machines and simplicity is needed for too complex a sentence and the technician would either scratch his head or press the wrong button. There had been many industrial disasters resulting from wrong interpretation of the instructions. Don't forget the people who run the machines are less capable of than the designers. Of course, if it is complex it will be complex but to unnecessarily densify the prose is snobbish.

Basically, it boils down to whom you are wring. The reading audience dictates how you write. To the enemy you would write to hide your intensions so you would write in code or provide disinformation. To your boss you would write differently. To your loved ones you write very differently. To those of simpler minds you need to write simply. To be conservative or to be on the safe side in order to avoid misunderstanding it is best to keep it simple (KISS was the rule).

i really shouldnt bother but talk talks sense as does francis, while the kangaroo adds "just"

taking a ride on the shinkansen was an imperative for dignitaries visiting japan in the 70's.

similarly, the Beijing-Tianjin Intercity Line has hosted representatives from more than thirty countries and international organizations since August 2008.