Does anyone remember that story when the French built faster high speed rail by being sloppy than the Japanese did by being meticulous?

Supposedly (or so I've heard) the story goes that the Japanese wanted to build high speed rail but they were unable to make their trains go as fast as in France. Turned out that the problem was that in typical Japanese fashion the had meticulously placed their catenary poles at equal distances from each other, which when the trains reached a certain speed speed allowed a resonant frequency to propagate through the catenary which caused problems with power delivery to the train. Meanwhile the French had been more sloppy and put up their catenary poles at varying distances, which inadvertently eliminated the problem with propagating resonant frequency since each catenary section had a different resonant frequency.

Does anyone have a credible citation for this story? Or is it just a myth?