The recent introduction of very fast and frequent train service on the Tokaido Shinkansen makes it difficult to stabilize the feeding voltage solely by compensating reactive power. Therefore, active power compensation has been introduced for further stabilization of the voltage, and a converter control strategy called the “fixed power factor method” was applied in commercial operation that started in February 2009. Feeding voltage stabilizing control by active power compensation is substantially more complicated than conventional reactive power compensation. This paper describes a novel stability judging method for the Shinkansen feeding system with multiple power converters; this method can be used to determine appropriate active/reactive compensation strategies that can be used by the operator of the new Shinkansen power supply system. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Electr Eng Jpn, 179(4): 51–60, 2012; Published online in Wiley Online Library (http://wileyonlinelibrary.com). DOI 10.1002/eej.21266