Japan may be better than Europe and way better than America, but the fact that their trains work at all is in spite of deregulation, privatization, and break up of JR and all the workarounds and laws passed they needed to get the “market solutions” to not just close non-profitable stations, fire half their work force, stop paying pensions, and raise rates to the point of unaffordability.
Have you been to Korea or China?
Japan may be better than Europe and way better than America, but the fact that their trains work at all is in spite of deregulation, privatization, and break up of JR and all the workarounds and laws passed they needed to get the “market solutions” to not just close non-profitable stations, fire half their work force, stop paying pensions, and raise rates to the point of unaffordability.