Japanese train company stops at remote station every day to pick up just one passenger Read more: h

[CHD]

Train for one (Picture: CCTV)
For the last three years, a train company has stopped at a remote station in northern Japan to pick up just one passenger.

It then stops to take her home again at the end of the day.

The passenger is a schoolgirl who catches the train from the remote Kami-Shirataki station at 7.04am every day to get to class in time, and returns promptly at 5.08pm.

Yes, she has her own personal train service.

Just imagine…

Telegraph, after China’s CCTV news ran a story on it recently.

The company had planned to stop the service because it was virtually unused but then realised the schoolgirl – who hasn’t been named – needed it to get to class every day.

The station will now be kept open for her until she graduates from high school this March. It is scheduled to close for good on March 26.

‘This is the meaning of good governance penetrating right to the grassroot level,’ read one comment on CCTV’s Facebook page. ‘Every citizen matters. No child left behind!’
Japanese train stops at remote Kami-Shirataki station every day to pick up one schoolgirl | Metro News




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Good job @Nihonjin1051

 

[Place Of Space]

These guys have too much money. Why not to receive some Middle east refugees?

 

[LittleFish]

Any Gaka turns this story into Ero Manga? I believe we will see it soon in C90

 

[Daniel808]

Japanese train service 'keeps running daily service for a single passenger'

It is nothing new for one schoolgirl in Hokkaido, Japan, who, for the past three years, has reportedly been the only passenger to use the 7.04am and 5.08pm trains that pass through the remote Kami-Shirataki station.

The story goes, that three years ago, the Hokkaido Railway Co was set to close the station as its remote location meant it was almost entirely unused.

After learning that there remained a single student who still used the service for her daily travel to high school, the company decided to keep the station open until she graduated in March this year.

More generous still is that the company adjusted the train timetable to fit in with the unnamed student's school schedule.

However a contrasting report by Singapore newspaper The Straits Times suggests the happy tale may have been slightly embellished.

Quoting the Taiwan Apple Daily, the newspaper said the student actually took the train from Kyu-Shirataki Station, with more than 10 schoolmates at 7.15am, and that they had a choice of three trains for their return journey at the end of each day.

The Taiwanese media outlet confirmed that Japan Railways would close three underused stations by March this year, but the decision to do so may not have been related to the student's graduation date.


Japanese train service 'keeps running daily service for a single passenger'

The Company Decision to close the train station in March this year, is not related to the student's graduation date.
and the train station that the girl took the train is from Kyu-Shirataki Station not Kami-Shirataki station.


Kami-Shirataki Station

Kyu-Hirataki Station

But, by the way this is show to us. How deep Japan trouble about Decreasing rate of their Young People and Rural residents.

 

[initial_d]

This is why i love japan so much......

 

[Aepsilons]

People are tipping their hats to the Japanese government for making education a top priority. “Why should I not want to die for a country like this when the government is ready to go an extra mile just for me,” one commenter wrote on CCTV’s Facebook page. “This is the meaning of good governance penetrating right to the grassroot level. Every citizen matters. No Child left behind!”

 

[nang2]

People are tipping their hats to the Japanese government for making education a top priority. “Why should I not want to die for a country like this when the government is ready to go an extra mile just for me,” one commenter wrote on CCTV’s Facebook page. “This is the meaning of good governance penetrating right to the grassroot level. Every citizen matters. No Child left behind!”

That is very true. I think Japan is the very first Asian country that realized the importance of universal education and stove to achieve it. The rest of Asia, whichever followed the same lead, benefit greatly.

For this particular case though, I think it is a bit over humane. But again, I am an engineer that always thinks of efficiency.

 

[FairAndUnbiased]

I believe the Straits Times in Singapore has shown this story to be a hoax.

 

[Aepsilons]

That is very true. I think Japan is the very first Asian country that realized the importance of universal education and stove to achieve it. The rest of Asia, whichever followed the same lead, benefit greatly.

For this particular case though, I think it is a bit over humane. But again, I am an engineer that always thinks of efficiency.

We have learned from our progenitor state, China, which gave us the Confucian lit and Confucian values, which we have incorporated into our very identity. Education being a core ideal and righteous , virtuous aspect of Confucian ideology, is something that we value and cherish above all.

There is a saying in Japan : A man's riches come and go, but education, no one can steal from you. It is the only permanent intangible.

This focus and emphasis on state policy and civil support, is something that the Chinese government(s) have always upheld. Understanding it takes longer for China to accomplish due to the sear number and shear size of China and the vastness of the Chinese people. Afterall, Japan's 130 million is only 1/10th of China's 1.35 Billion. Yes?

 

[nang2]

We have learned from our progenitor state, China, which gave us the Confucian lit and Confucian values, which we have incorporated into our very identity. Education being a core ideal and righteous , virtuous aspect of Confucian ideology, is something that we value and cherish above all.

There is a saying in Japan : A man's riches come and go, but education, no one can steal from you. It is the only permanent intangible.

This focus and emphasis on state policy and civil support, is something that the Chinese government(s) have always upheld. Understanding it takes longer for China to accomplish due to the sear number and shear size of China and the vastness of the Chinese people. Afterall, Japan's 130 million is only 1/10th of China's 1.35 Billion. Yes?

Yeah, but China was never able to achieve universal education, despite the strong emphasis on education. Maybe Japan took a heed from Germany, where universal education started. Japan is a close example that Chinese can see clearly the huge positive impact on national strength when people are education.

 

[Aepsilons]

Yeah, but China was never able to achieve universal education, despite the strong emphasis on education. Maybe Japan took a heed from Germany, where universal education started. Japan is a close example that Chinese can see clearly the huge positive impact on national strength when people are education.

I agree with you, @nang2 . Japan had taken advantage of fusion between Confucian culture and Prussian learning , and the focus of national planning --- and education of the uneducated Japanese masses. But the success of Japan during the Industrial Period was due to the foundation of Confucian work ethic, Confucian literature that was so widespread throughout the Japanese islands. In fact , key to every Japanese Daimyo Lord's mandate was to :1) forming of an army, 2) learning the confucian classics and mastery of such, 3) the compulsory maintenance of every liege lord to go through the civil service examination, and encouraging of civil-based education.

This concept of civil examination was something that was actually introduced to Japan by way of the Tang Dynasty during the 10th and 11th century CE.

I suppose the reason for the amazing performance of Chinese and Japanese in examinations, in mathematics, sciences, is because of this underlying culture of learning emphasis. Education has always been a core value of historically Confucian civilizations --- Chinese, Japanese, Korea. I suppose this is why the IQ rates of historically Confucian civilizations (China, Japan, Korea) is relatively and incredibly HIGH.

 

[truthseeker2010]

Hats off to the company............. i don't have words for this............ Priceless.......

 

[mike2000 is back]

These guys have too much money. Why not to receive some Middle east refugees?

More like their government cares ALOT about it's people. Moreover they are already a ultra developed country(the most in Asia).So it's good to see the government thinks about the well being of its people.

Take in Syrian 'refugees'?? LOL You want Japan to make the same mistakes our western liberal European leaders have already made? Please i don't want Japan to witness what we are already witnessing in some European countries where some uncivilized immigrants are already causing troubles to the society. That will be a tragedy since Japan is one country which is so peaceful,clean,orderly,respectful and all its citizens respect/abide by the law. It's a model of what a harmonious society should look like.

 

[Jlaw]

More like their government cares ALOT about it's people. Moreover they are already a ultra developed country(the most in Asia).So it's good to see the government thinks about the well being of its people.

Take in Syrian 'refugees'?? LOL You want Japan to make the same mistakes our western liberal European leaders have already made? Please i don't want Japan to witness what we are already witnessing in some European countries where some uncivilized immigrants are already causing troubles to the society. That will be a tragedy since Japan is one country which is so peaceful,clean,orderly,respectful and all its citizens respect/abide by the law. It's a model of what a harmonious society should look like.

Canada is making that mistake now

 

[mike2000 is back]

Canada is making that mistake now

Really?? I am not aware of that. Thought Canada had very strict immigration laws??