How Japanese trains went from dirty toilets and massive losses to the world’s best

In one word: PRIVATISATION How do you privatise trains? That sounds implausible. Well, Japan did it in 1987. in 1987, the government privatized the Japanese National Railways (JNR), which operated every type of transit except trams and inner-city metros. JR East, JR Central, and JR West, the three spin-offs operating around Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka, […]