FUKUOKA -- As many people start new lives in spring with new jobs or further education, railway operators in Japan are nervous about congestion at stations and aboard trains due to more passengers ...

In brief: In what is the perfect illustration of how the world has changed over the last two and a half decades, Japan has stopped measuring crowding on trains using a peculiar metric: how easy it is ...

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