&gt;“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!”<p>Ironically, the railway is a private one, i.e. Japan Railways Hokkaido[0] is private corporation, not a government agency. And yet the company executives, and to a lesser extent, the shareholders, okayed this arrangement. I can&#x27;t imagine this happening anywhere outside of Japan.<p>There&#x27;s a similar phenomenon in the UK called &quot;ghost trains&quot;[1] that&#x27;s only superficially similar. Basically there&#x27;s a ton of bureaucracy in closing down a line, so instead of actually closing a line, we just run an unscheduled and unannounced &quot;ghost train&quot; through it once a week.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hokkaido_Railway_Company" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hokkaido_Railway_Company</a><p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;future&#x2F;story&#x2F;20150723-why-britain-has-secret-ghost-trains" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;future&#x2F;story&#x2F;20150723-why-britain-has-sec...</a>