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Originally Posted by Wizened Variations
For a large number of reasons, public transportation is dealt with far more responsibly in Japan than in the US.
I can think of a couple of reasons: a) the historical reverberations of the Tokugaway Shogunate's social discipline; and b) the Confucian moral framework where those with power tend to have more 'social responsibility.'*
The US has no Confucian sense of social ethics.
*WWII is the reason I used 'tend.'
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They also don't have code requirements that comprise a big percentage of the cost of any us rail system.