{"id":31589,"date":"2017-11-17T22:06:12","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T17:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=31589"},"modified":"2017-11-17T22:06:12","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T17:06:12","slug":"japan-rail-company-tenders-apology-after-train-leaves-20-seconds-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=31589","title":{"rendered":"Japan rail company tenders apology after train leaves 20 seconds early"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tokyo, Nov. 17 (TNS):<\/strong> A Japanese rail company has &#8220;deeply apologised&#8221; for a train leaving a station early \u2014 by 20 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>The train was scheduled to depart at 9:44 am on Tuesday morning (local time), but an over-eager conductor let it go instead at 9:43:40. The incident happened at Minami Nagareyama station on the line connecting two towns 60 kilometres apart.<\/p>\n<p>The trip takes 45 minutes, so travellers might expect a 20-second margin of error to fall within acceptable limits.<\/p>\n<p>The train\u2019s operator, though, believed the foul-up was serious enough to warrant an apology. \u201cWe deeply apologise for the severe inconvenience imposed upon our customers,\u201d the Metropolitan Intercity Railway Company said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The train\u2019s conductor had not properly checked the train\u2019s timetable, the firm said, adding that the crew had been instructed to strictly follow procedure to prevent a recurrence.<\/p>\n<p>Passengers who might have made the train had it left on time in fact suffered little inconvenience: the next one arrived just four minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>While delays \u2013 even of just a minute \u2013 prompt profuse apologies by Japanese train operators, Metropolitan Intercity\u2019s mea culpa drew inevitable, and\u00a0unfavourable, comparisons with rail services in other countries.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo, Nov. 17 (TNS): A Japanese rail company has &#8220;deeply apologised&#8221; for a train leaving a station early \u2014 by 20 seconds. The train was scheduled to depart at 9:44 am on Tuesday morning (local time), but an over-eager conductor let it go instead at 9:43:40. The incident happened at Minami Nagareyama station on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31591,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31589\/revisions\/31591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}