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Situated in Japan’s north island of Hokkaido, the Kami-Shirataki train station has only two trains that stop by every day on a special timetable. It all started three years ago, when Japan Railways decided to shut down it's services in the remote location, as ridership had dramatically fallen. That is until they noticed a young girl still using it to get to school. When the company learned of their only passenger, they decided to keep the station running until she graduates. They even went the extra mile and re-scheduled the train's timetable according to the girl’s schedule, according to CCTV News. Since then, the train stops once to pick up the girl and only a second time to drop her off after school. The station is set to close March 2016 when the girl finally graduates. When news broke of the Japanese government's efforts for this young girl, people have been all praise. “ According to CITYLAB, Japan faces a number of crises, with record-low birthrates, aging population...

TOKYO —  Although Japan is not without its faults, it is nevertheless an incredibly efficient and easy-to-live-in country, and we’ve discovered that there are numerous things that the Japanese get not just right, but awesomely right. Here are 10 things Japan gets awesomely right 1. Vending machines If you’re looking for something to quench your thirst – whether hot or cold –  you rarely have to go more than a few hundred meters in any direction in the city. Canned (black, white, extra milk, iced, low sugar, no sugar, extra sugar, fat-reducing) coffee, tea, green tea, barley tea, sports drinks, hot chocolate, soda, beer, fruit juice, raspberry jelly, even bread and stew; if it can be packed into a can you can find it in a Japanese vending machine somewhere, and it’ll usually cost you no more than 120 yen for a big can of the stuff. Many vending machines in Japan even give customers additional incentives to use them, with LCD panels displaying a row of numbers after each purchas...