If for some reason, the train is delayed by more than two minutes, all passengers get a delay certificate which they can show at their office should they require to. This kind of discipline and respect for time can only be experienced in Japan. I have traveled across the world and been to over 70 countries but I have never seen this kind of culture anywhere.
In memoriam: Paul Auster
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Paul Auster. Photo credit: Jerry Bauer. Image source: L'actualité.
Paul Auster, *The Locked Room* (1986), Book Three of *The New York Trilogy*,
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