Never mind the financing, my point is that Japan/Tokyo had the political will to significantly improve their railways in 1965, at a time where most administrati

Never mind the financing, my point is that Japan/Tokyo had the political will to significantly improve their railways in 1965, at a time where most administrations in the western world had a 100% car-centric strategy. For example, if you look at what became of the equally ambitious expansion plans of the New York subway from the 1960s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program_for_Action https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program_for_Action), it's a sad story indeed...