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<SDGs Goals: #11, #12> Of the 95 local railway operators nationwide, 79% are in the red. In the midst of this predicament, a small local line in Kansai has become popular and made a V-shaped recovery in both passenger numbers and revenue. The Hojo Railway, which runs between Kasai City and Ono City in Hyogo Prefecture, has been running its famous Kiha 40 train for a full year. The efforts of young employees of this small railway company have resonated with railway fans nationwide, bringing about major changes to the unprofitable local line. [Photography] Kinya Imai, Hiroyuki Kurose [Interview] Miki Umeno, Manabu Watanabe [Editor] Kyoko Sumida #HojoRailway #V-shapedRecovery #Kiha40 #NamahageTrain #KasaiCity #ThirdSector #LossLocalLine #JNR #CrowdFunding ─━─━─━─━─━─━─━─━─━─━─━─━─━─━─━─ We deliver "Easy News" in an easy-to-understand and understandable way, as well as sports and collaboration projects with the Nihon Keizai Shimbun every day! [Subscribe to the channel] https://www.youtube.com/c/tvosakanews... [SNS] ▶Twitter / tvosaka_news ▶Facebook / tvosaka.news.fb ▶TikTok / tvonews ▶Instagram / tvonews