I often hear English anauncement on the train in Tokyo these days. It’s ready for the Olimpic and Palalimpic games in 2020.

So far, we have machinally announcement in English as train services. Recently the train crews speak English by themselves. They provides passenger the information of the next station and transfer.

Tokyo is the international city. But we Japanese are not good at foreign language. Train conductor’s English announcement will give us good opportunity for thinking about global society.

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