I was speaking with a veteran of killing pesky foreigners. He referred to me as a supporter of veterans. I explained to him, once the former high school girl I dated when I was a math teacher stopped interrupting me, that I am no more a supporter of veterans than I am an athletic supporter. I believe in well run organizations, whether it's the Luftwaffe or the VA.
The VA is a well respected, storied organization which is not just adept; the VA excels at shooting veterans in the foot. I'm not trying to minimize the suffering of Vietnamese civilians. Nonetheless, the tormentors of the Vietnamese were charged with handling the napalm. Time & time again, the VA abuses Americans as well, if not better, than the damn gooks. Not to mention the ragheads. (Very American expression that. If I'm 'not to mention' that, didn't I just mention that?)
What to do?
Firstly, the system must be reenvisioned to address the needs of the consumer, and transitioned away from serving the needs of the provider.
Jr. All you need is junior.
JR is a quasi governmental entity, not a private entity.
Private railways complement and compete with JR, keeping in mind, no one does friendly competition better than the Japanese. Innovation in the private sphere might be best exploited in the semi public or public sector, or vice versa. (...if there has ever been such a thing as innovation in the public sphere. Seems like everything the state has is purloined, coerced or commandeered.)
JAL is a flagship carrier. The exact corporate structure might be different than JR. Nonetheless, neither are the flag.
Quasi public is a subjective term with many variations. Is Walmart an extension of the military technological complex? Is it quasi public in all but name? If it weren't, Walmart wouldn't be the American retailing leader. Moreover, Costco, a kike company, is permitted in Japan while Walmart is not. Kike companies reduce Japanese funding costs of the American military technological industrial complex by fueling Arab/Israeli conflict.
Mr. Koizumi famously failed to successfully execute my ideas to emulate the Germans. Was that because in my first years in Japan I misunderstood the hemispheric divide? One indication of the divide is language. Writing originated not far from the Great Game. Where did language originate? The lack of hard evidence makes this a difficult question.
Writing went east and west. Historically, the British based the divide on the home of Stonehenge. Geographically, culturally, and linguistically, the divide seems to be near the midpoint of the mainland. Languages that went east appear more logical. Westerners, unlike Easterners, say eleven and twelve, instead of oneteen, twoteen. 四分の1 is more intuitive than one-fourth. Starting with the familiar, or the larger and then going to the details or the less familiar is intuitive. Another example, address labels. Japanese start with the postal code, then the prefecture, city, and street. Westerners the reverse. People such as Chancellor Hitler realised this when they inverted the Asian symbol for apex or peak. Does that make something inherently backward or wrong because it went west instead of east of the Great Game?
