>>1655909>Japanese national government order JR Hokkaido to keep the eight financially troubled line sections ridership at FY2017 level in FY2023. But amid corona and dropping population it's deemed hard to achieveI'm reading this right, that the lines are kept alive by payments from both the national government and the respective municipalities?
If those lines in pic related were to close down, they could shut down JR Hokkaidou entirely です.
