Ministers experience rush-hour at Shinjuku station

Ministers experience rush-hour at Shinjuku station

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Transport Minister Toshihiro Nikai (foreground) and Labor Minister Takamori Makino (C) go through automatic ticket gates at a subway station in Tokyo's Shinjuku at rush hour Jan. 27. Several subway and railway lines converge at Shinjuku station. The two ministers visited the station from 8 a.m. to experience what commuters have to go through every day at rush hour so as to seek ways to ease the congestion.

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