More than half a million people in Tokyo are being asked to work from home as part of a trial scheme aimed at tackling transport congestion ahead of the 2020 Olympic Games in the city.
Over 20 million people use public transport in the greater Tokyo area every day, and it is feared the arrival of more than 600,000 people visitors to the Olympic and Paralympic Games will overload the city's notoriously strained system.In a bid to avert travel chaos, the Japanese government has launched its"Telework" scheme, where an equal number of employees are encouraged to work from home for at least two weeks from July 24.
In July, Google data showed Tokyo's Chuo Line to be one of the world's most-crowded transit lines, and the situation is not much better in other parts of the city. On rail and subway lines, train operators have been known to employ"oshiya" , who are tasked with shoving passengers and bags inside packed carriages.
Experts have raised serious concerns about the impact of the Olympics, which will be held from July 24 to August 9 2020, and the subsequent Paralympics which finish on September 6.
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