In an effort to improve employee efficiency JR East will crack down on employees who feel sleepy. How they'll do this is another question. Perhaps they can hire Sleepy from Snow White to supervise. Or Homer Simpson. Maybe both as they're both experts in the field.
East Japan Railway carried out an internal probe which found, among other things, that one employee had driven a train through 16 stations in Tokyo earlier this year while feeling sleepy, Japan’s public broadcaster said NHK said.
In another incident, the firm discovered that a 57-year-old male conductor on duty was “intermittently” reading a comic book last month on the Yokohama line, southwest of Tokyo, NHK and Tokyo Broadcasting System said.
Granted for the obvious safety reasons you don't want a train driver falling asleep. That said maybe JR East should ask the relevant question: Why was the train driver so tired that he fell asleep on the job? Instead they'll make employees fill out forms in triplicate on whether they are feeling sleepy at that moment. 
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