a post-blog
(I lost the earlier post in a Spam-related mishap, but have reconstructed a shorter version.--ed.)
The Tokyo Metropolitan Subway is cracking down on poor passenger etiquette through a series of teddy bear ads. This first ad in the series tackles the abomination of rude newspaper reading, which has been recently blamed for Japan's manifold social ills. Note that the paper is in English (this is Governor Ishihara's town, mind you.)
Posted by marxy at October 23, 2004 12:32 PMI've seen Japanese lounging horizontally quite a few times. Usually young punks. It's quite annoying actually, especially during busy times.
Posted by: Jean at October 23, 2004 1:38 PMI must say that I have seen someone laying across a whole 4-5 seats a few times. Usually not drunk people but normal oyaji with bad manners on my morning train to work.
Once, a guy looked like he was off to go hiking and seemed to think like he owned the bench. Not only was he laying on half of it, but his bags were taking the other half.
The worse though has to be on a late night on Chuo-sen, I think coming back from Kichijoji with Jean, some drunk man was laying on the floor next to the bench (no one went anywhere near), and had his stuff all over the place around him, including a raw fish that had slipped out of a grocery bag, haha. I wonder if he ended up eating it.
Jean even moblogged it, but I can't find it now. Jean? :)
i've been schooled by my fellow tokyo bloggers. apparently the denentoshi line is much more rule-abiding.
Posted by: marxy at October 23, 2004 2:04 PMI can't find it either. The search on my moblog seems to be broken. But yeah, that was just nuts.
Posted by: Jean at October 24, 2004 2:22 PM