From the Mainichi Daily News...
Women only cars (carriages) for the morning commute - http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/photospecials ... yo/01.html
Snake causes short on Shinkansen power lines - http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20050503 ... 3000c.html
Absent minded motorman overuns platform by 170 meters (510 feet) - http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20050503 ... 2000c.html
A Cultural Note:
Trains have been notorious in Japan for being places where men have had inappropriate contact with their fellow female passengers. While I was there (1998 - 2000), the JR companies, with JR East - which serves the Tokyo area - in particular, runing a campaign to stop the groping. However, they had to take the step of putting women in seperate, "women only" cars (carriages).
Women only cars (carriages) for the morning commute - http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/photospecials ... yo/01.html
Snake causes short on Shinkansen power lines - http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20050503 ... 3000c.html
Absent minded motorman overuns platform by 170 meters (510 feet) - http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20050503 ... 2000c.html
A Cultural Note:
Trains have been notorious in Japan for being places where men have had inappropriate contact with their fellow female passengers. While I was there (1998 - 2000), the JR companies, with JR East - which serves the Tokyo area - in particular, runing a campaign to stop the groping. However, they had to take the step of putting women in seperate, "women only" cars (carriages).
~Erik Paulson
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