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Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 4:27 pm
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Found at: http://mdn.mainichi.jp/national/news/20080301p2a00m0na007000c.html
| Quote: | Women hate doing faces on train, but loathe wasting commuting time more
Most women strongly dislike putting on make-up on the trains, but do so anyway because they don't want to waste the time they spend commuting, according to results of a study by the Pola Research Institute of Beauty and Culture.
Of all the women surveyed, 76 percent said they "felt some resistance" toward putting on their make-up on the train.
Nonetheless, 19 percent of women still did their face while commuting, especially those in their 20s.
A recent Japan Private Railways Association survey of commuters' opinions on women using cosmetics on public transport received comments such as "they smell unpleasant," "it's an eyesore" and "even though I'm a woman myself, I find the practice disturbing."
Pola, meanwhile, used the Internet to ask women aged 15 to 64 living in Tokyo, Saitama, Chiba and Kanagawa prefectures about make-up on trains. Overall, 19 percent said they had done their face while traveling by rail. The most common group were those in their late 20s, where 43 percent had used make-up on a train, with 34 percent in their early 20s the next most frequent demographic. Less than 10 percent of those 40 or older had fixed their cosmetics on the train.
Even those in their 20s disliked applying cosmetics publicly, with 60 percent of women in their late 20s saying they had resistance to the practice.
The most commonly applied make-up on trains was lipstick, with 53 percent of respondents, followed by lip gloss at 48 percent and foundation at 40 percent of those who used cosmetics.
March 1, 2008 |
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| Quote: | JR Yokosuka Line overshoots Shimbashi Station by 230 meters
A JR Yokosuka Line train overran a railway station platform in Tokyo by 230 meters Saturday morning, East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) officials said.
The train driver told bosses that he was desperate to make up for a delay. "My train was behind schedule. I was thinking about making up for the delay and slow in applying the brakes," he was quoted as saying.
At around 9:40 a.m., the 15-carriage local train bound for Chiba from Zushi failed to stop at Shimbashi Station in Minato-ku, Tokyo, JR East officials said. A station worker noticed the trouble and activated an alarm.
The driver applied the emergency brakes and stopped the train about 230 meters beyond the end of the platform, then went back to the station. The train eventually left Shimbashi Station 12 minutes behind schedule.
The incident delayed two following trains, affecting about 1,600 passengers, JR East officials said.
March 1, 2008 |
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 6:18 pm
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| Quote: | Train makes emergency stop in Tokyo after hitting rock
A JR Sobu Line train made an emergency stop in Tokyo after hitting a rock on the tracks, the railway operator said.
At around 5 p.m. on Sunday, the driver of the 15-car rapid service train heard a strange noise as it was traveling between Shin-Koiwa and Kinshicho stations, and applied the emergency brakes, East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) officials said. Track maintenance workers inspected the scene and found pieces of a smashed rock on one of the rails.
Following the accident, four trains were cancelled and 49 others were delayed by up to 25 minutes, affecting approximately 44,000 passengers.
March 3, 2008 |
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 6:19 pm
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| Quote: | Rival geek schools let off steam at Akiba's new trainspotter paradise
Sunday Mainichi (3/9)
Akihabara, the Tokyo district known as a haven for otaku of all stripes, has now got a new bandwagon. Or, to be more precise, a train, according to Sunday Mainichi (3/9).
Little TGV is a newly opened restaurant in Akihabara that catering to trainspotters' every delight.
Customers enter the establishment by paying 500 yen for an old-style train ticket, which a waitress -- wearing a uniform modeled on those actually worn by railroad company employees -- uses a hole punch to permit entry, just as station attendants once did at ticket gates across Japan.
Items on the cheaply priced menus also have a distinct train theme, like Loop Line Fried Onion Rings and Yamanote Line cocktails, named after the arterial routes that run through Osaka and Tokyo.
Little TGV is also filled with railroad paraphernalia, with station and track signs hanging on the walls, one area decorated by the gauge from an actual locomotive, massive screens showing footage of renowned train trips from around the world and background music replaced by recordings of rail trips and the clatter of engines traveling along tracks.
But what's making people sit up and take notice of the restaurant is its location in the heart of the otaku capital of the world. And though superficially they share much in common, Japan's otaku geeks and trainspotters, who call themselves "tetsu" -- an abbreviation for tetsudo mania (literally, "train freaks") -- have traditionally considered each other to be world's apart.
Harutomo Sataka, the man behind the concept of Little TGV has been pleasantly surprised by the initial response to the establishment some may say is in "enemy territory."
"I never dreamed people would be so into this place," he tells Sunday Mainichi. "I totally understand why people who like trains feel a little uneasy about coming into Akihabara. But we don't want the restaurant to be a place just for trainspotters. We also want to create a talking point for otaku and ordinary salarymen, too. That's why we deliberately set up a place so openly dedicated to trainspotters right in the middle of Akihabara."
Yuko Kimura, a self-confessed "tetsu" and the pin-up girl for trainspotters across Japan, is a huge supporter of the Little TGV concept, working there as a "special conductor" (the restaurant's name for waitresses) once a month.
She tells Sunday Mainichi: "I'd really like to see this area become a gathering place for railroad freaks to get together and use as a base." (By Ryann Connell)
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Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 6:14 pm
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| Quote: | New 500 kph shinkansen line will start from either Tokyo or Shinagawa
A new shinkansen line between Tokyo and Osaka using magnetically levitated (Maglev) trains, which is expected to begin operations in 2025, will start from either Tokyo Station or Shinagawa Station, Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) President Masayuki Matsumoto said.
The company had been considering selecting the starting station of the line from among Tokyo, Shinagawa and Shin-Yokohama stations.
Moreover, JR Tokai intends to limit the number of stations in the middle of the new Chuo Shinkansen Line to ensure long-distance passengers can travel in a short period of time. The current Tokaido Shinkansen Line between Tokyo and Shin-Osaka will mainly serve short-distance passengers and will make more stops.
Matsumoto said trains will be operated every couple of minutes on the superconductive maglev line. Trains are expected to travel on the 500-kilometer line between Tokyo and Osaka in an hour with a maximum speed of 500 kilometers per hour.
Currently, the fastest bullet train travels between Tokyo and Shin-Osaka stations in 2 1/2 hours.
March 6, 2008 |
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Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 6:15 pm
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| Quote: | Woman dies after being hit by train on JR Tokaido Line
CHIGASAKI, Kanagawa -- A woman died after being hit by a train on the JR Tokaido Line early Friday morning, police said.
At around 5:30 a.m., a 15-car local train bound for Atami in Shizuoka Prefecture from Tokyo's Shinagawa, hit a woman who was on the tracks of the JR Tokaido Line in Chigasaki, investigators said. She died instantly.
Local police are trying to confirm the identity of the woman, who appears to be aged between 40 and 60 while investigating why she was standing on the railway tracks.
Following the accident, 24 trains were cancelled and 27 others were delayed by up to an hour, inconveniencing about 40,000 passengers.
March 7, 2008 |
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Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 6:16 pm
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| Quote: | Freight train plows into bicycles dumped on JR Takasaki Line tracks in Saitama
AGEO, Saitama -- A freight train plowed into bicycles that had been placed on the JR Takasaki Line tracks here, police said.
Nobody was injured in the incident. Local police are investigating the case on suspicion of endangering traffic, suspecting that someone deliberately laid the vehicles on the tracks.
At around 9:27 p.m. on Thursday, a 14-car freight train bound for Koshigaya Freight Terminal from Kuragano hit two bicycles and a three-wheeled cycle for children laid on the tracks of the JR Takasaki Line in Ageo, investigators said.
The incident delayed 12 trains on the line by up to 40 minutes, affecting some 10,000 passengers.
The driver of a local train that passed the scene four minutes before the incident has told police that he found nothing amiss at the scene.
March 7, 2008 |
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Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 6:19 pm
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| Quote: | Student overcomes derailment trauma
The Yomiuri Shimbun
OSAKA--An art student who was seriously injured in the train derailment on West Japan Railway Co.'s Fukuchiyama Line in 2005 has completed a work depicting a person after going through a period when she could not draw human figures due to her painful memories of the fatal accident.
Yuko Fukuda, a fourth-year student at Osaka University of Arts, finished her graduation piece "Kono Kishi Yori" (From This Shore). She repeated a year of her studies to enable her to draw people again.
"I think I can get over the accident in my own way," the 24-year-old student said.
Having started serious painting in her third year of high school, Fukuda entered university and majored in Japanese painting.
The derailment accident, which killed 107 people, took place as Fukuda, then a third-year student, was commuting to the university from her home in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture. She suffered lung contusions after being trapped under the seats, and was hospitalized for about three weeks.
Although Fukuda returned to school, she could no longer draw the human figures that used to be her passion. When looking at a model, she remembered what it was like to be trapped--the feel of the legs of a passenger who was pinned under her, cries of woe, and the warmth of the back of a man who had fallen. At such times, her fingers trembled and tears filled her eyes.
In the summer of 2006 when she had to choose the theme of her graduation piece, she decided to do a street scene. But soon she found herself painting half-heartedly. "What I want to do is figure paintings," she told herself, and decided to repeat a year at school.
The first thing she did was to trace the portraits she had done before the accident. After doing that almost every day for about four months, she regained confidence in her technique.
The graduation work, 1.8 meters tall and 1.75 meters wide, abstractly depicts a woman lying down and a llama. Over the llama's body are red spider lilies, and the design is meant to represent life and death, Fukuda said.
"I felt great joy to survive and to be able to meet my family and friends again, but at the same time I felt guilty to have survived when others died in the accident," she said. "But as I could finish this work, I think I'm ready to take a step forward."
Fukuda hopes to become an art teacher after graduating.
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Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 6:23 pm
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| Quote: | Kintetsu Nagoya Line train opens doors despite overshooting platform in Mie
YOKKAICHI, Mie -- The conductor of a Nagoya Line train opened the train doors without noticing that they had overshot a station here, its operator said. None of the passengers was injured.
At around 7:35 a.m. on Friday, the three-carriage local train overran the end of the platform at Miyamado Station on the Kinki Nippon Railway (Kintetsu) Nagoya Line in Yokkaichi by 14 meters, company officials said.
The 29-year-old conductor opened the doors of the train -- including those on the front car, which had passed the platform -- without noticing the accident. About 70 passengers were in the front carriage.
The 53-year-old driver of the train notified his railway traffic control center about the incident, but did not report that the doors on the carriage that had passed the platform were opened.
Kintetsu says they will be improving employee education in order to prevent a recurrence.
March 8, 2008 |
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Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 1:05 pm
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| Quote: | Woman killed by train after car stalls on railway crossing
The damaged vehicle is pictured after it was struck by the Thunderbird express train in Kanazawa on Saturday morning.
KANAZAWA -- A female driver died after her car stalled on a railway crossing here and was struck by an express train that dragged the vehicle along for about 400 meters, police said.
Killed in the accident, which occurred on a section of the JR Hokuriku Line in Kanazawa at about 8:10 a.m. on Saturday, was 69-year-old Kazuyo Shimotaka. A 71-year-old female passenger on the train suffered light injuries.
Investigators from Kanazawa Nishi Police Station said that the car entered the railway crossing, which measured 14 meters across, as the crossing bar was coming down, and stalled in front of a 12-carriage Thunderbird express train bound for Osaka.
The driver of the train slammed on the emergency brakes, but was unable to stop in time and hit the car, dragging it for about 400 meters.
The operation of at least 18 express trains was cancelled as a result of the accident. Services resumed about 2 1/2 hours afterwards.
March 8, 2008 |
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Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 2:24 pm
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| Quote: | How wandering hands on packed trains can land you in jail, hospital, or the grave
Catching trains in Japan should be like soccer, with those who use their hands incurring a foul, veteran journalist Atsushi Mizoguchi tells Shukan Gendai (3/15).
"I don't mean the railway attendant who pushes people into carriages during the morning peak periods, because there's not much you can do about that. And you can't blame women for using their hands to form a barrier to protect their breasts. These are situations where the overcrowded trains mean we have to show a little give and take. What I really hate are those passengers who deliberately use their hands to push other people," Mizoguchi tells Shukan Post.
Mizoguchi argues that if people have enough space in the jam-packed public transport systems to be able to propel their arms with enough force to give a shove, they should have more than enough room for themselves as it is, and have no right to be frustrated in a situation uncomfortable for all involved.
"If you push the wrong person, they could turn around and accuse you of trying to start a fight. Results of these tussles could even be fatal. I can't imagine anything stupider to fight over. (At 65) I'm too old to fight now, but it still irks me to see this stuff going on," Mizoguchi, writing as part of the weekly's series about declining manners, tells Shukan Gendai. "Hands are more trouble than they're worth on the trains. Trains should be like soccer, where you're not allowed to use your hands, either. If your hands bump into a woman, you could be accused of molesting her, while if you hit a guy, it could lead to a fight."
Mizoguchi says Japanese should look to the West when it comes to behavior on the crowded commuter trains.
"Westerners deliberately avoid coming into physical contact with strangers, and when they do bump into each other accidentally, they apologize immediately," he says. "In some ways, Western children are brought up better mannered than kids in Japan and there is an unspoken rule that everybody has their own private space that other people are not supposed to intrude into."
Mizoguchi argues that many problems could be avoided if people took the time and effort to apologize if they unintentionally bump into somebody else on the train.
"Simple exchanges (of apologizes and acknowledgement) are a more human-like response, I think," he tells Shukan Gendai. "It's the ability to talk that makes humans what we are. And these simple words can be an effective way to avoid danger." (By Ryann Connell)
March 10, 2008 |
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Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 8:25 pm
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| Quote: | Man dies after being hit by train in apparent suicide
A man died after being hit by a train in western Tokyo early Wednesday morning in an apparent suicide, police said.
At around 4:35 a.m., a man standing on the tracks of the JR Chuo Line in Tachikawa was hit by a local train bound for Tokyo from Toyoda, according to local police. He died instantly. Investigators suspect that he committed suicide.
Local police are trying to confirm his identity, believing he is a 46-year-old man from Tachikawa.
Following the accident, 12 trains were cancelled and 20 others were delayed by up to 80 minutes, inconveniencing some 12,000 passengers, the railway operator said.
March 12, 2008 |
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| Quote: | Mislabeled JR bento became 'norm' in 2005
The Yomiuri Shimbun
Mislabeling of bento boxed meals with falsified "best-before" times by the JR-Central Passengers Co. became the norm beginning in April 2005 at all four of the company's factories, the subsidiary of Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) has said.
An estimated 15 million bento with falsified best-before times were shipped over the three-year period, according to the company's internal investigation released Tuesday. The maximum gap between the real time of expiry and the falsified one was six hours and 40 minutes, but there were no cases of sickness reported by customers, according to the Tokyo-based company.
The mislabeling was triggered when JR-Central Passengers enhanced its voluntary best-before time regulation in April 2005, according to the company. The company set the time as 14 hours after production, five hours shorter than the previous regulation. That made it difficult for JR-Central Passengers to ensure a sufficient number of bento would be shipped for the peak evening sales period at stations and on trains, prompting the company to falsify the time stamp, according to the company. The company also admitted that even before April 2005 it mislabeled its products during busy seasons such as the year-end and New Year's holiday period.
The company the estimated the number of falsely labeled bento based on past data, which revealed about 30 percent of its products were mislabeled.
JR-Central Passengers President Takeshi Tategami denied Tuesday the parent company had issued instructions over the mislabeling. "I apologize for betraying [customer] trust," he said.
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| Quote: | Train station starts lending out 'strawberry bicycles'
One of the strawberry cycles that will be available for hire. (Mainichi)
KINOKAWA, Wakayama -- Following the success of a "Strawberry Train" that promotes local produce, a station here has begun lending out strawberry-themed bicycles.
The idea behind the strawberry bicycles being lent out from Kishi Station on the Wakayama Electric Railway Co.'s Kishigawa Line stems from the popular Strawberry Train that runs in the area.
"We want to make trips around here even more enjoyable," a member of the local organization that came up with the idea of strawberry cycles said.
Strawberries are a local specialty and the red and white bicycles with a strawberry picture on the front basket are also aimed at promoting the local area.
Reservations are needed to hire a strawberry bicycle, with each session costing 800 yen. Organizers of the idea will also offer plans advising the best places to cycle in the area for picnics or other forms of entertainment, as well as packages including food and drinks.
March 15, 2008 |
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Friday, 14 March 2008
The Central Railway of Japan is boring a 3 km tunnel into the Japan Alps in the Yamanashi Prefecture as part of a geological survey in preparation for building a magnetically levitated (maglev) line between Tokyo and Nagoya. It is hoped to have trains running by 2025. Another tunnel of similar length is to be excavated in Nagano Prefecture on the other side of the mountain. It is estimated that the 290 km trip between Tokyo and Nagoya on the maglev Shinkansen, which is expected to travel at speeds of up to 500 km/h, will take between 40 and 50 minutes.
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