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Four things our new-mother reporter felt riding the Tokyo subway with her baby

• Dale Roll
  Mar 13, 2020
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Our reporter worried she and her baby would be harassed on the trains, but what she experienced was quite unexpected.

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• Japan
• (babies • etiquette • kids • manners • Parenting • parents • society • strollers • subways • Tokyo Metro • trains)

Is this Japanese train crowded? Question divides the nation

• Oona McGee
  Mar 11, 2020

Survey shows people in Japan have very different opinions.

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• Japan
• (commuters • crowded trains • Japanese trains • survey • Tokyo • trains • Yamanote)

Angry confrontation breaks out after man coughs on Yamanote Line train in Tokyo 【Video】

• Oona McGee
  Mar 2, 2020

Disturbing video shows coronavirus fears have Japanese commuters on edge.

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• Japan
• (coronavirus • coronavirus outbreak • COVID-19 • face masks • Japanese trains • novel coronavirus • surgical masks • Tokyo • trains • video • Yamanote)

Japanese woman’s heartwarming train encounter reminds us all not to judge too quickly

• Katie Pask
  Feb 27, 2020

Japanese woman’s uncomfortable experience on train actually turns out to be something much more positive.

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• Europe, Japan
• (COK • coronavirus • coronavirus outbreak • denmark • moving • society • touching • trains)

Crazy photo shows how Tokyo’s Shinjuku Station can be as confusing as a video game dungeon

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 26, 2020

If it’s your first time going through Japan’s busiest train station, this “helpful” sign might not make things much easier.

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• Japan
• (crazy • funny • shinjuku • Shnjuku Station • signs • stations • trains • weird)

The real-life Ash/Satoshi just gave away a Pikachu to brighten a child’s day in Japan

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 21, 2020

The only thing better than catching ‘em all is giving one away to put a smile on a stranger’s face.

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• Japan
• (anime • kids • moving • Pikachu • Rika Matsumoto • touching • trains • video games • voice actors • voice actresses)

Train brought to emergency stop because someone coughed in it

• Master Blaster
  Feb 20, 2020

Commuters starting to turn on their unmasked peers.

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• Japan
• (coronavirus outbreak • COVID-19 • emergency stop button • face masks • Fukuoka • novel coronavirus • surgical masks • trains)

Old-school train car and tourist information center in Shibuya set to move to Akita this summer

• Dale Roll
  Feb 19, 2020

The iconic green train car that sits in front of Shibuya Station’s Hachiko statue is finding a new home.

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• Japan
• (Akita • Akita dogs • Aogaeru • Hachiko • monument • Odate City • Shibuya • trains)

Japan’s best train pass, the Japan Rail Pass, finally being made available for purchase online

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 18, 2020

After years of complicated and added-expense hoops to jump through, JR will start letting international travelers buy their passes online and inside their home countries.

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• Internet, Japan
• (deals • Japan Rail Pass • Japan Railway • JR • JR pass • shinkansen • trains • travel)

Yamanote trains in Tokyo display unique poster ads that look like paper but move like video

• Oona McGee
  Feb 14, 2020

Electronic Paper and E Ink create a moving display for the opening of Takanawa Gateway Station. 

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• Japan
• (ads • advertising • Japan Railways • JR • marketing • Takanawa Gateway Station • Tokyo • trains • twitter • video • Yamanote line)

Japanese rail and Shinkansen bullet train announcers come together for series of cute videos

• Oona McGee
  Feb 12, 2020

Get to know three of the people behind the “sexy” English-language voice announcements you’ll hear on public transport in Japan.

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• Japan
• (bullet train • Chris Wells • donna burke • East Japan Railway Company • Japan Rail • Japanese train stations • shinkansen • train announcements • train stations • trains • travel • twitter • videos)

Japan Railways to release new anti-groper smartphone app to help victims before chikan gets away

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 7, 2020

Countermeasure promises to bring attention to the specific part of the train where the groping is taking place.

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• Japan
• (chikan • COK • crime • gropers • groping • Japan Railways • JR • JR East • train gropers • trains)

How to safely apprehend a chikan pervert and protect women from being groped on a Japanese train

• SoraNews24
  Jan 31, 2020

Helpful guide from a Japanese man who’s stepped in to stop groping on more than one occasion. 

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• (chikan • groper • Japanese train stations • Japanese trains • molestation • molester • news • pervert • police • schoolgirls • train groper • train stations • trains)

Japanese Twitter users happy to see men on women-only train car in India get slapped by police

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 24, 2020

Video shows more than a dozen men getting immediately and physically punished for violating subway rules.

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• India, Internet
• (chikan • crazy • funny • gropers • subways • train gropers • trains • video)

Nara City apologises after employee jumps from platform to platform across railway tracks【Video】

• Oona McGee
  Jan 21, 2020

Dangerous stunt by Japanese civil servant gets slammed online.

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• Japan
• (crime • Japanese train stations • Nara • news • police • train stations • trains)

Japanese boy’s real-world ninja animation on train warms hearts around the world【Video】

• Oona McGee
  Jan 21, 2020

Little shadow warrior performs superhuman feats with his own shadow warrior.

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• Japan
• (awesome • children • clever • cool • creative play • cute • Japanese trains • Ninja • toys • trains • video)

Shinkansen tale of crying baby, grumpy man, and clever attendant warms Japanese internet’s heart

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 16, 2020

“I can’t sleep with this noisy kid crying!”

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• Japan
• (bullet train • clever • COK • kids • moving • shinkansen • touching • trains • travel)

What are these strange empty “seats” that are being spotted in Tokyo train stations?

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 16, 2020

Too high to sit on, too small to do anything else with, so why are they there?

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• Japan
• (mystery • stations • subways • trains • weird)

Why do Japanese stairs have red-and-yellow marks on them?

• Oona McGee
  Jan 13, 2020

Even people in Japan are surprised to learn what they’re for.

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• Japan
• (architecture • clever • design • eyesight • inventions • Japanese train stations • society • stairs • train stations • trains)

Japanese train history plays out like a sliding doors rom com in 100 Years Train ad 【Video】

• Oona McGee
  Dec 1, 2019

Tear-jerking commercial features a famous actor and actress in the lead roles of star-crossed lovers.

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• Japan
• (dating • Japanese trains • love • romance • trains • travel • videos • YouTube)

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