家でやろうI recently came across this sign (below) on the Tokyo subway urging women not to apply their make up on the trains.Women (I have yet to see a man) applying their cosmetics on trains is a common sight in railway carriages up and down the c... ...full story at Japan Visitor
from Japan Visitor on Mon, May 12 2008
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| 24 May 08 |
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Tokyo Subway car really long going from Narita to Ropongi »
YouTube video This subway trains was really long. We weren't even at the front car and still looking back seemed to go on forever. |
| 30 Jun 08 |
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Women Only Subway Carriages » Japan Visitor 女性専用乗車Women-only carriages on Japan's subway and urban rail routes have become the norm in recent years.Set up to counter the growing menace of male perverts (known as chikan) groping women in packed commuter trains, many railway companies operate women-only carriages on morning and evening rush-hour services.Tokyo's subway introduced women-only carriages in 2005 and now has women-only carriages for the morning rush-hour on the Chiyoda, Fukutoshin (Yurakucho New Line), Hanzomon, Hibiya, Tozai and Yurakucho Lines. Nagoya followed suit in 2007 with a women-only carriage on weekday mornings on the busy Higashiyama Line in to Nagoya Station and extended the practice for evening trains this year.The Keio Line in Tokyo was the first railway company to introduce special carriages for women back in 2000. It is estimated that over 60% of Japanese women travelers in their 20s and 30s have experienced some sort of harassment on public transport in Japan.The idea has caught on in other countries and there are now gender specific carriages in Brazil, Egypt, India, Moscow and Taiwan.Look out for the (usually pink) signs on station platforms.Yahoo Japan Auction ServiceBook a hotel in Japan with BookingsTokyo Serviced ApartmentsBudget accommodation in JapanHappi CoatsJapanese For Busy PeopleTagssubway Tokyo women-only transport |
| 22 Jan 08 |
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Kanebo line targets mature women » Japan Times Kanebo Cosmetics Inc. said Tuesday it will launch a high-end cosmetics line March 5 targeting women in their late 50s to 60s. Read the full story . . . |
| 12 Jun 08 |
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Please do it at home » Life as a Gaijin Poster at a Tokyo subway station. Other than the obvious, what I also find funny about this poster is that they've written it in English as well. I've seen plenty of this (and hair curling) going on in the trains, but it has always been Japanese women. ... |
| 27 Jun 08 |
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Do It At Home » Japan Visitor 家でやろうThe "Do It At Home" campaign is continuing on the Tokyo subway. Previously the posters featured a young woman applying her make up on the trains. Now a new series of posters features the same woman in a polyptych talking on her mobile phone watched over by a sinister male figure wearing spectacles.Is the man a chikan pervert or does he represent the long-suffering, law abiding Tokyo commuter? Why is the disapproving figure a man not a woman? Is the poster sexist or misogynist? I am no psychologist but there are layers of hidden meaning in this poster.Yahoo Japan Auction ServiceBook a hotel in Japan with BookingsTokyo Serviced ApartmentsBudget accommodation in JapanHappi CoatsJapanese For Busy PeopleTagsJapanese phones Tokyo subway |
| 16 Dec 08 |
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National › Smoke from cigarette butts stops 2 Tokyo subway lines » Japan Today Subway trains on the Namboku Line of Tokyo Metro and Mita Line of Toei were stopped for 80 minutes on Monday night due to smoke… |
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