Posted on 05/28/2018 5:21:09 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
... Japanese rail system occasionally becomes the focus of international headlines—as on May 11, when West Japan Railways issued a florid apology after one of its commuter trains left the station 25 seconds early....
The orderliness of society is taken as a given—Japanese commuters know how to queue on an escalator and can easily navigate the confusing, but wide-open, spaces of Tokyo’s rail stations without assistance. This allows rail operators to instead focus on deeper psychological manipulation.
Operating on the theory that exposure to blue light has a calming effect on one’s mood, rail stations in Japan began installing these LED panels as a suicide-prevention measure in 2009.
Commuting during rush hour in Japan is not for the faint of heart. The trains are jam-packed at as much as 200 percent capacity
... train stations deploy ultrasonic deterrents—small, unobtrusive devices that emit a high-frequency tone. .. generally only be heard by those under the age of 25
(Excerpt) Read more at citylab.com ...
What about the groping?
Where can I get one???
Interesting.
Ahh! That is where Cass Sunstein went.
Yeah, but when they come to the US as tourists, they push, shove, and hit you with their umbrellas.
No extra charge
I'd say that happens EVERY SINGLE DAY, and in the East Division, also.
CASS SUNSTEIN, Japan expert, huh...yeah, right.
My university frat mate teaches at a gakuen’ (middle/high school) there, Hokkaido area. Still the only white dude in the area. He was shocked that most of his students took the trains even at age 8 which was dangerously ridiculous. And he’s seen it.
Of course westerners automatically will ask a child ‘where are your parents’ and he did that once, and the train people called the cops on him thinking he was a pervert or hentai’ LOL
ongoing.
“Japan is known around the world for its vast network of modern, efficient and clean trains.
But train travel in some of the world’s most crowded cities holds a sinister threat for women and girls who ride the rails — the risk of groping.
It has been a longstanding problem, but it is not commonly talked about in Japan and continues to be an under-reported problem.”
Mono-cultures are easier to convince to work for “societies needs” because their cohesive culture/race/language all makes them close connected than even most US families.
In those countries you know strangers who live next door better than you do your cousins in the USA.
It can be a great place to live, and a scary country to piss off.
They preserve their culture because it is their FAMILY.
This is why Japan is not taking hardly any camel humpers and unlike Europe while both their birthrates may fall into the toilet, there will still be a Japanese culture around in 100 years even if their are only less than a few million Japanese left.
I’ve had Chinese do that but never Japanese or Koreans.
I do not recall in Japan exactly, but the rest of Asia, the lines of small children clipped together. Circa 1970’s
A rope with a loop for each student, carabiner-ed to their belt in the back.
A joyful sight.
He was shocked that most of his students took the trains even at age 8 which was dangerously ridiculous. And he’s seen it.
Yet they have taken attempts to address it with female only cars on the most active lines - years ago.
And it is talked about in movies, TV shows, magazines, newspapers, etc
Is it still an issue - yes and girls/women are being encouraged to speak out when it happens - upon which the perp is lucky if the whole car doesn’t turn on him before the next station.
Are shootings in Chicago still an issue? Yep...is there much talk about them in the US media/news - an unhighlighted article on a particularly bad weekend....while a one-time shooting at an unexpected location is discussed ad infinitum for weeks.
Are there other social issues here.... yep....
My point being that yes Japan has some social issues....so does every other nation.
Point of the article is psychological influencing planned by rail management to influence rail riders. Are you saying that they are influencing groping?
Finally went back and read the article:
The authorities do indeed design features into rail station that optimize crowd flow-through and it’s true the overhead makes a NON-STOP series of announcements of impending train arrivals, apoligies, cajoling, safety reminders, etc.
Those are all noteworthy.
But the REAL forces permitting the phalanxes of people entering and departing center on upbringing almost from birth:
You have to consider the needs of others, you have to remember you’re a part of a group, you’re not special, etc.
I’d say the only thing close to that thinking in the USA is in the USMC, or being Amish, or maybe part of a highly cohesive religious sect.
I’d say the very many things that make the INSIDE of a Japanese rail station work so well are mostly to be found OUTSIDE of those same stations.
Same as in the schools:
Americans sometimes tell themselves they’d like Japan’s school system, and yeah, they do really work great in very many ways.
But the factors permitting that are utterly unacceptable to 90% of American parents - discipline (to include the physical variety, sometimes, in spite of the formal rules) the prevalence of student tracking (in spite of the bizarre things always said in America about that, i.e., that there IS no student tracking in Japan).
Origination of “Nudge Theory” sounds like the way an academician in some ivory tower would say, “It’s ok for dictators to bully individuals, as long as they mean to built a Perfect Society”.
You can’t take a “I gotta be me/I like you cuz you’re different”-type population and then bully them, saying “Well, I’m just NUDGING you, and nudging is okay, hey look at this study...”
The closest i saw to that age group in Asia is when im in the Philippines. 12 year old kids would take the LRT to head to school. The reasoning was that school bus/ traffic is so bad in Manila, the kids just got on the train.
Tokyo 2008, the concierge at our hotel told me on the train to keep my hands high up on a rail or post where others could see it. Women were reporting hundreds of men a day to police for groping.
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