[max americana]

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

[DUMBGRUNT]

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.

[hanamizu]

He was shocked that most of his students took the trains even at age 8 which was dangerously ridiculous. And he’s seen it.

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When on a trip to Japan, I saw a bunch of first or second graders on a train in Tokyo. No adults, but they knew how to get on the train and where to get off to get to school.