Elder manners in Japan

8 thoughts on “Elder manners in Japan”

1. I love the Tokyo Metro’s “Mission Statement”…

   Google Translate of the Tokyo Metro’s Manners Campaign….
   Code of Conduct is obtrusively customers, which should force is not considered. Manners posters you feel the peace of mind first, you’ll feel in a generous manner for understanding the nature of the intention, not impossible, to avoid losing a sense of fun. From the reaction of customers and the media, while absorbing a variety of factors, Manners posters will now change.

   Google Translate of the Tokyo Metro’s Manner [sic] Campaign 2011…
   Thank you for your understanding manner to stay in the underground, and puts up posters in the manner monthly from September 1974 with the goal of a comfortable stay in the subway.
   In 2010, “Please do it again” will again be the common phrase, by the illustration of available feel like a subway, we’d like manner spread again and again anytime, we are called to.

2. More chikan info …
   . . . —Forensic investigations used on gropers in Japan (3Yen / 2005-12-14/)
   . . . —“Sukebei” (perverted/randy) the quintessential Japanese word (3Yen / 2005-01-05)
   . . . —Tokyo train molester caught– 1st person account (3Yen / 2004-12-02)
   . . . —↓ Tokyo Gropers School (3Yen / 2006-01-25)
   

3. That “Manner Poster” looks more like lezbo-love for fat, foreign, females to me.

4. Before sumbody ask for the Rabbidy upskirt: it wuzn’t me

5. Coligny wrote:
   …Rabbidy upskirt: it wuzn’t me

   

6. Roberto at POLITICOMIX.com said…

   Shortly after posting this, I was informed by several friends that the apparently “fat, foreign female” bears an uncanny resemblance to Matsuko Deluxe, a Japanese transvestite entertainer. See here: http://asianmediawiki.com/Matsuko_Deluxe and here: http://image.blog.livedoor.jp/noevil36/imgs/c/a/ca9a685b.jpg

7. D’oh!
   I’ve seen Matsuko Deluxe a zillion times on TV but I did’t notice the until you mentioned it.
   That resemblance is uncanny but I don’t think the artist intended it on such a well-paying, multi-year gig with the Tokyo Metro (I should ever be so lucky, meh).

   —Matsuko Deluxe on the train 2009/03/11—
   

8. “Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
   — Confucius..