Japan acts to avert growing crisis in manners

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City hires etiquette squad to shame commuters guilty of chin-ups and golf swings

A young woman applies her makeup, pouting into a handheld mirror as she adds the finishing touches to her lips. In the next seat, a young businessman bellows into his mobile phone, and across the aisle, a middle-aged "salaryman" executes chin-ups on an overhead handrail, blissfully unaware that his overcoat is brushing the legs of the woman seated in front of him.

A montage of life on a Tokyo commuter train this week - and proof that the Japanese, supposedly the most courteous people on Earth, are forgetting their manners. Decrying the decline in standards of public behaviour is a favourite pastime the world over, but in Japan the handwringing is not confined to stuffy social commentators.

A new survey by the Asahi Shimbun daily found that nine out of 10 Japanese believe manners have deteriorated to critical levels - a trend that in recent times has prompted requests for MPs to refrain from texting during debates, and for broadsheet readers to fold their newspapers on rush-hour trains.

As they witness a rising incidence of "carriage rage" and other displays of un-Japanese conduct, many Japanese are wondering what has become of a society in which just about every social interaction was governed by a time-honoured code of conduct.

Japan is, after all, a place where business cards are exchanged with both hands and accompanied by a bow of appropriate depth; where a simple "Excuse me" can be delivered using one of several expressions; where blowing one's nose at the table is near-unforgivable; and where people over a certain age conclude phone calls with a respectful bow to their unseen interlocutor.

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Preemptive sage for the thread's eventual segue into racism and bigotry.

[Anonymous No.]

I don't see what's wrong with applying makeup on a train, or doing chin-ups if you're not brushing against anybody or anything. Common courtesy is one thing but fuck this etiquette bullshit.

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>>824783

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Reported.

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Dammit, of all times to be permab& from /n/

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>>824801
Do it at home. If you have the time to do it at all, you have the time to do it at home.

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GTFO

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>the Japanese, supposedly the most courteous people on Earth

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>>824811

That's not a reason.

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>>824818
It's POLITE is the reason. I don't particularly care one way or the other myself, but it shows a distinct lack of responsibility.

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In before "I have money, screw your rules"

...even though it is very apt in this case.

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>>824847

How is it polite? What is impolite about doing your makeup on the train? We're not talking about public masturbation here.

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Holy shit, you would think with some of economic issues that have been hounding Japan for the last few years, the last thing they would need is to waste public funding on a manner's squad.

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>the Japanese, supposedly the most courteous people on Earth
I loled

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>requests for MPs to refrain from texting during debates
fucking lol

I remember how Bush got lambasted for checking his watch during a debate with Gore

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押忍！

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>>824903
You would too. Gore is a boring guy.

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>>824783

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I like how you can randomly go up to some chick and ejaculate on her and all she does is wipe it off and hope no one saw. You do that in the states and that woman kills you... hmmm... anyone up for a scientific expedition into Japan?

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>>825462
Any other women who see it point and giggle, you know.

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>>825462
Women are not human

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>>825462
Proof?

I mean I believe this but I'd like to know where you read it.

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this thread is now about funny signs

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>>825558
Where would such a sign be posted.

Also wow...

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>>825558

Abhor is a pretty strong word. That sign is bringing me down.

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>>825587
A playground.

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>>824801

Well, makeup is one thing (and women fret about that stuff constantly, it's why they keep makeup and hairbrushes with them at all times), but pull-ups on a train? Seriously, there's a time and a place for that. That'd be out of place even on an American train.

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>>825608
Don't worry its just propaganda.

Seriously though little girls are creeped out by perverts just as much as big girls.

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>>825620
You can't be serious...

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>>825603
Does the sign say "don't do this" or something?
Where is it posted?

How will posting such a sign actually make a difference?

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>>825674
korea I assume

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Pullups?

Well it has had to of happened on at least one occasion to make people want signs against it

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>A new survey by the Asahi Shimbun daily found that nine out of 10 Japanese believe manners have deteriorated to critical levels - a trend that in recent times has prompted requests for MPs to refrain from texting during debates, and for broadsheet readers to fold their newspapers on rush-hour trains.

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>>825702
Fucking Card Crusher!

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A sign in Korea: NO RUSH 10 MIN

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>>825558
What's the sauce?

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>>825637
some girls are turned on by perverts

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>>825558
"If you be careful, otaku will be loved."

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>>825805
which girls and where can I find them?

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>>825558
ZA REAL

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>>825702
Looks like his teachings have quite a following.