A schoolgirl who was routinely molested on her train commute to school struck back and caught the perpetrator red-handed, overpowering him and handing him over to authorities for arrest.
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A man who repeatedly scattered hundreds of insect larvae inside train carriages in order to observe the terror of female passengers has finally been arrested. He was found to be carrying nearly four thousand of the larvae at the time of his arrest.
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Working out what is amiss with this strange image may take a few moments; did the artist do this intentionally, or did they really manage to unintentionally output something so ridiculous?
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An otaku on an excursion with his daughter. The fact that his daughter bears a striking resemblance to a Touhou character and is in fact a doll seems to pass without comment on this train…
Would this be more or less terrifying than the cosplay terror train?
What might be your reaction be upon entering a train and being confronted with this spectacle? Horror, or an immediate dash to Haruhi to start taking pictures?
Normal cosplay is one thing, but this is a little different. More on one of their excusions below:
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I hesitate to even speculate at what brought this incredibly dubious spectacle (below) on. Thankfully, someone was there to snap it and upload to 2ch or somesuch, so we are spared ignorance of the matter.
It certainly makes an unwelcome change from the public sleeping genre of Japan photos we are all so familiar with now…
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Five schoolgirls, aged eleven and twelve, were assaulted by a drunk whilst riding a train home, and passengers in the carriage did nothing to help.
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An unintended use of the train furnishings, in this case swinging, has rather predictable results, as well as panchira consequences.
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Probably one of the more amusing and unusual of the “Japanese will sleep anywhere” genre of candid photography, here we have a salaryman and a schoolgirl relaxing in one another’s company, whilst riding home. Cozy.
Commuters suffered repeated disruptions from a sudden spate of snake induced power outages to trains in several areas; a station in Ibaraki suffered two cases over two days where snakes found their way onto the overhead power lines, causing shorts which lasted hours and inconvenienced thousands of passengers. Another station in Niigata suffered a very similar outage with a snake being found on the power lines. The snakes involved in the attacks were all medium size non-venomous types, it is said.
The stations concerned are investigating countermeasures, though apparently in Niigata the poles in question already had snakeproof sheets to prevent errant serpents from mounting them; the snake simply forced its way through the barrier. Via Asahi.
Unfortunately, none of the snakes involved in these tragic incidents survived their ill considered ventures.
This intimidating three dimensional map is Shibuya station, with the latest addition of the Fukutoshin Line; to say it has a complex layout is an understatement.
Some fantastic maps of labyrinthine Japanese subway and rail stations have been gathered by a conscientious soul here, and what struck him (and me, and likely you too) was not only the terrifying complexity of most of the larger stations, but also how extraordinarily reminiscent the maps are of something you might find in a game, or perhaps a nightmare, although I think few games would dare approach the complexity of layout in their dungeons visible here.
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