


The first episode of public train security and probable eventual chikan anime Rail Wars! serves mainly as an introduction, yet has already received praise for its combination of action, bouncy fanservice, and a plethora of train facts only the most maniacal of Japanese train enthusiasts could understand or care about…
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A man has been arrested for shaking hands after a high schooler accepted his offer of a handshake on a train.
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Kyoto Animation have paired up with the Keihan Railway in promotion of its top school student romance anime Chuunibyou Demo Koi ga Shitai Ren in an attempt to boost both disc sales and passenger numbers – offering otaku the opportunity of riding trains on the Otsu line decorated with a Chuunibyou theme as persuasion.
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The Kyoto subway system is now being graced by some truly painful trains featuring favourites from some of the recent anime set in the nation’s grandest tourist trap.
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The latest less than reassuring scenes to emerge from China’s burgeoning rail network show sections of newly completed high-speed track already crumbling, and understandably once again have many worried about its safety – not least because it is apparently not regarded as a serious problem.
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A Hatsune Miku wrapped ita-train gracing the Bangkok metro has proven so popular her reign is to be extended by 2 months.
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A British preacher has been arrested for groping a young Japanese woman on a train.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Aug 5, 2013 17:15 JST
- Tags: Chiba, Chikan, Crime, Keitai, Medical, Pantsu, Schoolgirls, Trains, Voyeurism

The latest creepy salaryman to fall victim to the voyeuristic temptations of the nation’s schoolgirls boasts the unusual distinction of actually being chased down by the very JK he sought to upskirt.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Jul 10, 2013 13:02 JST
- Tags: Chikan, Crime, Fetish, Kyoto, Osaka, Oshiri, Police, Schoolgirls, Trains

A cop who admitted to groping 30 girls on the trains of Kinki says he had to keep groping “because of how unforgettably soft they were,” and has been harshly punished with a month’s suspension from active duty.
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The operators of the Chiba Urban Monorail have had to issue a warning to the very creepy seiyuu otaku they lured onto their trains with their glorious Ore no Imouto wrapping campaign, after reports that they tried to bully passengers into silence so they could record Ayana Taketatsu and Kana Hanazawa’s station announcements…
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The latest salaryman to trade one form of oblivion for another on the nation’s rails has horrified many with his spectacular plunge through the train’s window and straight into the arms of its doubtless even more horrified driver.
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China’s world-class high speed trains are again facing safety doubts after a pigeon shattered its “super strong bulletproof glass” windscreen, in what Chinese media points out as a “once in a century” freak accident.
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