Comments on: Yamanote Subway Party Draws Netizen Anger

By: ROK Drop Weekly Linklets - 11NOV07 at ROK Drop

ROK Drop Weekly Linklets - 11NOV07 at ROK Drop — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 08:53:33 +0000

[...] - Now here is a Halloween Party that beats going to the subway. – See here for how the comfort women and the Japanese abductee issue are linked. – Japan’s [...]

By: Wedge

Wedge — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:39:45 +0000

This train has been going on since at least 1992, when I was a student in Tokyo. Although it's always been a bit wacky and caused a bit of anxiety among the locals (who usually just wait for the next train rather than climb aboard), it's usually good clean fun, and half the people are Japanese anyway. In the days before cell phones, you'd just wait on the platform at the end until it came around (every hour or so).

It sounds like someone got out of hand with the lights, which broke Cardinal Rule #1 in Japan: Thou Shalt Not Delay Any Train for Even One Second.

By: GI Korea

GI Korea — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:44:41 +0000

The event sounds good on paper but of course with something like this that involves alcohol the usual idiots will act stupid which is what happened with this event.

An event like this should be held in a club or a reserved banquet hall at a hotel something similar not in a subway car with other commuters.

By: Jon Allen

Jon Allen — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:41:43 +0000

I saw that posting and was almost tempted to go.
I’m very glad I didn’t go after all!