Disaster drill
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People participate in an emergency drill held at Shinagawa station in Tokyo on Tuesday morning, aimed at orderly evacuation from a crowded place and immediate transfer of injured people in the event of an earthquake. The drill was organized by the Tokyo metropolitan government, police, the fire department as well as companies located in the area, such as Sony, NTT, and the Prince Hotel group. Some 750 employees from participating companies and 450 officials took part in the drill.
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northlondon
I have never seen such rubbish. Have you ever seen one Japanese commuter walk in that manner when rushing to work or rushing home from work ? Only this morning we had a couple of women literally throw themselves onto the Chiyoda line train as the doors were closing, knocking a good few people back as they did. Tokyo will be bedlam if the big one struck.
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northlondon
Caption should read:- 'Japanese commuters learn how to walk straight after intensive training'.
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kwatt
I can imagine that majority of people would go panicking when major earthquake hit Kanto area. I wonder how many calm people could help and evacuate injured ones from the disaster. Concerning subways 200 feet down under ground, many people could not survive from complicated tunnels collapse. I think I could not go help people there.
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Spidey
This "drill" has about as much reality as the people putting on those stupid vests during a "real" emergency would.
It's almost as bad as the "fire drills" that they have in schools. All pre-planned down to the last millisecond. Nothing like living in a dreamworld.
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Wakarimasen
Yes, walking practice. Anyhooo, chance of good Samaritans in Japan pretty small. Will just walk (straight) round dead and dying...... I like the bloke in the mask in the picture - another pointless and ridiculous "precaution"
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lovevictim
better than doing nothing.
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Wakarimasen
How is doing something useless better than doing nothing. You been in Japan too long.
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Altria
Those guys at Starbucks have the right idea - grab a coffee and wait for the rioting masses to pass.
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memyselfI
In reality thousands will die !!! I doubt somebody will help me during a earthquake in a JR Station. But, i will do my best to help somebody. I hope I am not on a train or a building during the mother of all earthquakes happen. Tokyo will have a billion fires going at the same time. Stock up on water, canned goods, batteries and candles.
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ptolemy
Will they be given those dorky yellow signs in the real thing?
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norinrad21
ptolemy
I doubt it
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borscht
My school had a disaster drill once. Everyone did as they were told and everything worked out as planned. About four weeks later, we had a small fire and everyone stood around screaming "Doshiyo? Doshiyo?" until someone got permission to call the fire department. Then everything was "Taihen ne." for about three weeks.
Once again, reality and 'drills' diverged.
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realist
Whats with the silly looking things they have tied around their chests? This is really a joke. No way will japanese people behave like the ones in the picture when the bog one comes. Just watch how they get on some of the trains - like animals, in some cases.
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loltehinterwebs
lol! They're walking out of the shinkansen area, which wouldn;t even be operating in a disaster.
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Sarge
"I like the bloke in the mask - another pointless and ridiculous "pre-caution"
He's a doctor, of course, he would render emergency medical aid to the injured.
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noirgaijin
It would be unfair to say that the reaction to an actual emergency and a drill would differ only in Japan. However, as borscht pointed out, there are few to none that would step forward and take charge in this country in the event of a disaster in fear someone would be injured or die because they had took the initiative to restore calm and do the right thing in getting everyone to safety.
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Spidey
I guess the Starbucks seating area is impervious to earthquakes. Go figure!!
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borscht
I just noticed everyone has on sensible walking shoes and the women are all wearing pants instead of company uniforms (skirts). A real emergency would be totally different.
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