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Friday 05th September, 12:44 PM JST

Tokyo Metro’s manner poster for September asks commuters to be considerate when boarding a train with bulky items. It also says to “Please do it on the mountain,” but doesn’t specify what “it” is.

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Ah_so at 03:51 PM JST - 5th September

There is a video available on the internet of people "doing it" on the train in Japan.
Sarge at 04:02 PM JST - 5th September

"It also says to "Please do it on the mountain," but doesn't specific what "it" is."

I think the illustration specifics what "it" is very well!
Helter_Skelter at 05:02 PM JST - 5th September

Please do it on the mountain.

Better yet, why don't we do it in the road.
conqueror_of_Uranus at 05:59 PM JST - 5th September

Although this series of posters are good comical relief and offer a chuckle on a gloomy subway ride, the perpetrators of poor manners are more often than not; salarymen in the 40-60 age range, rather than slovenly youngsters, as this series of PSAs would have us believe.
electric2004 at 06:26 PM JST - 5th September

Here is the answer:

The problem is not related to being with a Rucksack or heavy luggage in the train. The mentioned issues are:

1) putting the luggage on the floor instead of the overhead storage space.

2) Opening the Rucksack on the floor and taking out food and leaving it open

3) Eating on the train as if it were a picknick.

Basically it says - try to minimize the space you are using for your luggage and don't spread it all out on the floor and the seats.
Wottock_Hunt at 09:11 PM JST - 5th September

I've never understood why Tokyo Metro believe that anybody with manners so bad as to require a brightly-coloured harangue would pay any notice to a piece of paper stuck on a wall. What kind of thought process do they envisage?

Perp: Oh, I was in a world of my own listening to my filthy foreign modern music on my incomprehensible new-fangled gadget. But that piece of paper says I should give a moment's consideration to what that permanently-scared thin woman thinks. Fair enough, off it goes.

the perpetrators of poor manners are more often than not; salarymen in the 40-60 age range

Uranus - absolutely spot on. There is a leitmotif running through this campaign that states young people are responsible for all the ills of commuting.

Remember the one a few months ago that had a young totty putting on her make-up, which was verboten because a lipless old bat in the corner of the picture was looking at her sideways? What's the big deal about young foxtresses beautifying themselves even more? (Although I draw the line at hairspray, a quick touch-up with the lippy does my circulation the power of good).

What about a poster with said obaachan forcing ticket-purchasing passengers to stand because she's got her bag full of tins of catfood on the seat next to her? "Please do it on your own bleeding settee, reeking though it is with catsick and stale urine".

Or one with a combed-over, shiny-suited shatcho, knuckle-deep in his own sinuses, giving a forensic examination to the nicotine-brown boli his excavations recover? "Please do it any time you want a punch in the yellow-toothed mouth, you dirty sod"

Gets on my sodding nerves, this campaign. When I want nagging and lecturing about what I am doing, might do, or ever have done wrong, I will go home. I don't need it to my way to work as well.

Spend the money they wee away on this on getting some soap in the bogs. I'd much rather be on a train knowing that someone's been camping than knowing there are traces of faeces on every surface.
Sarge at 09:18 PM JST - 5th September

I agree with 007. These perps with bad manners need to be slapped upside the head!
CavemanLawyer at 11:40 PM JST - 5th September

These perps with bad manners need to be slapped upside the head!

Not until we get what constitutes bad manners completely clear and fairly decided. Some people get miffed if a conversation exceeds a certain decibel range that most of us find acceptable and they find laughter extremely rude. Meanwhile, they think nothing of the loud useless announcements and the noisy K-thunk K-thunk of the train. Obviously, its not the noise, its jealousy over others having a social life.

Even talking on the cell phone is not rude so long as one is not yelling into the phone. Its just petty jealousy guiding that one too.

Now you might have some idea of who I would like to slap upside the head...

--Cirroc
KitsuneYoukai at 11:49 PM JST - 5th September

Well if you didn't have rules regarding cell phone usage you would have everyone and their mother speaking on those things all over the train; basically talking nonsense. Could you imagine how loud that would get, like before rules were established at movie theaters. It used to drive me crazy all these teenagers allowing their phones to ring out of control and talking while the movie was going. I think rules are good if they make good sense like the cell phone usage. Laughter is okay I think as long as it doesn't get so out of control which can happen. Everyone is in such cramped spaces on a train so I think rules are extremely pertinent in such cases.
KitsuneYoukai at 11:50 PM JST - 5th September

Oh! btw, I think this poster is cute!
cwhite at 04:31 AM JST - 6th September

Check these ones out:

www.tokyometro.jp/anshin/kaiteki/poster
Triumvere at 12:55 PM JST - 6th September

I LOVE these posters!
Wottock_Hunt at 09:12 PM JST - 6th September

With regard to this one:

http://www.tokyometro.jp/anshin/kaiteki/poster/manner_200806.html

I think it should be retitled as:

"Please mind your own business,you meddlesome rude old ratbag"
nisegaijin at 12:07 PM JST - 8th September

I am disturbed by these pointless and ignorant posters. Shows everything that is wrong with these society, it's unique view on manners, and inability to identify individuals' problems and find unique solutions for them.
electric2004 at 06:46 PM JST - 8th September

The small print on the poster It says "refrain from making calls."

It does NOT say "refrain from receiving calls."

In other words, receiving is OK.