Japanese Mid-C. Railway Etiquette

Long known for their exceptional mass transit manners, this is on of many images from the Japanese, “Please do it at home” campaign of the past 10 to 15 years. Many successful campaigns using eye-catching images and art have been used over the past decades. You can see many from the past here in a previous Etiquipedia post.

Japanese Railroad Launches Passenger Etiquette Program 

TOKYO, July, 21—(UPI)—The Japan National Railways Corporation, which runs one of the most efficient train systems in the world, launched an “etiquette training” program Monday to make its passengers the neatest and best-mannered as well. 

A spokesman for the corporation said special officers will be assigned to 24 trains to tell passengers how to behave. They will tell passengers not to: —

• Walk around Railway cars in their underwear.

• Enter the dining car in nightgowns.

• Throw refuse all over the floors.

• Play their radios too loud.

– Shin Nichibei, 1959

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