Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.daionet.gr.jp!news.ksi.ne.jp!Q.T.Honey!komachi.sp.cs.cmu.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!fe029123.fl.freebit.ne.JP!not-for-mail From: Michael Cash Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Japan makes it big in world news Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 22:05:46 +0900 Lines: 51 Message-ID: References: <73fde4f0.0307040506.76ea8fcf@posting.google.com> <3F079EC2.A49301A3@yahoo.co.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: fe029123.fl.freebit.ne.jp (219.112.29.123) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1057583144 3522089 219.112.29.123 (16 [51151]) X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:2156 On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 06:47:39 +0900, Ernest Schaal belched the alphabet and kept on going with: >in article ad4hgvgc82osiqbmc3t2qve08mnkeso811@4ax.com, Michael Cash at >mikecash@sunfield.ne.jp wrote on 7/7/03 6:18 AM: > >> On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 05:26:10 +0900, Ernest Schaal >> belched the alphabet and kept on going with: >> >>> If chikan is not the rule, then why do the commuter trains have special cars >>> for women only >> >> I thought these were still somewhat of a rarity...but then again, I >> don't ride the trains. Have these become the norm now? > >I have seen them in a variety of cities, so I assume they are now the norm. > >> >>> and why are there all those posters telling women to complain >>> if they are molested? >> >> Ummm.....Because 1) so many of them don't 2) it's easier than putting >> forth an active police presence and 3) gives the impression that >> something is being done about the problem? >> >> If that ain't the answer, then I'm stumped. > >You don't see them in the US, do you? I'm from BF Tennessee. Until I came to Japan my primary exposure to choo-choos was freight trains. Passenger trains were nowhere to be seen. -- Michael Cash "There was a time, Mr. Cash, when I believed you must be the most useless thing in the world. But that was before I read a Microsoft help file." Prof. Ernest T. Bass Mount Pilot College http://www.sunfield.ne.jp/~mike/