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What they should be doing is using a giant hydraulic press, and a grated floor to strain the juices from the solid bits. This just looks amateurish.
Anyway, how is something like that even socially acceptable? Try that in America and see if you don't get your teeth punched out.
They were all sumo wrestlers.
I don't think it's a subway although it's tagged as such. This is most probably a commuter train. If you don't take this one you would be late since they don't run very often. But the main problem is that everyone has to take the same train because they all start working at the exact same hour (and they can't be even one minute late/early at most companies: if you come early you'll be expected to come this early every single day and if you're late you're fired).
... with a chainsaw!
Don't get me wrong, living in Japan was fantastic. But Tokyo rush-hour trains were most certainly not.
If you miss your last train, as many workaholics do... spend the night at a local area public spa. Food, brews, bathhouse, massage, and capsule hotel. Try it at least once, it's surely worth the experience. Better with a few friends along for sure though.
Regarding groping. Yes it is a problem, but apparently it is much less tolerated. Train cars designated for women only can be found.
Want to get off? Know your stop. Plan ahead. Push through. Just don't knock people over. Just repeat 'sumimasen', and out you go.
and also the fact that the Japanese typically don't bathe until after they get home from work,
As opposed to showering in the middle of the day at work?
The short range subways run so frequently that this wouldn't happen.
And my god, a 2+ hour commute is insane. I'd rather live in a dorm room sized (150 sq. feet) apartment if it's within 10 minutes of everywhere I need to go. All I do in my apartment is eat, sleep, and computer, anyways. I'd rather work for 25k a year next door than work for 50k a year and have to commute 4 hours a day.
All this urban sprawl and commuterism is contributing a great deal to global warming.
Since people put up with this sardine bullshit just for fear of being fired for being late, they need to reevaluate their priorities and find a job closer to home. 99% of people think they need more money than they really need.
Not only is money useless if you don't have time to enjoy it, but there's not much worth buying with it beyond the first 30k a year. The utility function is like logarithmic. Especially for single computer geeks, what more do you need than a good computer on a fat pipe, good food, and a bed? Maybe a park next door?
And the rest of us would have to wait another 30 minutes for an empty one. So by the time we get to school we're nearly 1 hour late. And teachers are waiting at the gates to punish you (usually they force you to a push-up position on the floor until the classes start. But before you get off the floor, teacher whacks your butt 10 times with a 2 by 4 or a baseball bat).
Good times...
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and also the fact that the Japanese typically don't bathe until after they get home from work,
As opposed to showering in the middle of the day at work?
As opposed to in the morning. They thought I was nuts for taking a shower in the morning. In their minds, you should bathe before you go to bed, after working up a good sweat at work. Makes sense, actually, except if I really did get that dirty at work I'd probably shower in both the morning and the evening.
Oh, and the reason for two hour commutes is the same there as it is here in the SF Bay Area. For the same price that it would cost you to live in a studio the size of a closet in the city (along with all the pollution and noise that comes with it) you could live in a nice house in the quiet suburbs two hours away.
I think Japan has it worse than most developed countries, though, in that the job market is more heavily concentrated in the major cities. For a lot of people, regardless of their chosen career, they can only find job opportunities or career advancement if they work in the city rather than the suburbs.
I find it amusing webpages like this constantly show Japanese shows and things from i.e. the mid-eighties and claim it recent!
Because it satisfies the stereotype...
I used to do a 60 minute commute on the Hirakata sen and it was pretty bad, standing absolutely jam-packed the whole way. One night I was summoning up the courage to deck some guy for doing this slow humping kinda thing on my behind, except I couldn't twist around to see who it was, least of all get my elbow ready for the jab. Then when the train half-emptied at the next stop and all that was left was this very drunk guy, who with all the swaying of the train, was doing a very loose-hipped kind of lurch, eyes shut, half-unconscious I forgave him for the action on my person.
Yes, I know about Japanese job-loyalty. It's a mind virus that turns people into slaves.