This poster is put in a train that I use for going to my office. I felt that Japanese people's manner have dropped to the bottom of the ground when I saw it for the first time.
These sayings look me as "Atarimae"（当たり前）that means common sense that everybody knows. But, JR stuffs have to teach people them. Why?
I often see high-school students sitting on the floor in a train. Now is the time when we have to teach younger people about basically simple social rule.
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It's the same in America. People no longer have simple manners. I am curious though: What behaviours are the signs discouraging?
-Jonathan
Onoffoff san
I will try to explain it by translating them into English.
Left;
He says that "I placed my bag on my next seet because I will soon get off this train".
Center;
He says that "I won't make a noise that other people can hear from my headphone in a train".(This is a good behaviour)
Right;
She says that "I was absorbed in talking with my friend by using a cell phone in a train because I was very glad to receive the call from her(him)".
I think is the same everywhere. I agree we should not loose good manners but at least in Japan the are some ads telling it to the people. Here, I think, no one care about that. I can´t stand people talking loudly in the cells but it our everyday.
[to farooksh-san]
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I worry that Japanese people are separating two groups. One group's member are high-educated and polite people, and another group's members are low-educated and impolite.
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