Japanese Girl On A Train
Sacha Weakland
I only listened to it once on Youtube, it's a drawn music video rather than a video took from a camera, I remember a comment saying "I feel like this is gonna be another Bad Apple" (probably pointing out that not much knows the source but remembers listening to it), I remembered the song because of the chorus of this certain song. I remember a girl in a train dancing from left to right same pose just repeating from left to right, She's on the train most of the time in the video as far as I can remember.
I remember watching a snippet of a Japanese show/movie. It starts with a couple of guys waving and trying to harass this pale skinned woman in a restaurant, but she looks really weird and quiet. Fast forward a little bit and they're at the Subway station. They see the same girl on the opposite landing and she's waving in a creepy manner, before jumping onto the train tracks and getting hit by the train. In the aftermath, the movie freezes to show half her face popping up from the tracks staring at the group of guys while they were traumatised by what happened.
Teke Teke (テケテケ;てけ てけ),[1] also spelled Teke-Teke,[2] Teketeke,[3] or Teke teke,[1] is a Japanese urban legend about the ghost of a schoolgirl who is said to have fallen onto a railway line, where her body was cut in half by a train. She is an onryō, or a vengeful spirit, who lurks in urban areas and around train stations at night. Since she no longer has a lower body, she travels on her hands, dragging her upper torso and making a scratching or "teke teke"-like sound, produced either by her elbows or the end of her bisected body scraping the ground. If she encounters an individual, she will chase them and slice them in half at the torso, killing them in such a way that mimics her own disfigurement.[4]
Common elements of the legend include that Teke Teke is the vengeful ghost or spirit (also known as an onryō) of a young woman or schoolgirl who fell on a railway line in Northern Japan, which resulted in her being sliced in half by a train. Missing her lower extremities, she is said to walk on her hands or her elbows, making a scratching or "teke teke"-like sound as she moves. If an individual encounters Teke Teke at night, she will chase them and cut their body in half (often with a scythe), mimicking her own death and disfigurement.
One version of the story concerns a young woman known as Kashima Reiko. As with the original iteration of the legend, Kashima died when her legs were severed from her body by a train after she fell on the tracks.[5][6] According to some sources,[which?] some versions of the legend state that, when an individual learns of Kashima's story, she will appear to them within one month. The "Kashima Reiko" story predates that of Teke Teke.[7] The legless spirit of Kashima Reiko is said to haunt bathroom stalls, asking occupants if they know where her legs are.[5] If a questioned individual replies with an answer that Kashima does not find acceptable, she will rip or cut their legs off.[8] Individuals may survive the encounter by replying that her legs are on the Meishin Expressway,[8][9] or by responding with the phrase "kamen shinin ma", or "mask death demon" (which may be the phonetic root of Kashima's name).[8][10] The legend of Kashima Reiko has been described as a "bathroom-centric variation" of Teke Teke.
Cities like Tokyo and Osaka have an excellent public transportation system that is capable of carrying millions of passengers every day. In Tokyo alone it is estimated that 8.7 million people use the metro daily. One of the problems of this many people being crowded into the train system is sexual harassment of females by other passengers, also known ちかん. In order to solve this problem, women-only carriages appeared in many major cities.
Due to this alarming increase in complaints, the police recommended the train companies to take action. At that time, the initiative had been reluctant on the part of the railway companies that predicted delays by forcing passengers to look for carriages intended for men or women.
The turning point in Tokyo was when, in 2004, a record number of complaints was recorded. That year, complaints of touching and other sexual crimes such as taking obscene photos reached a record high of 2,201 in Tokyo, almost triple compared to the 778 complaints registered in 1996. Among all those complaints, a third were filed by schoolgirls and a total of 1886 led to the arrests of men between 14 and 80 years old. It was also revealed that up to two-thirds of women between 20 and 30 years old had been victims of some form of harassment on the trains.
The suspect was arrested the previous day on suspicion of slashing a 23-year-old man who was in the same train car on a rapid service. A 79-year-old man and a 24-year-old conductor were also hurt while intervening in the altercation, with the three sustaining minor injuries.
A woman who was on the train when the incident occurred told Kyodo News that the suspect approached the 23-year-old man and suddenly slashed his neck and other parts of his body without saying a word.
About 150 people were on the train at the time of the incident, which affected a total of around 8,000 people as services on the line were temporarily suspended, according to the operator, West Japan Railway.
Transportation grants access to opportunity. If young Kana did not have the trainline, she would have had to endure a 73-minute walk to catch an express train from the neighbouring train line to travel to school.
After 69 years of service, the last train ever passed through Kyu-shirataki station. Although momentous, there was no major paparazzi. There was a crowd of local residents and some from the media joined in to document the event, but it was nothing like the media coverage flooding the platform just months prior.
The two main passenger cars, one on each end of the train, are less maximalist and more classically Japanese, with a lot of polished wood, traditional tatami reed sun screens, and calming natural fabrics on the seats.
The station at stop number two, Hizen-hama, rather famously features a sake bar inside its main station building, and the staff from this bar set up on the platform a choice of six sakes to take back onto the train (along with some delicious local cheese) and sip as the Two Stars wends its way around the sheltered coast of the Ariake Sea along the old Nagasaki Main Line.
Among the souvenirs on board the train are the complimentary commemorative postcard-sized prints, whose back is perfectly sized for inking the Two Stars 4047 hanko stamp to remember the trip.
Earlier in the day, the police said the girl was found dead after being struck by a train Monday night, but bruises on the elementary school girl's face suggested the possibility she was strangled sometime before.
I sincerely apologize for my actions on the train in Japan, where I danced without familiarizing myself with the proper etiquette for using public spaces. I want to express my regret to both the Thai and Japanese communities, as well as to the Japanese passengers who were inadvertently filmed in the clip without their consent.
According to practiced train etiquette in Japan, talking loudly, which includes speaking on the phone or making loud noises, playing loud music, etc. on trains is considered poor manners and only on long-distance trains is it acceptable for people to talk on the phone on the decks between compartments. As a general rule, passengers are encouraged to set their phone to silent mode and the volume of headphones to low.
HOKKAIDO - There is only one high school girl who uses the remote Kami-Shirataki Station in Hokkaido, Japan, but the station has been kept open for her till she graduates, goes a Facebook post by Chinese state broadcaster CCTV on Friday (Jan 8) which has gone viral.
A Taiwan Apple Daily report said that the girl featured in the story does take the train every day, but the year-three student takes it from Kyu-Shirataki Station, instead of the Kami-Shirataki Station, along with more than 10 schoolmates at 7.15am. That is the only train in the morning.
But there are also nori-tetsu, people who enjoy travelling on trains; yomi-tetsu, those who love to read about trains, especially train schedules; oto-tetsu, the people who record the sound of trains; sharyo-tetsu, fans of train design; eki-tetsu, people who study stations; and even ekiben-tetsu, aficionados of the exquisite bento lunch boxes sold at stations.
"It's really hard to find people here who hate taking trains," said Junichi Sugiyama, a journalist who writes about trains and the author of train-related books, including How to Enjoy Railroads From Train Schedules.
Take Tetsuya Suzuki, a 48-year-old yomi-tetsu who has more than 660 volumes of train timetable books dating back to April 1980. He uses the latest edition - yes, Japan still prints phone-book sized schedules - to map out imaginary journeys just for fun.
"I can do my hobby anywhere," Suzuki said in his apartment, where the living room featured a large train set - he said it was for his young son, who was wearing a sweater with trains on it - and the balcony offered a view of the tracks. "Whether I'm travelling or at home, I can always have my timetable book with me."
In Japan, there are the famous bullet trains that whiz the length of the country in about the same time it takes Amtrak to get from Washington to New York, and the slightly slower but perfectly punctual commuter trains. But there are the special trains: the retro, 1950s-style cars, the cars festooned with leaves in fall or cartoon characters like Hello Kitty and Pokemon, the trains with indoor playrooms or foot spas.
"I can't explain why, but ever since I was little I've been attracted to trains," said Watanabe, who does sales for a hotel, as the duo headed out on the Tokyo monorail on a recent Sunday. "My parents' theory is that it was because my grandfather's house was close to the tracks."
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