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Originally Posted by MMM
If things got over-the-top in Tokyo (or Osaka) it does not surprise me. What you describe, Nyororin, is deplorable, and people that would shove people off train cars should be arrested and detained.
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I wasn`t actually there, but I tend to believe the videos taken from the Japanese side and the talk of it in places that aren`t typically the type of place you`d expect. A lot of the complaints I read were on the Benesse mothers board - mothers would talk about how they or their husbands got home late or super stressed because they had to wait for another train or were shoved around. From what I understood, maybe the official party "ended" after an hour or so, but they would stay - often filling multiple cars - until the last train.
It is really something that shouldn`t have been started in the first place, in my opinion. If you want to do a party, do it in a park or something - not on public transportation to annoy tons of people who just want to get from point A to point B.
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In an attempt to find the thread from 2008 - I found a post by a young woman who had to go to rescue her grandmother because she was forcibly picked up and dropped outside the train and told "くそばば帰れ!" by a group of white guys in pirate hats, one of them without pants on. The woman`s bag was dropped in the train, so she had no money and was too scared to get back on the train. (A follow-up said they did get her bag back - it was tossed out at the next station and was turned in by someone.) She was wanting support and to know whether it was a good idea to try to contact embassies about it.
Deplorable is a nice way to describe it. The 2008 party was apparently true and total chaos.