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Mar 15 2004 3 Comments

The end of the line

“I know I shouldn’t say this, but sometimes I feel like asking them to jump in front of Hankyu or Kintetsu trains.”

JR West Chairman Masaaki Mori, lamenting that many suicides choose to jump in front of JR trains.

Such compassion.

Categorized: General, Travel

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  1. Alex says

    3/16/2004 at 9:21 am

    I was JUST talking about this with some buddies. Must be some kind of weird gaijin synchronicity going on. We were wondering whose job it was to clean up the suicides, and how they filled this position?

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  2. Lee says

    3/16/2004 at 5:46 pm

    I used to teach a fireman who had at stint doing the clean-up work. I didn’t ask much about it, as his pained expression on the mention of it warned me away.

    Now whether all firemen have to do it I don’t know. But that poor man did.

    What a job that must be. It doesn’t bear thinking about does it?

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  3. Danila says

    1/17/2005 at 11:06 pm

    You can probably google for “Worst jobs” and find some of the sites dedicated to exploring this topic.

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