We all know that Japan is a country that is very particular about manners but this is the first time I’m hearing news about someone “being punished” for his bad manners. A man was arrested after punching another man in the face for purportedly having bad cell phone manners Monday morning at Takadanobaba station on the Seibu Shinjuku Line.
According to police, 49-year-old Hiroshi Matsukawa had warned a fellow passenger to obey the mobile phone manner rules while the two were riding the train. The man reportedly talked back to him, causing Matsukawa to get angry and punch him in the face when they both got out at the next station, witnesses said. After being punched, the man teetered on the edge of the platform and his arm was broken by a train passing through the station.
Matsukawa was quoted by police as saying: “I warned him and he complained back at me. That really pissed me off.”
Source: JapanToday
Its just interesting to note that everyone in Singapore is busy doing something whenever they are taking the public transport (e.g. talking on their cellphones, browsing the internet with their iPhones and playing their PSP or just sleeping). What I consider bad manners is selfish idiots that refuse to move to the back so that others can get onto the bus.
Wow, taking the rules a bit too serious there o-o
I was scared to death that my phone would ring loudly on the Japanese trains so I always put it on silent mode.. happy I did, don’t want to get punched X3
Did anyone record that? Hope it’s on youtube!
Too bad the phone guy’s arm broke.
What kind of manner rules do they have? I guess its something too annoying for them to go that far, not that I blame them, I hate when you´re talking to someone and the phone doesn’t stop ringing
In japan, you are not allowed to talk on the phone, while on the train. You are also advised to switch off your phone, or put it to silent mode while on the train. While i was in japan, no one on the train used their phone other than to listen to music
I don’t see why using the phone while on the train is bad manners. Maybe it is if you’re talking very loudly but if it isn’t then it shouldn’t be forbidden.
“What I consider bad manners is selfish idiots that refuse to move to the back so that others can get onto the bus” totally agree. or when the bus is already full but they still squueze until the door cant be closed and make the bus cannot leave