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May 6th, 2009 by Doug Lansky
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That’s one way to get your suit pressed.

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  1. Leo Fidjeland
    May 6th, 2009 at 18:25 | #1
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    Hahaha, I’ve heard about these “push-men” but never actually saw them in action!

  2. Ex-Tokyoite
    May 30th, 2009 at 15:17 | #2
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    Ahhh. The fans blowing some woman’s hair into your face . . . into your eyes . . . into your ear . . . into your nose. Someone else’s sweat dripping . . . down the back of your neck. Such fond memories . . .

    That looks like one of the Seibu lines – women beware!

  3. P W
    July 15th, 2009 at 21:56 | #3
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    Looks chaotic doesn’t it..! In my experience of working in central central Tokyo I never experienced anything quite like that – my guess is that the train in the depiction was the commuters final chance to make the closure time for an event of significant cultural importance, or an approaching natural disaster, to the final transit point. The carriages were extremely old and defunct looking for Tokyo standards, and the amount of sunlight suggested late afternoon so my guess would be they were adamantly and single-mindedly focused on getting the last train home ahead of an approaching typhoon. There did appear to be an atmosphere of mildly unerving panic in the air.

  4. BBQ
    July 28th, 2009 at 06:55 | #4
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    Pretty crazy. Looks like a Seibu Ikebukuro or Shinjuku Line. The amazing thing about these trains though is that they are still very punctual and reliable, when it comes to time. And no one seems to get hurt as well.

  5. ostrov
    December 2nd, 2009 at 17:06 | #5
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    Thank you,
    very interesting article

  6. sal
    December 28th, 2009 at 16:58 | #6
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    Haha…they made it silently!

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