The Ghost of the Subway (Le fantôme du métro) (2022) [6 min] by Eliott Meyer, Morgane Ghionga, Alexis Gougeot, Mahery Ramarlah and Waysson Mouret | #France
Common wisdom holds that there's a polite way to hold your backpack on a crowded train in Japan. But is common wisdom wrong? Here's why some in Japan argue that the front-facing backpack isn't as polite as it's claimed to be.
In Japan, they say "the customer is god." Lately, more customers are acting like angry, wrathful gods - and one Japanese company says it's had enough. Here's how Japan Railways plans to fight a rising tide of harassment by customers.
'We're supposed to tell customers it's to keep it cold but...': Subway customer questions new cover hiding meats, says it makes it impossible to see sandwich being prepared
They’re critical points of transit for hundreds of thousands of people every day in Tokyo. So why are they so dang hard to use? One deep dive into the stations’ history says you can blame it on history and necessity.