Haven't seen this yet

[shadowtiger25]

I think this is the only Japanese train I have seen yet with graffiti on it

http://livedoor.blogimg.jp/densuki7/imgs/d/c/dc2055fa.jpg

[Kiha66]

That's actual done by the engine crews themselves.  Iirc they were not allowed to protest or picket so instead they wrote protest slogans on their locomotives. 

[shadowtiger25]

Ok, that's different. I wonder what it says...

(haven't gotten around to learning Japanese yet.. on the to do list for next year)

[railsquid]

From a quick search:

 

http://www.news24.jp/articles/2017/02/20/07354655.html

 

http://tetuch.blog.jp/archives/26644472.html

 

Probably more around, alas. I do hope the scrotes responsible in each case were found and punished properly.

[Yavianice]

Too bad I don't live in a country where train graffiti makes headline news. 

 

https://japantoday.com/category/features/kuchikomi/Tokyo-Metro-hit-by-spate-of-train-graffiti

[Socimi]

11 hours ago, shadowtiger25 said:

I think this is the only Japanese train I have seen yet with graffiti on it

http://livedoor.blogimg.jp/densuki7/imgs/d/c/dc2055fa.jpg

 

You can search "国鉄 ストライキ" (JNR strike) on google for more.

 

Initially these were "strikes for the right to strike" (as with policemans, medics and firemans, railway workers were frobid to strike, for sake of national security), they later became strikes angist the planned 1987 JNR privatisation.

In some cases, students also wrote these slogans, as a way to protest angist the JNR involvment in the vietnam war (as they were supplying jet fuel to USAF airbases, one of these trains actually crashed and exploded in Shinjuku in 1967).

 

A whole locomotive depot, taken from here.

 

A lot of stickers on a Yamanote Line 103 series

 

Ome Line

 

EF13

 

Not even the shinkansen trains were spared

 

Doro-Chiba (Chiba branch of the JNR, and later JR East, worker's union) page.

 

N gauge striking railwaymens too

 

Still, as shadowtiger25 said, it would be nice to know what's written.

 

9 hours ago, railsquid said:

 

http://tetuch.blog.jp/archives/26644472.html

 

 

[Looking at comment No.16]

 

Ehm...

 

I don't know what to do.

 

Should i laugh to my fellow Roman countrymens, knowing that in Milan we've a better (and by better, i mean normal compared to other countries) maintained subway system than theirs...

 

... or cry in despair because that's the idea that almost evrybody has about italian railways?

 

[shadowtiger25]

2 hours ago, Socimi said:

 

You can search "国鉄 ストライキ" (JNR strike) on google for more.

 

Initially these were "strikes for the right to strike" (as with policemans, medics and firemans, railway workers were frobid to strike, for sake of national security), they later became strikes angist the planned 1987 JNR privatisation.

In some cases, students also wrote these slogans, as a way to protest angist the JNR involvment in the vietnam war (as they were supplying jet fuel to USAF airbases, one of these trains actually crashed and exploded in Shinjuku in 1967).

 

A whole locomotive depot, taken from here.

 

A lot of stickers on a Yamanote Line 103 series

 

Ome Line

 

EF13

 

Not even the shinkansen trains were spared

 

Doro-Chiba (Chiba branch of the JNR, and later JR East, worker's union) page.

 

N gauge striking railwaymens too

 

Still, as shadowtiger25 said, it would be nice to know what's writen

 

I may just have to do that to a DD51! ( I do model end of steam in Hokkaido, but it might be cool to have one loco done up like that)