Da Bu Di, Da Bu Da

As a student and a freelancer, one of the few truly Japanese things I rarely have a chance to experience is the morning rush. The pain, sweat and stress it causes is nevertheless perfectly understandable even without a direct experience - my friends and my media describe it too me vividly enough.

It gets even worse when the trains are late. And they are quite often, for there is always someone who falsely presumes that committing suicide via jumping on a train is short, painless or romantic.

A classic case of a vicious circle - the depressed person jumps, causes train delay and subsequent depression to more people. Some of who, presumably, will eventually jump.

Thank God we have someone with a plan for action.

East Japan Railway (JR East) is installing blue mood-lighting in its stations in a bid to stop people committing suicide on the tracks of a busy Tokyo line (...)

“Blue is said to make people’s minds more serene. The blue lighting is in part an effort to prevent suicides, while it is also aimed at reducing misdemeanors such as graffiti and littering,” he said.

In the first half of the year, police recorded 17,076 suicides, up 768 or 4.7% from the same period last year, according to the National Police Agency, which said one third of suicides were linked to financial problems.

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//Polish summary: Niebieski to uniwersalny kolor szczescia i nadziei. Nowe niebieskie swiatla na japonskich peronach uczynia Japonczykow bardziej szczesliwymi i mniej sklonnymi do podejmowania radykalnych krokow w przod. Jakoby. //