Comments on: Graffiti attack forces suspension of bullet train service http://www.japanprobe.com/2008/07/01/graffiti-attack-forces-suspension-of-bullet-train-service/ Japan News Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: shazzb0t http://www.japanprobe.com/2008/07/01/graffiti-attack-forces-suspension-of-bullet-train-service/comment-page-1/#comment-193832 shazzb0t Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:59:57 +0000 http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=5034#comment-193832 That was what I was thinking. If this cause such a stir it couldn't be all that common for trains to be painted up. The BNE stickers are definitely the work of a network of people. They are found all over the place from New York to London, but curiously enough, not in or on trains in Japan. If people hesitate to put stickers on the trains why would the put up a piece? Pretty much the same thoughts here. If you go to Shibuya and wander you can see all sorts of graf, but in a place like that you can expect it. The curious thing though is that as you get closer to the JR station you don't see as much. Inside the JR station you can't see anything. Obviously there is more security and more people there, but it still goes to show how different people view public transport in Japan as opposed to elsewhere. That was what I was thinking. If this cause such a stir it couldn’t be all that common for trains to be painted up.

The BNE stickers are definitely the work of a network of people. They are found all over the place from New York to London, but curiously enough, not in or on trains in Japan. If people hesitate to put stickers on the trains why would the put up a piece? Pretty much the same thoughts here.

If you go to Shibuya and wander you can see all sorts of graf, but in a place like that you can expect it. The curious thing though is that as you get closer to the JR station you don’t see as much. Inside the JR station you can’t see anything. Obviously there is more security and more people there, but it still goes to show how different people view public transport in Japan as opposed to elsewhere.

]]> By: Get a Job, Son! http://www.japanprobe.com/2008/07/01/graffiti-attack-forces-suspension-of-bullet-train-service/comment-page-1/#comment-193823 Get a Job, Son! Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:40:16 +0000 http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=5034#comment-193823 Ive been here for over 6 yrs... never seen grafitti here 'on the regular' (love that hipster doofus english). As mentioed before, if a train sevice can be stopped, and the news of the grafitti make national evening news, then it must be RARE!! As to BNE stickers, they are also about in other countries too (Australia and UK to name 2)... so one would think this is either a westerner in Japan doing it, or some other 'network'... underground or otherwise. Ive been here for over 6 yrs… never seen grafitti here ‘on the regular’ (love that hipster doofus english).
As mentioed before, if a train sevice can be stopped, and the news of the grafitti make national evening news, then it must be RARE!!

As to BNE stickers, they are also about in other countries too (Australia and UK to name 2)… so one would think this is either a westerner in Japan doing it, or some other ‘network’… underground or otherwise.

]]> By: shazzb0t http://www.japanprobe.com/2008/07/01/graffiti-attack-forces-suspension-of-bullet-train-service/comment-page-1/#comment-193298 shazzb0t Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:58:31 +0000 http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=5034#comment-193298 Seriously, no clue what Jake has seen. I was honest to god shocked when I found a glass etching inside a train on the sobu sen. Literally shocked. I was looking for graf too. Found neckface all over Shibuya, found your ubiqitious OBEY Giant, I mean I saw BNE stickers all over the place, but not once did I see something like that in a train, inside or out. Just didn't see it. I've never seen a tag, a throw up, a piece, nothing on the side of a train in the entire year or so I lived in Japan. Maybe things have changed recently though I doubt it. I'll see when I get back. Seriously, no clue what Jake has seen. I was honest to god shocked when I found a glass etching inside a train on the sobu sen. Literally shocked. I was looking for graf too. Found neckface all over Shibuya, found your ubiqitious OBEY Giant, I mean I saw BNE stickers all over the place, but not once did I see something like that in a train, inside or out. Just didn’t see it.

I’ve never seen a tag, a throw up, a piece, nothing on the side of a train in the entire year or so I lived in Japan. Maybe things have changed recently though I doubt it. I’ll see when I get back.

]]> By: Get a Job, Son! http://www.japanprobe.com/2008/07/01/graffiti-attack-forces-suspension-of-bullet-train-service/comment-page-1/#comment-193210 Get a Job, Son! Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:46:39 +0000 http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=5034#comment-193210 I dont know which Japan Jake lives in... yet to see any trains with any 'throw-up'... except of course for drunk salary-men. Trains are not 'bombed' here... 'on the regular' or otherwise. I dont know which Japan Jake lives in… yet to see any trains with any ‘throw-up’… except of course for drunk salary-men.
Trains are not ‘bombed’ here… ‘on the regular’ or otherwise.

]]> By: shazzb0t http://www.japanprobe.com/2008/07/01/graffiti-attack-forces-suspension-of-bullet-train-service/comment-page-1/#comment-193186 shazzb0t Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:16:54 +0000 http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=5034#comment-193186 Hmm.. I have never seen a bombed train in Tokyo. I doubt that it happens 'on the regular' for the simple fact that if that was the case railway officials wouldn't have held up service. If it was happening all the time either 1. you would see more of it (which you don't) or 2. the trains in Japan would grind to a hault in order to repaint them constantly. Hmm.. I have never seen a bombed train in Tokyo. I doubt that it happens ‘on the regular’ for the simple fact that if that was the case railway officials wouldn’t have held up service. If it was happening all the time either 1. you would see more of it (which you don’t) or 2. the trains in Japan would grind to a hault in order to repaint them constantly.

]]> By: Jake http://www.japanprobe.com/2008/07/01/graffiti-attack-forces-suspension-of-bullet-train-service/comment-page-1/#comment-192995 Jake Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:09:57 +0000 http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=5034#comment-192995 Japanese writers bomb trains on the regular..... Not a bad throw up considering the location and possible security. Japanese writers bomb trains on the regular…..

Not a bad throw up considering the location and possible security.

]]> By: shazzb0t http://www.japanprobe.com/2008/07/01/graffiti-attack-forces-suspension-of-bullet-train-service/comment-page-1/#comment-192431 shazzb0t Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:22:29 +0000 http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=5034#comment-192431 The reason I thought it was a foreigner is because a few of the Japanese graf writers I've talked to said they don't bomb trains simply because they have a respect for the transit system that Westerners didn't have. They also said that getting caught in the train yards have very high fines. Anyways, I doubt dude is going to be 'famous in the world of graf' as the train runs from Niigata to Tokyo. That is hardly considered going 'all city'. Saying it was a foreigner had nothing to do with the fact that the graf was in English. The reason I thought it was a foreigner is because a few of the Japanese graf writers I’ve talked to said they don’t bomb trains simply because they have a respect for the transit system that Westerners didn’t have. They also said that getting caught in the train yards have very high fines.

Anyways, I doubt dude is going to be ‘famous in the world of graf’ as the train runs from Niigata to Tokyo. That is hardly considered going ‘all city’.

Saying it was a foreigner had nothing to do with the fact that the graf was in English.

]]> By: mortonsalt http://www.japanprobe.com/2008/07/01/graffiti-attack-forces-suspension-of-bullet-train-service/comment-page-1/#comment-192345 mortonsalt Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:42:45 +0000 http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=5034#comment-192345 turk 182 turk 182

]]> By: Maya clan http://www.japanprobe.com/2008/07/01/graffiti-attack-forces-suspension-of-bullet-train-service/comment-page-1/#comment-192283 Maya clan Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:02:40 +0000 http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=5034#comment-192283 I think a Japanese did it, Alot of Japanese copy foreign Graffiti in english, just like they mimic everything else poorly...as long as people can write, there will be graf...to hit a train like that was gold, he is famous now in the world of graf (aerosal art), but to ground the train...how stupid...but JR didnt wanna look stupid with that ridding around, so sure just like you thinking blame the foreigner cos its in english like Japanese cant write english..and cos it in english a lot of people will blame foreigners, I think a Japanese did it, Alot of Japanese copy foreign Graffiti in english, just like they mimic everything else poorly…as long as people can write, there will be graf…to hit a train like that was gold, he is famous now in the world of graf (aerosal art), but to ground the train…how stupid…but JR didnt wanna look stupid with that ridding around, so sure just like you thinking blame the foreigner cos its in english like Japanese cant write english..and cos it in english a lot of people will blame foreigners,

]]> By: shazzb0t http://www.japanprobe.com/2008/07/01/graffiti-attack-forces-suspension-of-bullet-train-service/comment-page-1/#comment-192035 shazzb0t Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:29:34 +0000 http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=5034#comment-192035 Wow.. That is gutsy. Though I like graffiti I would rather not see it on the trains in Japan. I wonder who did this. I'm leaning towards a foreigner though of course I can't be sure. Wow.. That is gutsy. Though I like graffiti I would rather not see it on the trains in Japan. I wonder who did this. I’m leaning towards a foreigner though of course I can’t be sure.

]]> By: nanya http://www.japanprobe.com/2008/07/01/graffiti-attack-forces-suspension-of-bullet-train-service/comment-page-1/#comment-192021 nanya Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:43:01 +0000 http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=5034#comment-192021 badass! hiphop lives! badass! hiphop lives!

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