Yamanote Halloween Train

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Japan and its Glorious Subway

Japan, like many weird little countries that do not matter in the grand scheme of our excellent, more civilised world, have little and no interest in the western festival of Halloween. In order to educate the Otaku, many normal people, or GaiJin hold a yearly celebration on the Yamanote line of the Japan central subway system. This is an excellent excuse to drink, sing, strip, offend, and generally give the indiginous people some trick or treating to remember. The traditional Wapanese have proven themselves time and time again to be overly sensitive when it comes to hijinks on their subway, as seen by:

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Guise, this could be aimed at anyone.

• The 1995 Aum Shirikyo Sarin attack
• The fact that the tranport authority have had to introduce women only subway cars due to all the illegal groping being perpetrated.
• The banning of a Japanese game in which you rape women on the subway. Ræp is literally the only purpose of the game. Sounds fucking awesome.
• The gagging order stopping officials releasing a girl's name as her family were dissatisfied with the way her death on the subway was handled by the staff of the underground train network, random move.

For one night a year, our brave brethren of drunk middle class white people in their early 20s allows them to forget their woes and have not just a journey, but a party too. A gift to the people who make them feel so welcome.

Gaijin, on my Yamanote Line?

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As long as they keep it respectful to Japanese culture I see no problem

The Yamanote Halloween Train Celebration has been going on since the early 80's, and is generally a non violent gathering of westerners exercising their Dubya given right to do whatever the fuck they want, wherever the fuck they want to. Unfortunately, the advent of the internets has given those pesky Japs the means to share information about the celebration, and, even more worryingly, protest the fact that their chief mode of transport is essentially ruined one night of the year because of the whims of retards not even vaguely interested in any other part of their way of life.

Another point of contention from the Japs is that many of their womenfolk join in the celebration, and this, as we know from every Hentai ever made, simply does not gel with the Japanese notion of what women should be doing.

I speak very good Engrish

I speak very good Engrish

2Chan

In October 2009, members of 2Chan, the biggest discussion board in Japan, caused a furor when the plans regarding the partytrain, no relation to the partyvan, were blown out of all proportion on the board. Before you could say Weeaboo, plans were being made to push GaiJin under the tracks and people were threatening to press charges against the partygoers, mostly on false statements. Further fueling the hate, the harshly-worded email above was sent to an online magazine. Harrowing stuff there. Many potential partygoers were put off by the flamewar, and the actual party ended up being a piss poor attempt to stick two fingers up at their slanty eyed nemeses.

Please note below: The Yamanote Halloween Train was once awesome.

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See Also

• Otaku
• Weeaboos
• Halloween
• 2chan

External Links

• an article on the subject. Overuses the word netizens, a horrible Portmanteau.
• A slightly more srs wiki weighs in.