Japan’s famously polite train commuters lose their cool sometimes. There were 825 attacks last year

By Julian Ryall, South China Morning Post; May 14, 2018

Issei Izawa only started university in April, but he already dreads a daily two-hour commute to and from Tokyo that has long been notorious for congestion and discomfort.

To add to those problems, he has been shocked at the violence that appears to have become a daily occurrence.

“I was expecting the trains to be busy and that is unpleasant enough, but I was not ready for the arguments that I have seen,” he said.

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