TRACKING

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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="384" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7hiqv8Vbot..." width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "geneva"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%;">And then there were these girls who probably weren’t aware of their filmic predecessors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>And I wonder if they were aware of the timetable and knew when the next train was coming:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nscOzDK5y2..." imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="630" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nscOzDK5y2..." width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "geneva"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%;">And then there were these 5000 people in Tokyo at the end of 2015:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lHl0jDgzV-..." imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="312" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lHl0jDgzV-..." width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "geneva"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%;">At 8 am on November 16^th an overhead cable broke on the Japan Railways Kobe Line between Kobe and Motomachi Stations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The train service was suspended while a repair crew got to work, and 5,000 or so passengers had to leave the train, and walk along the tracks to the nearest station.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "geneva"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%;">They weren’t in danger, but even so it’s hard to imagine the commuters of most nations remaining so calm, and obeying instructions, and walking in single-file.</span><span style="font-family: "geneva"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%;">  And at some point an employee of Japan Railways arrived, to apologize and give a bottle of tea to each person who walked by.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>He opened the bottles for them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I’m not sure why I find this so moving, but I do. </span><span style="font-family: "geneva"; 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