I had a dream.
In it, I'm just sitting under the kotatsu alone in my grandfather's home, which had been torn down in reality.
A woman, whom I'm interested in, comes to this room, and puts a pair of books on the kotatsu. These books are two of J. G. Ballard’s novels, which I lent her only two days ago.
I ask her if she likes them, and she just reples that she likes them without any emotion. And then she leaves the room.
I'm worrying alone under the kotatsu.
Does she really like them? Can she read them only in two days? Has she really read them? Should I lend her books like J. G. Ballard's novels to an ordinary woman? What does she think about me liking books like J.G Ballard's novels?
Mar 31, 2011
Mar 30, 2011
Tokyo can only be saved by a person like you.
I have read a critic about Haruki Murakami's short story "Super-Frog Saves Tokyo" and this earthquake in The New York Times. ("Super-Frog" By JOEL LOVELL March 22, 2011)
"Super-Frog Saves Tokyo" is contained in his anthology of short stories "After the Quake", whose theme is the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake in 1995. The stories in this anthology don't tell about this earthquake directly, but make the readers think of it deeply.
"Super-Frog Saves Tokyo" is an allegory. Super-Frog is fighting a great earthworm under ground, which wants to cause a big earthquake in Tokyo. Super-Frog ask Mr. Katagiri, who is an ordinary "salary man" to help him fight the earthworm.
I'd like to quote the impressive part of this critic as follows.
When I suffered from deep depression (I have not made a full recovery yet), I really felt that I was a "less-than-ordinary man" and complete useless in this world. So I'm very impressed and healed by the words "Tokyo can only be saved by a person like you.".
I can't do much to save Tokyo and Japan now, but there must be something to do, which I can do. I remember my motto "I will just do what I can do.".
"Super-Frog Saves Tokyo" is contained in his anthology of short stories "After the Quake", whose theme is the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake in 1995. The stories in this anthology don't tell about this earthquake directly, but make the readers think of it deeply.
"Super-Frog Saves Tokyo" is an allegory. Super-Frog is fighting a great earthworm under ground, which wants to cause a big earthquake in Tokyo. Super-Frog ask Mr. Katagiri, who is an ordinary "salary man" to help him fight the earthworm.
I'd like to quote the impressive part of this critic as follows.
In the story, Super-Frog tells Katagiri that "in all of Tokyo, with its teeming millions, there is no one else I could trust as much as you to fight by my side." Katagiri insists that he’s a less-than-ordinary man. "I live a horrible life. … I don't even know why I’m living." he says. "Why should a person like me have to be the one to save Tokyo?" Super-Frog replies: "Because, Mr. Katagiri, Tokyo can only be saved by a person like you. And it’s for people like you that I am trying to save Tokyo."
When I suffered from deep depression (I have not made a full recovery yet), I really felt that I was a "less-than-ordinary man" and complete useless in this world. So I'm very impressed and healed by the words "Tokyo can only be saved by a person like you.".
I can't do much to save Tokyo and Japan now, but there must be something to do, which I can do. I remember my motto "I will just do what I can do.".
Mar 28, 2011
J. G. Ballard, His Life and Novels
I've finish reading J. D. Ballard's books "Miracles of Life" and "Rushing to Paradise". Now I'm trying "The Kindness of Women".
In my school days I had been taught how to understand what the author really meant when I read novels in Japanese class.
I guess that this method is based on classic literary criticism. In classic literary criticism, critics thought that every novel expressed what its author wanted to express, and reading a novel means to deciphered its author's true intention. When they read a novel, they studied its author's biography and background in order to pursue his motivation to write that novel.
After I became a university student, I found modern literary criticism. In modern literary criticism, critics don't focus on what the author's intention but the text, which he wrote, itself. They divide the author from his text and interrupt the text as an independent object.
Haruki Murakami said that his novels were independent from himself after they were published, and readers could read them the way each of them wanted to read. I think that his thought is based on modern literary criticism.
I usually read a novel as independent text and I don't care about what its author thought. I just enjoy it in my own way.
But about J. D. Ballard, I'm interested in not only his novels but also his own life. His representative work "Empire of the Sun" is an autobiographical novel, so I'd like to know what is real and what is fiction in this novel.
He wrote the autobiography "Miracles of Life" before his death. From this book I found the other his novels, which are quite fantastic and macabre, are based on his real experience of his childhood like a nightmare where he grown up in Shanghai during World War 2.
He accepted his hard experience and crystallizes it into his novels. Reading his work, novels and autobiography, heal my emotion at such a time, because I can share a severe experience with him.
In my school days I had been taught how to understand what the author really meant when I read novels in Japanese class.
I guess that this method is based on classic literary criticism. In classic literary criticism, critics thought that every novel expressed what its author wanted to express, and reading a novel means to deciphered its author's true intention. When they read a novel, they studied its author's biography and background in order to pursue his motivation to write that novel.
After I became a university student, I found modern literary criticism. In modern literary criticism, critics don't focus on what the author's intention but the text, which he wrote, itself. They divide the author from his text and interrupt the text as an independent object.
Haruki Murakami said that his novels were independent from himself after they were published, and readers could read them the way each of them wanted to read. I think that his thought is based on modern literary criticism.
I usually read a novel as independent text and I don't care about what its author thought. I just enjoy it in my own way.
But about J. D. Ballard, I'm interested in not only his novels but also his own life. His representative work "Empire of the Sun" is an autobiographical novel, so I'd like to know what is real and what is fiction in this novel.
He wrote the autobiography "Miracles of Life" before his death. From this book I found the other his novels, which are quite fantastic and macabre, are based on his real experience of his childhood like a nightmare where he grown up in Shanghai during World War 2.
He accepted his hard experience and crystallizes it into his novels. Reading his work, novels and autobiography, heal my emotion at such a time, because I can share a severe experience with him.
Mar 26, 2011
Multiculturalism and Nationalism
I talked with an Australian and a Chinese about multiculturalism and nationalism on lang-8.
The Australian wrote as follows.
I've heard that Australia has aimed to be a multicultural country conceptually, but I could understand what multiculturalism means in the context of a daily life at that time.
I thought that Japanese people including me didn't understand multiculturalism and they called "foreigners" "foreigners" innocently. And one of the reasons why Japanese people don't understand multiculturalism might be the concept of nationalism of Japan.
So I made a comment as follows.
The Chinese replied my comment as follows.
I wrote about multiculturalism and nationalism as follows.
The Australian wrote as follows.
Don't call us "foreigners".
Since they are in Australia, maybe you think it would be a perfectly appropriate occasion for Australians to call them "foreigners". But we don't. We give them the dignity of referring to them using the name of their place of origin- Japanese. Also, we go one step further, we welcome them to Australia by calling them Japanese Australians, which means, we recognize where you are from, but you are one of us now - the ultimate welcome.
I've heard that Australia has aimed to be a multicultural country conceptually, but I could understand what multiculturalism means in the context of a daily life at that time.
I thought that Japanese people including me didn't understand multiculturalism and they called "foreigners" "foreigners" innocently. And one of the reasons why Japanese people don't understand multiculturalism might be the concept of nationalism of Japan.
So I made a comment as follows.
I understood the reason why you refuse to be called a "foreigner".
But the concept of nationality is different between countries.
I guess that immigrants to Australia or people born in Australia are thought to be Australian. Is it right?
But basically children of Japanese people are thought to be Japanese. So most Japanese can’t imagine that there are "foreigners" who want to be called Japanese. And even if I have been staying in Australia for long period of time, I wonder if I want to be called Japanese-Australians. I may want to be called Japanese.
Some Koreans living in Japan, who are called “Zainichi (在日)”, might want to be called Korean-Japanese, but most of them might refuse to be called Korean-Japanese because of the forced assimilation by Japanese government before World War 2.
I'd like to know if Chinese living in Japan wants to be called Chinese-Japanese. I guess that they don’t want to be called Chinese-Japanese.
From the Australian stand point of view I can understand how you feel when you are called foreigner. But please understand that there is the reason why most Japanese call "foreigners” “foreigners” from Japanese stand point of view.
I guess that it related to the history of formation of the concept "nation", "nationality" and “nationalism" in Japan.
If you are interested in this topic, I suggest you reading Benedict Anderson's book "Imagined Communities" .
The concept of "nation of Japan" (日本国民) in the modern sense was created by the threat of Western imperialism about 160 years ago when American fleet, which Japanese call Kurofune "黒船", came to Tokyo bay. At that time Japanese people thought that they should unite "the nation of Japan" in order to defend themselves against the invasion by Western countries. So the concept of "the nation of Japan" emphasizes the difference between Japanese and Western people. Of course Japanese have a complicated feeling for Western people, which I might call love and hate feeling.
On the other hand Japan invaded Korea, China and other Asian countries. Korea and China created their own nation and nationalism in order to defend themselves from Western countries and "Japan". Their nationalism was based on the anti-Western and anti-Japanese feeling.
In fact Korean people were used to have a strong anti-Japanese feeling. Recently a feeling for Japanese in South Korea is getting better dramatically, but North Korea is the anti -Japanese country now. South Korean people and Japanese-Korean have a good feeling for Japanese now, but they are very proud of their Korean origin and they might not thought to be called Japanese.
Taiwanese are pro-Japanese, but the Chinese Communist Party is basically anti-Japanese. China is a multiethnic nation. The origin of the concept of "Chinese nation" and "Chinese nationalism" in the modern sense might not be based on the ethnicity or language but anti-imperialism from Western countries and Japan.
It's important for us to know the history, but we should be free from prejudice at the same time.
I guess Australian people decided to overcome the history of White Australia policy by multiculturalism.
I'm not sure Japanese people can really overcome the dark history of its "nationalism".
The Chinese replied my comment as follows.
Interesting point, I should say that "nationalism" won't cause any problem to "multiculturalism".
Let's take the USA as an example and you will understand what I mean.
I wrote about multiculturalism and nationalism as follows.
The words "nation" and "state" are often used confusingly.
If you are interested in "nation" and "state", please refer this page of Wikipedia. But it might be too long article to read.
To explain briefly, a "nation" is a group of people, who share the same identity and have formed or should form a country by their own will. A "state" is a political organization of a country. When a country is formed by a nation, it's called a "nation state".
Nationalism is based on a sense of sharing a symbol of its nation.
In USA the symbol of its nation is the constitution or the ideal of American democracy. Conceptually people, who believe in the ideal of American democracy and pledge their loyalty to its constitution, could be members of the American nation.
In Japan the symbol of its nation is the tradition and descent. Of course they are not real tradition and descent but "invented tradition", which Eric Hobsbawm means. (http://goo.gl/C04Po) Anyway, conceptually Japanese people share their descent with the Emperor of Japan, Tenno "天皇", so he is the symbol of Japan as Japanese constitution says.
In USA nationalism and multiculturalism don't have a conflict conceptually. In reality they have a conflict. USA doesn't have an official language. I guess it's based on multiculturalism. But English is the de-fact official language in USA and some people insist that every US citizen should learn English.
Russia is a nation state, but the Soviet Union was used to be a state, but not a nation. While the communist party was ruling the Soviet Union, it constituted a state. But after the communist party lost its power, the Soviet Union was broken up, because there were no reason to make one nation state.
In Japan the core of nationalism is based on the tradition and descent, so I think nationalism and multiculturalism will have a conflict conceptually and actually.
Mar 23, 2011
I Will Just Do What I Can Do
Yesterday I witnessed an awful behavior and heard terrible words at my office despite of there being such an emergency. I could not believe my eyes and ears.
I was really upset, and then I alternated between feelings of anger and powerlessness.
I hated people who behaved in such a way and said such words.
I didn't really want to see them and go to work this morning.
But I have many things to do. I decided that I would do just what I could do.
I woke up and went to work. And since then I've just done what I can do.
Tomorrow I will just do what I can do. The day after tomorrow I will just do what I can do, as well.
I was really upset, and then I alternated between feelings of anger and powerlessness.
I hated people who behaved in such a way and said such words.
I didn't really want to see them and go to work this morning.
But I have many things to do. I decided that I would do just what I could do.
I woke up and went to work. And since then I've just done what I can do.
Tomorrow I will just do what I can do. The day after tomorrow I will just do what I can do, as well.
The Information of Public Transportation in the Tokyo Area on March 25 7:15
7:15 March 23
JR (http://www.jreast.co.jp/)
In service
-Tohoku Shinkansen (Tokyo - Nasushiobara) Two trains in an hour
(Morioka - Shinaomori) 10 Trains
-Yamagata Shinkansen (Tokkyo - Shinjo) Out of service
-Akita Shinkansen (Morioka - Akita) Five Trains in a day
-Joetsu Shinkansen (Tokyo - Niigata)
-Shinetsu Shinkansen (Tokyo - Nagano)
-Tokaido Line (Tokyo - Atami) ) 90%
-Yokosuka Line (Tokyo - Kurihama) 80 - 100%
-Sobu Line (Tokyo - Chiba) 100%
-Chuo Line (Tokyo - Kobuchizawa) 100%
-Yamanote Line 100%
-Keihin Tohoku Line (Omiya - Ofuna) 100%
-Saikyo Line (Osaki - Kawagoe) 100%
-Kawagoe Line (Omiya - Komagawa) 100%
-Utsunomiya Line (Ueno - Kuroiso) 90%
-Tohoku Honsen (Kuroiso - Koriyama) Out of service
-Takasaki Line (Ueno - Takasaki) 100%
-Joban Line (Ueno - Tsuchiura) 40% - 60%
-Musashino Line (Fuchuhonmachi - Nishifunabashi) 100%
-Nambu Line (Kawasaki - Tachikawa) 100%
-Nambushisen Line (Shitte - Hamakawasaki) 100%
-Yokohama Line (Higashikanagawa - Hachioji) 50%
-Sagami Line (Chigasaki - Samukawa) 50%
(Hashimoto - Samukawa) Out of service
-Ito Line (Atami - Ito) 90%
-Ome Line (Tachikawa - Okutama) 90%
-Itukaichi Line (Haijima - Musashiitsukaichi) 90%
-Keiyo Line (Tokyo - Soga) 100%
-Tsurumi Line 100%
-Nikko Line (Utsunomiya - Nikkko) 100%
-Karasuyama Line (Hoshakuji - Karasuyama) Out of service
-Hachiko Line (Hachioji - Komagawa) 80%
(Komagawa - Takasaki) Out of service
-Joetsu Line (Takasaki - Minakami) 30%
-Ryomo Line (Shinmaebashi - Isezaki) 30%
(Isezaki - Oyama) Out of service
-Agatsuma Line Out of service
-Shinetsu Line (Takasaki - Annaka) 30%
(Annaka - Yokokawa) Out of service
-Mito Line (Oyama - Tomobe) Out of service
-Mizugori Line Out of service
-Uchibo Line (Chiba - Awakamogawa)
-Sotobo Line (Chiba - Awakamogawa)
-Sobu Line (Chiba - Choshi) 100%
-Narita Line (Chiba - Naritakuko, Narita - Choshi) 100%
(Narita - Abiko) 50%
-Togane Line (Oami - Naruto) 100%
-Kashima Line (Sagara - Nobukata) Less than usual
(Nobukata - Kashimajingu) Out of service
-Kururi Line (Kisarazu Kazusakameyama)
Tokyo Metro (http://www.tokyometro.jp/index.html)
In service
-All lines 80%
Toei Subway (http://www.kotsu.metro.tokyo.jp/index.html)
In service
-All lines 80 - 90%
Odakyu(http://www.odakyu.jp/)
In service
-All lines 70%
Tokyu(http://www.tokyu.co.jp/)
In service
-All lines As usual
Seibu(http://www.seibu-group.co.jp/railways/)
In Service
-All lines 70%
Keio(http://www.keio.co.jp/index.html)
In service
-All lines Less than usual
Keisei(http://www.keisei.co.jp/)
In service
-All lines (including Skyliner)
Tobu(http://www.tobu.co.jp/)
In service
-All lines Less than usual
Keikyu(http://www.keikyu.co.jp/index.html)
In Service
-All Lines 80%
JR (http://www.jreast.co.jp/)
In service
-Tohoku Shinkansen (Tokyo - Nasushiobara) Two trains in an hour
(Morioka - Shinaomori) 10 Trains
-Yamagata Shinkansen (Tokkyo - Shinjo) Out of service
-Akita Shinkansen (Morioka - Akita) Five Trains in a day
-Joetsu Shinkansen (Tokyo - Niigata)
-Shinetsu Shinkansen (Tokyo - Nagano)
-Tokaido Line (Tokyo - Atami) ) 90%
-Yokosuka Line (Tokyo - Kurihama) 80 - 100%
-Sobu Line (Tokyo - Chiba) 100%
-Chuo Line (Tokyo - Kobuchizawa) 100%
-Yamanote Line 100%
-Keihin Tohoku Line (Omiya - Ofuna) 100%
-Saikyo Line (Osaki - Kawagoe) 100%
-Kawagoe Line (Omiya - Komagawa) 100%
-Utsunomiya Line (Ueno - Kuroiso) 90%
-Tohoku Honsen (Kuroiso - Koriyama) Out of service
-Takasaki Line (Ueno - Takasaki) 100%
-Joban Line (Ueno - Tsuchiura) 40% - 60%
-Musashino Line (Fuchuhonmachi - Nishifunabashi) 100%
-Nambu Line (Kawasaki - Tachikawa) 100%
-Nambushisen Line (Shitte - Hamakawasaki) 100%
-Yokohama Line (Higashikanagawa - Hachioji) 50%
-Sagami Line (Chigasaki - Samukawa) 50%
(Hashimoto - Samukawa) Out of service
-Ito Line (Atami - Ito) 90%
-Ome Line (Tachikawa - Okutama) 90%
-Itukaichi Line (Haijima - Musashiitsukaichi) 90%
-Keiyo Line (Tokyo - Soga) 100%
-Tsurumi Line 100%
-Nikko Line (Utsunomiya - Nikkko) 100%
-Karasuyama Line (Hoshakuji - Karasuyama) Out of service
-Hachiko Line (Hachioji - Komagawa) 80%
(Komagawa - Takasaki) Out of service
-Joetsu Line (Takasaki - Minakami) 30%
-Ryomo Line (Shinmaebashi - Isezaki) 30%
(Isezaki - Oyama) Out of service
-Agatsuma Line Out of service
-Shinetsu Line (Takasaki - Annaka) 30%
(Annaka - Yokokawa) Out of service
-Mito Line (Oyama - Tomobe) Out of service
-Mizugori Line Out of service
-Uchibo Line (Chiba - Awakamogawa)
-Sotobo Line (Chiba - Awakamogawa)
-Sobu Line (Chiba - Choshi) 100%
-Narita Line (Chiba - Naritakuko, Narita - Choshi) 100%
(Narita - Abiko) 50%
-Togane Line (Oami - Naruto) 100%
-Kashima Line (Sagara - Nobukata) Less than usual
(Nobukata - Kashimajingu) Out of service
-Kururi Line (Kisarazu Kazusakameyama)
Tokyo Metro (http://www.tokyometro.jp/index.html)
In service
-All lines 80%
Toei Subway (http://www.kotsu.metro.tokyo.jp/index.html)
In service
-All lines 80 - 90%
Odakyu(http://www.odakyu.jp/)
In service
-All lines 70%
Tokyu(http://www.tokyu.co.jp/)
In service
-All lines As usual
Seibu(http://www.seibu-group.co.jp/railways/)
In Service
-All lines 70%
Keio(http://www.keio.co.jp/index.html)
In service
-All lines Less than usual
Keisei(http://www.keisei.co.jp/)
In service
-All lines (including Skyliner)
Tobu(http://www.tobu.co.jp/)
In service
-All lines Less than usual
Keikyu(http://www.keikyu.co.jp/index.html)
In Service
-All Lines 80%
Mar 22, 2011
The Information of Public Transportation in the Tokyo Area on March 24 4:30
4:30 March 22
JR (http://www.jreast.co.jp/)
In service
-Tohoku Shinkansen (Tokyo - Nasushiobara) Two trains in an hour
(Morioka - Shinaomori) Since March 23 in service
-Yamagata Shinkansen (Tokkyo - Shinjo) Out of service
-Akita Shinkansen (Morioka - Akita) Five Trains in a day
-Joetsu Shinkansen (Tokyo - Niigata)
-Shinetsu Shinkansen (Tokyo - Nagano)
-Tokaido Line (Tokyo - Atami) 60 - 80%
-Yokosuka Line (Tokyo - Kurihama) 50 - 100%
-Sobu Line (Tokyo - Chiba) 100%
-Chuo Line (Tokyo - Kobuchizawa) 90 - 100%
-Yamanote Line 100%
-Keihin Tohoku Line (Omiya - Ofuna) 100%
-Saikyo Line (Osaki - Kawagoe) 100%
-Kawagoe Line (Omiya - Kawagoe) 100% (18:00 -22:00 50%)
(Kawagoe - Komagawa) 70% Out of service 9:00 - 23:00
-Utsunomiya Line (Ueno - Yaita) 90%
(Yaita - Kuroiso) 90% Out of service 17:30 - 20:45
-Tohoku Honsen (Kuroiso - Koriyama) Out of service
-Takasaki Line (Ueno - Takasaki) 100%
-Joban Line (Ueno - Tsuchiura) 40% - 60%
-Musashino Line (Fuchuhonmachi - Nishifunabashi) 100%
-Nambu Line (Kawasaki - Tachikawa) 50%
-Nambushisen Line (Shitte - Hamakawasaki) 100%
-Yokohama Line (Higashikanagawa - Hachioji) 50%
-Sagami Line (Chigasaki - Samukawa) 50% Out of service 8:50 - 16:30
(Hashimoto - Samukawa) Out of service
-Ito Line (Atami - Ito) 90% Out of sevice 13:30 - 18:00
-Ome Line (Tachikawa - Hijima) 90%
(Haijima - Kwabe) 10 - 100% Out of service 14:00 - 18:00
(Kwabe - Ome) 10 - 100% Out of service 11:00 - 18:00
(Ome - Okutama) 50 - 100% Out of service 11:00 - 20:00
-Itukaichi Line (Haijima - Musashiitsukaichi) 90% Out of service 14:00 - 19:00
-Keiyo Line (Tokyo - Soga) 100%
-Tsurumi Line 100%
-Nikko Line (Utsunomiya - Nikkko) 100%
-Karasuyama Line (Hoshakuji - Karasuyama) Out of service
-Hachiko Line (Hachioji - Komagawa) 80% Out of service 11:00 - 21:00
(Komagawa - Takasaki) Out of service
-Joetsu Line (Takasaki - Minakami) 30%
-Ryomo Line (Shinmaebashi - Isezaki) 20%
(Isezaki - Oyama) Out of service
-Agatsuma Line Out of service
-Shinetsu Line (Takasaki - Annaka) 30%
(Annaka - Yokokawa) Out of service
-Mito Line (Oyama - Tomobe) Out of service
-Mizugori Line Out of service
-Uchibo Line (Chiba - Kisarazu) 50 - 100%
(Kisarazu - Awakamogawa) Out of service 8:00 - 14:00, 16:00 - 21:00
-Sotobo Line (Chiba - Kazusaichinomiya) 100%
(Kazusaichinomiya - Awakamogawa) Out of service 8:00 - 14:00, 16:00 - 21:00
-Sobu Line (Chiba - Choshi) 100%
-Narita Line (Chiba - Naritakuko, Narita - Choshi) 100%
(Narita - Abiko) 50%
-Togane Line (Oami - Naruto) 100%
-Kashima Line (Sagara - Nobukata) Less than usual
(Nobukata - Kashimajingu) Out of service
-Kururi Line (Kisarazu Kazusakameyama) Less than usual Out of service 8:00 - 14:00, 15:00 - 20:00
Tokyo Metro (http://www.tokyometro.jp/index.html)
In service
-All lines Less than usual
Toei Subway (http://www.kotsu.metro.tokyo.jp/index.html)
In service
-All lines 80 - 90%
Odakyu(http://www.odakyu.jp/)
In service
-All lines 70%
Tokyu(http://www.tokyu.co.jp/)
In service
-All lines As usual
Seibu(http://www.seibu-group.co.jp/railways/)
In Service
-All lines Less than usual
Keio(http://www.keio.co.jp/index.html)
In service
-All lines
Keisei(http://www.keisei.co.jp/)
In service
-All lines (including Skyliner)
Tobu(http://www.tobu.co.jp/)
In service
-All lines 70 - 80%
Keikyu(http://www.keikyu.co.jp/index.html)
In Service
-All Lines 65 - 80%
JR (http://www.jreast.co.jp/)
In service
-Tohoku Shinkansen (Tokyo - Nasushiobara) Two trains in an hour
(Morioka - Shinaomori) Since March 23 in service
-Yamagata Shinkansen (Tokkyo - Shinjo) Out of service
-Akita Shinkansen (Morioka - Akita) Five Trains in a day
-Joetsu Shinkansen (Tokyo - Niigata)
-Shinetsu Shinkansen (Tokyo - Nagano)
-Tokaido Line (Tokyo - Atami) 60 - 80%
-Yokosuka Line (Tokyo - Kurihama) 50 - 100%
-Sobu Line (Tokyo - Chiba) 100%
-Chuo Line (Tokyo - Kobuchizawa) 90 - 100%
-Yamanote Line 100%
-Keihin Tohoku Line (Omiya - Ofuna) 100%
-Saikyo Line (Osaki - Kawagoe) 100%
-Kawagoe Line (Omiya - Kawagoe) 100% (18:00 -22:00 50%)
(Kawagoe - Komagawa) 70% Out of service 9:00 - 23:00
-Utsunomiya Line (Ueno - Yaita) 90%
(Yaita - Kuroiso) 90% Out of service 17:30 - 20:45
-Tohoku Honsen (Kuroiso - Koriyama) Out of service
-Takasaki Line (Ueno - Takasaki) 100%
-Joban Line (Ueno - Tsuchiura) 40% - 60%
-Musashino Line (Fuchuhonmachi - Nishifunabashi) 100%
-Nambu Line (Kawasaki - Tachikawa) 50%
-Nambushisen Line (Shitte - Hamakawasaki) 100%
-Yokohama Line (Higashikanagawa - Hachioji) 50%
-Sagami Line (Chigasaki - Samukawa) 50% Out of service 8:50 - 16:30
(Hashimoto - Samukawa) Out of service
-Ito Line (Atami - Ito) 90% Out of sevice 13:30 - 18:00
-Ome Line (Tachikawa - Hijima) 90%
(Haijima - Kwabe) 10 - 100% Out of service 14:00 - 18:00
(Kwabe - Ome) 10 - 100% Out of service 11:00 - 18:00
(Ome - Okutama) 50 - 100% Out of service 11:00 - 20:00
-Itukaichi Line (Haijima - Musashiitsukaichi) 90% Out of service 14:00 - 19:00
-Keiyo Line (Tokyo - Soga) 100%
-Tsurumi Line 100%
-Nikko Line (Utsunomiya - Nikkko) 100%
-Karasuyama Line (Hoshakuji - Karasuyama) Out of service
-Hachiko Line (Hachioji - Komagawa) 80% Out of service 11:00 - 21:00
(Komagawa - Takasaki) Out of service
-Joetsu Line (Takasaki - Minakami) 30%
-Ryomo Line (Shinmaebashi - Isezaki) 20%
(Isezaki - Oyama) Out of service
-Agatsuma Line Out of service
-Shinetsu Line (Takasaki - Annaka) 30%
(Annaka - Yokokawa) Out of service
-Mito Line (Oyama - Tomobe) Out of service
-Mizugori Line Out of service
-Uchibo Line (Chiba - Kisarazu) 50 - 100%
(Kisarazu - Awakamogawa) Out of service 8:00 - 14:00, 16:00 - 21:00
-Sotobo Line (Chiba - Kazusaichinomiya) 100%
(Kazusaichinomiya - Awakamogawa) Out of service 8:00 - 14:00, 16:00 - 21:00
-Sobu Line (Chiba - Choshi) 100%
-Narita Line (Chiba - Naritakuko, Narita - Choshi) 100%
(Narita - Abiko) 50%
-Togane Line (Oami - Naruto) 100%
-Kashima Line (Sagara - Nobukata) Less than usual
(Nobukata - Kashimajingu) Out of service
-Kururi Line (Kisarazu Kazusakameyama) Less than usual Out of service 8:00 - 14:00, 15:00 - 20:00
Tokyo Metro (http://www.tokyometro.jp/index.html)
In service
-All lines Less than usual
Toei Subway (http://www.kotsu.metro.tokyo.jp/index.html)
In service
-All lines 80 - 90%
Odakyu(http://www.odakyu.jp/)
In service
-All lines 70%
Tokyu(http://www.tokyu.co.jp/)
In service
-All lines As usual
Seibu(http://www.seibu-group.co.jp/railways/)
In Service
-All lines Less than usual
Keio(http://www.keio.co.jp/index.html)
In service
-All lines
Keisei(http://www.keisei.co.jp/)
In service
-All lines (including Skyliner)
Tobu(http://www.tobu.co.jp/)
In service
-All lines 70 - 80%
Keikyu(http://www.keikyu.co.jp/index.html)
In Service
-All Lines 65 - 80%
Mar 21, 2011
The Information of Public Transportation in the Tokyo Area on March 21 7:00
7:00 March 21
JR (http://www.jreast.co.jp/)
In service
-Joetsu Shinkansen (Tokyo - Niigata)
-Shinetsu Shinkansen (Tokyo - Nagano)
-Tohoku Shinkansen (Tokyo - Nasushiobara) Two trains in an hour
-Akita Shinkansen (Morioka - Akita) Four Trains in a day
-Yamagata Shinkansen (Tokkyo - Shinjo) Out of service
-Tokaido Line (Tokyo - Atami) 60 - 90%
-Yokosuka Line (Tokyo - Kurihama) 50 - 100%
-Sobu Line (Tokyo - Chiba) 100%
-Chuo Line (Tokyo - Kobuchizawa) 90 - 100%
-Yamanote Line 100%
-Keihin Tohoku Line (Omiya - Ofuna) 100%
-Saikyo Line (Osaki - Kawagoe) 100%
-Kawagoe Line (Omiya - Komagawa) 70 - 100%
-Utsunomiya Line (Ueno - Kuroiso) 100%
-Tohoku Honsen (Kuroiso - Koriyama) Out of service
-Takasaki Line (Ueno - Takasaki) 100%
-Joban Line (Ueno - Tsuchiura) 40% - 50%
-Musashino Line (Fuchuhonmachi - Nishifunabashi) 100%
-Nambu Line (Kawasaki - Tachikawa) 90%
-Nambushisen Line (Shitte - Hamakawasaki) 100%
-Yokohama Line (Higashikanagawa - Hachioji) 100%
-Sagami Line (Chigasaki - Samukawa) 50% Out of service 14:50 - 19:30
(Hashimoto - Samukawa) Out of service
-Ito Line (Atami - Ito) 90%
-Ome Line (Tachikawa - Hijima) 90%
(Haijima - Kwabe) 80% Out of service 16:40 - 21:00
(Kwabe - Ome) 90% Out of service 14:00 - 21:00
(Ome - Okutama) 90% Out of service 14:00 - 22:00
-Itukaichi Line (Haijima - Musashiitsukaichi) 100% Out of service 17:00 -22:00
-Keiyo Line (Tokyo - Soga) 100%
-Tsurumi Line 100%
-Nikko Line (Utsunomiya - Nikkko) 100%
-Karasuyama Line (Hoshakuji - Karasuyama) Out of service
-Hachiko Line (Hachioji - Komagawa) 90% Out of service 14:00 -
(Komagawa - Takasaki) Out of service
-Joetsu Line (Takasaki - Minakami) 30%
-Ryomo Line (Shinmaebashi - Isezaki) 20%
(Isezaki - Oyama) Out of service
-Agatsuma Line Out of service
-Shinetsu Line (Takasaki - Annaka) 30%
(Annaka - Yokokawa) Out of service
-Mito Line (Oyama - Tomobe) Out of service
-Mizugori Line Out of service
-Uchibo Line (Chiba - Awakamogawa) 100%
-Sotobo Line (Chiba - Awakamogawa) 100%
-Sobu Line (Chiba - Choshi) 100%
-Narita Line (Chiba - Naritakuko, Narita - Choshi) 100%
(Narita - Abiko) 50%
-Kashima Line (Sagara - Nobukata) Less than usual
(Nobukata - Kashimajingu) Out of service
-Togane Line (Oami - Naruto) 100%
-Kururi Line (Kisarazu Kazusakameyama) Less than usual Out of service 11:00 - 17:00
Tokyo Metro (http://www.tokyometro.jp/index.html)
In service
-All Lines 80 -100%
Toei Subway (http://www.kotsu.metro.tokyo.jp/index.html)
In service
-All Lines 80 - 90%
Odakyu(http://www.odakyu.jp/)
Out of service
-Hatano - Odawara 17:30 -
Tokyu(http://www.tokyu.co.jp/)
In service
-Oimachi Line (Oimachi - Futakotamagawa)
-Other lines 70 - 80%
Seibu(http://www.seibu-group.co.jp/railways/)
In Service
-Ikebukuro line (Ikebukuro - Agano) - 14:30
(Ikebukuro - Hanno) 14:30 -17:30
(Ikebukuro - Kotesashi) 17:30 -19:30
(Ikebukuro - Agano) 19:30 -
-Chichibu line (Agano - Seibuchichibu) - 14:30, 19:30 -
-The other lines All day
Keio(http://www.keio.co.jp/index.html)
In service
-All lines
Keisei(http://www.keisei.co.jp/)
In service
-All lines (including Skyliner)
Tobu(http://www.tobu.co.jp/)
Out of service
-Kinugawa line 17:30 -22:30
In service
-The other lines 70 -80%
Keikyu(http://www.keikyu.co.jp/index.html)
In Service
-All Lines 100%
JR (http://www.jreast.co.jp/)
In service
-Joetsu Shinkansen (Tokyo - Niigata)
-Shinetsu Shinkansen (Tokyo - Nagano)
-Tohoku Shinkansen (Tokyo - Nasushiobara) Two trains in an hour
-Akita Shinkansen (Morioka - Akita) Four Trains in a day
-Yamagata Shinkansen (Tokkyo - Shinjo) Out of service
-Tokaido Line (Tokyo - Atami) 60 - 90%
-Yokosuka Line (Tokyo - Kurihama) 50 - 100%
-Sobu Line (Tokyo - Chiba) 100%
-Chuo Line (Tokyo - Kobuchizawa) 90 - 100%
-Yamanote Line 100%
-Keihin Tohoku Line (Omiya - Ofuna) 100%
-Saikyo Line (Osaki - Kawagoe) 100%
-Kawagoe Line (Omiya - Komagawa) 70 - 100%
-Utsunomiya Line (Ueno - Kuroiso) 100%
-Tohoku Honsen (Kuroiso - Koriyama) Out of service
-Takasaki Line (Ueno - Takasaki) 100%
-Joban Line (Ueno - Tsuchiura) 40% - 50%
-Musashino Line (Fuchuhonmachi - Nishifunabashi) 100%
-Nambu Line (Kawasaki - Tachikawa) 90%
-Nambushisen Line (Shitte - Hamakawasaki) 100%
-Yokohama Line (Higashikanagawa - Hachioji) 100%
-Sagami Line (Chigasaki - Samukawa) 50% Out of service 14:50 - 19:30
(Hashimoto - Samukawa) Out of service
-Ito Line (Atami - Ito) 90%
-Ome Line (Tachikawa - Hijima) 90%
(Haijima - Kwabe) 80% Out of service 16:40 - 21:00
(Kwabe - Ome) 90% Out of service 14:00 - 21:00
(Ome - Okutama) 90% Out of service 14:00 - 22:00
-Itukaichi Line (Haijima - Musashiitsukaichi) 100% Out of service 17:00 -22:00
-Keiyo Line (Tokyo - Soga) 100%
-Tsurumi Line 100%
-Nikko Line (Utsunomiya - Nikkko) 100%
-Karasuyama Line (Hoshakuji - Karasuyama) Out of service
-Hachiko Line (Hachioji - Komagawa) 90% Out of service 14:00 -
(Komagawa - Takasaki) Out of service
-Joetsu Line (Takasaki - Minakami) 30%
-Ryomo Line (Shinmaebashi - Isezaki) 20%
(Isezaki - Oyama) Out of service
-Agatsuma Line Out of service
-Shinetsu Line (Takasaki - Annaka) 30%
(Annaka - Yokokawa) Out of service
-Mito Line (Oyama - Tomobe) Out of service
-Mizugori Line Out of service
-Uchibo Line (Chiba - Awakamogawa) 100%
-Sotobo Line (Chiba - Awakamogawa) 100%
-Sobu Line (Chiba - Choshi) 100%
-Narita Line (Chiba - Naritakuko, Narita - Choshi) 100%
(Narita - Abiko) 50%
-Kashima Line (Sagara - Nobukata) Less than usual
(Nobukata - Kashimajingu) Out of service
-Togane Line (Oami - Naruto) 100%
-Kururi Line (Kisarazu Kazusakameyama) Less than usual Out of service 11:00 - 17:00
Tokyo Metro (http://www.tokyometro.jp/index.html)
In service
-All Lines 80 -100%
Toei Subway (http://www.kotsu.metro.tokyo.jp/index.html)
In service
-All Lines 80 - 90%
Odakyu(http://www.odakyu.jp/)
Out of service
-Hatano - Odawara 17:30 -
Tokyu(http://www.tokyu.co.jp/)
In service
-Oimachi Line (Oimachi - Futakotamagawa)
-Other lines 70 - 80%
Seibu(http://www.seibu-group.co.jp/railways/)
In Service
-Ikebukuro line (Ikebukuro - Agano) - 14:30
(Ikebukuro - Hanno) 14:30 -17:30
(Ikebukuro - Kotesashi) 17:30 -19:30
(Ikebukuro - Agano) 19:30 -
-Chichibu line (Agano - Seibuchichibu) - 14:30, 19:30 -
-The other lines All day
Keio(http://www.keio.co.jp/index.html)
In service
-All lines
Keisei(http://www.keisei.co.jp/)
In service
-All lines (including Skyliner)
Tobu(http://www.tobu.co.jp/)
Out of service
-Kinugawa line 17:30 -22:30
In service
-The other lines 70 -80%
Keikyu(http://www.keikyu.co.jp/index.html)
In Service
-All Lines 100%
Mar 20, 2011
The Information of Public Transportation in the Tokyo Area on March 20 5:00
5:00 March 20
JR (http://www.jreast.co.jp/)
In service
-Joetsu Shinkansen (Tokyo - Niigata)
-Shinetsu Shinkansen (Tokyo - Nagano)
-Tohoku Shinkansen (Tokyo - Nasushiobara) Two trains in an hour
-Akita Shinkansen (Morioka - Akita) Four Trains in a day
-Tokaido Line (Tokyo - Atami) 100%
-Yokosuka Line (Tokyo - Kurihama) 100%
-Sobu Line (Tokyo - Chiba) 100%
-Chuo Line (Tokyo - Kobuchizawa) 90 - 100%
-Yamanote Line 100%
-Keihin Tohoku Line (Omiya - Ofuna) 100%
-Saikyo Line (Osaki - Kawagoe) 100%
-Kawagoe Line (Omiya - Komagawa) 100%
-Utsunomiya Line (Ueno - Kuroiso) 100%
-Tohoku Honsen (Kuroiso - Koriyama) Out of service
-Takasaki Line (Ueno - Takasaki) 100%
-Joban Line (Ueno - Tsuchiura) 40% - 50%
-Musashino Line (Fuchuhonmachi - Nishifunabashi) 100%
-Nambu Line (Kawasaki - Tachikawa) 90%
-Nambushisen Line (Shitte - Hamakawasaki) 100%
-Yokohama Line (Higashikanagawa - Hachioji) 100%
-Sagami Line (Chigasaki - Hashimoto) Out of service
-Ome Line (Tachikawa - Okutama) 90%
-Itukaichi Line (Haijima - Musashiitsukaichi) 90%
-Keiyo Line (Tokyo - Soga) 100%
-Tsurumi Line 100%
-Nikko Line (Utsunomiya - Nikkko) 100%
-Karasuyama Line (Hoshakuji - Karasuyama) Out of service
-Hachiko Line (Hachioji - Komagawa) 80%
(Komagawa - Takasaki) Out of service
-Joetsu Line (Takasaki - Minakami) 30%
-Ryomo Line Out of service
-Agatsuma Line Out of service
-Shinetsu Line (Takasaki - Annaka) 30%
(Annaka - Yokokawa) Out of service
-Mito Line (Oyama - Tomobe) Out of service
-Mizugori Line Out of service
-Uchibo Line (Chiba - Awakamogawa) 100%
-Sotobo Line (Chiba - Awakamogawa) 100%
-Sobu Line (Chiba - Choshi) 100%
-Narita Line (Chiba - Naritakuko, Narita - Choshi) 100%
(Narita - Abiko) Less than usual
-Kashima Line (Sagara - Nobukata) Less than usual
(Nobukata - Kashimajingu) Out of service
-Togane Line (Oami - Naruto) 100%
-Kururi Line (Kisarazu Kazusakameyama) Half as usual
Tokyo Metro (http://www.tokyometro.jp/index.html)
In service
-All Lines 80 -100%
Toei Subway (http://www.kotsu.metro.tokyo.jp/index.html)
In service
-All Lines 80 - 90%
Odakyu(http://www.odakyu.jp/)
In service
-All Lines
Tokyu(http://www.tokyu.co.jp/)
In service
-Oimachi Line (Oimachi - Futakotamagawa)
-Other lines 70 - 80%
Seibu(http://www.seibu-group.co.jp/railways/)
In Service
-All lines
Keio(http://www.keio.co.jp/index.html)
In service
-All lines
Keisei(http://www.keisei.co.jp/)
In service
-All lines (including Skyliner)
Tobu(http://www.tobu.co.jp/)
In service
-All lines 70 -80%
Keikyu(http://www.keikyu.co.jp/index.html)
In Service
-All Lines 100%
JR (http://www.jreast.co.jp/)
In service
-Joetsu Shinkansen (Tokyo - Niigata)
-Shinetsu Shinkansen (Tokyo - Nagano)
-Tohoku Shinkansen (Tokyo - Nasushiobara) Two trains in an hour
-Akita Shinkansen (Morioka - Akita) Four Trains in a day
-Tokaido Line (Tokyo - Atami) 100%
-Yokosuka Line (Tokyo - Kurihama) 100%
-Sobu Line (Tokyo - Chiba) 100%
-Chuo Line (Tokyo - Kobuchizawa) 90 - 100%
-Yamanote Line 100%
-Keihin Tohoku Line (Omiya - Ofuna) 100%
-Saikyo Line (Osaki - Kawagoe) 100%
-Kawagoe Line (Omiya - Komagawa) 100%
-Utsunomiya Line (Ueno - Kuroiso) 100%
-Tohoku Honsen (Kuroiso - Koriyama) Out of service
-Takasaki Line (Ueno - Takasaki) 100%
-Joban Line (Ueno - Tsuchiura) 40% - 50%
-Musashino Line (Fuchuhonmachi - Nishifunabashi) 100%
-Nambu Line (Kawasaki - Tachikawa) 90%
-Nambushisen Line (Shitte - Hamakawasaki) 100%
-Yokohama Line (Higashikanagawa - Hachioji) 100%
-Sagami Line (Chigasaki - Hashimoto) Out of service
-Ome Line (Tachikawa - Okutama) 90%
-Itukaichi Line (Haijima - Musashiitsukaichi) 90%
-Keiyo Line (Tokyo - Soga) 100%
-Tsurumi Line 100%
-Nikko Line (Utsunomiya - Nikkko) 100%
-Karasuyama Line (Hoshakuji - Karasuyama) Out of service
-Hachiko Line (Hachioji - Komagawa) 80%
(Komagawa - Takasaki) Out of service
-Joetsu Line (Takasaki - Minakami) 30%
-Ryomo Line Out of service
-Agatsuma Line Out of service
-Shinetsu Line (Takasaki - Annaka) 30%
(Annaka - Yokokawa) Out of service
-Mito Line (Oyama - Tomobe) Out of service
-Mizugori Line Out of service
-Uchibo Line (Chiba - Awakamogawa) 100%
-Sotobo Line (Chiba - Awakamogawa) 100%
-Sobu Line (Chiba - Choshi) 100%
-Narita Line (Chiba - Naritakuko, Narita - Choshi) 100%
(Narita - Abiko) Less than usual
-Kashima Line (Sagara - Nobukata) Less than usual
(Nobukata - Kashimajingu) Out of service
-Togane Line (Oami - Naruto) 100%
-Kururi Line (Kisarazu Kazusakameyama) Half as usual
Tokyo Metro (http://www.tokyometro.jp/index.html)
In service
-All Lines 80 -100%
Toei Subway (http://www.kotsu.metro.tokyo.jp/index.html)
In service
-All Lines 80 - 90%
Odakyu(http://www.odakyu.jp/)
In service
-All Lines
Tokyu(http://www.tokyu.co.jp/)
In service
-Oimachi Line (Oimachi - Futakotamagawa)
-Other lines 70 - 80%
Seibu(http://www.seibu-group.co.jp/railways/)
In Service
-All lines
Keio(http://www.keio.co.jp/index.html)
In service
-All lines
Keisei(http://www.keisei.co.jp/)
In service
-All lines (including Skyliner)
Tobu(http://www.tobu.co.jp/)
In service
-All lines 70 -80%
Keikyu(http://www.keikyu.co.jp/index.html)
In Service
-All Lines 100%
Mar 19, 2011
A Daily Life in Uptown Tokyo
In the morning my wife and I went to golf school as we usually do on a Saturday. We met our coach for the first time since the earthquake. He was safe.
After we got back home, we took a nap on the floor heating like two cats. I found myself tired because I had worked hard this week.
We went to our favorite Sushi restaurant for dinner. This restaurant closes at 6:00 pm, so we arrived there at 5:00 pm. It was empty and the two of us were the only customers.
We drunk draft beer first. I felt really refreshed.
We ate Awabi and Hokkigai, which are caught off the coast of Sanriku. The chef said that these were the last Awabi and Hokkigai because the earthquake hit the coast of Sanriku. I should remember the taste of these Awabi and Hokkigai.
After we got back home, I read the New York Times on the Internet.
The New York Times is more reliable than the Japanese press after all. Japanese press just covers the information from Japanese government and Tokyo Electric Company, but the New York Times collects materials from broad sources and analyses these materials.
I've been calm today. Tomorrow we will go to see my wife's mother.
After we got back home, we took a nap on the floor heating like two cats. I found myself tired because I had worked hard this week.
We went to our favorite Sushi restaurant for dinner. This restaurant closes at 6:00 pm, so we arrived there at 5:00 pm. It was empty and the two of us were the only customers.
We drunk draft beer first. I felt really refreshed.
We ate Awabi and Hokkigai, which are caught off the coast of Sanriku. The chef said that these were the last Awabi and Hokkigai because the earthquake hit the coast of Sanriku. I should remember the taste of these Awabi and Hokkigai.
After we got back home, I read the New York Times on the Internet.
The New York Times is more reliable than the Japanese press after all. Japanese press just covers the information from Japanese government and Tokyo Electric Company, but the New York Times collects materials from broad sources and analyses these materials.
I've been calm today. Tomorrow we will go to see my wife's mother.
The Information of Public Transportation in the Tokyo Area on March 19 6:00
6:00 March 19
JR (http://www.jreast.co.jp/)
In service
-Joetsu Shinkansen (Tokyo - Niigata)
-Shinetsu Shinkansen (Tokyo - Nagano)
-Tohoku Shinkansen (Tokyo - Nasushiobara) Two trains in an hour
-Akita Shinkansen (Morioka - Akita) Four Trains in a day
-Tokaido Line (Tokyo - Hiratsuka) 90%
(Hiratsuka - Atami) 60%
-Yokosuka Line (Tokyo - Zushi) 100%
(Zushi - Kurihama) 50%
-Sobu Line (Tokyo - Chiba) 90%
-Keiyo Line (Tokyo - Soga) 80%
-Chuo Line (Tokyo - Kobuchizawa) 80 - 90%
-Yamanote Line 100% 100%
-Keihin Tohoku Line (Omiya - Ofuna) 100%
-Takasaki Line (Ueno - Takasaki) 100%
-Nambushisen Tsurumi Line 100%
-Saikyo Kawagoe Line (Osaki - Kawagoe) 100%
-Kawagoe Line (Kawagoe - Komagawa) Out of service 6:20 - 10:00, 12:20 - 22:00
-Utsunomiya Line (Ueno - Kuroiso) 100%
(Utsunomiya - Kuroiso) Out of service 17:30 -22:00
-Joban Line (Ueno - Tsuchiura) 40%
-Musashino Line (Fuchuhonmachi - Nishifunabashi) 70%
-Nambu Line (Kawasaki - Tachikawa) 50%
-Yokohama Line (Higashikanagawa - Hachioji) 50%
-Ome Line (Tachikawa - Okutama) 100%
(Haijima - Kawabe) 20 - 50% Out of service 6:00 - 8:00, 19:30 -20:30
(Kawabe - Ome) Out of service 5:00 -19:30 (Ome - Okutama) Out of service 5:00 -22:00
-Itukaichi Line 70 - 100% Out of sevice 8:00 -13:00, 15:30 - 20:30
-Hachiko Line (Hachioji - Haijima) Out of service 5:00 -
-Ito Line (Atami - Ito) 90% Out of service 14:00 -20:00
-Nikko Line (Utsunomiya - Nikkko) Out of service 8:30 -13:30, 15:30 -21:00
-Joetsu Line (Takasaki - Shinmaebashi) 30%
-Shinetsu Line (Takasaki - Annaka) 30%
-Uchibo Line (Chiba - Awakamogawa) 50%
(Kisarazu - Awakamogaawa) Out of service 17:00 -
-Sotobo Line (Chiba - Awakamogawa) 50%
(Kazusaichinomiya - Awakamogawa) Out of service 17:00 -
-Sobu Line (Chiba - Choshi) 50%
-Narita Line (Chiba - Naritakuko, Narita - Choshi) 50%
(Narita - Abiko) Out of service - 10:00, 13:00 - 18:00
-Kashima Line (Sagara - Nobukata) 50%
-Togane Line (Oami - Naruto) In service, less trains than usual
-Kururi Line (Kisarazu Kazusakameyama) In service, much less trains than usual
Tokyo Metro (http://www.tokyometro.jp/index.html)
In service
-All Lines 80 -100%
Toei Subway (http://www.kotsu.metro.tokyo.jp/index.html)
In service
-All Lines 80 - 90%
Odakyu(http://www.odakyu.jp/)
In service
-All Lines
Tokyu(http://www.tokyu.co.jp/)
In service
-Oimachi Line (Oimachi - Futakotamagawa)
-Other lines 70 - 80%
Seibu(http://www.seibu-group.co.jp/railways/)
In Service
-Ikebukuro Line (Ikebukuro - Agano) - 8:30
(Ikebukuro - Hano) 8:30 - 11:30
(Ikebukuro - Kotesashi) 11:30 - 13:30
(Ikebukuro - Hano) 13:30 - 21:00
(Ikebukuro - Agano) 21:00 -
-Seibu Chichibu Line(Agano - Seibuchichibu) -5:30, 21:00-
-Shinzyuku Line (Seibu Shinzyuku - Kawagoeshi) - 5:30
(Seibu Shinzyuku - Shintokorozawa) 5:30 - 10:30
(Seibu Shinzyuku - Kawagoeshi) 10:30 - 13:00
(Seibu Shinzyuku - Shintokorozawa) 13:00 - 18:00
(Seibu Shinzyuku - Kawagoeshi) 18:00 -
-Toshima Line (Nerima - Toshimaen)
-Sayama Line (Nishitokorozawa - Seibukyujomae)
-Seibuen Line
-Yamaguchi Line
-Kokubunji Line
-Haijima Line (Kodaira - Haijima)
-Tamako Line
-Tamagawa Line
Keio(http://www.keio.co.jp/index.html)
In service
-All Lines
Keisei(http://www.keisei.co.jp/)
In service
-All Lines (including Skyliner)
Tobu(http://www.tobu.co.jp/)
In service
All day
-Isezaki Line (Asakusa - Isezaki) 50% - 70%
-Nikko Line (Tobudobutsukoen - Minamikurihashi) 50% - 70%
-Noda Line (Omiya - Funabashi) 50% - 70%
-Kameido Line 50% - 70%
-Daishi Line 50% - 70%
-Sano Line 50% - 70%
-Kiryu Line 50% - 70%
-Koizumi Line 50% - 70%
-Utsunomiya Line 50% - 70%
-Kinugawa Line 50% - 70%
-Tojo Line 50%
-Koshigaya Line - 8:30, 12:40 - 14:10, 19:00 - 20 - 50%
Keikyu(http://www.keikyu.co.jp/index.html)
In Service
-All Lines 65% - 80%
JR (http://www.jreast.co.jp/)
In service
-Joetsu Shinkansen (Tokyo - Niigata)
-Shinetsu Shinkansen (Tokyo - Nagano)
-Tohoku Shinkansen (Tokyo - Nasushiobara) Two trains in an hour
-Akita Shinkansen (Morioka - Akita) Four Trains in a day
-Tokaido Line (Tokyo - Hiratsuka) 90%
(Hiratsuka - Atami) 60%
-Yokosuka Line (Tokyo - Zushi) 100%
(Zushi - Kurihama) 50%
-Sobu Line (Tokyo - Chiba) 90%
-Keiyo Line (Tokyo - Soga) 80%
-Chuo Line (Tokyo - Kobuchizawa) 80 - 90%
-Yamanote Line 100% 100%
-Keihin Tohoku Line (Omiya - Ofuna) 100%
-Takasaki Line (Ueno - Takasaki) 100%
-Nambushisen Tsurumi Line 100%
-Saikyo Kawagoe Line (Osaki - Kawagoe) 100%
-Kawagoe Line (Kawagoe - Komagawa) Out of service 6:20 - 10:00, 12:20 - 22:00
-Utsunomiya Line (Ueno - Kuroiso) 100%
(Utsunomiya - Kuroiso) Out of service 17:30 -22:00
-Joban Line (Ueno - Tsuchiura) 40%
-Musashino Line (Fuchuhonmachi - Nishifunabashi) 70%
-Nambu Line (Kawasaki - Tachikawa) 50%
-Yokohama Line (Higashikanagawa - Hachioji) 50%
-Ome Line (Tachikawa - Okutama) 100%
(Haijima - Kawabe) 20 - 50% Out of service 6:00 - 8:00, 19:30 -20:30
(Kawabe - Ome) Out of service 5:00 -19:30 (Ome - Okutama) Out of service 5:00 -22:00
-Itukaichi Line 70 - 100% Out of sevice 8:00 -13:00, 15:30 - 20:30
-Hachiko Line (Hachioji - Haijima) Out of service 5:00 -
-Ito Line (Atami - Ito) 90% Out of service 14:00 -20:00
-Nikko Line (Utsunomiya - Nikkko) Out of service 8:30 -13:30, 15:30 -21:00
-Joetsu Line (Takasaki - Shinmaebashi) 30%
-Shinetsu Line (Takasaki - Annaka) 30%
-Uchibo Line (Chiba - Awakamogawa) 50%
(Kisarazu - Awakamogaawa) Out of service 17:00 -
-Sotobo Line (Chiba - Awakamogawa) 50%
(Kazusaichinomiya - Awakamogawa) Out of service 17:00 -
-Sobu Line (Chiba - Choshi) 50%
-Narita Line (Chiba - Naritakuko, Narita - Choshi) 50%
(Narita - Abiko) Out of service - 10:00, 13:00 - 18:00
-Kashima Line (Sagara - Nobukata) 50%
-Togane Line (Oami - Naruto) In service, less trains than usual
-Kururi Line (Kisarazu Kazusakameyama) In service, much less trains than usual
Tokyo Metro (http://www.tokyometro.jp/index.html)
In service
-All Lines 80 -100%
Toei Subway (http://www.kotsu.metro.tokyo.jp/index.html)
In service
-All Lines 80 - 90%
Odakyu(http://www.odakyu.jp/)
In service
-All Lines
Tokyu(http://www.tokyu.co.jp/)
In service
-Oimachi Line (Oimachi - Futakotamagawa)
-Other lines 70 - 80%
Seibu(http://www.seibu-group.co.jp/railways/)
In Service
-Ikebukuro Line (Ikebukuro - Agano) - 8:30
(Ikebukuro - Hano) 8:30 - 11:30
(Ikebukuro - Kotesashi) 11:30 - 13:30
(Ikebukuro - Hano) 13:30 - 21:00
(Ikebukuro - Agano) 21:00 -
-Seibu Chichibu Line(Agano - Seibuchichibu) -5:30, 21:00-
-Shinzyuku Line (Seibu Shinzyuku - Kawagoeshi) - 5:30
(Seibu Shinzyuku - Shintokorozawa) 5:30 - 10:30
(Seibu Shinzyuku - Kawagoeshi) 10:30 - 13:00
(Seibu Shinzyuku - Shintokorozawa) 13:00 - 18:00
(Seibu Shinzyuku - Kawagoeshi) 18:00 -
-Toshima Line (Nerima - Toshimaen)
-Sayama Line (Nishitokorozawa - Seibukyujomae)
-Seibuen Line
-Yamaguchi Line
-Kokubunji Line
-Haijima Line (Kodaira - Haijima)
-Tamako Line
-Tamagawa Line
Keio(http://www.keio.co.jp/index.html)
In service
-All Lines
Keisei(http://www.keisei.co.jp/)
In service
-All Lines (including Skyliner)
Tobu(http://www.tobu.co.jp/)
In service
All day
-Isezaki Line (Asakusa - Isezaki) 50% - 70%
-Nikko Line (Tobudobutsukoen - Minamikurihashi) 50% - 70%
-Noda Line (Omiya - Funabashi) 50% - 70%
-Kameido Line 50% - 70%
-Daishi Line 50% - 70%
-Sano Line 50% - 70%
-Kiryu Line 50% - 70%
-Koizumi Line 50% - 70%
-Utsunomiya Line 50% - 70%
-Kinugawa Line 50% - 70%
-Tojo Line 50%
-Koshigaya Line - 8:30, 12:40 - 14:10, 19:00 - 20 - 50%
Keikyu(http://www.keikyu.co.jp/index.html)
In Service
-All Lines 65% - 80%
Mar 18, 2011
The Information of Public Transportation in the Tokyo Area on March 18 7:00
7:00 March 18
JR (http://www.jreast.co.jp/)
In service
-Joetsu Shinkansen (Tokyo - Niigata)
-Shinetsu Shinkansen (Tokyo - Nagano)
-Tohoku Shinkansen (Tokyo - Nasushiobara) Two trains in an hour
-Akita Shinkansen (Morioka - Akita) Four Trains in a day
-Tokaido Line (Tokyo - Hiratsuka) 80%
(Hiratsuka - Atami) 60%
-Yokosuka Line (Tokyo - Zushi) 100%
(Zushi - Kurihama) 50%
-Sobu Line (Tokyo - Chiba) 70%
-Chuo Line (Tokyo - Kobuchizawa) 90
-Yamanote Line 100%
-Keihin Tohoku Line (Omiya - Ofuna) 100%
-Saikyo Line (Osaki - Omiya) 100%
-Kawagoe Line (Omiya - Kawagoe) 100% 11:00 - 17:00 50%
-Utsunomiya Line (Ueno - Kuroiso) 100%
(Utsunomiya - Kuroiso) Out of service 18:00 -22:00
-Takasaki Line (Ueno - Takasaki) 70%
-Joban Line (Ueno - Toride) 40 - 80%
-Musashino Line (Fuchuhonmachi - Nishifunabashi) 50%
-Nambu Line (Kawasaki - Tachikawa) 50%
-Yokohama Line (Higashikanagawa - Hachioji) 50%
-Tsurumi Line 100%
-Ome Line (Tachikawa - Haijima) 100%
(Haijima - Kawabe) 90% 9:00 - 12:00, 15:00 -20:30 20%
(Kawabe - Ome) 90% Out of service 9:00 -20:30
(Ome - Okutama) 90% Out of service 9:00 -21:30
-Itukaichi Line 100% Out of sevice 12:00 -16:00
-Hachiko Line (Hachioji - Haijima) 80% Out of service 9:00 - 22:30
-Nikko Line (Utsunomiya - Nikkko) 100% Out of service 11:30 -16:30
-Karasuyama Line (Hosyakuji - Karasuyama) 100% Out of service 18:00 -
-Joetsu Line (Takasaki - Shinmaebashi) 30%
-Shinetsu Line (Takasaki - Annaka) 30%
-Keiyo Line (Tokyo - Soga) 70%
-Uchibo Line (Chiba - Kisarazu) One train in an hour 9:00 - 21:00
(Kisarazu - Awakamogaawa) In service 10:00 - 13:00, 18:00-
-Sotobo Line (Chiba - Awakamogawa) In service less than One train in an hour 10:00 - 13:00, 18:00-
-Sobu Line (Chiba - Choshi)
(Sakura - Choshi) Less trains than usual, out of service 11:00 - 17:00
-Togane Line (Oami - Naruto) Out of service -18:00
-Narita Line (Chiba - Naritakuko) Less trains than usual
(Narita - Abiko) Less trains than usual, out of service 8:00 - 21:00
(Narita - Choshi) Less trains than usual
-Kururi Line (Kisarazu Kazusakameyama) In service, less trains than usual 18:00-
-Kashima Line (Sagara - Nobukata) Less trains than usual
Tokyo Metro (http://www.tokyometro.jp/index.html)
In service
-All Lines 80 -100%
Toei Subway (http://www.kotsu.metro.tokyo.jp/index.html)
In service
-All Lines 80 - 90%
Odakyu(http://www.odakyu.jp/)
In service
-Shinjuku - Odawara
-Shinyurigaoka - Karakida
-Sagamiono - Chogo
Out of service
-Motoatsugi - Hatano 17:30 - 22:30
-Hatano -Shinmatsuda 11:30 -16:30, 17:30 -22:30
-Shimatsuda - Odawara 11:30 - 16:30
-Chogo - Kataseenoshima -10:30, 13:00-18:00
Tokyu(http://www.tokyu.co.jp/)
Out of service
-Denentoshi Line Nagatsuda - Choorinkan
In service
-Other lines 70 - 80%
Seibu(http://www.seibu-group.co.jp/railways/)
In Service
-Ikebukuro Line (Ikebukuro - Agano) - 8:30
(Ikebukuro - Hano) 8:30 - 11:30
(Ikebukuro - Kotesashi) 11:30 - 13:30
(Ikebukuro - Hano) 13:30 - 21:00
(Ikebukuro - Agano) 21:00 -
-Seibu Chichibu Line(Agano - Seibuchichibu) 21:00-
-Toshima Line (Nerima - Toshimaen)
-Sayama Line (Nishitokorozawa - Seibukyujomae)
-Shinzyuku Line (Seibu Shinzyuku - Shintokorozawa) - 10:30
(Seibu Shinzyuku - Kawagoeshi) 10:30 - 13:00
(Seibu Shinzyuku - Shintokorozawa) 13:00 - 18:00
(Seibu Shinzyuku - Kawagoeshi) 18:00 -
-Seibuen Line
-Yamaguchi Line
-Kokubunji Line
-Haijima Line (Kodaira - Haijima)
-Tamako Line
-Tamagawa Line
Keio(http://www.keio.co.jp/index.html)
In service
-All Lines
Keisei(http://www.keisei.co.jp/)
In service
-All Lines (including Skyliner)
Tobu(http://www.tobu.co.jp/)
In service
All day
-Isezaki Line (Asakusa - Kuki) 50%
(Kuki - Tatebayashi) - 7:50, 20:50 - 50%
(Tatebayashi - Ota) - 11:10, 20:00 50%
(Ota - Isezaki) 19:50- 50%
-Nikko Line (Tobudobutsukoen - Minamikurihashi) 50%
(Minamikurihashi - Shintochigi) - 7:00, 21:10 - 50%
(Shintochigi - Tobunikko) - 7:00, 21:20 - 50%
-Tojo Line (Ikebukuro - Kawagoeshi) 50%
(Kawagoeshi - Yorii) - 14:20, 19:00 30%
-Noda Line (Omiya - Kasukabe) 50%
(Kasukabe - Nanakodai) 11:00 - 13:00, 18:30 - 50%
(Nanakodai - Unga) 10:50 - 13:10, 18:30 - 50%
(Unga - Kashiwa) - 17:20, 22:40 - 50%
(Kashiwa - Mutsumi) - 13:50, 22:50 - 50%
(Mutsumi - Funabashi) - 14:00, 19:30 - 50%
-Kameido Line 50%
-Daishi Line 50%
-Utsunomiya Line -7:40, 13:30 - 15:10, 22:20- 50%
-Kinugawa Line - 10:00, Last Train
-Sano Line - 14:10, 19:50 -
-Koizumi Line(Tatebayashi - Nishikoizumi) - 11:10, 20:00 - 50%
(Ota - Higashikoizumi) 20:30- 50%
-Kiryu Line 20:00 - 50%
-Koshigaya Line - 8:30, 12:40 - 14:10, 19:00 - 20 - 50%
Keikyu(http://www.keikyu.co.jp/index.html)
In Service
-All Lines 80%
JR (http://www.jreast.co.jp/)
In service
-Joetsu Shinkansen (Tokyo - Niigata)
-Shinetsu Shinkansen (Tokyo - Nagano)
-Tohoku Shinkansen (Tokyo - Nasushiobara) Two trains in an hour
-Akita Shinkansen (Morioka - Akita) Four Trains in a day
-Tokaido Line (Tokyo - Hiratsuka) 80%
(Hiratsuka - Atami) 60%
-Yokosuka Line (Tokyo - Zushi) 100%
(Zushi - Kurihama) 50%
-Sobu Line (Tokyo - Chiba) 70%
-Chuo Line (Tokyo - Kobuchizawa) 90
-Yamanote Line 100%
-Keihin Tohoku Line (Omiya - Ofuna) 100%
-Saikyo Line (Osaki - Omiya) 100%
-Kawagoe Line (Omiya - Kawagoe) 100% 11:00 - 17:00 50%
-Utsunomiya Line (Ueno - Kuroiso) 100%
(Utsunomiya - Kuroiso) Out of service 18:00 -22:00
-Takasaki Line (Ueno - Takasaki) 70%
-Joban Line (Ueno - Toride) 40 - 80%
-Musashino Line (Fuchuhonmachi - Nishifunabashi) 50%
-Nambu Line (Kawasaki - Tachikawa) 50%
-Yokohama Line (Higashikanagawa - Hachioji) 50%
-Tsurumi Line 100%
-Ome Line (Tachikawa - Haijima) 100%
(Haijima - Kawabe) 90% 9:00 - 12:00, 15:00 -20:30 20%
(Kawabe - Ome) 90% Out of service 9:00 -20:30
(Ome - Okutama) 90% Out of service 9:00 -21:30
-Itukaichi Line 100% Out of sevice 12:00 -16:00
-Hachiko Line (Hachioji - Haijima) 80% Out of service 9:00 - 22:30
-Nikko Line (Utsunomiya - Nikkko) 100% Out of service 11:30 -16:30
-Karasuyama Line (Hosyakuji - Karasuyama) 100% Out of service 18:00 -
-Joetsu Line (Takasaki - Shinmaebashi) 30%
-Shinetsu Line (Takasaki - Annaka) 30%
-Keiyo Line (Tokyo - Soga) 70%
-Uchibo Line (Chiba - Kisarazu) One train in an hour 9:00 - 21:00
(Kisarazu - Awakamogaawa) In service 10:00 - 13:00, 18:00-
-Sotobo Line (Chiba - Awakamogawa) In service less than One train in an hour 10:00 - 13:00, 18:00-
-Sobu Line (Chiba - Choshi)
(Sakura - Choshi) Less trains than usual, out of service 11:00 - 17:00
-Togane Line (Oami - Naruto) Out of service -18:00
-Narita Line (Chiba - Naritakuko) Less trains than usual
(Narita - Abiko) Less trains than usual, out of service 8:00 - 21:00
(Narita - Choshi) Less trains than usual
-Kururi Line (Kisarazu Kazusakameyama) In service, less trains than usual 18:00-
-Kashima Line (Sagara - Nobukata) Less trains than usual
Tokyo Metro (http://www.tokyometro.jp/index.html)
In service
-All Lines 80 -100%
Toei Subway (http://www.kotsu.metro.tokyo.jp/index.html)
In service
-All Lines 80 - 90%
Odakyu(http://www.odakyu.jp/)
In service
-Shinjuku - Odawara
-Shinyurigaoka - Karakida
-Sagamiono - Chogo
Out of service
-Motoatsugi - Hatano 17:30 - 22:30
-Hatano -Shinmatsuda 11:30 -16:30, 17:30 -22:30
-Shimatsuda - Odawara 11:30 - 16:30
-Chogo - Kataseenoshima -10:30, 13:00-18:00
Tokyu(http://www.tokyu.co.jp/)
Out of service
-Denentoshi Line Nagatsuda - Choorinkan
In service
-Other lines 70 - 80%
Seibu(http://www.seibu-group.co.jp/railways/)
In Service
-Ikebukuro Line (Ikebukuro - Agano) - 8:30
(Ikebukuro - Hano) 8:30 - 11:30
(Ikebukuro - Kotesashi) 11:30 - 13:30
(Ikebukuro - Hano) 13:30 - 21:00
(Ikebukuro - Agano) 21:00 -
-Seibu Chichibu Line(Agano - Seibuchichibu) 21:00-
-Toshima Line (Nerima - Toshimaen)
-Sayama Line (Nishitokorozawa - Seibukyujomae)
-Shinzyuku Line (Seibu Shinzyuku - Shintokorozawa) - 10:30
(Seibu Shinzyuku - Kawagoeshi) 10:30 - 13:00
(Seibu Shinzyuku - Shintokorozawa) 13:00 - 18:00
(Seibu Shinzyuku - Kawagoeshi) 18:00 -
-Seibuen Line
-Yamaguchi Line
-Kokubunji Line
-Haijima Line (Kodaira - Haijima)
-Tamako Line
-Tamagawa Line
Keio(http://www.keio.co.jp/index.html)
In service
-All Lines
Keisei(http://www.keisei.co.jp/)
In service
-All Lines (including Skyliner)
Tobu(http://www.tobu.co.jp/)
In service
All day
-Isezaki Line (Asakusa - Kuki) 50%
(Kuki - Tatebayashi) - 7:50, 20:50 - 50%
(Tatebayashi - Ota) - 11:10, 20:00 50%
(Ota - Isezaki) 19:50- 50%
-Nikko Line (Tobudobutsukoen - Minamikurihashi) 50%
(Minamikurihashi - Shintochigi) - 7:00, 21:10 - 50%
(Shintochigi - Tobunikko) - 7:00, 21:20 - 50%
-Tojo Line (Ikebukuro - Kawagoeshi) 50%
(Kawagoeshi - Yorii) - 14:20, 19:00 30%
-Noda Line (Omiya - Kasukabe) 50%
(Kasukabe - Nanakodai) 11:00 - 13:00, 18:30 - 50%
(Nanakodai - Unga) 10:50 - 13:10, 18:30 - 50%
(Unga - Kashiwa) - 17:20, 22:40 - 50%
(Kashiwa - Mutsumi) - 13:50, 22:50 - 50%
(Mutsumi - Funabashi) - 14:00, 19:30 - 50%
-Kameido Line 50%
-Daishi Line 50%
-Utsunomiya Line -7:40, 13:30 - 15:10, 22:20- 50%
-Kinugawa Line - 10:00, Last Train
-Sano Line - 14:10, 19:50 -
-Koizumi Line(Tatebayashi - Nishikoizumi) - 11:10, 20:00 - 50%
(Ota - Higashikoizumi) 20:30- 50%
-Kiryu Line 20:00 - 50%
-Koshigaya Line - 8:30, 12:40 - 14:10, 19:00 - 20 - 50%
Keikyu(http://www.keikyu.co.jp/index.html)
In Service
-All Lines 80%
Mar 17, 2011
The Information of Public Transportation in the Tokyo Area on March 17 6:00
6:00 March 17
JR (http://www.jreast.co.jp/)
In service
-Joetsu Shinkansen (Tokyo - Niigata)
-Shinetsu Shinkansen (Tokyo - Nagano)
-Tohoku Shinkansen (Tokyo - Nasushiobara)
-Tokaido Line (Tokyo - Atami)
-Yokosuka Line (Tokyo - Kurihama)
-Sobu Line (Tokyo - Chiba)
-Chuo Line (Tokyo - Kobuchizawa)
-Yamanote Line
-Keihin Tohoku Line (Omiya - Ofuna)
-Saikyo Line (Osaki - Omiya)
-Kawagoe Line (Omiya - Kawagoe) Temporary out of service
-Utsunomiya Line (Ueno - Kuroiso)
-Takasaki Line (Ueno - Takasaki)
-Joban Line (Ueno - Toride)
-Musashino Line (Fuchuhonmachi - Nishifunabashi)
-Nambu Line (Kawasaki - Tachikawa)
-Yokohama Line (Higashikanagawa - Hachioji)
-Tsurumi Line
-Ome Line (Tachikawa - Okutama)
(Haijima - Okutama) Out of service 12:00 -19:00
(Ome - Okutama) Out of service 19:00 -21:00
-Itukaichi Line Out of sevice 15:00 -19:00
-Hachiko Line (Hachioji - Haijima) Out of service 12:00 - 20:00
-Nikko Line (Utsunomiya - Nikkko) Out of service 12:00 -20:00
-Karasuyama Line (Hosyakuji - Karasuyama)
-Joetsu Line (Takasaki - Shinmaebashi)
-Shinetsu Line (Takasaki - Annaka)
-Keiyo Line (Tokyo - Soga)
(Minamifunabashi - Soga) Out of service 12:00 -17:00
-Uchibo Line (Chiba - Kimitsu)
(Kisarazu - Awakamogaawa) Out of service 8:00 -21:00
-Sotobo Line (Chiba - Kazusaitinomiya) Out of service 8:00 -21:00
-Sobu Line (Chiba - Choshi) Out of service 14:00 -20:00
-Togane Line (Oami - Naruto) Out of service 8:00 -21:00
-Narita Line (Chiba - Naritakuko)
(Narita - Abiko) Out of service 11:00 -17 :00
(Narita - Choshi)
Out of service
-Narita express
Tokyo Metro (http://www.tokyometro.jp/index.html)
In service
-All Lines
Toei Subway (http://www.kotsu.metro.tokyo.jp/index.html)
In service
-All Lines
Odakyu(http://www.odakyu.jp/)
In service
-Shinjuku - Motoatsugi
-Shinmatsuda - Odawara
Out of service
-Motoatsugi - Hatano 6:00 -10:30, 13:00 - 18:00
-Hatano -Shinmatsuda 6:00 -10:30, 13:00 -19:30
-Shimatsuda - Odawara 14:30 - 19:30
Tokyu(http://www.tokyu.co.jp/)
In service
-All lines
Seibu(http://www.seibu-group.co.jp/railways/)
In Service
-Ikebukuro Line (Ikebukuro - Agano) - 8:30
(Ikebukuro - Kotesashi) 8:30 - 13:30
(Ikebukuro - Hanno) 13:30 - 14:30
(Ikebukuro - Kotesashi) 13:30 - 21:00
(Ikebukuro - Agano) 21:00 -
-Seibu Chichibu Line -8:30, 21:00- (8:30 - 21:00 Out of service)
-Toshima Line (Nerima - Toshimaen)
-Sayama Line (Nishitokorozawa - Seibukyujomae)
-Shinzyuku Line (Seibu Shinzyuku - Honkawagoe) - 8:30
(Seibu Shinzyuku - Shintokorozawa) 8:30 - 13:30
(Seibu Shinzyuku - Honkawagoe) 13:30 - 14:30
(Seibu Shinzyuku - Tanashi) 14:30 - 16:15
(Seibu Shinzyuku - Kamishakujii) 16:15 - 19:30
(Seibu Shinzyuku - Shintokorozawa) 19:30 - 21:00
(Seibu Shinzyuku - Honkawagoe) 21:00 -
-Seibuen Line -14:30, 19:30- (14:30 - 19:30 Out of sevice)
-Kokubunji Line -14:30, 19:30- (14:30 - 19:30 Out of sevice)
-Haijima Line -14:30, 19:30- (14:30 - 19:30 Out of sevice)
-Tamako Line -14:30, 19:30- (14:30 - 19:30 Out of sevice)
-Tamagawa Line -11:30, 16:30- (11:30 - 16:30 Out of sevice)
Keio(http://www.keio.co.jp/index.html)
In service
-All Lines
Keisei(http://www.keisei.co.jp/)
In service
-All Lines (including Skyliner)
Tobu(http://www.tobu.co.jp/)
In service
All day
-Isezaki Line (Asakusa - Kuki)
(Kuki - Tatebayashi) - 10:15, 22:50 - (Out of service 10:15 - 22:50)
(Tatebayashi - Ota) - 13:50
(Ota - Isezaki) - 8:10
-Nikko Line (Tobudobutsukoen - Minamikurihashi)
(Minamikurihashi - Shintochigi) - 10:10, 22:30 - (Out of service 10:10 - 22:30)
(Shintochigi - Tobunikko) - 9:20, 19:40 - (Out of service 9:20 - 19:40)
-Tojo Line (Ikebukuro - Shiki)
(Shiki - Ogawacho) - 18:00, 22:00 - (Out of service 18:00 - 22:00)
(Ogawacho - Yorii)
-Noda Line (Omiya - Kasukabe)
(Kasukabe - Nanakodai) - 8:25, 14:00 - 16:30, 21:30 -
(Nanakodai - Nodashi) 14:00 - 16:30, 21:30 -
(Nodashi - Unga) 21:25 -
(Unga - Kashiwa) 10:50 - 13:20, 18:30 -
(Kashiwa - Mutsumi) - 17:00, 22:0 -
-Koshigaya Line 23:00 -
-Kameido Line
-Daishi Line 10:30 - 13:00, 18:00-
-Utsunomiya Line 18:00-
-Kinugawa Line 10:45 - 12:00, 19:30 -
-Sano Line - 16:55
-Koizumi Line - 7:30
-Noda Line (Kasukabe - Mutsumi) -8:00, 21:30 -
-Kiryu Line - 7:40
Keikyu(http://www.keikyu.co.jp/index.html)
In Service
-All Lines
JR (http://www.jreast.co.jp/)
In service
-Joetsu Shinkansen (Tokyo - Niigata)
-Shinetsu Shinkansen (Tokyo - Nagano)
-Tohoku Shinkansen (Tokyo - Nasushiobara)
-Tokaido Line (Tokyo - Atami)
-Yokosuka Line (Tokyo - Kurihama)
-Sobu Line (Tokyo - Chiba)
-Chuo Line (Tokyo - Kobuchizawa)
-Yamanote Line
-Keihin Tohoku Line (Omiya - Ofuna)
-Saikyo Line (Osaki - Omiya)
-Kawagoe Line (Omiya - Kawagoe) Temporary out of service
-Utsunomiya Line (Ueno - Kuroiso)
-Takasaki Line (Ueno - Takasaki)
-Joban Line (Ueno - Toride)
-Musashino Line (Fuchuhonmachi - Nishifunabashi)
-Nambu Line (Kawasaki - Tachikawa)
-Yokohama Line (Higashikanagawa - Hachioji)
-Tsurumi Line
-Ome Line (Tachikawa - Okutama)
(Haijima - Okutama) Out of service 12:00 -19:00
(Ome - Okutama) Out of service 19:00 -21:00
-Itukaichi Line Out of sevice 15:00 -19:00
-Hachiko Line (Hachioji - Haijima) Out of service 12:00 - 20:00
-Nikko Line (Utsunomiya - Nikkko) Out of service 12:00 -20:00
-Karasuyama Line (Hosyakuji - Karasuyama)
-Joetsu Line (Takasaki - Shinmaebashi)
-Shinetsu Line (Takasaki - Annaka)
-Keiyo Line (Tokyo - Soga)
(Minamifunabashi - Soga) Out of service 12:00 -17:00
-Uchibo Line (Chiba - Kimitsu)
(Kisarazu - Awakamogaawa) Out of service 8:00 -21:00
-Sotobo Line (Chiba - Kazusaitinomiya) Out of service 8:00 -21:00
-Sobu Line (Chiba - Choshi) Out of service 14:00 -20:00
-Togane Line (Oami - Naruto) Out of service 8:00 -21:00
-Narita Line (Chiba - Naritakuko)
(Narita - Abiko) Out of service 11:00 -17 :00
(Narita - Choshi)
Out of service
-Narita express
Tokyo Metro (http://www.tokyometro.jp/index.html)
In service
-All Lines
Toei Subway (http://www.kotsu.metro.tokyo.jp/index.html)
In service
-All Lines
Odakyu(http://www.odakyu.jp/)
In service
-Shinjuku - Motoatsugi
-Shinmatsuda - Odawara
Out of service
-Motoatsugi - Hatano 6:00 -10:30, 13:00 - 18:00
-Hatano -Shinmatsuda 6:00 -10:30, 13:00 -19:30
-Shimatsuda - Odawara 14:30 - 19:30
Tokyu(http://www.tokyu.co.jp/)
In service
-All lines
Seibu(http://www.seibu-group.co.jp/railways/)
In Service
-Ikebukuro Line (Ikebukuro - Agano) - 8:30
(Ikebukuro - Kotesashi) 8:30 - 13:30
(Ikebukuro - Hanno) 13:30 - 14:30
(Ikebukuro - Kotesashi) 13:30 - 21:00
(Ikebukuro - Agano) 21:00 -
-Seibu Chichibu Line -8:30, 21:00- (8:30 - 21:00 Out of service)
-Toshima Line (Nerima - Toshimaen)
-Sayama Line (Nishitokorozawa - Seibukyujomae)
-Shinzyuku Line (Seibu Shinzyuku - Honkawagoe) - 8:30
(Seibu Shinzyuku - Shintokorozawa) 8:30 - 13:30
(Seibu Shinzyuku - Honkawagoe) 13:30 - 14:30
(Seibu Shinzyuku - Tanashi) 14:30 - 16:15
(Seibu Shinzyuku - Kamishakujii) 16:15 - 19:30
(Seibu Shinzyuku - Shintokorozawa) 19:30 - 21:00
(Seibu Shinzyuku - Honkawagoe) 21:00 -
-Seibuen Line -14:30, 19:30- (14:30 - 19:30 Out of sevice)
-Kokubunji Line -14:30, 19:30- (14:30 - 19:30 Out of sevice)
-Haijima Line -14:30, 19:30- (14:30 - 19:30 Out of sevice)
-Tamako Line -14:30, 19:30- (14:30 - 19:30 Out of sevice)
-Tamagawa Line -11:30, 16:30- (11:30 - 16:30 Out of sevice)
Keio(http://www.keio.co.jp/index.html)
In service
-All Lines
Keisei(http://www.keisei.co.jp/)
In service
-All Lines (including Skyliner)
Tobu(http://www.tobu.co.jp/)
In service
All day
-Isezaki Line (Asakusa - Kuki)
(Kuki - Tatebayashi) - 10:15, 22:50 - (Out of service 10:15 - 22:50)
(Tatebayashi - Ota) - 13:50
(Ota - Isezaki) - 8:10
-Nikko Line (Tobudobutsukoen - Minamikurihashi)
(Minamikurihashi - Shintochigi) - 10:10, 22:30 - (Out of service 10:10 - 22:30)
(Shintochigi - Tobunikko) - 9:20, 19:40 - (Out of service 9:20 - 19:40)
-Tojo Line (Ikebukuro - Shiki)
(Shiki - Ogawacho) - 18:00, 22:00 - (Out of service 18:00 - 22:00)
(Ogawacho - Yorii)
-Noda Line (Omiya - Kasukabe)
(Kasukabe - Nanakodai) - 8:25, 14:00 - 16:30, 21:30 -
(Nanakodai - Nodashi) 14:00 - 16:30, 21:30 -
(Nodashi - Unga) 21:25 -
(Unga - Kashiwa) 10:50 - 13:20, 18:30 -
(Kashiwa - Mutsumi) - 17:00, 22:0 -
-Koshigaya Line 23:00 -
-Kameido Line
-Daishi Line 10:30 - 13:00, 18:00-
-Utsunomiya Line 18:00-
-Kinugawa Line 10:45 - 12:00, 19:30 -
-Sano Line - 16:55
-Koizumi Line - 7:30
-Noda Line (Kasukabe - Mutsumi) -8:00, 21:30 -
-Kiryu Line - 7:40
Keikyu(http://www.keikyu.co.jp/index.html)
In Service
-All Lines
Mar 16, 2011
An Ordinary Life with Earthquakes
I go to the office and do ordinary work.
And then after I go back home, I take a shower and eat dinner.
I wonder if I should do such things.
I'm filled with a feeling of powerlessness and rising a strong and sudden anger in my heart.
I might be disturbed.
I told my colleague that I had been upset by the earthquake.
She replied to me that because I looked so calm and she didn't believe that.
But I really feel like I'm losing my energy.
Thinking about the future of Japan, my company, my family and me makes me depressed.
But anyway, I'll just do what I can do.
And then after I go back home, I take a shower and eat dinner.
I wonder if I should do such things.
I'm filled with a feeling of powerlessness and rising a strong and sudden anger in my heart.
I might be disturbed.
I told my colleague that I had been upset by the earthquake.
She replied to me that because I looked so calm and she didn't believe that.
But I really feel like I'm losing my energy.
Thinking about the future of Japan, my company, my family and me makes me depressed.
But anyway, I'll just do what I can do.
The Information of Public Transportation in the Tokyo Area on March 16 6:00
6:00 March 16
JR (http://www.jreast.co.jp/)
In service
-Joetsu Shinkansen (Tokyo - Niigata)
-Shinetsu Shinkansen (Tokyo - Nagano)
-Tohoku Shinkansen (Tokyo - Nasushiobara) From 12:00
-Tokaido Line (Tokyo - Atami)
-Yokosuka Line (Tokyo - Kurihama)
-Sobu Line (Tokyo - Chiba)
-Chuo Line (Tokyo - Kobuchizawa)
-Yamanote Line
-Keihin Tohoku Line (Omiya - Ofuna)
-Saikyo Line (Osaki - Omiya)
-Kawagoe Line (Omiya - Kawagoe) Temporary out of service
-Utsunomiya Line (Ueno - Kuroiso)
-Takasaki Line (Ueno - Takasaki)
-Joban Line (Ueno - Toride)
-Musashino Line (Fuchuhonmachi - Nishifunabashi)
-Nambu Line (Kawasaki - Tachikawa)
-Yokohama Line (Higashikanagawa - Hachioji)
-Tsurumi Line (Tsurumi - Ogimach, Asano - Umishibaura, Musashishiraishi - Okawa)
-Ome Line (Tachikawa - Okutama) Temporary out of service
-Hachiko Line (Hachioji - Haijima) Temporary out of service
-Itsukaichi Line (Haijima - Musashiitsukaichi) Temporary out of service
-Nikko Line (Utsunomiya - Nikkko) Temporary out of service
-Karasuyama Line (Hosyakuji - Karasuyama)
-Joetsu Line (Takasaki - Shinmaebashi)
-Keiyo Line (Tokyo - Soga) Temporary out of service
-Uchibo Line (Chiba - Kimitsu) Temporary out of service
-Sotobo Line (Chiba - Kazusaitinomiya) Temporary out of service
-Narita Line (Chiba - Narita)
Out of service
-Narita express
Tokyo Metro (http://www.tokyometro.jp/index.html)
In service
-All Lines
Toei Subway (http://www.kotsu.metro.tokyo.jp/index.html)
In service
-All Lines
Odakyu(http://www.odakyu.jp/)
Out of service
-Mukogaokayuen - Sagamiono 14:30 - 18:00
-Sagamiono - Honatsugi 11:30 - 18:00
-Honatsugi - Isehara 8:30 - 21:30
-Isehara - Hatano 8:30 - 14:00, 16:00 - 21:30
-Hatano - Shinmatsuda 8:30 - 14:00, 16:00 -22:30
-Shinmatsuda - Odawara 17:30 -22:30
-Sagamiono - Chogo 14:30 -18:00
-chogo - Kataseenoshima 11:30 - 17:00
-Tama Line 14:30 -19:30
Tokyu(http://www.tokyu.co.jp/)
In service
-All lines
Seibu(http://www.seibu-group.co.jp/railways/)
In Service
-Ikebukuro Line (Ikebukuro - Agano) - 11:30
(Ikebukuro - Kotesashi) 11:30 - 22:30
(Ikebukuro - Agano) 22:30 -
-Seibu Chichibu Line -11:30, 22:30- (11:30 - 22:30 Out of service)
-Toshima Line (Nerima - Toshimaen)
-Sayama Line (Nishitokorozawa - Seibukyujomae)
-Shinzyuku Line (Seibu Shinzyuku - Honkawagoe) - 11:30
(Seibu Shinzyuku - Shintokorozawa) 11:30 - 14:30
(Seibu Shinzyuku - Kamishakujii) 14:30 - 16:30
(Seibu Shinzyuku - Tanashi) 16:30 - 22:30
(Seibu Shinzyuku - Honkawagoe) 22:30 -
-Seibuen Line -17:30, 22:30- (17:30 - 22:30 Out of sevice)
-Kokubunji Line -17:30, 22:30- (17:30 - 22:30 Out of sevice)
-Haijima Line -17:30, 22:30- (17:30 - 22:30 Out of sevice)
-Tamako Line -17:30, 22:30- (17:30 - 22:30 Out of sevice)
-Tamagawa Line -17:30, 22:30- (17:30 - 22:30 Out of sevice)
Keio(http://www.keio.co.jp/index.html)
In service
-All Lines
Keisei(http://www.keisei.co.jp/)
In service
-All Lines (including Skyliner)
Tobu(http://www.tobu.co.jp/)
In service
All day
-Isezaki Line (Asakusa - Kuki)
-Nikko Line (Tobudobutsukoen - Minamikurihashi)
-Kameido Line
-Noda Line (Omiya - Kasukabe)
-Tojo Line (Ikebukuro - Narimasu)
-Isezaki Line (Kuki - Ota) 11:00-13:00
(Kuki - Tatebayashi) 19:30 -
-Daishi Line - 8:20, 13:30 - 16:30, 21:00-
-Nikko Line (Minamikurihashi - Shintochigi) 19:30 -
(Shintochigi - Tobunikko) -12:50
-Kinugawa Line - 12:50, 13:20 - 14:20
-Utsunomiya Line -7:40, 21:00-
-Sano Line 18:30 -
-Koizumi Line 18:30 -
-Kiryu Line 18:30 -
-Noda Line (Kasukabe - Mutsumi) -8:00, 21:30 -
(Mutsumi - Funabashi) 18:00 -
Keikyu(http://www.keikyu.co.jp/index.html)
Out of Service
-Kanazawahakkei - Uraga 18:00 - 22:20
-Kurihama Line 18:00 - 22:20
JR (http://www.jreast.co.jp/)
In service
-Joetsu Shinkansen (Tokyo - Niigata)
-Shinetsu Shinkansen (Tokyo - Nagano)
-Tohoku Shinkansen (Tokyo - Nasushiobara) From 12:00
-Tokaido Line (Tokyo - Atami)
-Yokosuka Line (Tokyo - Kurihama)
-Sobu Line (Tokyo - Chiba)
-Chuo Line (Tokyo - Kobuchizawa)
-Yamanote Line
-Keihin Tohoku Line (Omiya - Ofuna)
-Saikyo Line (Osaki - Omiya)
-Kawagoe Line (Omiya - Kawagoe) Temporary out of service
-Utsunomiya Line (Ueno - Kuroiso)
-Takasaki Line (Ueno - Takasaki)
-Joban Line (Ueno - Toride)
-Musashino Line (Fuchuhonmachi - Nishifunabashi)
-Nambu Line (Kawasaki - Tachikawa)
-Yokohama Line (Higashikanagawa - Hachioji)
-Tsurumi Line (Tsurumi - Ogimach, Asano - Umishibaura, Musashishiraishi - Okawa)
-Ome Line (Tachikawa - Okutama) Temporary out of service
-Hachiko Line (Hachioji - Haijima) Temporary out of service
-Itsukaichi Line (Haijima - Musashiitsukaichi) Temporary out of service
-Nikko Line (Utsunomiya - Nikkko) Temporary out of service
-Karasuyama Line (Hosyakuji - Karasuyama)
-Joetsu Line (Takasaki - Shinmaebashi)
-Keiyo Line (Tokyo - Soga) Temporary out of service
-Uchibo Line (Chiba - Kimitsu) Temporary out of service
-Sotobo Line (Chiba - Kazusaitinomiya) Temporary out of service
-Narita Line (Chiba - Narita)
Out of service
-Narita express
Tokyo Metro (http://www.tokyometro.jp/index.html)
In service
-All Lines
Toei Subway (http://www.kotsu.metro.tokyo.jp/index.html)
In service
-All Lines
Odakyu(http://www.odakyu.jp/)
Out of service
-Mukogaokayuen - Sagamiono 14:30 - 18:00
-Sagamiono - Honatsugi 11:30 - 18:00
-Honatsugi - Isehara 8:30 - 21:30
-Isehara - Hatano 8:30 - 14:00, 16:00 - 21:30
-Hatano - Shinmatsuda 8:30 - 14:00, 16:00 -22:30
-Shinmatsuda - Odawara 17:30 -22:30
-Sagamiono - Chogo 14:30 -18:00
-chogo - Kataseenoshima 11:30 - 17:00
-Tama Line 14:30 -19:30
Tokyu(http://www.tokyu.co.jp/)
In service
-All lines
Seibu(http://www.seibu-group.co.jp/railways/)
In Service
-Ikebukuro Line (Ikebukuro - Agano) - 11:30
(Ikebukuro - Kotesashi) 11:30 - 22:30
(Ikebukuro - Agano) 22:30 -
-Seibu Chichibu Line -11:30, 22:30- (11:30 - 22:30 Out of service)
-Toshima Line (Nerima - Toshimaen)
-Sayama Line (Nishitokorozawa - Seibukyujomae)
-Shinzyuku Line (Seibu Shinzyuku - Honkawagoe) - 11:30
(Seibu Shinzyuku - Shintokorozawa) 11:30 - 14:30
(Seibu Shinzyuku - Kamishakujii) 14:30 - 16:30
(Seibu Shinzyuku - Tanashi) 16:30 - 22:30
(Seibu Shinzyuku - Honkawagoe) 22:30 -
-Seibuen Line -17:30, 22:30- (17:30 - 22:30 Out of sevice)
-Kokubunji Line -17:30, 22:30- (17:30 - 22:30 Out of sevice)
-Haijima Line -17:30, 22:30- (17:30 - 22:30 Out of sevice)
-Tamako Line -17:30, 22:30- (17:30 - 22:30 Out of sevice)
-Tamagawa Line -17:30, 22:30- (17:30 - 22:30 Out of sevice)
Keio(http://www.keio.co.jp/index.html)
In service
-All Lines
Keisei(http://www.keisei.co.jp/)
In service
-All Lines (including Skyliner)
Tobu(http://www.tobu.co.jp/)
In service
All day
-Isezaki Line (Asakusa - Kuki)
-Nikko Line (Tobudobutsukoen - Minamikurihashi)
-Kameido Line
-Noda Line (Omiya - Kasukabe)
-Tojo Line (Ikebukuro - Narimasu)
-Isezaki Line (Kuki - Ota) 11:00-13:00
(Kuki - Tatebayashi) 19:30 -
-Daishi Line - 8:20, 13:30 - 16:30, 21:00-
-Nikko Line (Minamikurihashi - Shintochigi) 19:30 -
(Shintochigi - Tobunikko) -12:50
-Kinugawa Line - 12:50, 13:20 - 14:20
-Utsunomiya Line -7:40, 21:00-
-Sano Line 18:30 -
-Koizumi Line 18:30 -
-Kiryu Line 18:30 -
-Noda Line (Kasukabe - Mutsumi) -8:00, 21:30 -
(Mutsumi - Funabashi) 18:00 -
Keikyu(http://www.keikyu.co.jp/index.html)
Out of Service
-Kanazawahakkei - Uraga 18:00 - 22:20
-Kurihama Line 18:00 - 22:20
Mar 15, 2011
The Information of Public Transportation in the Tokyo Area on March 15 12:30
12:30 March 15
JR (http://www.jreast.co.jp/)
In service
-Tokaido Line (Tokyo - Odawara)
-Yokosuka Line (Tokyo - Zushi)
-Sobu Line (Tokyo - Chiba)
-Chuo Line (Tokyo - Kofu)
-Yamanote Line
-Keihin Tohoku Line (Omiya - Ofuna)
-Saikyo Line (Osaki - Omiya)
-Kawagoe Line (Omiya - Kawagoe) Out of service from 9:00 - 15:00
-Utsunomiya Line (Ueno - Utsunomiya)
-Takasaki Line (Ueno - Takasaki)
-Joban Line (Ueno - Toride)
-Musashino Line (Fuchuhonmachi - Nishifunabashi)
-Nambu Line (Kawasaki - Tachikawa)
-Tsurumi Line (Tsurumi - Ogimach, Asano - Umishibaura, Musashishiraishi - Okawa)
-Ome Line (Tachikawa - Haijima)
-Joetsu Line (Takasaki - Shinmaebashi)
-Keiyo Line (Tokyo - Soga)
-Narita Line (Chiba - Narita)
-Joetsu Shinkansen (Tokyo - Niigata)
-Shinetsu Shinkansen (Tokyo - Nagano)
-Tohoku Shinkansen (Tokyo - Nasushiobara) From 12:00
Tokyo Metro (http://www.tokyometro.jp/index.html)
In service
-Ginza Line
-Marunouchi Line
-Hibiya Line
-Tozai Line
-Chiyoda Line
-Yurakucho Line
-Hanzomon Line
-Nanboku Line
-Hukutoshin Line
Toei Subway (http://www.kotsu.metro.tokyo.jp/index.html)
In service
-Asakusa Line
-Mita Line
-Shinjuku Line
-Oedo Line
Odakyu(http://www.odakyu.jp/)
In servise
-Shinjuku - Kyodo
-Shinjuku - Sagamiono 16:30-
Tokyu(http://www.tokyu.co.jp/)
In service
-All lines
Seibu(http://www.seibu-group.co.jp/railways/)
In Service
-Ikebukuro Line (Ikebukuro - Kotesashi)
-Toshima Line (Nerima - Toshimaen)
-Sayama Line (Nishitokorozawa - Seibukyujomae)
-Shinzyuku Line (Seibu Shinzyuku - Kamishakujii)
Keio(http://www.keio.co.jp/index.html)
In service
-All Lines
17:30 - 22:00
-Keio line Shinjuku - Chofu
-Inokashira line Shibuya - Kichijoji
Keisei(http://www.keisei.co.jp/)
In service
12:00-
-Keiseiueno - Keiseinarita Narita Airport
-Oshiage - Inzeimakinohara Inbanihonidai
-Keiseitakasago -Keiseikanamachi
-Keiseinarita - Shibayamachiyoda
-Inbanihonidai - Narita Airport 12:00-17:00
Tobu(http://www.tobu.co.jp/)
In service
All day
-Isezaki Line (Asakusa - Kuki)
-Nikko Line (Tobudobutsukoen - Minamikurihashi)
-Kameido Line
-Noda Line (Omiya - Kasukabe)
-Tojo Line (Ikebukuro - Narimasu)
-Isezaki Line (Kuki - Ota) 14:00-17:00
-Nikko Line (Minamikurihashi - Tobunikko) 14:00-17:30
-Tojo Line (Narimasu - Shiki) -15:30
(Narimasu - Ogawacho) 18:30-
Keikyu(http://www.keikyu.co.jp/index.html)
In service
-All lines
JR (http://www.jreast.co.jp/)
In service
-Tokaido Line (Tokyo - Odawara)
-Yokosuka Line (Tokyo - Zushi)
-Sobu Line (Tokyo - Chiba)
-Chuo Line (Tokyo - Kofu)
-Yamanote Line
-Keihin Tohoku Line (Omiya - Ofuna)
-Saikyo Line (Osaki - Omiya)
-Kawagoe Line (Omiya - Kawagoe) Out of service from 9:00 - 15:00
-Utsunomiya Line (Ueno - Utsunomiya)
-Takasaki Line (Ueno - Takasaki)
-Joban Line (Ueno - Toride)
-Musashino Line (Fuchuhonmachi - Nishifunabashi)
-Nambu Line (Kawasaki - Tachikawa)
-Tsurumi Line (Tsurumi - Ogimach, Asano - Umishibaura, Musashishiraishi - Okawa)
-Ome Line (Tachikawa - Haijima)
-Joetsu Line (Takasaki - Shinmaebashi)
-Keiyo Line (Tokyo - Soga)
-Narita Line (Chiba - Narita)
-Joetsu Shinkansen (Tokyo - Niigata)
-Shinetsu Shinkansen (Tokyo - Nagano)
-Tohoku Shinkansen (Tokyo - Nasushiobara) From 12:00
Tokyo Metro (http://www.tokyometro.jp/index.html)
In service
-Ginza Line
-Marunouchi Line
-Hibiya Line
-Tozai Line
-Chiyoda Line
-Yurakucho Line
-Hanzomon Line
-Nanboku Line
-Hukutoshin Line
Toei Subway (http://www.kotsu.metro.tokyo.jp/index.html)
In service
-Asakusa Line
-Mita Line
-Shinjuku Line
-Oedo Line
Odakyu(http://www.odakyu.jp/)
In servise
-Shinjuku - Kyodo
-Shinjuku - Sagamiono 16:30-
Tokyu(http://www.tokyu.co.jp/)
In service
-All lines
Seibu(http://www.seibu-group.co.jp/railways/)
In Service
-Ikebukuro Line (Ikebukuro - Kotesashi)
-Toshima Line (Nerima - Toshimaen)
-Sayama Line (Nishitokorozawa - Seibukyujomae)
-Shinzyuku Line (Seibu Shinzyuku - Kamishakujii)
Keio(http://www.keio.co.jp/index.html)
In service
-All Lines
17:30 - 22:00
-Keio line Shinjuku - Chofu
-Inokashira line Shibuya - Kichijoji
Keisei(http://www.keisei.co.jp/)
In service
12:00-
-Keiseiueno - Keiseinarita Narita Airport
-Oshiage - Inzeimakinohara Inbanihonidai
-Keiseitakasago -Keiseikanamachi
-Keiseinarita - Shibayamachiyoda
-Inbanihonidai - Narita Airport 12:00-17:00
Tobu(http://www.tobu.co.jp/)
In service
All day
-Isezaki Line (Asakusa - Kuki)
-Nikko Line (Tobudobutsukoen - Minamikurihashi)
-Kameido Line
-Noda Line (Omiya - Kasukabe)
-Tojo Line (Ikebukuro - Narimasu)
-Isezaki Line (Kuki - Ota) 14:00-17:00
-Nikko Line (Minamikurihashi - Tobunikko) 14:00-17:30
-Tojo Line (Narimasu - Shiki) -15:30
(Narimasu - Ogawacho) 18:30-
Keikyu(http://www.keikyu.co.jp/index.html)
In service
-All lines
The Information of Public Transportation in the Tokyo Area on March 15 5:00
5:00 March 15
JR (http://www.jreast.co.jp/)
In service
-Tokaido Line (Tokyo - Odawara)
-Yokosuka Line (Tokyo - Zushi)
-Sobu Line (Tokyo - Chiba)
-Chuo Line (Tokyo - Kofu)
-Yamanote Line
-Keihin Tohoku Line (Omiya - Ofuna)
-Saikyo Line (Osaki - Omiya)
-Kawagoe Line (Omiya - Kawagoe) Out of service from 9:00 - 15:00
-Utsunomiya Line (Ueno - Utsunomiya)
-Takasaki Line (Ueno - Takasaki)
-Zyoban Line (Ueno - Toride)
-Musashino Line (Fuchuhonmachi - Nishifunabashi)
-Nambu Line (Kawasaki - Tachikawa)
-Tsurumi Line (Tsurumi - Ogimach, Asano - Umishibaura, Musashishiraishi - Okawa)
-Ome Line (Tachikawa - Haijima)
-Joetsu Line (Takasaki - Shinmaebashi)
-Keiyo Line (Tokyo - Soga)
-Narita Line (Chiba - Narita)
-Joetsu Shinkansen (Tokyo - Niigata)
-Shinetsu Shinkansen (Tokyo - Nagano)
-Tohoku Shinkansen (Tokyo - Nasushiobara) From 12:00
Tokyo Metro (http://www.tokyometro.jp/index.html)
In service
-Ginza Line
-Marunouchi Line
-Hibiya Line
-Tozai Line
-Chiyoda Line
-Yurakucho Line
-Hanzomon Line
-Nanboku Line
-Hukutoshin Line
Toei Subway (http://www.kotsu.metro.tokyo.jp/index.html)
In service
-Asakusa Line
-Mita Line
-Shinjuku Line
-Oedo Line
Odakyu(http://www.odakyu.jp/)
In servise
-Shinjuku - Sagamiono -11:50
-Shinjuku - Kyodo 11:50-
Tokyu(http://www.tokyu.co.jp/)
In service
-All lines
Seibu(http://www.seibu-group.co.jp/railways/)
In Service
-Ikebukuro Line (Ikebukuro - Nerimatakanodai)
-Toshima Line (Nerima - Toshimaen)
-Shinzyuku Line (Seibu Shinzyuku - Saginomiya)
Keio(http://www.keio.co.jp/index.html)
Out of service
-Chofu - Kieohachioji Takaosanguch, Chofu - Hashimoto 17:30-22:00
Keisei(http://www.keisei.co.jp/)
In service
-12:00
-Keiseiueno - Keiseitakasago
-Oshiage - Inzeimakinohara Inbanihonidai
-Keiseitakasago -Keiseikanamachi
12:00-
-Keiseiueno - Keiseinarita Narita Airport
-Oshiage - Inzeimakinohara Inbanihonidai
-Keiseitakasago -Keiseikanamachi
-Keiseinarita - Shibayamachiyoda
-Inbanihonidai - Narita Airport 12:00-17:00
Tobu(http://www.tobu.co.jp/)
In service
All day
-Isezaki Line (Asakusa - Takenozuka)
-Kameido Line (Kameido - Hikifune)
-Noda Line (Omiya - Kasukabe)
-Tojo Line (Ikebukuro - Narimasu)
-8:30
-Isezaki Line (Takenozuka - Kuki)
-Nikko Line (Tobudoubutsukoen - Minamikurihashi)
-Noda Line (Kasukabe - Kashiwa - Funabashi)
-6:20
-Tojo Line (Narimasu - Ogawamachi)
Keikyu(http://www.keikyu.co.jp/index.html)
Out of service
6:00-10:00
-Kanazawahakkei - Uraga
JR (http://www.jreast.co.jp/)
In service
-Tokaido Line (Tokyo - Odawara)
-Yokosuka Line (Tokyo - Zushi)
-Sobu Line (Tokyo - Chiba)
-Chuo Line (Tokyo - Kofu)
-Yamanote Line
-Keihin Tohoku Line (Omiya - Ofuna)
-Saikyo Line (Osaki - Omiya)
-Kawagoe Line (Omiya - Kawagoe) Out of service from 9:00 - 15:00
-Utsunomiya Line (Ueno - Utsunomiya)
-Takasaki Line (Ueno - Takasaki)
-Zyoban Line (Ueno - Toride)
-Musashino Line (Fuchuhonmachi - Nishifunabashi)
-Nambu Line (Kawasaki - Tachikawa)
-Tsurumi Line (Tsurumi - Ogimach, Asano - Umishibaura, Musashishiraishi - Okawa)
-Ome Line (Tachikawa - Haijima)
-Joetsu Line (Takasaki - Shinmaebashi)
-Keiyo Line (Tokyo - Soga)
-Narita Line (Chiba - Narita)
-Joetsu Shinkansen (Tokyo - Niigata)
-Shinetsu Shinkansen (Tokyo - Nagano)
-Tohoku Shinkansen (Tokyo - Nasushiobara) From 12:00
Tokyo Metro (http://www.tokyometro.jp/index.html)
In service
-Ginza Line
-Marunouchi Line
-Hibiya Line
-Tozai Line
-Chiyoda Line
-Yurakucho Line
-Hanzomon Line
-Nanboku Line
-Hukutoshin Line
Toei Subway (http://www.kotsu.metro.tokyo.jp/index.html)
In service
-Asakusa Line
-Mita Line
-Shinjuku Line
-Oedo Line
Odakyu(http://www.odakyu.jp/)
In servise
-Shinjuku - Sagamiono -11:50
-Shinjuku - Kyodo 11:50-
Tokyu(http://www.tokyu.co.jp/)
In service
-All lines
Seibu(http://www.seibu-group.co.jp/railways/)
In Service
-Ikebukuro Line (Ikebukuro - Nerimatakanodai)
-Toshima Line (Nerima - Toshimaen)
-Shinzyuku Line (Seibu Shinzyuku - Saginomiya)
Keio(http://www.keio.co.jp/index.html)
Out of service
-Chofu - Kieohachioji Takaosanguch, Chofu - Hashimoto 17:30-22:00
Keisei(http://www.keisei.co.jp/)
In service
-12:00
-Keiseiueno - Keiseitakasago
-Oshiage - Inzeimakinohara Inbanihonidai
-Keiseitakasago -Keiseikanamachi
12:00-
-Keiseiueno - Keiseinarita Narita Airport
-Oshiage - Inzeimakinohara Inbanihonidai
-Keiseitakasago -Keiseikanamachi
-Keiseinarita - Shibayamachiyoda
-Inbanihonidai - Narita Airport 12:00-17:00
Tobu(http://www.tobu.co.jp/)
In service
All day
-Isezaki Line (Asakusa - Takenozuka)
-Kameido Line (Kameido - Hikifune)
-Noda Line (Omiya - Kasukabe)
-Tojo Line (Ikebukuro - Narimasu)
-8:30
-Isezaki Line (Takenozuka - Kuki)
-Nikko Line (Tobudoubutsukoen - Minamikurihashi)
-Noda Line (Kasukabe - Kashiwa - Funabashi)
-6:20
-Tojo Line (Narimasu - Ogawamachi)
Keikyu(http://www.keikyu.co.jp/index.html)
Out of service
6:00-10:00
-Kanazawahakkei - Uraga
Mar 14, 2011
To Help Someone Heal Their Emotion
I went to work for the first time since the earthquake struck Japan. My office was completely unchanged. Nothing was broken.
I began to do everyday work. I wonder if I should do such things now. I was filled with a feeling of powerlessness and sudden rising strong anger in my heart. I might be disturbed by the earthquake.
The atomic power stations in Fukushima were broken down, and there is a severe electricity shortage in eastern Japan. Many railways in the Tokyo area were out of service.
Non Japanese in Japan might have a hard time with lack of information in English about the earthquake.
So I translated the information of the public transportation into English, and published it on this weblog.
It was a very little thing, but I felt that I could help someone. This feeling eased myself.
I'll go to work tomorrow. I'll try to help someone.
I began to do everyday work. I wonder if I should do such things now. I was filled with a feeling of powerlessness and sudden rising strong anger in my heart. I might be disturbed by the earthquake.
The atomic power stations in Fukushima were broken down, and there is a severe electricity shortage in eastern Japan. Many railways in the Tokyo area were out of service.
Non Japanese in Japan might have a hard time with lack of information in English about the earthquake.
So I translated the information of the public transportation into English, and published it on this weblog.
It was a very little thing, but I felt that I could help someone. This feeling eased myself.
I'll go to work tomorrow. I'll try to help someone.
The Information of Public Transportation in Tokyo Area on March 14th 17:20
17:20 March 14th
JR
In service
-Yamanote Line
-Choou Line (Tokyo - Kofu)
-Sobu Line (Mitaka - Nishifunabashi)
-Keihin Tohoku Line (Omiya - ofuna)
-Zyoban Line (Ueno - Matsudo)
-Saikyo Line (Osaki - Omiya)
-Tsurumi Line (Tsurumi - Ogimachi)
-Zyoetsu Shinkansen
-Nagano Shinkansen
Tokyo Metro
In service
-Ginza Line
-Marunouchi Line
-Hibiya Line
-Tozai Line
-Chiyoda Line
-Yurakucho Line
-Hanzomon Line
-Nanboku Line
-Hukutoshin Line
Toei Subway
In service
-Asakusa Line
-Mita Line
-Shinjuku Line
-Oedo Line
Odakyu
In service
-Shinzyuku - Kyodo
Tokyu
In service
-Toyoko Line(Shibuya - Musashikosugi)
-Meguro Line(Meguro - Musashikosugi)
From 17:30 Lines follows will be in service.
-Toyoko Line
-Meguro Line
-Oimachi Line
-Setagaya Line
-Denentoshi Line
Seibu
16：30-21：00
-Ikebukuro Line (Ikebukuro - Nerimatakanodai)
-Toshima Line (Nerima - Toshimaen)
-Shinzyuku Line (Seibu Shinzyuku - Saginomiya)
-Tamagawa Line (Musashisakai - Koremasa)
21：00-22：30
-Ikebukuro Line (Ikebukuro - Kotesashi)
-Toshima Line (Nerima - Toshimaen)
-Shinzyuku Line (Seibu Shinzyuku - Motokawagoe)
-Haijima Line (Kodaira - Haijima)
-Kokubunji Line (kokubunji - Higashimurayama)
22：30-
-Ikebukuro Line (Ikebukuro - Hannou)
-Toshima Line (Nerima - Toshimaen)
-Shinzyuku Line (Seibu Shinzyuku - Motokawagoe)
-Haijima Line (Kodaira - Haijima)
-Kokubunji Line (Kokubunji - Higashimurayama)
-Tamagawa Line (Musashisakai -Koremasa)
Keio
18:00-22:00
In service
-Keio Line (Shinjuku - Chofu)
-Inokashira Line
Keisei
Out of service
-Chiba Line (Keisei Tsudanuma - Chibachuo)
-Chihara Line (Chibachuo - Chiharadai)
-Skyliner
Tobu
In service
-Isezaki Line (Asakusa - Takenozuka)
-Kameido Line
-Tozyo Line (Ikebukuro - Narimasu)
18:00-
-Noda Line (Omiya - Iwatsuki)
21:00-
-Tozyo Line (Ikebukuro - Shiki)
Keikyu
Out of service
-All Line
JR
In service
-Yamanote Line
-Choou Line (Tokyo - Kofu)
-Sobu Line (Mitaka - Nishifunabashi)
-Keihin Tohoku Line (Omiya - ofuna)
-Zyoban Line (Ueno - Matsudo)
-Saikyo Line (Osaki - Omiya)
-Tsurumi Line (Tsurumi - Ogimachi)
-Zyoetsu Shinkansen
-Nagano Shinkansen
Tokyo Metro
In service
-Ginza Line
-Marunouchi Line
-Hibiya Line
-Tozai Line
-Chiyoda Line
-Yurakucho Line
-Hanzomon Line
-Nanboku Line
-Hukutoshin Line
Toei Subway
In service
-Asakusa Line
-Mita Line
-Shinjuku Line
-Oedo Line
Odakyu
In service
-Shinzyuku - Kyodo
Tokyu
In service
-Toyoko Line(Shibuya - Musashikosugi)
-Meguro Line(Meguro - Musashikosugi)
From 17:30 Lines follows will be in service.
-Toyoko Line
-Meguro Line
-Oimachi Line
-Setagaya Line
-Denentoshi Line
Seibu
16：30-21：00
-Ikebukuro Line (Ikebukuro - Nerimatakanodai)
-Toshima Line (Nerima - Toshimaen)
-Shinzyuku Line (Seibu Shinzyuku - Saginomiya)
-Tamagawa Line (Musashisakai - Koremasa)
21：00-22：30
-Ikebukuro Line (Ikebukuro - Kotesashi)
-Toshima Line (Nerima - Toshimaen)
-Shinzyuku Line (Seibu Shinzyuku - Motokawagoe)
-Haijima Line (Kodaira - Haijima)
-Kokubunji Line (kokubunji - Higashimurayama)
22：30-
-Ikebukuro Line (Ikebukuro - Hannou)
-Toshima Line (Nerima - Toshimaen)
-Shinzyuku Line (Seibu Shinzyuku - Motokawagoe)
-Haijima Line (Kodaira - Haijima)
-Kokubunji Line (Kokubunji - Higashimurayama)
-Tamagawa Line (Musashisakai -Koremasa)
Keio
18:00-22:00
In service
-Keio Line (Shinjuku - Chofu)
-Inokashira Line
Keisei
Out of service
-Chiba Line (Keisei Tsudanuma - Chibachuo)
-Chihara Line (Chibachuo - Chiharadai)
-Skyliner
Tobu
In service
-Isezaki Line (Asakusa - Takenozuka)
-Kameido Line
-Tozyo Line (Ikebukuro - Narimasu)
18:00-
-Noda Line (Omiya - Iwatsuki)
21:00-
-Tozyo Line (Ikebukuro - Shiki)
Keikyu
Out of service
-All Line
The Information of Public Transportation in Tokyo Area on March 14th
13:00 March 14th
JR
In service
-Yamanote Line
-Choou Line (Tokyo - Tachikawa)
-Keihin Tohoku Line (Kamata - Akabane)
-Zyoban Line (Ueno - Matsudo)
-Saikyo Line (Osaki - Omiya)
-Zyoetsu Shinkansen
-Nagano Shinkansen
Tokyo Metro
In service
-Ginza Line
-Marunouchi Line
-Hibiya Line
-Tozai Line
-Chiyoda Line
-Yurakucho Line
-Hanzomon Line
-Nanboku Line
-Hukutoshin Line
Odakyu
In service
-Shinzyuku - Kyodo
Tokyu
In service
-Toyoko Line(Shibuya - Musashikosugi)
-Meguro Line(Meguro - Musashikosugi)
-The other Lines
From 16:30 All Lines will be in service.
Seibu
12：00～16：00
-Ikebukuro Line (Ikebukuro - Seibu Chichibu)
-Toshima Line (Nerima - Toshimaen)
-Shinzyuku Line (Seibu Shinzyuku - Tanashi)
-Tamagawa Line (Musashisakai - Koremasa)
16：30～21：00
-Ikebukuro Line (Ikebukuro - Nerimatakanodai)
-Toshima Line (Nerima - Toshimaen)
-Shinzyuku Line (Seibu Shinzyuku - Saginomiya)
-Tamagawa Line (Musashisakai - Koremasa)
21：00～22：30
-Ikebukuro Line (Ikebukuro - Kotesashi)
-Toshima Line (Nerima - Toshimaen)
-Shinzyuku Line (Seibu Shinzyuku - Motokawagoe)
-Haijima Line (Kodaira - Haijima)
-Kokubunji Line (kokubunji - Higashimurayama)
22：30～
-Ikebukuro Line (Ikebukuro - Hannou)
-Toshima Line (Nerima - Toshimaen)
-Shinzyuku Line (Seibu Shinzyuku - Motokawagoe)
-Haijima Line (Kodaira - Haijima)
-Kokubunji Line (Kokubunji - Higashimurayama)
-Tamagawa Line (Musashisakai -Koremasa)
Keio
18:00-22:00
In service
-Shinjuku - Chofu
Keisei
Out of service
-Chiba Line (Keisei Tsudanuma - Chibachuo)
-Chihara Line (Chibachuo - Chiharadai)
Keikyu
Out of service
-All Line
JR
In service
-Yamanote Line
-Choou Line (Tokyo - Tachikawa)
-Keihin Tohoku Line (Kamata - Akabane)
-Zyoban Line (Ueno - Matsudo)
-Saikyo Line (Osaki - Omiya)
-Zyoetsu Shinkansen
-Nagano Shinkansen
Tokyo Metro
In service
-Ginza Line
-Marunouchi Line
-Hibiya Line
-Tozai Line
-Chiyoda Line
-Yurakucho Line
-Hanzomon Line
-Nanboku Line
-Hukutoshin Line
Odakyu
In service
-Shinzyuku - Kyodo
Tokyu
In service
-Toyoko Line(Shibuya - Musashikosugi)
-Meguro Line(Meguro - Musashikosugi)
-The other Lines
From 16:30 All Lines will be in service.
Seibu
12：00～16：00
-Ikebukuro Line (Ikebukuro - Seibu Chichibu)
-Toshima Line (Nerima - Toshimaen)
-Shinzyuku Line (Seibu Shinzyuku - Tanashi)
-Tamagawa Line (Musashisakai - Koremasa)
16：30～21：00
-Ikebukuro Line (Ikebukuro - Nerimatakanodai)
-Toshima Line (Nerima - Toshimaen)
-Shinzyuku Line (Seibu Shinzyuku - Saginomiya)
-Tamagawa Line (Musashisakai - Koremasa)
21：00～22：30
-Ikebukuro Line (Ikebukuro - Kotesashi)
-Toshima Line (Nerima - Toshimaen)
-Shinzyuku Line (Seibu Shinzyuku - Motokawagoe)
-Haijima Line (Kodaira - Haijima)
-Kokubunji Line (kokubunji - Higashimurayama)
22：30～
-Ikebukuro Line (Ikebukuro - Hannou)
-Toshima Line (Nerima - Toshimaen)
-Shinzyuku Line (Seibu Shinzyuku - Motokawagoe)
-Haijima Line (Kodaira - Haijima)
-Kokubunji Line (Kokubunji - Higashimurayama)
-Tamagawa Line (Musashisakai -Koremasa)
Keio
18:00-22:00
In service
-Shinjuku - Chofu
Keisei
Out of service
-Chiba Line (Keisei Tsudanuma - Chibachuo)
-Chihara Line (Chibachuo - Chiharadai)
Keikyu
Out of service
-All Line
Mar 13, 2011
It's Time to Come Back the "Real" World
I wrote "I'm living in the surreal world now." in yesterday's journal. (http://goo.gl/O0UmR)
When I watch the disaster area on TV, I feel that I'm living in the "surreal" world.
But it I think it should be time to come back my own "real" world.
I decided to continue my ordinary life on Sunday.
First I turned off the TV. My wife and I went outside. It's a good sunny day.
I'd like to swim and have a massage as I usually do on Sunday. But there was no swimming pool open in my neighborhood, so I just had a massage. My body, which had been stiff because of watching TV too much, got softer.
We went to a ramen shop. I felt that it's happy and precious for me to eat an ordinary ramen with my wife on Sunday.
From tomorrow I'll go to work. I've been able to prepare for it physically and mentally.
I'm thinking of what my company and I can do for the victims of the earthquake in this "real" world.
When I watch the disaster area on TV, I feel that I'm living in the "surreal" world.
But it I think it should be time to come back my own "real" world.
I decided to continue my ordinary life on Sunday.
First I turned off the TV. My wife and I went outside. It's a good sunny day.
I'd like to swim and have a massage as I usually do on Sunday. But there was no swimming pool open in my neighborhood, so I just had a massage. My body, which had been stiff because of watching TV too much, got softer.
We went to a ramen shop. I felt that it's happy and precious for me to eat an ordinary ramen with my wife on Sunday.
From tomorrow I'll go to work. I've been able to prepare for it physically and mentally.
I'm thinking of what my company and I can do for the victims of the earthquake in this "real" world.
Mar 12, 2011
The J. G. Ballard's World
I'm reading J. G. Ballard's book "Miracles of Life".
He was born in Shanghai and his family was captured by Japanese army in World War 2. He wrote about it in his novel "Empire of the Sun".
His experience was real, but it was so severe that it seemed unreal or surreal.
The things, which are happening in Japan, seems surreal like the Ballard's world.
I have always heard that large earthquakes would happen in near future in Tokyo and Japan. In fact Tokyo was destroyed by the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923. (And then Tokyo was destroyed by bombing of the American Airforce in 1945.) In 1995 the Hanshin earthquake hit Kobe.
I can understand what happens in my head, but I can't accept that it is real in my heart.
I'm living in the surreal world now.
He was born in Shanghai and his family was captured by Japanese army in World War 2. He wrote about it in his novel "Empire of the Sun".
His experience was real, but it was so severe that it seemed unreal or surreal.
The things, which are happening in Japan, seems surreal like the Ballard's world.
I have always heard that large earthquakes would happen in near future in Tokyo and Japan. In fact Tokyo was destroyed by the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923. (And then Tokyo was destroyed by bombing of the American Airforce in 1945.) In 1995 the Hanshin earthquake hit Kobe.
I can understand what happens in my head, but I can't accept that it is real in my heart.
I'm living in the surreal world now.
I Am Safe at Home Now
My wife and I are safe at home now.
Yesterday my parents, wife and I went to play golf at Omiya Kokusai golf course. When I finished a round of golf and went to a clubhouse, the earthquake happened.
I saw the earth heaving like the ocean. The earth, which should be solid, seemed like liquid. The cars in the parking lot were literally jumping.
We wanted to get back home from Omiya, but all of the railways stopped. Omiya station was very crowded and in chaos.
As night was coming in, it was getting colder outside. It was good that Takashimaya department store in front of the station opened all night offering a shelter. (Thank Takashimaya very very much! I got this information from twitter. Twitter is quite useful at this time.)
At the midnight the crowds in the station were getting smaller, and we could take a taxi after standing a line in two hours.
My home is almost completely safe, but some books have fallen down.
But I feel afterquakes very often. I'm used to earthquakes, but it's first time I've had such an experience. I'm afraid of what will happen next in the Japanese islands.
Yesterday my parents, wife and I went to play golf at Omiya Kokusai golf course. When I finished a round of golf and went to a clubhouse, the earthquake happened.
I saw the earth heaving like the ocean. The earth, which should be solid, seemed like liquid. The cars in the parking lot were literally jumping.
We wanted to get back home from Omiya, but all of the railways stopped. Omiya station was very crowded and in chaos.
As night was coming in, it was getting colder outside. It was good that Takashimaya department store in front of the station opened all night offering a shelter. (Thank Takashimaya very very much! I got this information from twitter. Twitter is quite useful at this time.)
At the midnight the crowds in the station were getting smaller, and we could take a taxi after standing a line in two hours.
My home is almost completely safe, but some books have fallen down.
But I feel afterquakes very often. I'm used to earthquakes, but it's first time I've had such an experience. I'm afraid of what will happen next in the Japanese islands.
Mar 7, 2011
Sotatsu, Korin, and Hoitsu
Sotatsu Tawaraya 俵屋宗達
Korin Ogata 尾形光琳
Hoitsu Sakai 酒井抱一
My wife I attended an exhibition called "The Art of Rimpa: From Kōetsu and Sōtatsu to the Edo Rimpa School" at Idemitsu Museum of art.
Since Rimpa School (琳派) is quite popular in Japan, most of exhibitions of Rimpa School are very interesting but too crowded, and I got tired after seeing the exhibitions. At this time we went to this exhibition on Sunday, but it was nice that it was not too crowded and we could see paintings without any hurry.
Most of schools (Ryuha; 流派) of crafts and performing arts in Japan like Kano School (狩野派) have their own organizations and transmit their traditions from masters to their disciples. But Rimpa School didn't have any organization, and some painters, who respected former painters, transmitted its tradition by their own will.
The members of Kano School thought of themselves as the members of it. But Sotatsu Tawaraya, Korin Ogata and Hoitsu Sakai, who are the member of Rimpa School, didn't think of themselves as the member of it. Future generations call them Rimpa School, because they shared the same tradition.
In most of schools the founder is greatest and disciples are getting less great. It's natural that the founder is greater than his disciples, because no one can build a new school expect the great artists and ordinary artists can just transmit the tradition.
In Rimpa School the tradition was not transmitted from a master to his disciples, but I think that the founder is greatest and successors are getting less great.
Sotatsu Tawaraya, the founder of Rimpa School is greatest in his school. His paintings are strange because of its bold deformation. In his paintings the proportions of humans and objects and the perspective are often strange. He expressed mountains by painting only green color. I think that one of his paintings is like Gauguin’s and another is like Cubism. His paintings are strange but quite impressive.
I can realize that Hoitsu Sakai respected Sotatsu Tawaraya and Korin Ogata through his paintings. He had brilliant techniques of paintings. But his paintings don't have a strong attraction. The difference between the international and powerful atmosphere of the Momoyama era when Sotatsu lived and the delicate and exclusive atmosphere of the Edo era when Hoitsu lived might cause the difference between Sotatsu's and Hoitsu's paintings.
Sotatsu's paintings with gold backgrounds are excellent. His brilliant paintings are more prominent than gold background. But gold backgrounds are more prominent than Hoitsu's paintings. His paintings with silver backgrounds are excellent.
Sotatsu's most important work is "Fujin Raijin zu (風神雷神図屏風)" with a gold background and Hoitsu's most important work is "Natsu Aki Kusa zu (夏秋草図屏風)" with a silver background.
Korin Ogata 尾形光琳
Hoitsu Sakai 酒井抱一
My wife I attended an exhibition called "The Art of Rimpa: From Kōetsu and Sōtatsu to the Edo Rimpa School" at Idemitsu Museum of art.
Since Rimpa School (琳派) is quite popular in Japan, most of exhibitions of Rimpa School are very interesting but too crowded, and I got tired after seeing the exhibitions. At this time we went to this exhibition on Sunday, but it was nice that it was not too crowded and we could see paintings without any hurry.
Most of schools (Ryuha; 流派) of crafts and performing arts in Japan like Kano School (狩野派) have their own organizations and transmit their traditions from masters to their disciples. But Rimpa School didn't have any organization, and some painters, who respected former painters, transmitted its tradition by their own will.
The members of Kano School thought of themselves as the members of it. But Sotatsu Tawaraya, Korin Ogata and Hoitsu Sakai, who are the member of Rimpa School, didn't think of themselves as the member of it. Future generations call them Rimpa School, because they shared the same tradition.
In most of schools the founder is greatest and disciples are getting less great. It's natural that the founder is greater than his disciples, because no one can build a new school expect the great artists and ordinary artists can just transmit the tradition.
In Rimpa School the tradition was not transmitted from a master to his disciples, but I think that the founder is greatest and successors are getting less great.
Sotatsu Tawaraya, the founder of Rimpa School is greatest in his school. His paintings are strange because of its bold deformation. In his paintings the proportions of humans and objects and the perspective are often strange. He expressed mountains by painting only green color. I think that one of his paintings is like Gauguin’s and another is like Cubism. His paintings are strange but quite impressive.
I can realize that Hoitsu Sakai respected Sotatsu Tawaraya and Korin Ogata through his paintings. He had brilliant techniques of paintings. But his paintings don't have a strong attraction. The difference between the international and powerful atmosphere of the Momoyama era when Sotatsu lived and the delicate and exclusive atmosphere of the Edo era when Hoitsu lived might cause the difference between Sotatsu's and Hoitsu's paintings.
Sotatsu's paintings with gold backgrounds are excellent. His brilliant paintings are more prominent than gold background. But gold backgrounds are more prominent than Hoitsu's paintings. His paintings with silver backgrounds are excellent.
Sotatsu's most important work is "Fujin Raijin zu (風神雷神図屏風)" with a gold background and Hoitsu's most important work is "Natsu Aki Kusa zu (夏秋草図屏風)" with a silver background.
Mar 4, 2011
Japanese as a Local Language and English as the Only Universal Language in the Modern World
I've finished reading Minae Mizumura's books "When Japanese Language Dies", "The Meaning of Reading in Japanese" and "The Meaning of Writing in Japanese".
She thought of the meaning of reading and writing in Japanese as a local language and in English in the modern world where English has became the universal language in these three books.
I'm quite interested in this subject, because I'm recently writing in both of Japanese and English on the internet.
I found an interesting passage in the book "The Meaning of Writing in Japanese". I'll quote it as follows.
It's difficult for me as a native Japanese speaker to learn English, and impossible to speak as well as a native English speaker. But I'll feel at ease, if it's fine to speak in Japaenglish as one of dialects of the world language English.
Will Japanese people permit "fake" Japanese spoken by non-native speakers?
She thought of the meaning of reading and writing in Japanese as a local language and in English in the modern world where English has became the universal language in these three books.
I'm quite interested in this subject, because I'm recently writing in both of Japanese and English on the internet.
I found an interesting passage in the book "The Meaning of Writing in Japanese". I'll quote it as follows.
English as a world language is the language which people, who don't have the right to use it by nature, use. People have expected that twenty-first century will be the time of English as the world language. Now the number of specialists in writing, who writes in English rather than their mother tongues, is increasing rapidly. The world, which they will write in English, will be just “the world” in itself, if the trend continues. At that time "English language literature" (not English literature) will mean just "the world literature". It will be most excellent necessarily, because the number of readers and writers is by far greatest and the language is essentially recognized as a thing coming from outside. The glory of novels written in the other languages will be gone and such novels will be peripheral. English used by Indian people had been called Anglo-Indian and divided from "true" English. But now it's natural that Indian people (and people living in the former English colonies), who have been spoken "fake" English, bear "the world literature" and became paradigmatic pioneers.I can understand the notion of "the world language" well. In fact I often communicate with non-native English speakers in "fake" English on business and on the internet.
(pp12-13)
It's difficult for me as a native Japanese speaker to learn English, and impossible to speak as well as a native English speaker. But I'll feel at ease, if it's fine to speak in Japaenglish as one of dialects of the world language English.
Will Japanese people permit "fake" Japanese spoken by non-native speakers?
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