Japanese Signs

[Xollob]

Could anybody please enlighten me as to the meaning of these signs on the Japanese Underground?

[orange-gnome]

hahaha bizarre!!!!

[~Wingnut~]

The first one is priority to someone with a broken arm (or any bandaged part I guess). Second one priority for people with young kids. Third, priority for pregnant women. I can't for life of me remember what last one is tho, sorry.

I think this is right anyway :o)

~Wingnut~

[becks]

They're doctored obv, or am i getting whooshed? Having just returned from japan, they are for pregnant woman, one is of a person holding a crutch, one is for someone disabled and one for carrying children i think. Can;'t quite remeber - they're similar to ours ie give up this seat or those seats that are reserved for pregnant/disabled/injured whatever, but i defeinitely would have remembered seeing those signs!

[jno]

last one appears to be reserved for a woman actually having a child right now.

[brachiopod]

I think these signs first appeared on London Underground's Central Line, warning late night travellers not to have sex in the tube train, as, in the event of pregnancy, they could not guarantee that the train would reach Ealing Broadway before the child was born.

[birdy72]

nice one jno, i dig that