#tsukin jigoku

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These are everyday scenes in Tokyo's "tsukin jigoku" - or "commuter hell" - as Japanese term the daily struggle of millions of commuters making their tortuous journey in overfilled trains to their workplace in the capital.

Lars Nicolaysen, Taking A Trip To ''Hell'' And Back In Japan's Overfilled Trains, Digital Journal, April 5, 2002

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