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During my time as student in Berlin, I went every day with the subway across Berlin to the Free University in Dahlem. People sat with their backs to the window side, i.e. all were facing each other, face to face. No, almost all the faces were covered with a newspaper, up to 95% with the infamous BILD, and with the equally notorious BZ. Now and then you could see the TAGESSPIEGEL. The oversized letters of the red tops enabled effortless reading.
Here in Tokyo in the urban trains you sit face to face as well. But you almost never see a newspaper, but most people have a cell phone (Mobile) before their faces: to read, play, watch movies, smile, do hairdressing in the mirror image of the device … but they do not phone or receice calls with loud ringing. These rules are really observed.
With focussing on their mobile phone, people leave the train, go upstairs, and move fast from or to the large tower buildings.
