Blue LED lights have been placed at the end of each railway station on the 8-million passengers per day Yamanote line to curb the rising number of suicides in Tokyo. It's expected more than 35,000 people will kill themselves in Japan this year.
The light is supposed to have a calming effect. To make you forget why you wanted to jump and feel better about your life. It's supposed to make you think of the sky and the beach. Needless to say, the light is freaking scary, something straight out of a Japanese horror movie. I stood under it for a few seconds and felt an overwhelming sense of dread.
Here's what it looks like when a train is coming through-
Feel happy and relaxed now? I can't help wonder if it all ties in with the Japanese understanding of what happiness is. Here's a print I saw on a kid's T-shirt in a store today:
2 comments:
Well the lights make me want to do and roll up not to do.
Have they done a study to show if this has lowered the suicide rates?
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