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Off the Rails: A Journey Through Japan

submitted by Babymech
8 years 4 months ago

A personal documentary exploring Japanese train culture. It covers:

- Rural lines connecting remote villages to the rest of Japan, at risk of dying out
- Train mascots, including actual trains as mascots, idols, and cats (also at risk of dying)
- The culture of punctuality and professionalism around Japanese public service and transport
- Trains in Japanese literature and other media

Interesting stuff if you have half an hour or so.

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*blocked in America

This video has been flagged as having an embed that is Region Blocked to not function in certain geographical locations - declared blocked by eric3579.

hamsteralliance

Found it over here:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3hqtf7_off-the-rails-a-journey-through-japan_travel

Not region blocked.

Babymech says...

Hm, that's disappointing - that's what I get for using Hola. Is there a way to embed the Dailymotion video instead?

Yes you have to use the edit function and replace the embed. If you are using new Videosift version the edit function can be found by scrolling over your sift name on the top header bar. There will be a drop down menu with an edit function

Hm, that's disappointing - that's what I get for using Hola. Is there a way to embed the Dailymotion video instead?

Babymech says...

Thanks! After a bit of poking around in the embed format it worked out, and it even gave me a more enticing thumbnail to boot - everyone will want to know about the cat who healed Japan.

Yes you have to use the edit function and replace the embed. If you are using new Videosift version the edit function can be found by scrolling over your sift name on the top header bar. There will be a drop down menu with an edit function

Moving this video to Babymech's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

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