"Kigyo Sekinin" (1)

1 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU 2005-05-16 23:00 ID:JUZlBgYm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4551091.stm
"There is a commonly used phrase in Japan, which has been heard a lot recently.

"Kigyo Sekinin" means company responsibility, and it is something that all employees are expected to feel for the actions of their employer.

Perhaps it slipped the minds of 43 workers at JR West, the operator of the ill-fated train that crashed three weeks ago, when they continued with their plans for a bowling contest even as their colleagues were pulling bodies from the wreckage.

The company employs more than 32,000 people, so it is perhaps understandable that not everyone felt they had to be involved in the rescue effort.

But that is not how many members of the public viewed their behaviour when it was published in the press.

Last week a female member of staff was knocked to the ground on a station platform.

In another incident, a driver was attacked in his cab by two men, and death threats have been left on drivers' windows.

The number of physical and verbal assaults has risen to a point where the railway unions have set up telephone help lines to counsel frightened staff."

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