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Apr 2, 2009

Only the press release is an April Fool's joke


Most of the JR train platforms in metro Tokyo are non-smoking as of yesterday. No more clusters of smokers huddled around industrial platform ashtray installations. Nice. Would you like a few facts about this, maybe from Japan Rail? This looks like the relevant press release: "Set Areas in the Metropolitan Area to be Made Entirely No-Smoking." Let's just click on it, as suggested at the top of the press release page, and see what it says. Ha! Gotcha! Only six of the last five dozen are actually links. The rest are just unlinked headlines, often vague ("set areas?"). Several with double exclamation points.

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