“It happened yesterday. I was on a special rapid train, on my way to see my friend in downtown Tokyo. The train was slowly passing by Koen-ji station when there was an announcement that there was an emergency and the train had to stop. As soon as the train stopped, I heard a woman’s panicked voice from outside. In a couple of seconds, I found out it was a young woman on a bench on the platform in front of me. She was tearing her hair out, crying and screaming with a twitched face. Another woman came and started to calm her down. Then the station officers came with a stretcher and put it down on the platform right in front of me. I realized that someone jumped in front of the train I was on. Another woman, probably in her 60s, was showing the officers over and over how the person jumped in. Soon, I heard the siren of an ambulance approached. After it was safe, the doors of the train were opened and the passengers got off. I moved to another platform to catch a different train to my destination, and everyone else did the same, so the platform got dangerously crowded. When I was leaving on the train, I saw the train I was on that hit the person. It looked like the person was dragged for a while after he/she jumped in and plastic sheets were put up all along the rail to block the view as they tried to rescue the person. I’m not sure if the person was still alive or not.”
I got this news from my friend in Tokyo a couple days ago. People commit suicide by jumping in front of a moving train every week. Pray that more people in Japan will get a chance to hear about Jesus before they take their lives.