To date, the railway companies in the Kansai Railway Association and West Japan Railway Company, 25 companies in all, have asked passengers to keep mobile phones turned off throughout the day near priority seats (with some companies using train cars where mobile phones are to be turned off) to observe mobile phone etiquette.
　Guidance will be reassessed so that even more passengers will observe the manners, based on revisions by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications in Jan. 2013 to the “Policy to Prevent Radio Waves Emitted by Various Apparatus from Impacting Implantable Medical Devices” and current conditions that include changes in the present-day utility configurations of mobile phones.
　Starting July 1, 2014, the guidance on mobile phone manners will be changed to “Please turn off mobile phones in the vicinity of priority seats when the train is crowded.”
　Regardless of the degree of congestion, passengers will continue to be asked to refrain from talking on mobile phones while on trains as it inconveniences others.

• 1. Period of implementation:
     

     Jul. 1, 2014 (Tue.) onward (Each company will change their guidance in turn.)

  2. Guidance:
     

     Prior to Change: “Please turn off mobile phones in the vicinity of priority seats.” After Change: “Please turn off mobile phones in the vicinity of priority seats when the train is crowded.”

  3. Method of providing information to passengers:
     

     Posting jointly utilized posters in stations and on trains

     
     
     
  4. Implementing companies:
     

     Railway companies in the Kansai Railway Association and the West Japan Railway Company (total 25 companies)

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  Image of poster (click on image to enlarge)