黄色い線の内側

I posted this on the twitter account a few weeks back. Let's take a look in more detail to the meaning.

電車（でんしゃ）- Train
に - Particle to say 'of'
ご注意（ちゅうい）- Be Careful

黄色い（きいろ）- Yellow
線（せん）- Line
の - Possessive particle
内側（うちがわ）- Inside (behind)
で - Particle to say 'at'
おまちねがいます- Please wait

Translation
Be careful of the train. Please wait inside the yellow line.

Sometimes people and usually children play on the other side of the yellow line. It drives me mad or rather makes me terribly nervous. I've never seen anyone jump in front of the train and I hope I never do. I have been late because of death by train suicide and it's a real pain. Recently the train lines have imposed a fine for jumpers. Of course the jumpers are dead but the families have to pay for the clean up and loss of time. They hope that this will discourage people from taking that jump. So far I think it has been working. The death by train numbers last year and for this year decreased. Suicide rates haven't. People are just killing themselves in different ways I suppose. Although I heard that Korea beat Japan last year for the number of suicides.

Oh boy this is grim....

以上です。

ジョシュア  

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P.S. In case if you were wondering 自殺（じさつ） is the Japanese term for suicide.