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TikToker faces backlash for 'taping smartphone to train'; Tokyo Metro: 'We did not permit filming'

TikToker faces backlash for 'taping smartphone to train'; Tokyo Metro: 'We did not permit filming'

Regarding the incident in which a video of a smartphone taped to a train and a person running alongside the train on the platform after it departed was shared on social media, Tokyo Metro responded to ITmedia NEWS on August 31, saying, 'We have not permitted this filming.'

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電車でんしゃにテープでスマートフォンを貼はり付つけ、発車はっしゃ後ごにホームで列車れっしゃと並走へいそうする様子ようすを撮影さつえいした動画どうががSNSで拡散かくさんした件けんを巡めぐり、東京地下鉄とうきょうちかてつ(東京とうきょうメトロ)は8月がつ31日にち、ITmedia NEWSの取材しゅざいに対たいして「本件ほんけん撮影さつえいについて許可きょかした事実じじつはない」と回答かいとうした。

Regarding the incident in which a video of a smartphone taped to a train and a person running alongside the train on the platform after it departed was shared on social media, Tokyo Metro responded to ITmedia NEWS on August 31, saying, 'We have not permitted this filming.'

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