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Four figures who may need a seat.
Also known as: Priority seat Japan, Silver seat
Marks the priority seats on Japanese public transport, showing the four categories of passenger they are for.
Marks seats reserved for passengers who may need them.
Contexts: Public information
Was called the silver seat when introduced on the Japanese National Railways in 1973, after the silver-grey fabric used to mark it out; the name survives in ordinary speech decades after the fabric and the operator both went.
Contexts: Public information
Draws all four categories rather than one, which is a deliberate departure from the single wheelchair or single elderly figure used in most systems: the sign is trying to forestall the argument about who qualifies.
Contexts: Public information
Four figures side by side in silhouette: one leaning on a stick, one seated in a wheeled chair, one holding a small child, and one with a rounded abdomen.