OSAKA -- A 25-year-old blind man filed a 48 million yen suit Thursday against the Osaka Municipal Government, charging he fell off a subway platform in 1995, was dragged by a train and seriously injured because the city, which operates the subway, did not take adequate safety measures for the visually impaired.
According to the suit filed at the Osaka District Court, graduate student Ayato Saki fell off the east end of the eastbound platform at Tennoji subway station on the Midosuji line around 10 p.m. on Oct. 21, 1995.
After getting off the train, he walked along the raised yellow warning line to assist blind passengers using a walking stick. But then he stepped over the L-shaped end of the strip, leaving him in a 5-meter gap with no warning line.