The Tokyo Fire Department on Sunday presented letters of appreciation from its director general to two men who rescued a 24-year-old pregnant woman Wednesday who had fallen into the path of a train.
The rescue was made less than a week after the Jan. 26 incident at JR Shin-Okubo Station, in which two people were killed by a train while attempting to save a drunken man who had fallen onto the tracks.
Tadashi Kuyama, 42, and Osamu Nishizawa, 47, both residents of Chofu, saved her at about 10:50 p.m. at Tsutsujigaoka Station on the Keio Line in Chofu.
The woman, who is anemic, fell off the platform and onto the tracks after losing consciousness and injured her legs.
"Anyone would do the same thing, I just happened to be there," said Kuyama, adding he was too desperate to recall the Jan. 26 tragedy.
Nishizawa said he was glad to learn from the newspapers that the woman came out of the incident unharmed.
Three other men, including Hiromitsu Yokoyama, 29, from the Tokyo suburb of Komae, reportedly helped in the rescue.