According to News Web Easy, JR East Japan Railway Company has been hiding Russian guide on the signboard which are located at Ebisu station, Tokyo with a paper since 7th of this month. On the signboard such as 「Roppongi」「Nagamegura」were written in Russian in order to guide people who takes tubes.
The Company has explained that since Russia has attacked Ukraine they were told by some people who uses the station that 「Each time they see the signboard they feel unpleasant」so they have hidden the Russian characters.
However, over the internet many people opposed to it because hiding it leads to discrimination. As a result of that, the company has decided to put them back to as it was from 15th.
JR East Railway said 「After having heard the opinions of the people who opposed, we thought it would be better to put the signboard back to as it was. We sincerely apologies for our action which makes people think that we are discriminating. 」
An actual article at News webs easy for Japanese learner.

JR東日本 案内のロシア語を隠したが差別と言われて戻す
[4月15日 16時50分]
JR東日本は今月7日から、東京の恵比寿駅にある看板のロシア語の字を紙で隠していました。看板には、地下鉄に乗る人を案内するためにロシア語で「中目黒」や「六本木」と書いてありました。
会社は、ロシアがウクライナに攻撃を始めてから、駅を利用する人から「看板を見ると嫌な気持ちになる」と言われて隠したと説明していました。
しかし、インターネットなどでは、隠すことが差別につながるなどと多くの人が反対しました。このため会社は15日から看板を前のように戻すことを決めました。
JR東日本は「反対する人の意見を聞いて、看板を戻したほうがいいと考えました。差別していると思われるようなことをして申し訳ありません」と話しています。
Hope the war will end soon and we all have a peace of mind. Then none of theses problems occur.

Interesting.
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I think Japanese people tend to care what other people think too much sometimes.
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