46 things that surprise FG in Japan

[wagyl]

Nay-koh whao! Koo-da-sa-ee.

I really wish these people would indicate where they like to put the stress on words with CAPS.

Gan-ba-tay! (My favourite)
And for fuck's sake he will need to, if I ever find him using the "I'm allergic to beef" line to avoid foods he merely finds undesirable.

Edited to transition his gender from writing style to those indicated by his chromosomes. You need to align your identities, bro!

[wuchan]

I love how she sounds everything out in perfect katakoto form. Duuuuu yuuuuu naaa whaaa-i-um-seh-nnnn?

it's a he....

C-M “Spike” Daeley is a teacher, poet, lyricist, and travel enthusiast currently working as an English Instructor in Tokyo. Follow his travels on......

[Taro Toporific]

Is a rocketnews post from 2012 really perturbing your 和?

46 things that surprise foreigners in Japan
http://en.rocketnews24.com/2012/06/22/4 ... -in-japan/

[wagyl]

it's a he....

C-M “Spike” Daeley is a teacher, poet, lyricist, and travel enthusiast currently working as an English Instructor in Tokyo. Follow his travels on......

Aside from his poetry, works include 11 American habits that saved me in Tokyo, 12 American habits I lost in Tokyo and 16 commandments for dating a girl from Wisconsin.

Plus, he must be a master at Japanese, he spent at least some of his teens in Okinawa, and claims to be Third Culture (whatever that is)

[Taro Toporific]

{AMY CHAVEZ} Too rosey, definitely pointing out pluses but my guess is she hasn't been here long??.

She's been in Japan since you were not quite wearing diapers yet. The problem is she's a brain dead retard that thinks rain is just liquid sunshine. Seriously, probably one of the least intelligent people ever to make it in Japan. Her observations and insights are so below vacuous she would have to get a brain transplant to crawl uphill to insipid.She makes Classic Ameridumb seem intellectual. It's a wonder she hasn't died from forgetting to breathe. American style Expat trophy wives adore her.

Since there are no expat trophy wives remaining in Japan, Amy Chavez has thrown in the towel (or has finally been shown the door). Today was her last humorless column for the Japan Times.

OUR LIVES | JAPAN LITE
Breaking up is hard to do, but sometimes it needs to be done
The Japan Times | August 2, 2020 by Amy Chavez, contributing writer
When I first came to Japan as a university English teacher in 1993, the hydrangea were in full bloom and I was 29 years old. Four years later, in 1997 blah, blah, blah...

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[Buraku]

Another list. This time it's 50 reasons Tokyo is the world's greatest city. The list is .... meh. Check out the comments though. They're really negative.

Here's a couple of examples:

All true, but you forgot to mention that as a non-Japanese/foreigner you will be the victim of racism and discrimination without fail. Moreover, English is not widely spoken, or even attempted at many of the above establishment. Finally, don't even consider going if you do not have serious coin; backpackers not welcome.

Lucy Blackman, Lindsay Hawker, Nicola Furlong, Scott Kang, Richard Scott Tucker, Julia Chu, Lin Chih-ying, all young foreigners murdered because they thought Tokyo night-life was safe. There are many more cases we never hear about.

Many Japanese think the red light zones are dangerous. Governor Ishihara said he was too scared to go there, and he ordered police to arrest foreigners working there. Roppongi and Shinjuku are notorious for credit card scams, spiked drinks and drugs, yakuza violence and rip-offs. You didn't hear about those 10 guys with baseball bats beating somebody to death in front of 300 people at a dance club? Remember the Nozaki case? He got 3 years for flushing a Filipina's body parts down a toilet, got out of jail, killed another. Even famous TV host Peter Barakan was assaulted. Mainali from Nepal spent 16 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit in Shibuya red light district. The stories go on and on.

These gaijin writers, who work in government propaganda roles, would know all about these cases. Writing about cat cafes and eating dirt is one thing. Telling foreign visitors they are safe in a red light district, when they are not, is pretty bad. It's an outright lie, and a dangerous one. Why is CNN paying these people to write this? Would you tell people they are safe in sleazy bars in Pattaya or Phuket or Phnom Penh or Manila? When the next innocent foreigner dies in Tokyo, we can thank this site for keeping people blind and ignorant about Japan.

Of course the person who wrote the above doesn't mind mixing their 'facts' up. Lucy Blackman was working as a hostess and chose to go on a date outside nighclub/restaurant territory with a stranger. He may have initially gone to the club as a customer but it was her choice to go to his home at the beachside and he was still a stranger. She did not deserve to have anything bad happen to her - assault, rape, murder, or anything else - but I remember thinking at the time her parents and Tony Blair were pushing the Japanese govt to do something to investigate for real that she was probably the victim of a rogue customer.

Hostessing had and has no visa for women from western countries - why on earth did that not ring a very loud bell with Lucy and others? Sure I remember reading all the bullshit in guide books and through the media how western women could earn money by hostessing back in the 90s and early 2,000s but if anybody who went on a tourist visa to Japan to do that and didn't receive a 'hostess visa' didn't smell a rat, then that was ultimately down to them. Everybody except for a person who has a sub par IQ understands that in any country working on a tourist visa is a legal no no regardless of whether you get away with it or not.

Lindsay Hawker wasn't murdered by the Tokyo nightlife or red light districts. She was murdered at the apartment of a stranger who had asked her to tutor him privately. His apartment was not in a red light district. She didn't apply the normal thinking she would have in her home country that it may not be a good idea to go by herself to the home of a bloke she didn't know but who claimed he wanted her to teach him a language or some other academic subject.

The other unlucky foreigners who were murdered in red light districts in Tokyo could just as well have been murdered in other big cities all over the world - and not necessarily in red light districts. Just ask the families and friends of the Asian girls murdered in Brisbane, Australia, over the last couple of years. In both cases the sexual assault-murders (at least one of the poor girls was sexually assaulted) were crimes of opportunity committed by some scumbag wandering around at times when few people were around but those girls were unlucky enough to be on their way to an early morning job or whatever.

There are many other examples of other cities in Oz and all over the world that could be talked about. I have been around Osaka's most dangerous areas both during the day and at night and not once did I feel anything could end up being bad or fatal for me. In bad areas anywhere I am alert, I can identify where not to go, I am respectful to the locals, and I don't wander around looking like I have no idea what I am doing.

Guns, girls... and amputated fingers: Extraordinarily intimate photos from inside the world of Japan's Yakuza crime gangs
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... world.html

Japan bomb squad called to empty case full of sex toys
https://thethaiger.com/hot-news/suitcas ... s-sex-toys

Police on alert as yakuza, ‘scouts’ continue turf war in Kabukicho
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/13882204

[Buraku]

For Japanophiles, that Japan can sometimes be as scandalous or corrupt as anywhere else in the world

Tokyo to seek return of public funds from scandal-hit Olympic committee
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20 ... na/010000c

for culture political people

Jpn people did not watch 'Breaking Bad' and Japan doesn't listen to degenerate stoner gay wrestling mma midgets like JoeRogan names some globalist Jews without getting blacklisted?

Low crime?

https://twitter.com/Emilio2763/status/1 ... 1247894529
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