Worst Japanese Experiences

[aquamarine]

Just thought I'd start up this little topic for those of us who live or for those of you who have even traveled in Japan. What's a shitty experience you've had the displeasure of encountering? What's the worst thing that happened to you while in Japanaland? Didn't like the smell in Shibuya? Perhaps you were drugged while at a massage parlor in Shinjuku. Maybe you even got genital warts from a yomamnba in dogenzaka! Share share share!

Since I'm starting the thread, I'll start us off. As some of you may know from my past posts, I don't really care if you are into anime/manga and porno cartoons, that's your private life, but don't think for a second that I'm interested in seeing the latest adventures of a pubescent boy with 5-meter long tentacles raping his schoolgirl classmates or expect me to listen to you when you blather on about how the latest character in Dragon Ball Z took twenty fucking shows just to 'charge up' his energy and blow up a moon somewhere. I'M NOT FUCKING INTERESTED

Anyways... with that out of the way....

I had only been in Japan for about four months, this is back in 2004 and I was wandering around Akihabara looking for a place to buy airsoft guns. I had read about it online and knew it's general location, but other than that, didn't know really where to go. So while there, I was also looking around at a bunch of the initial D toys, thinking I could sell them to people on car forums back in Canada as it was very 'cool' at the time to watch the cartoon and play the video game at the local arcades on campus. So while there, I was spotted (I'm white - Canadian) by another foreigner. She lumbers up to me and PUSHES me with her hand as if I'm some old friend of hers...

"HI! Wow, I didnt' expect to see another white person here!" She is about 5'8 and easily three times my weight. I still kick myself for not asking for a photo of her. She then starts blathering on about how she came to Japan from somewhere in the states (I think it was Oregon) and that she's here with some friends to buy anime to "feed our addiction". She continues talking to me as if I'm interested. Oh, and for the record, I don't recall her real name but she said "Oh, but my online name is Cat... meeeoowwww". Well I damn near threw up all over her 64DDD flabby-sagging tits. Hell, I could have tried to knee her in the groin and hit a nipple.

I said something like "Well that's nice, I hope you have a nice trip." She continue to tag along with me much to my regret, asked me question after question, I politely answered her as best I could. Then she said "Y'know... there are some love hotels around here... you know what they're for... right?" I answered "Yes, I do." In which she replied with "Well... do... you wanna go? I'm really wet..."

OH MY FUCKING GOD.

Sorry, I may be Canadian, but that doesn't mean I need to be polite NOR does that mean that I like to sodomize moose.

At this point in the 'conversation', I mentioned that I had a birthday party I needed to attend, but thank you anyways for your... invitation. She seemed desperate to get a cock and actually asked if she could come to the private birthday party. No, it's PRIVATE for a reason, a group of men are going to a 6000-yen beer parlor (heh, ask about those sometime) and it's for men only. She gave me her 'card' which she had printed off (obviously) before traveling to Japan. The card had her email, home phone number and website.... and it was crookedly printed AND you could still see the tear-marks from some of those pre-cut dollar-store D-I-Y business cards.

I promptly gave up my search for the shop, said 'fuck this noise' and went to my buddies party to tell a story which earned me free drinks and several lap-dances from Chinese women for the remainder of the night. (Yes, Chinese women, ask about that one later as well)

 

[sergeidragunov]

"Y'know... there are some love hotels around here... you know what they're for... right?" I answered "Yes, I do." In which she replied with "Well... do... you wanna go? I'm really wet..."

OH MY FUCKING GOD.

Sorry, I may be Canadian, but that doesn't mean I need to be polite NOR does that mean that I like to sodomize moose.

bwahahahaha!

 

[aquamarine]

C'mon now folks. I can't be the only one to hold residence in Japan. Haven't any of you even TRAVELED to Japan??

Good christ... make me feel like a loner here.

 

[sergeidragunov]

:lols::lols::lols::lols::lols::lols::lols::lols:BWAHAHAHAH! MY STOMACK IS SPLITTING APART! PLEASE! BWAHAHAHAHAH!:lols::lols::lols::lols::lols::lols::lols::lols::lols::lols:

 

[guy]

Worst Japanese experience?





Leaving Japan.

 

[aquamarine]

Why'd you leave?

Funny how some buddies get sick of it and go back to their home countries only to be miserable at the lack of money they make and at the lack of interesting things to do. Shit, it costs nothing to go and travel around the world if you're based in Japan.
$400 to San Francisco
$600 to Vancouver
$180 to Hong Kong
$400 to Australia
$80 to any other Island from Honshu
$220 to Singapore
$140 to Thailand

 

[Sakunyuusha]

C'mon now folks. I can't be the only one to hold residence in Japan. Haven't any of you even TRAVELED to Japan??

I applied to JET and was rejected. I applied to medical school and was accepted. Dunno what else to tell you except "I tried but I lacked the money, and now I lack both the time and the money."

As for the moose girl, I saw that punchline first (before I saw anything else of your entire post) and I read backwards from there, so at first I thought you were talking about a Japanese girl who saw you (a white Canadian) and was into large animal bestiality and wanted to know if you knew what moose were good for (as a Canadian, of course!) and you were all like "holy fuck, girl! I don't want to have sex with no moose!" Your story was still funny but not as out-of-this-world as what I first read. ^^; I can easily imagine the 300-lb anime fangirl from the US West Coast going to Japan and blowing $500 to $1000 USD on anime despite the fact that SHE'S IN JAPAN and she probably spent about as much money just to get there in the first place.

Some upper middle class or rich suburban white kids can be fucking stupid like that. For the rest of us, there's backpacking. Though I suppose that has its own share of fucking stupid white suburban flavor to it.

 

[aquamarine]

You're American? If you're Australian, Canadian, English or from Ireland or Scottland, why not get a working holiday visa for yourself? Many of my mates are here with that.

 

[Sakunyuusha]

USA-American, unfortunately.

Besides, you can't obtain a working holiday visa when you're in medical school without dropping out of medical school, I'd imagine. So I mean, literally, the soonest I could hope to go to Japan would be if/when I complete my 4th year of school and officially become an "M.D." (although you're still not a all-on-your-own doctor until you complete residency which can take from 2 to 5 years). It'd be something of a summer vacation. That's the soonest I could visit: Summer 2011.

As for putting medical school on temporary hold so I can live this dream ... "$100,000 debt makes Homer something something." Pretty hard to just pack my bags and leave right now. And with the current economic climate in the US? I think Uncle Sam would turn the other cheek if the banks sicked their goons on me for defaulting like that, lol.

 

[guy]

Why'd you leave?

I was only there short-term on an abroad program. Believe me, if I had the choice I would have stayed. But I had to take care of my obligations back at home.

I applied to JET and was rejected.

I applied to JET and was waitlisted. Never got upgraded. Now I'm stuck in limbo, with no easy/guaranteed way of getting over to Japan, and absolutely no desire to go back to school (at this point in time).

:sick:

 

[Sakunyuusha]

Many/all of my friends who majored in Japanese and have since returned to Japan have done so not with programs like JET but by either:

a) working for Japanese companies in some capacity, or else
b) being sponsored by a Japanese company to continue their studies at Japanese universities

I don't have any friends who managed a Fulbright and none of my close friends are doing JET, though I have known people who did (or may even still be doing) JET.

I'll say, I think that Azrael fellow did the JET program more good than 10 years' worth of other JETters combined. Before him, I bet they didn't even get 10% as many applications as they do now, lol.

 

[glower]

Last May I was on vacation and staying in Namba. One morning I was standing in the crowd outside Bic Camera waiting for it to open and suddenly realised that there was a "white" female standig next to me - as described above another "moose" or more accurately a "fugly". She couldnt have stood closer to me without us both being naked. I ignored her but had the definite impression that she was hoping that I'd pick her up. In a land of plentiful beauties, what chance would she have?

 

[aquamarine]

What chance would she have? None.

When I first moved to Japan I lived in a Guest-house with 80 other people. One woman from New Zealand was of obvious Mauri decent judging by her skin tone (and the fact that she told us so). She was about 5'9 and close to 300 pounds. She made absolutely NO attempt to lose any weight and did nothing but eat and speak about how she was going to marry some rich Japanese guy.

Last I heard, she was still single, sex-less and about 50 pounds bigger than when I moved out of there.

So no, being a foreign woman in Japan means nothing if you're fat and ugly.

 

[Lost In Japan 1200]

Photos

I've been in living and working in Japan for a little over 2 months now and I do freelance photography for a company out of s.f., cali. usa.

For all the cool shoots I get to do with nice, pretty girls, I also must endure like 10 shoots with psychotic "boy band" type kids.

Thank god I have friends that live near me that I can turn to when I return home from a hellish day of work.

Tokyo is awesome, but working here sucks.

 

[sergeidragunov]

why working in Tokyo sucks? will you elaborate more? Mr. Lost In Japan are you a gamer? if so, how's TGS?

 

[aquamarine]

Which company do you work with and which studio are you located at? I'm still kicking around みなと未来 in the Seguchi building (my studio). If you play airsoft, it is across the street and North one block from where ANGS used to be. If you don't play airsoft or know the ANGS airsoft shop, then when on Sebuka main road, look for the big pottery/funeral store and go up three blocks. You'll see my studio in black lettering with a hello background 'Pozland Photography'. Stop by and have some tea. Bring in a portfolio and I might offer you a better paying job as I won't be able to make it to the Auto Salon next year and need someone in my place.

*edit*
Just saw Sergei is banned.. what'd he do now?

 

[buttcheeks]

Worst? too many to mention!
Years ago took a gf for a drink in Osaka. Due to various seat/music/snack charges, two drinks cost us (me) over a hundred bucks. The snacks arrived on the table un-ordered, the musician only played for three minutes before taking a break. What a rip.

 

[Sharpiedeluxe]

Worst experience? I don't know if I have one yet..
except for maybe the group I went with telling me to
calm down all the time. (T_T)

 

[aquamarine]

Well that may have been included in the worst experience for them. It's nice to be excited, but having them tell you to calm down "all the time" means you were annoying as hell. Next time, bring some ritalin and allow the other members of your group to enjoy themselves.

That isn't an insult, that's a real suggestion.

 

[imported_the_laughing_man]

My only bad experience was when I was in a bar (The Hub) with my wife and sister-in-law this weird man kept hassling my sister for her phone number and to buy her a drink when she really wasn't interested. She had broken up with her boyfriend recently and just wanted to get out for drinks and was off men for a while.

I figured this guy would take the hint and go but he kept coming back. Now I'm quite tall, stocky and a martial artist but living in another country and I currently had my citizenship pending I didn't want to do anything that may get me in trouble. My sister was getting upset and not enjoying herself so when he came over again I told him to leave her alone she wasn't interested. He then started snapping at me calling me all kinds of names then pushed me. At this point I was boiling with rage and told him to take this outside.

Two minutes later outside he tried to hit me. I made sure there were a few witnesses so I just defended myself for a bit. Then I snapped and punched him a couple times and kicked him and he hit the floor.

I then went back inside got the girls and we moved to a different bar.

It really pissed me off that a guy 10 years older than my sister and old enough to be my father could not take no for an answer and was like that. Put me in a shitty mood all week.

Only other bad experience was going to a strip club with friends and being told "No Gaijin" lol I think it was a club that has "Special Services" lol