Newgirlintown comments

Fossil fuels strike again.

God, that Creepy Nuts song is awful.

Should’ve gone to Specsavers (UK readers only).

See, it isn’t all ‘foreigners’ getting up to mischief here.

The fossil fuel companies won’t like that. How long before they start spreading rumors about this?

Anyone noticed how they’ve also changed the seishun juuhachi kippu so that it’s now totally impractical. Come on JR, you can do better.

Any other country it would be Four People Arrested for Copper Wire Theft. In Japan, we have to know that it’s the foreign devil!

“Japanese customarily take their shoes off before entering homes.” I’m never quite sure why this is seen as somehow ‘unique’ to Japan. It’s the custom in my country, too. Nobody wants mud on their carpet.

Probably because they’re on their phones all the time.

“Still suffering the worst fiscal health among advanced countries” Probably the worst health too given all that fried chicken and processed food everywhere.

Excellent news.

’Rice wine’? Is that the same as sake? I’ve literally never heard it called that before.

The worst thing about this is it gives all ‘foreigners’ a bad name when the vast majority wouldn’t dream of doing anything like this.

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What a pranker. This kind of thing only serves to drive up xenophobia and more of those news features blaming foreigners for all the county’s woes.

Terrible behavior. Another example of the effects of alcohol.

Who will staff Trump's government?

Climate change deniers, vaccine skeptics, plutocrats, oligarchs,, union busters, misogynists, and that’s just Elon Musk.

The convicted felon who recommended injecting bleach and has more than two dozen complaints of sexual assault. Nice choice, America!

Me and a friend intervened once when we saw a staff member being abused by a customer at a Starbucks. We stood just out of view and chanted 虐めないで. over and over. The customer eventually left and the staff member thanked us and offered us free drinks (we declined) and said that the customer had regularly been harassing the staff.

Don’t let customers bully the staff.

It’s great that Japan took so many elements of Chinese culture and profited off them: ramen, chopsticks, fans, soy sauce, etc.

I’ve arrived there and had a missing suitcase twice!

Japan: we need to increase the number of tourists.

Tourists come.

Japan: We’re sick of tourists.

Scum.

Fossil fuels strike again.

The irony that Trump is the one lying and trying to steal the election (again) seems to be lost on a lot of his cult followers.

What happened to Japan loves nature and all that?

Yawn. This guy, again!

Yeah, I don’t think it’s as simple as ‘just do it lads’.

Enough with the election campaign cars already. They’re a public nuisance and make Japan look like some banana republic in the 1980s.

And again!

Oh not this guy again.