@moonman my best friend is healing from two broken bones when he was drugged, beaten, and left for dead in tokyo.
he’s got brown skin so the tokyo hospital didn’t think he could pay when he makes almost twice what I do.
japanese are racist as fuck.
@moonman like i get you were being facetious but they don’t give a fuck about anyone that isn’t japanese.
@moonman the hospital threw him out on the street with a broken collar bone.
@moonman he had to buy a uber class flight back home which cost $8000 to get to a hospital that would treat him.
@JoYo I'm interested in hearing more stories like this, usually only hear about foreigners being jerks.
@moonman this was an article he linked when the pain killers were wearing off so he could describe what happened.
@JoYo @moonman Yeah, first time I went there, my friend spent an excessive amount of time explaining to me that if I saw a place and I didn't know what they were selling, that I was not to go in. He didn't say anything about drugged drinks, but that may be a new thing.
The scam he explained at the time was that you go in, there's a beautiful woman, she flirts with you, asks you to buy her a drink, she says she wants 50,000 yen, and some burly guys come out to get the money, explaining that the lady's company at the bar was 50,000 yen, not whatever other services she may have offered, and regardless of whether you accepted or not, you did chat her up at the bar. So you say you don't have the cash on you, they say there's a surcharge if you don't have cash, it's another 30,000 yen, get your card out.
So your friend's got my condolences, I hear those places are pretty rough.
The scam he explained at the time was that you go in, there's a beautiful woman, she flirts with you, asks you to buy her a drink, she says she wants 50,000 yen, and some burly guys come out to get the money, explaining that the lady's company at the bar was 50,000 yen, not whatever other services she may have offered, and regardless of whether you accepted or not, you did chat her up at the bar. So you say you don't have the cash on you, they say there's a surcharge if you don't have cash, it's another 30,000 yen, get your card out.
So your friend's got my condolences, I hear those places are pretty rough.
@p can I say I find it funny the racist side of the fediverse is incredibly silent about this particular thread of real injustices you never read about in tabloids, but are also discussing this same topic?
Prayers to the afflicted. Did see ben[is] already spewing BS, when Nippon is primarily a tourism country. Islanders heavily depend on imports and tourism.
@JoYo thank for this link. Reminds me of Malay scamming culture, and a lot thug/mafia stuff in Thailand.
@shitpost.institute@shitpost.institute thank you for this video, but it doesn't do a lot of justice on how discriminatory and predatory Nippon is for foreigners.
I'd say, if you want to visit, always with company, never alone, never separate. And if you can afford a guide, local, or friend, do it.
The closer you are to Yakuza territory, the likely these things happen. So mingle. There are still kind people around, they'll tell you when there's yakuza around, but never afford to be alone.
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@moonman places to look for stories like are travel sites and blogs people discuss things. Cops are extremely glad to over arrest and prosecute because it's incentivized like in the USA. More citations, more prospects, more money.
Its too depressive to talk about because the same total surveillance apparatus people easily disdain about China, Nippon has already being doing for years. I'm glad although I can say publicly to people never to dare migrate, it's a trap.
Prayers to the afflicted. Did see ben[is] already spewing BS, when Nippon is primarily a tourism country. Islanders heavily depend on imports and tourism.
@JoYo thank for this link. Reminds me of Malay scamming culture, and a lot thug/mafia stuff in Thailand.
@shitpost.institute@shitpost.institute thank you for this video, but it doesn't do a lot of justice on how discriminatory and predatory Nippon is for foreigners.
I'd say, if you want to visit, always with company, never alone, never separate. And if you can afford a guide, local, or friend, do it.
The closer you are to Yakuza territory, the likely these things happen. So mingle. There are still kind people around, they'll tell you when there's yakuza around, but never afford to be alone.
@tmy
@moonman places to look for stories like are travel sites and blogs people discuss things. Cops are extremely glad to over arrest and prosecute because it's incentivized like in the USA. More citations, more prospects, more money.
Its too depressive to talk about because the same total surveillance apparatus people easily disdain about China, Nippon has already being doing for years. I'm glad although I can say publicly to people never to dare migrate, it's a trap.
@rin @JoYo @moonman @tmy
> silent about this particular thread of real injustices
That kind of person, you know probably as well as I do, only cares about what's in front of their nose. They claim that "You're an $x, you can't possibly empathize with a $y" because that's how they are.
> Nippon is primarily a tourism country
Tourism is worth roughly $10 billion, $697 billion in exports. Ten billion dollars is nothing to sneeze at, but they make most of their money in manufacturing. Total GDP is $5 trillion, they are largely a service-based economy like the US.
> Islanders heavily depend on imports and tourism.
Indeed; they use four times the amount of oil that they produce, apparently. Only 22% of their electricity is nuclear power, 70% is oil, hydroelectric generators account for the remainder, and 0.5% is "Other". (That was a surprise to me. You'd think they'd have a lot of geothermal generation.)
> if you want to visit, always with company, never alone, never separate
There's shady stuff, but it is generally a fairly safe country. I wandered by myself quite a bit. I did get followed around by this Czech guy at 6 a.m. for about 30 minutes, he was trying to get me into his brothel. Dude was older, white hair, struck up a conversation, after a while started the sales pitch. I was trying to read my map (a paper map! Paper, I tell you!), the guy wouldn't stop yammering long enough for me to figure out where I was so I just started walking, figuring I'd duck into a noodle shop that was open early, eat and read the map afterwards.
> The closer you are to Yakuza territory, the likely these things happen.
I'm not sure it's a yakuza thing, I think it's just low-rent hustlers. All the yakuza I met were cool. I danced with one of their moms. I hate dancing, but she was in her 70s, she had been a bar girl before she got married. I could hardly understand her because there was American funk blasting. (Vynyl!) Her husband translated in halting English when I couldn't get her meaning. It was very strange to see a couple of retirees like that in that kind of bar.
> Cops are extremely glad to over arrest and prosecute because it's incentivized like in the USA.
I think mostly they give people directions.
> silent about this particular thread of real injustices
That kind of person, you know probably as well as I do, only cares about what's in front of their nose. They claim that "You're an $x, you can't possibly empathize with a $y" because that's how they are.
> Nippon is primarily a tourism country
Tourism is worth roughly $10 billion, $697 billion in exports. Ten billion dollars is nothing to sneeze at, but they make most of their money in manufacturing. Total GDP is $5 trillion, they are largely a service-based economy like the US.
> Islanders heavily depend on imports and tourism.
Indeed; they use four times the amount of oil that they produce, apparently. Only 22% of their electricity is nuclear power, 70% is oil, hydroelectric generators account for the remainder, and 0.5% is "Other". (That was a surprise to me. You'd think they'd have a lot of geothermal generation.)
> if you want to visit, always with company, never alone, never separate
There's shady stuff, but it is generally a fairly safe country. I wandered by myself quite a bit. I did get followed around by this Czech guy at 6 a.m. for about 30 minutes, he was trying to get me into his brothel. Dude was older, white hair, struck up a conversation, after a while started the sales pitch. I was trying to read my map (a paper map! Paper, I tell you!), the guy wouldn't stop yammering long enough for me to figure out where I was so I just started walking, figuring I'd duck into a noodle shop that was open early, eat and read the map afterwards.
> The closer you are to Yakuza territory, the likely these things happen.
I'm not sure it's a yakuza thing, I think it's just low-rent hustlers. All the yakuza I met were cool. I danced with one of their moms. I hate dancing, but she was in her 70s, she had been a bar girl before she got married. I could hardly understand her because there was American funk blasting. (Vynyl!) Her husband translated in halting English when I couldn't get her meaning. It was very strange to see a couple of retirees like that in that kind of bar.
> Cops are extremely glad to over arrest and prosecute because it's incentivized like in the USA.
I think mostly they give people directions.
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Technically illegal. The the law is worded, as I understand it, to be so overly specific that it hardly can be enforced. (I think it was something like you can't sell penis-in-vagina services.) So there are places that are not technically brothels, but if you go in there, you can pay girls to have sex with you. I haven't been to one, but you see them all the time just going down the street. If you look for "soapland" on :shitassdickfuckfluoride:Google:fluoride: Maps, you will see about a million of them, with reviews.
I wasn't looking for a brothel, was not interested, but "Isn't that illegal?" is a question that I do not pay much attention to unless there's a paper trail or a cop can see me.
Technically illegal. The the law is worded, as I understand it, to be so overly specific that it hardly can be enforced. (I think it was something like you can't sell penis-in-vagina services.) So there are places that are not technically brothels, but if you go in there, you can pay girls to have sex with you. I haven't been to one, but you see them all the time just going down the street. If you look for "soapland" on :shitassdickfuckfluoride:Google:fluoride: Maps, you will see about a million of them, with reviews.
I wasn't looking for a brothel, was not interested, but "Isn't that illegal?" is a question that I do not pay much attention to unless there's a paper trail or a cop can see me.
@coolboymew @JoYo @igeljaeger @moonman @rin @tmy Yeah. As my friend explained: "They don't like foreign guy, because big body, and maybe make trouble." He said some let foreigners in, and further explained that you can pay to have her dress up like a Power Ranger and kick your ass. At that last line, he started snickering and then cackled. (He was a fun guy.)
If you just wanna get laid, though, this DJ from Tokyo FM explained to me that Roppongi is where you go to find "gaijin hunters". (I did not verify this, either, though obviously I made a mental note of it.)
If you just wanna get laid, though, this DJ from Tokyo FM explained to me that Roppongi is where you go to find "gaijin hunters". (I did not verify this, either, though obviously I made a mental note of it.)
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I guess Japanese women are content enough with the small penises of Japanese men.
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