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Originally Posted by MortyB
Hey. I`ve been to Tokyo for a couple of days, and I found it very different from Europe. I have a couple of questions:
1. Why do the Japanese flash the peace sign with their fingers ehen seeing westerns?
2. Is it any theft at all in the city? I saw people leaving their belonging unantended all the time.
3. I`ve allways heard the stories about "don`t leave the job before the boss". Is this still a part of the workingculture?
4. What about the Japanese sex industry. I saw alot of it in Shinjuku. I also heard that this area was commonly visited when people where going out to have some fun. Can you tell me more about the area? In Lost in Translation Bill Murray are offered a hooker from the people he works for (I also read about it in a Murukami book- Dance, dance, dance). Is this common?
5. What about the schoolgirl/goth fashion. Is that inspired from a cartoon or something?
This was some of the strange things I saw in Tokyo. I`m glad to have some answers, and please add more if you come up with something.
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1. Never experienced it, while I am oriental (Chinese) myself, i traveled with a lot of Caucasian people to Japan in the past, and I've never seen this
2. Theft exist anywhere, but the crime rate in Japan is really low. In some rural suburbs, people don't even lock their doors at home
3. yes
4. Sex industry is still very common throughout Japan, and yes Shinjuku has a lot of it, but I never been to anything in that regards so I don't have infor for you. However, there are pink box everywhere that can give you more info. I never heard of such thing as a boss offering their staff prostitution service, I don't think there is any accuracy in that. MOST Japanese organization respect "etiquettes" with high regards, of course, some indutries that is not being seen as "professional" is different, otherwise in most cases, the bsos, to maintain a good image, will never do such thing. Then there is also the whole strong culture of corporate hieracy, if anything, it will be the other way around
5. They mostly are. The cosplay culture are from pop music/animate/manga (comics). They are mostly referred to as Otaku, a lot of younger generation are extremely into this Otaku culture, but the general population look at them with disgust, there are many reasons to that, which we can discuss somewhere else and not hijack your thread. In anycase, youn people just want to have fun, its no different from us growing up in NA to play Batman and Robin as a kid, except they go a little further.. well and older