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01-13-2009, 05:37 AM
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I guess the difference is the formation of a potentially permanent record by unseen people that feels like an intrusion. 「辛かったろう」と言ってくれる 
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01-13-2009, 06:43 AM
I`ve never noticed any in women`s areas - at least outside of the area directly inside the entrance. I guess being able to see people heading in and out is enough. There MAY be ones aimed at the lockers, but I`ve never paid attention.
To be quite honest, I don`t really care all that much and have never really thought about it. It isn`t like there is all that much they could see anyway.
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01-13-2009, 03:57 PM
It's definitely weird but it's one of those things the Japanese see as normal.
When I flew into Narita last year, I decided to use the mens facilities before I boarded the train to Tokyo. As I was using the urinal, some cleaning lady walks right in, makes a straight line to the urinal beside me and starts scrubbing away on her knees... less than a meter away from me. I thought that was weird but my Japanese friends tell me that it's normal.
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01-13-2009, 04:35 PM
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01-14-2009, 09:03 AM
I have only come over something like that once and that was in a spa /capsule hotel in Sapporo where they had cameras in the changing and sleeping area. This was mainly to avoid theft i assume. As there was no ladies area in this Spa i cant say anything about that question.
I have been to many onsen and it is defenetly not common, so dont worry. But you´ll find cameras nearly anywhere in Japan if you start searching them...
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01-14-2009, 01:03 PM
It's for the protection of the guests and customers, and also for liability purposes, though luckily Japan is not as litigious as America.
Recent high profile cases of people flipping out and going on killing/maiming rampages (remember the truck driving knife wielding man in Akihabara a few months ago?) has caused a surge in businesses purchasing camera equipment. It's amazing how many crimes, accidents, or general absurdities are caught on surveillance cameras. People in Japan are generally not offended by nudity. Many public bathrooms are very public, with no doors, and most onsens are not that private either, with passers by usually being able to see the bathers. I remember taking a cable car to an onsen last summer and seeing both the mens and womens baths, both crowded with naked bathers. Don't sweat about the cameras unless you and a lady friend have reserved a bath for the both of you, and are worried about becoming unknowing internet porno stars.
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01-22-2009, 02:25 AM
I've read that one of the main reasons they have cameras is due to problems with sexual harassment, etc. I also read that every now and then they have problems with foreigners in the onsen/sento, as to foreigners bathing with other people can be pretty different (and also some people thought it would be a good location to be drunk at)
Personally, I didn't mind the cameras when I saw them, I just kept my towel on didn't make that big of a deal out of it. Now had I been doing innapropriate things to the camera it would only give them more reason to have the cameras (Not in the sense that they want to watch, in the sense that people are doing weird things)
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