I ❤ Japan
I ❤ Japan
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- stoplying2
I just finished Geddy Lee's latest book, "My Effin Life" - which was a great read - and Rush only played 4 shoes in Japan throughout their career. The reason for this is when they were in their hotel lobby in Japan, they witnessed a man roughing up a woman. The staff did nothing to stop it so the band intervened and was met with resistance from the staff to let it be. Turns out it was a known Yakuza member roughing up his woman which disgusted the band and they agreed to never play in a country that allows that to happen.
- Japan defo has some strange societal norms. Shame Shapesalad isn't here anymore, he always piped up about how mental things were there.PhanLo
- Hah. Can see that. Not only does society teach you not to intervene, for foreigners, at times, it teaches you not to care;Peter
- A guy was "roughed up" middle of Shibuya. Culprits left; crowd looked at the fella, blood pouring out the back of his head, doing nothing...Peter
- ...I went over, assessed, called for ambulance. But what happened was the crowd started blaming me over the phone. "A foreigner here was...Peter
- ...so to not take the blame for the consequences of the functions of social culture and face possible jail time I had to remove myself.Peter
- PhanLo2
Children in a traditional minobashi raincoat going to a new year's event, Niigata prefecture, Japan 1956, by Hiroshi Hamaya
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