Just thought I'd start up this little topic for those of us who live or for those of you who have even traveled in Japan. What's a shitty experience you've had the displeasure of encountering? What's the worst thing that happened to you while in Japanaland? Didn't like the smell in Shibuya? Perhaps you were drugged while at a massage parlor in Shinjuku. Maybe you even got genital warts from a yomamnba in dogenzaka! Share share share!Since I'm starting the thread, I'll start us off. As some of you may know from my past posts, I don't really care if you are into anime/manga and porno cartoons, that's your private life, but don't think for a second that I'm interested in seeing the latest adventures of a pubescent boy with 5-meter long tentacles raping his schoolgirl classmates or expect me to listen to you when you blather on about how the latest character in Dragon Ball Z took twenty fucking shows just to 'charge up' his energy and blow up a moon somewhere. I'M NOT FUCKING INTERESTEDAnyways... with that out of the way....I had only been in Japan for about four months, this is back in 2004 and I was wandering around Akihabara looking for a place to buy airsoft guns. I had read about it online and knew it's general location, but other than that, didn't know really where to go. So while there, I was also looking around at a bunch of the initial D toys, thinking I could sell them to people on car forums back in Canada as it was very 'cool' at the time to watch the cartoon and play the video game at the local arcades on campus. So while there, I was spotted (I'm white - Canadian) by another foreigner. She lumbers up to me and PUSHES me with her hand as if I'm some old friend of hers..."HI! Wow, I didnt' expect to see another white person here!" She is about 5'8 and easily three times my weight. I still kick myself for not asking for a photo of her. She then starts blathering on about how she came to Japan from somewhere in the states (I think it was Oregon) and that she's here with some friends to buy anime to "feed our addiction". She continues talking to me as if I'm interested. Oh, and for the record, I don't recall her real name but she said "Oh, but my online name is Cat... meeeoowwww". Well I damn near threw up all over her 64DDD flabby-sagging tits. Hell, I could have tried to knee her in the groin and hit a nipple.I said something like "Well that's nice, I hope you have a nice trip." She continue to tag along with me much to my regret, asked me question after question, I politely answered her as best I could. Then she said "Y'know... there are some love hotels around here... you know what they're for... right?" I answered "Yes, I do." In which she replied with "Well... do... you wanna go? I'm really wet..."OH MY FUCKING GOD.Sorry, I may be Canadian, but that doesn't mean I need to be polite NOR does that mean that I like to sodomize moose.At this point in the 'conversation', I mentioned that I had a birthday party I needed to attend, but thank you anyways for your... invitation. She seemed desperate to get a cock and actually asked if she could come to the private birthday party. No, it's PRIVATE for a reason, a group of men are going to a 6000-yen beer parlor (heh, ask about those sometime) and it's for men only. She gave me her 'card' which she had printed off (obviously) before traveling to Japan. The card had her email, home phone number and website.... and it was crookedly printed AND you could still see the tear-marks from some of those pre-cut dollar-store D-I-Y business cards.I promptly gave up my search for the shop, said 'fuck this noise' and went to my buddies party to tell a story which earned me free drinks and several lap-dances from Chinese women for the remainder of the night. (Yes, Chinese women, ask about that one later as well)Quote:Originally Posted by aquamarine"Y'know... there are some love hotels around here... you know what they're for... right?" I answered "Yes, I do." In which she replied with "Well... do... you wanna go? I'm really wet..."OH MY FUCKING GOD.Sorry, I may be Canadian, but that doesn't mean I need to be polite NOR does that mean that I like to sodomize moose.bwahahahaha!C'mon now folks. I can't be the only one to hold residence in Japan. Haven't any of you even TRAVELED to Japan??Good christ... make me feel like a loner here.BW AHAHAHAH! MY STOMACK IS SPLITTING APART! PLEASE! BWAHAHAHAHAH!: lols:Worst Japanese experience?Leaving Japan.Why'd you leave?Funny how some buddies get sick of it and go back to their home countries only to be miserable at the lack of money they make and at the lack of interesting things to do. Shit, it costs nothing to go and travel around the world if you're based in Japan.$400 to San Francisco$600 to Vancouver$180 to Hong Kong$400 to Australia$80 to any other Island from Honshu$220 to Singapore$140 to ThailandQuote:Originally Posted by aquamarineC'mon now folks. I can't be the only one to hold residence in Japan. Haven't any of you even TRAVELED to Japan??I applied to JET and was rejected. I applied to medical school and was accepted. Dunno what else to tell you except "I tried but I lacked the money, and now I lack both the time and the money."As for the moose girl, I saw that punchline first (before I saw anything else of your entire post) and I read backwards from there, so at first I thought you were talking about a Japanese girl who saw you (a white Canadian) and was into large animal bestiality and wanted to know if you knew what moose were good for (as a Canadian, of course!) and you were all like "holy fuck, girl! I don't want to have sex with no moose!" Your story was still funny but not as out-of-this-world as what I first read. ^^; I can easily imagine the 300-lb anime fangirl from the US West Coast going to Japan and blowing $500 to $1000 USD on anime despite the fact that SHE'S IN JAPAN and she probably spent about as much money just to get there in the first place.Some upper middle class or rich suburban white kids can be fucking stupid like that. For the rest of us, there's backpacking. Though I suppose that has its own share of fucking stupid white suburban flavor to it.You're American? If you're Australian, Canadian, English or from Ireland or Scottland, why not get a working holiday visa for yourself? Many of my mates are here with that.USA-American, unfortunately. Besides, you can't obtain a working holiday visa when you're in medical school without dropping out of medical school, I'd imagine. So I mean, literally, the soonest I could hope to go to Japan would be if/when I complete my 4th year of school and officially become an "M.D." (although you're still not a all-on-your-own doctor until you complete residency which can take from 2 to 5 years). It'd be something of a summer vacation. That's the soonest I could visit: Summer 2011.As for putting medical school on temporary hold so I can live this dream ... "$100,000 debt makes Homer something something." Pretty hard to just pack my bags and leave right now. And with the current economic climate in the US? I think Uncle Sam would turn the other cheek if the banks sicked their goons on me for defaulting like that, lol.Quote:Originally Posted by aquamarineWhy'd you leave?I was only there short-term on an abroad program. Believe me, if I had the choice I would have stayed. But I had to take care of my obligations back at home.Quote:Originally Posted by SakunyuushaI applied to JET and was rejected.I applied to JET and was waitlisted. Never got upgraded. Now I'm stuck in limbo, with no easy/guaranteed way of getting over to Japan, and absolutely no desire to go back to school (at this point in time).