Americans have a way of making themselves very conspicuous in Japan---this was easily noticeable within the first hour I arrived in Tokyo.  Riding a hot, slow hotel shuttle the entire bus had to put up with the loud laughing and buzzword bingo with a group of men & women I couldn't imagine other than being some sort of consultants.  Not even an Erasure CD could save me from almost discussing, as loudly, my rectal examination this past week to teach them a lesson.

I walked around a little bit of Shibuya tonight.  When you're jet lagged everything seems more annoying, especially how every other street stall was blaring Beatles songs.  The only highlight of the evening was with something on TV that looked like part "Price Is Right," part human cruelty.  Four men, dressed as half-waiter-half-what-I-could-only-guess-was-a-Western-movie-sheriff, took turns blindfold taste testing 20 different brands of ramen and trying to identify the brands.  When making the guess, each of the men stood on top of a round platform, and shouting the ramen name.  If they guessed incorrectly, a black bar on the platform would catapult itself towards the guesser's crotch, causing them to fall off the platform, doubling in pain.  This went on for a good 30 minutes.

I think this type of programming makes world peace a possibility.
 
 

Dinner:
Regular tuna
Medium fatty tuna
Cocktail shrimp deep-fried, coated with sesame
Dessert: green tea ice cream, sitting on a layer of red bean paste, lined with glutinous rice balls
 
 

Personals:

Are you busty? I love busty ladies.  Prefer busty but not fat.  Tall, pretty ladies.  Any nationality or age is fine.  I'm a E/J bilingual Japanese guy, 30s, 176 cm.

Cute fun housewife, please be my secret happy friend! I'm from California.  Let's have happy lunch.  Please be my so fun happy friend!

 

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The Japanese love corn!  Shibuya vending machine.

The Japanese REALLY love corn! Akasaka train station vending machine.

And to my dismay, 2-step compilations.  HMV Shibuya.

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