This Week's Social Comment

To commorate 1 month in Japan I have collect a selection of notes, trivia and interesting facts that you might not have otherwise known or mostly likely need to know. So here is....

Jane's 24 Top Things About Japan That You Didn't Need To Know But I'm Telling You Anyway...

• No one ever wears seatbelts, helmets or obeys speed limits (and sometimes max out at 160km/h or more - I kid you not!).
• Japanese feminine razors are like cut-throat razors, that is, singles blades that look like knives that you scrape against your legs.
• There is no meal that cannot be served without rice, including spaghetti.
• All English-speaking Japanese nationals speak like George W. Bush.
• You can lock the wheel of your bike, but not tie it to anything and no one will think to pick it up and walk away with it.
• Cars give way to bikes!
• 2minute noodles taste like the real thing.
• Disney is a religion.
• In Japanese Manga (the comics stupid) you can never be too googly-eyed, to spikey haired, too busty and your skirt can never be too short.
• People take their shoes off to enter change-rooms.
• They still use blackboards over here.
• For perhaps the most straight-laced culture in the world, Japanese people will think nothing of stripping off in front of each other for the hot baths (but they frown at showing mid-drifts).
• Japanese boys are not actually very short at all. But you can fit the average Japanese girl into a shoe-box.
• You are never too cool for warm thermal underwear.
• Short-shorts are ok!
• The Playboy Bunnie's just a cute rabbit.
• Japanese people brush their teeth BEFORE breakfast in the morning.
• Soap operas soley about tennis are TV shows to be taken seriously.
• Its a social faux-pa to blow your nose in public. Its much more polite to shiff incecently until you can find a private place to blow. (Aaaaaargh!)
• Boys are boys and girls are girls and never shall the two meet, especially in PE class.
• Japanese babies are the cutest things in the whole world, but grow into the biggest shits of kids, as are all spoiled rotten to the core(and need a good kick up the arse I say!)
• Japanese beer in num num yummy!
• They bundle the palm trees up in blankets during the winter.
• Littering is ok, as long as noone sees. (And everyone must be blind, cos Japan is seriously polluted).