Allright, in order to maintain the balance of the Wa (or Tao), here's the counterpart to my topic "Why I Like Japan & Things Japanese"
1. The Japanese government (including the bureaucracy) - How such a people earned the god-awful mess that passes for a democracy in that country is beyond me. The entire gov't - from lowly local paper-shuffler to the PM himself - should be deported someplace where it can't do any more damage... like Pyongyang.
2. Right Wingers - Though the Japanese will tell you that no one pays attention to them, these guys are truly scary. Imagine a parade of Timothy McVeighs in snappy uniforms and SUVs.
3. Japanese navel-gazing. All nationalities do this to some extent, so it's a question of degree. But come on! It's 2001! The world is a scary place but geez, Aum Shinri Kyo was a bunch of local boys - not foreign terrorists.
4. Noise - Japan is the noisiest country I've ever visited. There are loudspeakers at the Zen temple Ryoanji which blast taped info over and over again making it impossible to simply sit and contemplate the garden. Ditto the Enryakuji at Hiei. There are loudspeakers blasting advertisements in the freaking forest for chrissakes!
5. Bosozoku - the REAL reason rifles are outlawed in Japan. These guys almost made my "Like" list because they helped my innate creativity through the imagining of every detail of their demise at 4 am .
6. Puke - it's everywhere you want to be on Sunday mornings.
7. Rori-con (Lolita complex) -eeeewww! I just don't get it. Nope. Nope. Nope.
8. Maza-con (Oedipus complex) - eeeewww! See #7 above
9. Junior high-schoolers - rude as hell to everyone.
10. Suicide by train - saw one of these for myself. Pretty pathetic to make your last statement of life a 10 minute inconvenience to a couple thousand bleary-eyed commuters.
11. Oyaa-san (landlords) - just come out and say that you are racist and would prefer to fleece Japanese instead of foreigners. Don't pretend that you are "International" while you rent to 100% Japanese only.
12. Key-money - $10,000 bribe for this? Nice tattoos by the way...
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