What would you do with 4 months in Japan?

[Nintendork666]

Eat food, walk a lot, buy video games.

[EvilRyu2099]

Edit: Cracked has an interesting article on how Japan in reality differs from what you might expect. For one,it's surprisingly low-tech.

In response to that article:
#5: So very true. Japanese people can't even use computers. I've only been back a year and already I've had to teach two Japanese teachers how to use e-mail. I put together a computer over the summer and people think I'm some sort of genius. Very true about the ATMs.

I think the 5th point really depends if you live in the countryside, or in the city.. I hear the big cities have pretty good tech and the country is well, like you explained.. I agree with your other points and especially the last point about Japanese women.. Not sure why people think women are just instant sex slaves because you are a foreigner..

[pakopako]

Bother-in-law?

If they have free reign over the country, the northern areas looks beautiful; from forest hikes to hot springs, might be nice to take a look see.

Gaming wise, Akahibara of course. Shop till you drop and bring back some goods to sell here. (I'm still salivating over the one-handed PS2 controller, the ASCII Grip V2.)

But if this is your in-law's first visit to Japan, I'd spend a day or two (or three) mapping out the areas. Where to get a shower if the hotel/hospice doesn't have private ones, where the local convenience stores are for cheap storable eats when you can't afford cakes or meat-on-a-stick, and take every damn train map there is.

Also, Japanese chicks do drop trou (frau?) for foreigners. Specifically tall/dark/handsome and/or rich/bad-boys. (But really, women and men in most countries have this compulsion.)

[greg]

Also, Japanese chicks do drop trou (frau?) for foreigners. Specifically tall/dark/handsome and/or rich/bad-boys. (But really, women and men in most countries have this compulsion.)

You'll find sluts everywhere in the world. Making blanket statements such as this is not only racist, but absurd. I like you and your posts, Pakopako, but you need to realize that this stereotyping is stupid and destructive. I'm married to a Japanese girl, and she was never like that. I'm sick of people making stupid assumptions about Japanese women just because they watched that James Bond movie with Sean Connery. I don't know how many times I've been asked if my wife walks on my back. People in America assumed bad things about me, such as "I married a child bride from Asia" because she looks like a high schooler (to American eyes) and therefore I'm a pedo, "I married a Japanese woman because I'm a male pig and Japanese girls are subservient and easy to push around" (anyone married to a Japanese woman will know that the truth is far from this), "Japanese women are sex pots because that's how they are depicted by porn," etc.

Hey, you know, black people are so dangerous. They'd kill you to take your wallet just because you're white. Better watch out for those black people. They're all the same.

Hey, suddenly, blanket stereotypes aren't so cool anymore, are they?

Cut the crap guys, and let's get back to the topic at hand.

[Menegrothx]

If you happen to find a Virtual Boy game called "Innsmouth no Yakata" while you're there, I'd be glad to buy it from you If you find Hori Nintendo 64 game pads for cheap, buy loads of them and sell them here on these forums. I really need one badly.

#2: Well duh. My wife lived in America for 9 years and everyone treated her as an outsider, too. Americans are stupid and assume that everyone that everyone from Asia is Chinese. It doesn't matter how many times my wife told people she was Japanese. She was still Chinese. Moreover, many people have to stop and think, "How do I talk to someone from Japan?" ...Instead of just talking to her like she's just another person, which is what she wanted anyway. Maybe I am exaggerating, but Americans also have a hard time accepting foreigners too. And you have to learn English or else, pretty much (unless you speak Spanish.) The rest of this point is the guy bitching about how Japanese people don't speak fluent English. Sorry pal, go live in Singapore instead and see if you're happier there.

The difference is that America is a melting pot while a foreigner will never become truly Japanese, except maybe in few very rare cases like this. I doubt there are that many people who don't regard Michio Kaku as an American. You can't compare the ignorance of some Americans (when it comes to the world outside of US borders) to Japanese culture and society.

It's stupid to assume people in foreign nations are going to speak to you on your own language, but the fact is that English is the de facto language of the world and you'll be able to get along with it in just about anywhere in Europe, South America, Africa and Asia (how well you can manage with out trying to learn to local language depends on the education level of the locals), so I can understand if people some find it weird how people in such a rich and well educated country barely speak the language. I don't speak natively English and I think it's sort of weird (not saying it's a bad thing).

#1: This is true. People get the stupidest ideas about Japan. Idiots on 4chan and other places pretend to hate Japan

You do realize that 4chan is one of the largest congregations of Japan fans on the internet? Or atleast it used to be, before it became more well known and popular when loads of new people who don't care about Japanese culture/anime found the place. But the place started out as a site pretty much dedicated to those two things.

4chan was started in 2003 in the bedroom of a then-15-year-old student from New York City named Christopher Poole, who posts as "moot".[6] Prior to starting 4chan, Poole had been a regular participant on the Something Awful forums.[7] He intended 4chan to be a place to discuss Japanese comics and anime, an American counterpart to the popular Japanese Futaba Channel ("2chan") imageboard.[8][9] Poole originally used the Futaba Channel to obtain anime-related images, and liked the concept of a message board where people anonymously shared images, which eventually led to his idea of creating a similar English-based website. During the creation of 4chan, he obtained the source code for the Futaba Channel website, and translated the Japanese text into English using Altavista's Babelfish online translator.[10][11] When he first created the website, it had only two boards: "/a/ – Anime/General" and "/b/ – Anime/Random"; over time more boards were created, and /b/ was eventually renamed to simply "/b/ – Random".[10][11]

The activity of 4chan takes place on message boards and imageboards.[3][9] The website is split into six categories: Japanese culture, Interests, Creative, Adult (18+), Other, and Misc (18+). These provide for on-topic boards to discuss anime, manga, technology, sport, photography, music, hentai, torrents, travel, physical fitness, as well as a random board

[Zing]

Cut the crap guys, and let's get back to the topic at hand

The topic is what would you do with four months in Japan. As others have mentioned, I would definitely be trying to get as many Japanese women into bed. Of course, I would do that regardless of which country I am visiting.

That isn't any crap.

[brunoafh]

The topic is what would you do with four months in Japan. As others have mentioned, I would definitely be trying to get as many Japanese women into bed. Of course, I would do that regardless of which country I am visiting.

That isn't any crap.

Someone is hankerin for some delicious STDs.

Loving the racism and sexism in the thread!

[elmagicochrisg]

Find a job, find a nice cute little girl, learn the language, settle, never look back...

[hashiriya1]

I don't know. My experience in my 7 years in Japan is some of what greg says and also some of what deathsled assumes. It all depends on the company you keep. I totally understand where greg is coming from and I agree with him since I'm older and a bit more mature, but I can't deny that it was there for the taking, and we took what we could. We were young men in our early 20s. What else was there to do?

Keep in mind, I'm a stealth gaijin, so I couldn't 'score' with the types of girls who were just looking for a foreigner since 99.9% of people thought I was Japanese (which comes in handy a lot). I had to work as hard as a Japanese guy would. Sometimes it was a lot of work, sometimes it just fell from the sky. I didn't have the financial status for the prudes of Ometesando, but staying out all night in Shibuya or Ikebukuro until the first trains depart were some of the most memorable times of my youth in Tokyo. I also lived in Sendai, which is a completely different world from Tokyo, but it was just as much fun.

I still go to Japan twice a year for extended periods of time and I still hang out with the same rowdy bunch that I did back then, but we're all older and wiser now. We ditched the Shibuya dive bars for Naka-Meguro lounges and Daikanyama cafes, but it's just as fun. None of us are single, so no more chasing the night. Some of the girls were forgotten by the next weekend, some I'm still in contact with to this day.

I really wish Breetai could chime in, he and I had similar experiences being young stupid foreigners in Tokyo.

[o.pwuaioc]

Also, Japanese chicks do drop trou (frau?) for foreigners. Specifically tall/dark/handsome and/or rich/bad-boys. (But really, women and men in most countries have this compulsion.)

You'll find sluts everywhere in the world. Making blanket statements such as this is not only racist, but absurd.

Not sure if troll or just didn't see this part in bold (emphasis mine).