If it’s not available in at least half of the country’s super markets.

It’s been available in my local since well before Sapporo bought them, though. It’s not a recent phenomenon. Can even sometimes find Anchor Merry Christmas running around here.

I still can’t believe there are people who drink Corona.  Manages to be both bland and terrible.  

Asahi is better than Bud/etc but it’s the worst Japanese mass market beer by a long shot.

I’ve seen it exactly 0 times in a super market.

I see watt you did there

This would be the best thing to happen to NPB (Japanese league).  Look at the Carter Stewart signing for how that will go.

Not more prestigious, as prestigious.  Peak of Japanese luxury.

Isn’t it amazing that the TSA has screwed up airport security so badly that there needs to be competing paid programs to make it less horrible?

Japan would like a word with you.  Still the only country with a professional women’s baseball league.

I watched it on TV when I was a kid, it’s a pretty famous movie.

Is that a picture of her, 25 years ago???

My point is valid because it’s the law in Japan whether you like or know it or not.  Maybe you should find out about the laws and norms of the countries you visit before you visit them, hmm?

Americans don’t really travel that much compared to other countries, and in Asia Americans are wayyyy down the visitor number list.

The laws in Japan are such that even a person in public view - even someone really really photogenic - has a right to privacy that supersedes your right to take their photo just because you think they “look exotic”.  

This style is THE basic hanging rack style in Asia.  I mean I’d be hard pressed to find a different style at one of my local stores.  It’s effective.

This style is THE basic hanging rack style in Asia.  I mean I’d be hard pressed to find a different style at one of…

FWIW this is not uncommon in Japanese baseball.  Sapporo’s Nippon Ham Fighters play a lot of their games in Tokyo (their old home) and Sendai’s Rakuten Eagles have played their early games in warmer climes before as well.

Lol people absolutely meet like that at big events in Japan.  Half of my friends are people I’ve met like that.

Oh no no, people are always rushing up the empty space on escalators in Japan. A lot of people run through train stations, too, and the average walking pace in stations is far higher than in the US.

Nah, it’s easy.  I grew up using imperial, now use metric 100% for everything and it’s completely natural now.  Feels weird to have to back convert to imperial when visiting the US.