NOOOO! Now I have to:

Why not go all the way and slap a “LAS” after it?

Those pictures reminded me of this:

Since you’re evidently a non-native speaker (and I’m drawing this from your assertion that you’re practicing with English), let me offer you some friendly advice:

Native English speakers (like native speakers of most languages, I assume) will assume a great deal about tone in written work from the phrasing and word…

So three other people who lived there (including the author of the article) saying that this is very unusual for Japan is not enough for you? You need a fourth one with “anedoctal evidence”?

Wow. Your ENG 101 professor must absolutely adore your essays; they function as a masterclass in the informal fallacies.

Have yourself a lovely evening.

I’ve been to fireworks festivals with 100,000 people in Akita, street festivals in Sendai, ice festivals in Sapporo, cherry blossom viewings in Kyoto, and town wide picnics in my little town of 5,000 that didn’t result in that much trash.

The real problem is Americans thinking everyone else’s culture is exactly like theirs, and if it isn’t, that something is wrong with it.

You were the one calling me intelligent while very obviously meaning otherwise (specially in that last paragraph), and I’m the jerk. Right.

I did read your response, carefully, the first time.

Coming back with, “Dude, read what I wrote” when my response isn’t what you wanted or anticipated is both intellectually disingenuous and indicative of an inability to anticipate how your own words might’ve been interpreted in the context of the discussion as it…

You are being an asshole.

Actually, if you lived in Japan (like the author of this article or myself), then you’d know that it isn’t that “some people” are slobs. Because you never see piles of garbage like this except where the PokemonGO fad has cropped up. At best, your defense amounts to, “PokemonGO has a lot of slobs playing it,” though…

Someone once said “if the shoe doesn’t fit, don’t wear it”. No one is blaming you for this, so maybe tone down the concerns that this is a personal attack on you specifically or a broadside attack on the purity of all Pokemon Go players. Nothing about this article blames Pokemon Go. It blames some players of Pokemon…

I’m with Nerevar’s response on this; while content published for a specific audience (and most content is generated with a given demographic in mind) should always be geared toward that audience, it’s intellectually disingenuous to blame the author of an article for “potential” misinterpretation by persons who were…

The title of the article is very clearly written in proper and relatively simple English. If someone doesn’t have the basic reading comprehension skills to read the title and understand its meaning, it’s not the writer’s fault.

its SOME people who are assholes and would litter irregardless of whatever else they were doing at the time.

Er, no.

“Some Japanese Pokemon Go Players Have Bad Manners.”

Syntactically, that comes out to, “Some Japanese persons who play Pokemon GO display bad manners in public.”

The title as written does not depict Pokemon GO as causative; the action (display of bad manners) is directly attributed to Japanese players OF Pokemon…

I really don’t see how the title is tying bad manners to Pokémon Go (at least in a way that implies the game’s at fault).

Trash cans on the streets are not common in Japan at all (except in front of convenience stores and the like). People are expected to carry the trash they produce elsewhere till they get to a place they can properly dispose of it.