Comments on: The Shochu, The Yakuza, and the Hostess Bar http://www.japaneseruleof7.com/the-shochu-the-yakuza-and-the-hostess-bar/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-shochu-the-yakuza-and-the-hostess-bar Knowledge for your brain about Japan Sat, 25 May 2013 01:57:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Ken Seeroi http://www.japaneseruleof7.com/the-shochu-the-yakuza-and-the-hostess-bar/#comment-376 Ken Seeroi Wed, 01 Aug 2012 23:48:04 +0000 http://www.japaneseruleof7.com/?p=404#comment-376 Next day? Oh that. For some reason, I possess the amazing ability to live as though there’s no tomorrow. Must be a genetic thing. Can’t say I’d recommend it though.

]]> By: Jessica http://www.japaneseruleof7.com/the-shochu-the-yakuza-and-the-hostess-bar/#comment-374 Jessica Wed, 01 Aug 2012 15:28:08 +0000 http://www.japaneseruleof7.com/?p=404#comment-374 Oh man, I love nights like that. Except for the hang over. I feel like a zombie the next day…but the fun makes for good stories every time.

]]> By: Chris http://www.japaneseruleof7.com/the-shochu-the-yakuza-and-the-hostess-bar/#comment-260 Chris Tue, 29 May 2012 16:08:22 +0000 http://www.japaneseruleof7.com/?p=404#comment-260 Holy crap, I’ve never thought of that. Like you said, it’s not recommended, but I’m keeping that in my bag-o-tricks.

And keep those articles coming! Great stuff.

]]> By: Ken Seeroi http://www.japaneseruleof7.com/the-shochu-the-yakuza-and-the-hostess-bar/#comment-255 Ken Seeroi Sat, 26 May 2012 23:59:16 +0000 http://www.japaneseruleof7.com/?p=404#comment-255 Man, that’s awesome. I always wondered if that would work. There’s at least one more way to accomplish the same thing, at least in the countryside. Can’t say I’d recommend it though.

I was standing on the platform one morning a couple of years ago, waiting to go to work, and the train on the opposite side was letting off its passengers. This young guy in a black shirt got off and then just hopped down onto the tracks behind the train and walked to the street. A quick left and he was out of sight. I was like, Well that’s one option. I don’t think he did it to avoid paying though; he looked more like he was tired from a night of partying and wanted a shortcut to get home.

Seriously, thanks for reading though. I’ve got something new I’m working on that I’ll post in a day or two. I just wish I could get them out faster. It takes time to bake in all that slow-roasted goodness.

]]> By: Chris http://www.japaneseruleof7.com/the-shochu-the-yakuza-and-the-hostess-bar/#comment-249 Chris Fri, 25 May 2012 03:00:15 +0000 http://www.japaneseruleof7.com/?p=404#comment-249 Man, you have the best stories. I check your site everyday to see if you’re written something new.

I was only in Japan studying abroad for two months in 2010, but I was one of only four students at our university that was classified as ‘native-level’ students, so they always paired us up with the low-leveled goblins- I MEAN students.

Either way, I almost got me and another student arrested when we did our version of a train heist. Well, all we really did was pay for a ticket to the town next over (200 yen) and rode from Shiga to Oosaka (roughly 10,000 something yen) with the 200 yen ticket.

It was fun until we went through with stage two of our plan: act stupid. Our plan was to use this 200 yen ticket to get to a party in Osaka, and when it was finally time to insert our ticket into the little conversion machine you walk through, we would just go to the attendant standing nearby and say, in English or broken Japanese, that we lost our ticket.

We didn’t think he’d have us key in the exact time and how much it came out to (the ticket we apparently lost). Hey gave me a calculator and told me to write how much it came out to.

I typed in a random number.

He looked over it.

はい、いいよ, he says. “You can go, next time I call cops.”

Man, that was a fun night. We had to bike home from the train station and laughed our asses off about how we almost spent the night in a Japanese jail.

]]> By: Ken Seeroi http://www.japaneseruleof7.com/the-shochu-the-yakuza-and-the-hostess-bar/#comment-224 Ken Seeroi Sat, 12 May 2012 02:15:15 +0000 http://www.japaneseruleof7.com/?p=404#comment-224 Serendipity? Don’t know what that is, but I once dated a girl named Sarah Dipity, so maybe that’s her sister. Anyway, thanks for the props.

]]> By: Princess Dieter aka Mir http://www.japaneseruleof7.com/the-shochu-the-yakuza-and-the-hostess-bar/#comment-220 Princess Dieter aka Mir Fri, 11 May 2012 20:41:02 +0000 http://www.japaneseruleof7.com/?p=404#comment-220 Dang, I love linky serendipity. I visit a Japanese blog I haven’t visited in ages, somehow end up here, reading this blog post–one of the best I’ve EVER fricken read, hilarious to boot.

Lawdy, lawdy. Thanks. I so needed this laugh.

I gotta linky up hubby so he can enjoy this, too.

Keep writing! Ya gots wit and skillz.

]]> By: Ken Seeroi http://www.japaneseruleof7.com/the-shochu-the-yakuza-and-the-hostess-bar/#comment-209 Ken Seeroi Tue, 08 May 2012 09:26:07 +0000 http://www.japaneseruleof7.com/?p=404#comment-209 Thanks, I appreciate that. I’ve got a brain like a room full of monkeys all with typewriters. Given enough time, sometimes stuff worth reading is produced at random. I have little influence on the process.

]]> By: Michael Davis http://www.japaneseruleof7.com/the-shochu-the-yakuza-and-the-hostess-bar/#comment-207 Michael Davis Mon, 07 May 2012 20:26:30 +0000 http://www.japaneseruleof7.com/?p=404#comment-207 I really enjoyed this. You write well.

]]> By: Ken Seeroi http://www.japaneseruleof7.com/the-shochu-the-yakuza-and-the-hostess-bar/#comment-203 Ken Seeroi Wed, 02 May 2012 09:48:50 +0000 http://www.japaneseruleof7.com/?p=404#comment-203 Thanks for reading. I really appreciate it because it takes me so darn long to type these things up. Most people don’t notice that I have only nine fingers, but actually I lost one in a poorly-considered bet with some old dude in a game of igo. Nowadays, I try not to use a lot of A’s. Damn, there’s another one.

Tokyo is like Disneyland; it’s got an endless stream of hilarious people and places. And as long as you’ve got a ton of cash and don’t mind waiting in line for hours, it’s awesome. But as a place to work and live, it can wear you out. I used to have a job where I commuted four hours a day. That’s a hellishly long time to stand on a train.

I wanted to live in Tokyo because I thought it would be fun, and it really was, for about a week. And there are a ton of jobs there. But I live outside of the city now, and I prefer it. I also think Kansai would be a good choice. I’ve got a couple of friends there, and they love it.

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