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#1927 – guns and gangsters

This was posted over 22 years ago; my opinions, thoughts, attitude, and writing style may have evolved since then, and this post might have been different if it were to be posted today.

my japanese teacher asked the japanese lady in the class to try to act like a travel agent and sell us the idea of travelling to japan…

lady: “it’s very very safe… almost no crime, and no guns – the only people with guns are policemen and gangsters!”

hehehehehehe… apparently you never really see the gangsters, though, they’re mostly behind-the-scenes…

we also watched a movie about different things in japan, and it was kind of weird to see all these places i had been to and recognized, haha… even the steps of one building i was in in akihabara was in the movie, hehe. at one part in the movie it talked about how to eat with chopsticks and showed a flight attendant asking a man on a plane “have you ever used chopsticks before?” and he replied “no, i don’t think so…”. what kind of response is that?? you ought to know whether or not you’ve used chopsticks before! hehehe…

from things i saw in the movie i thought it was filmed rather recently (in the last few years or so). sensei said it was probably filmed about 20 years ago… i guess japan really is stuck in the ’80s… ^_^;