This is not a toilet! Bad!
This sign says “Here is not a toilet! Bad!”
If you relieve yourself here a giant hand will appear out of the sky and poke you in the back. This is a new variation of the time-honoured Japanese art of kancho (here is a Korean flash game you can play if you want to practice (NSFW)). Amazing really the technology advances available to the powers that be in Japan.
I remember when we were driving in Akita, one snowy wintry day, when an old man in a little truck stopped in the middle of the road, got out and began to draw in the snow. The traffic backed up quite a way (Japanese roads are narrower than a narrow thing so no-one had the, uh, balls to pass), but he was oblivious to it all. Nonchalantly he wandered back to his truck and drove off. It was less shocking than seeing a taxi driver in Kyoto masturbating at the taxi stand while waiting for customers, but still it was a little surprising.
4 Comments, Comment or Ping
Mary
Yuck. That is gross! Why does he have blond hair????
Very strange picture, but a good laugh.
Jun 7th, 2008
harvestbird
I feel as unnerved as I do educated! Although I do like Japanese public service announcements. This one on a train made me laugh (I think it was the Yokosuka line). I have been that backpacker, tho’ not in Japan.
Jun 7th, 2008
dimaks
i see lots of Japanese peeing in broad daylight, i mean bus drivers behind their bus, taxi drivers on the wheel of their car
haven’t seen mastrubating yet hehe.
Jun 7th, 2008
simon
@HARVESTBIRD: I think we have all been there:) Always difficult when if you fly into Japan only to arrive at rush hour. Not much that can be done though…
@DIMAKS: You are lucky
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The guy I saw was reading manga and must have been a bit nuts.
Jun 9th, 2008
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