How the people from this country, showed, NO respect, for the law, or the unspoken rules of the cultures of wherever it is that we'd, traveled to, and that's, just, messed up! Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
The media reported, that awhile ago, a citizen of Taiwan traveling to Japan, claimed that he'd gotten pulled by the customs to conduct a body check three times continually as he passed through customs thoroughly. Although, the custom told it was random, that it had nothing to do with the tattoos that he had, but, as a tour guide for Japan, I had to say, that "exposing the tattoos" does get you pull over a lot, and you can easily get stopped by the local police too, if you have exposing tattoos on your bodies.
and on a sign, outside of a bathhouse in Japan...photo from online
Although, Japan had long done away with the tattoo orders, but, most of the locals still held a negative overtone toward tattoos, believed that tattoos are markings of the mobsters. In the public areas such as the bath houses, warm springs, even gym, a lot of the operators had the "Not tattoo" order set up. While the mobsters in Japan, under "not wanting to make any troubles", would stay out of these places, this became, an unspoken, deal. To the point, of walking under the scorching sun, these individuals would pay strict attention to how they might be perceived, and cover up their tattoos.
And, the Taiwanese people who had the tattoos, under the beliefs of "so long as I like it", walked around with their tattoos showing out in the open, in this country, and as they'd traveled abroad, and, only as they'd gone to Japan, they'd hit that, wall.
Although, it's said to be random, that the customs, and the police in Japan checked, but based off of human nature, the checks would normally be for someone who'd appeared, suspicious, in the stereotype of "tattoos=mob", you can, easily, get, pulled over.
Lin, from the cheerleaders of the baseball teams, showed her photo of her sauna experiences in Japan, but there was no sight of her tattoo, she'd taped the tattoos over with the skin-colored patches, worth noting by those who want to travel to Japan. When in Rome, other than a show of respect for the local culture, it can, also, help us avoid the unnecessary troubles, why not?
And so, that's how the Japanese culture worked, they all followed the rules, and that just showed, how the people are, very, disciplined, unlike how the Asian (from China and Taiwan too sometimes), wherever they go, it's like they OWNED the places, like they can talk the loudest, because, they're the ones, paying for whatever it is they go abroad to do, and that's, just, the WRONG values!
We should take after the Japanese, in how they showed RESPECT, but do we? Of course N-O-T, because the generations are, too, messed up, especially under the rules of the DDP here.
