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Re: Japan - won't let you into a gym if you have visible tatoos
« Reply #50 on: September 14, 2011, 07:54:06 PM »
When I was in Japan last I was walking around with sun glasses on and the guy I was with who was older told me to take them off b/c some ppl would see me and think i was yakuza. The culture is very image oriented.

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Re: Japan - won't let you into a gym if you have visible tatoos
« Reply #51 on: September 14, 2011, 07:57:31 PM »
Yeah all true. I do not and will have connections with them outside the gym. Most of them I don't know their names and vice versa.
It's not my company I speak of BTW, but rather the gym's parent company. They have pachinko connections.
I work in the finance sector.

My wife is very keen on keeping me from making stupid mistakes like befriending gangsters.

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Re: Japan - won't let you into a gym if you have visible tatoos
« Reply #52 on: September 14, 2011, 07:57:51 PM »
When I was in Japan last I was walking around with sun glasses on and the guy I was with who was older told me to take them off b/c some ppl would see me and think i was yakuza. The culture is very image oriented.

LOL, when was that, 1974?  ;D ;D ;D

Nowadays sunglasses are cool with the girls mainly, but i you're right, they are associated with either gaijin or Yakuza.

A lot of people told me gaijin always wear sunglasses because our eyes are different and we can't see in the sun, the Japanese eyes block the rays better.  ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::)

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Re: Japan - won't let you into a gym if you have visible tatoos
« Reply #53 on: September 14, 2011, 07:58:13 PM »
When I was in Japan last I was walking around with sun glasses on and the guy I was with who was older told me to take them off b/c some ppl would see me and think i was yakuza. The culture is very image oriented.

Are you Japanese with highly permed hair?

- Oh and we gaijiin look much better in sunglasess 'cause we have noses.

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Re: Japan - won't let you into a gym if you have visible tatoos
« Reply #54 on: September 14, 2011, 07:58:50 PM »
Yeah all true. I do not and will have connections with them outside the gym. Most of them I don't know their names and vice versa.
It's not my company I speak of BTW, but rather the gym's parent company. They have pachinko connections.
I work in the finance sector.

My wife is very keen on keeping me from making stupid mistakes like befriending gangsters.

Oh i see, sorry for that.

Pachinko and construction, all full of yakuza, lol.

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Re: Japan - won't let you into a gym if you have visible tatoos
« Reply #55 on: September 14, 2011, 08:09:50 PM »
A lot of people told me gaijin always wear sunglasses because our eyes are different and we can't see in the sun, the Japanese eyes block the rays better.  ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::)
LMFAO hahahah

it was like 10 years ago

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Re: Japan - won't let you into a gym if you have visible tatoos
« Reply #56 on: September 14, 2011, 08:11:48 PM »
Are you Japanese with highly permed hair?

- Oh and we gaijiin look much better in sunglasess 'cause we have noses.

half japanese and my hair was about eye brow length then and kinda slicked back.

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Re: Japan - won't let you into a gym if you have visible tatoos
« Reply #57 on: September 14, 2011, 08:18:16 PM »
half japanese and my hair was about eye brow length then and kinda slicked back.

ahahaahahaah, that's really totally Yakuza!!!

with the sunglasses, fits.  ;D ;D

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Re: Japan - won't let you into a gym if you have visible tatoos
« Reply #58 on: September 14, 2011, 08:23:05 PM »
ahahaahahaah, that's really totally Yakuza!!!

with the sunglasses, fits.  ;D ;D
;D ;D ;D

I didnt know at the time