I was inspired to start my blog by the blog of a friend of mine, Jeff Laitilla, another American Environmental Engineer here in Japan who works for the Commander, Naval Forces Japan out of Yokosuka Naval Base, about 1-2 hours south-east of me here at Yokota AB. He has a very good blog, which he has been doing for sometime, about his experiences here in Japan. I recently read a blog he wrote back in August about a set of Japanese Olympic games, which I thought was very funny, and accurate. If you want to see it, it is at:
http://www.sushicam.com/2004/August/040818/040818.php
If you really want to know about Japan, read his blog, it is much more complete (and probably better) than mine, plus he has a lot of great pictures in his.
In that Olympics blog, he included several games, and I thought of a few more:
- Salaryman Synchronized Street Peeing - Groups of drunk middle aged Japanese men pee in the street outside of a Pachinko Parlor. Extra points for not getting your or your team mates' shoes wet.
- School Girl Stair Climb - Japanese High School girls must climb the stairs of a train station in the fastest time, without letting any of the business men behind them see up their skirts. Extra points if they are sucking on a lollipop or wearing any article of clothing that has the playboy bunny on it.
- Train Sitting (Mens) - Middle Aged Japanese businessmen must compete to see who can sit the longest in the train seats reserved for the handicap, the aged, and women with small children, while women holding sleeping children stand in front of them and stare.
- Meeting Addition - This is a unisex competition, but men seem to excel at it. The contestant must arrange a meeting about one subject. This subject must take no more than 10 minutes, after which the contestant will ask to bring up a few other items, as long as they are there. These other, unscheduled agenda items, must take up at least 1 hour. Extra points if they are able to arrange a meeting without divulging any agenda items.
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