Lady sat down next to me on the train and started googling on her phone
なぜ外国人まだ日本にいる (Why are there still foreigners in Japan)
Well, good morning to you too...
A lot of people in Japan seem to be losing their jobs due to the corona crisis, and companies seem to be putting hiring on hold, but my company is currently looking for one full-time in-house localization editor!
Personally I don't think it was malicious intent - just kinda ignorant (they likely assumed I couldn't read it?) and mostly... very strange? Due to remote work I rarely ride trains on weekday mornings anymore, but the one time I do... 😓
And so it begins... I was on the train minding my own business when two guys across from me began loudly talking about how I "must have escaped from one of those monitored tourist groups" because "foreigners definitely won't follow the rules"... =__=;
Fuming. Booking annual checkup. When they heard my name, they said that they can't do it because my Japanese won't be good enough to do a barium test since they x-ray guy won't be able to communicate with me, so they cancelled all my tests despite me having done it 4 times before
Disturbing poster in the train station bathroom, telling women that if they get assaulted at night, it is your own fault for not being careful enough.
Tell me, do the men's bathrooms have reminders telling men not to assault women?
What kind of foreigner who finally got into Japan after 2+ years of waiting would be so desperate to escape from their tour and... get on the Odakyu line into western Kanagawa??
Wow... Apparently ”I thought she was 10" is the new "I thought she was 18" in Japan...
(Pervert coerces a 6-year-old girl to send him nudes and tries to excuse himself by saying he "thought she was in the higher grades of elementary school" as if that makes it okay...)
I'm wheezing xD
Apparently a client used some kind of program to flag up potentially offensive or mature language in my translation. I'm surprised at how many there are (since this project is all-ages) but then I open the file, and... Well then...
The more I think about this the more confused I get... The train to Hakone doesn't even stop at my station, where did they think this "tourist" was going?
This time we also got a VERY specific reminder that 🥪handmade sandwiches🥪may not be brought into Japan and please eat them before customs if you have them... More sniffing dogs than usual, too. Another weird part of the security theater surrounding the funeral?
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