Jap is cool.
Jap never do rap well but Jap is fucking cool. Jap is not good at singing hip hop song. but Jap is cool. Jap is dancing baddly as hell
but Jap is so fucking cool that you can break down in fucking crowded placeand nobody care you.
it’s extrem free.
Jap is really cool. Jap is too busy to concern you. Jap must go back home as soon as possible or Jpa is too busy to go back home and to go to bed. Just fall down in the crowded public area. and nobody care you.
Jap never worry for robbers. just lay down ungardedly. it’s cool.
You can lay down in the public until death.
The most coolest country is Japan. Come on Japan, and die coolly.
Oh, one girl notice you.
Oh, will she concern you ?
Will she help you ?
NO
Jap have no concern to you.
You can lay down freely.
Oh, be caureful, you are stompped !
Don’t worry, Jap are so polite as to step a side of you.
Lay down to your heart content.
Jap are so kind as to avoid you.
You can live freely
and you can fall down freely
and you can sleep freely
and you can die freely
Nobody disturb you
Nobody disturb you until death.
Because Jap is cool
Jap never get angry to you.
Jap never get angry to you even if you lay down in crowded place.
Jap never angry because Jap is cool
Do you need isolation ?
If you need isolation, come to Japan.
Jap have lots of isolation.
Japan is island country.
And Japan is isolation country.
Hey, what is the most cool people ?
yes, Jap is the most cool. We never do rap, never dance, hever sing hip hop to show off our coolness. Jap is just cool just as it is.
Be careful or die because Jap is cool, fuck you.
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Masa, Are these pics recent?
Hows the weather in Tokyo? It looks warm enough, everyone seems to be wearing summer clothes.
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It’s this summer. sorry for slow posting.
That reminds me of my university a bit. They do have dormitories on campus, but the students who don’t live in them are always very short on time and don’t get enough sleep, so there are a lot of people sleeping everywhere… Both students and professors.
haha!!
japanese can do rap sometimes 🙂
like THA BLUE HERB and DJ KRUSH
Hi. I love your site. I’ve only been to Tokyo one time, for 2 weeks. Your pictures remind me of the things I saw (or didn’t see)
Anyway, you should check into hosting your pictures on flickr.com cause you seem to have really bad bandwidth problems a lot of the time. I have to wait 15 minutes for your entries to finish loading sometime (and I’m on high speed)
Whatever you do, keep up the good work. Your site makes me happy.
This sort of thing also happens in Singapore. I saw a woman standing in the train station just fall flat backwards and crack her head on the ground with a loud thud. No one went up to help her. Yep, I also just stood there watching.
seen this many times but I always got the JR or Metro staff to help. Although this is not always the right thing to do. the staff and everybody stood around a woman a long time until somebody was choosen to call an ambulance.
…and after a late night out, he decided to take a nap.
Seems to be snug and comfortable too!
Japan is a good, isolated and comfortable country!
I don’t know where you find this stuff, but you have talent at reporting some great stories. Thanks!
About Japan Rap. What about DJ Krush!? He Spins some wicked hip hop toons, including hip hop from Japan…Picked up his CD when I was in London.
http://www.msu.edu/user/okumurak/japan/crush.html
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Thank you for your information
Did you check what’s wrong with her?
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Wow that is a true image of relaxation. Rock on buddy!
Hey Masa I see that this dudes cellphone is just on the floor and he wasent even paying attention.
I have two more statements either he is very well contious or it would be a perfect colectable seeing as the cellphone looks pretty thight.(just a thought)
Hey, why don’t you photograph a cute girl lying in the crowded area next time… It’s just that nobody helps lying brooding man 🙂
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THere are no cute girl lying crowded area because guy take such girl away at that time girls lying as soon as possible.
it can happen in all over the world, even in a small city…
none helps you…the problem come out when u’re unconscious….you can lay in a place full of people, for a lot, a lot of time…this make me angry….
factory age make us like bots..we go for our own way and we don’t care about the others 😐 that’s bad…
no one steal cell phone in Japan?]
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I said Jap is cool
> Just fall down in the crowded public area. and nobody care you.
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> Oh, one girl notice you.
– That’s a summery of most of Shozin Fukui’s films right there! Don’t know if you’ve seen this director’s movies Masa? ‘964 Pinnochio’ is one… His earlier short films are mostly of people acting weird in public… in one a guy with zombie face paint falls over in the subway station and people ignore him. Another short is basically just a crazy girl vomiting and attacking salarymen in the street!
You couldn’t really make such films here in the UK, as pretty much everyone would be acting like that on a friday night in most towns.
Interesting and funny reports and photos as ever, nice work Masa!!!
Apparently this phenomenon is called: Diffusion of responsibility.
http://www.cultsock.ndirect.co.uk/MUHome/cshtml/socinf/diffusion.html
In Detroit, passers-by would not ignore you. They would kick or piss on you.
In that sense, the Japanese are cool.
By the way, Masa, do you recognize that the term “Japs” is pejorative? It’s a racial epithet.
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As a Japanese, I really love to use the pejorative word, “Jap”. You know this is the privilege of Japanese.
i am happy of japan culture and values. my country is australia but i not proud of it, very bad country but good climate. in australia people are aggressive and boring because they not have SPORTY MIND!! without sporty mind people are not worthy.
please check my website. i created it using my sports mind!
http://www.geocities.com/mad_url
that is cool. i wonder why he is sleeping there? he looks like he has a family and a bed at home. is he a student? he seems unconcerned in his sleep, it must be nice to know that he will not be bothered by anyone. That is truly cool.
great post
I’m from Australia aslo. It really sucks. I envy the Japanese. I really do. Way to many Australians are ignorant and intrusive. Like everyone is your friend and somehow you owe them something.
I hope to come to Japan. The Isolation would be great. It’d be great to get away from christian values and goodwill… Fuck them all!
I’d very much like to meet you Masa.
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THank you. and I am also looking forword to seeing you !
i’m aussie too i fell down and there were only 3 people around and two came to see me it was so annoying i just wanted to lie there for a whileマジで最悪この国が本当にむかつく！泣きたい日本カッコよ過ぎて日本へ行って落ち込んで死にたい！しかたがない
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save your life.
sure i can’t trust about that’s photo, it is terribly. I think japanesee is very kind but why anybody in around doesn’t care with him? fuck people in around him.
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THis is also really Jap.
Japs are not numan being…
i hope these fuckers get rape by dogs
hi , great works
i plan 2 visit jp in 3 months
i am confused i should b happy or sad
How interesting.
I am African-American.
If African-Americans see a person lying on the street, we run really fast in the opposite direction so nobody blames us.
We always get into trouble, no matter how good we are.
So, Japanese are cool, African-Americans are cautious.
That’s why we rap to look cool, because we’re too scared to lie down in the street, or get near someone that is lying in the street.
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THank you for your interesting report about Africa-american people.
Jazz, blues, Rap and moon walk, African-american people’s culture is really great.
too fucking real…に本は沈没だ！：（（（
This website is the shit . Hey maybe one day i’ll be graced by your presence
i’m pretty sure that in many other places around the world, nobody would care if someone was lying in the street — many people here just crash on park benches — BUT…….. they’d probably steal their cellphone! 😀
japanese are all pigs!fuck all japanese
cool rap
I really like your website! And the photos are awesome 🙂 They really do tell a story. An interesting one. Jap IS cool…
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That is very sad.
Masa, did you help him? =(
I would.
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Saddly i am also cool
He reminds me of all the homeless who lie down all over the street where I live…no one helps those people either…
LOL that’s fucking sex, right there
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I said Jap is cool”
hahaha!!!
i want to party with you masa man!
YEAH GO JAPAN COOLEST ON EARTTH AND IN THE GALAXY!
hmm.. From turkey , and that pics are so ?nterest?ng and cool .. in TR , no one help those ppl either..
I’ve never been to Japan, but my brother lived and worked there for many years. He said the Japs are cool – when you go to a nite club there is no aggro, you can relax, everyone is cool. The only obnoxious people he came across were other foreigners. He said the party scene rocked -banged alot of chicks there – Japanese, Korean, african, south american, chinease, even australian! I’d love to go there someday.
My Grandfather was shot in the leg by the Japs fighting in PNG, most of his battalion were killed, so he hated the Japs. But we have to let the past go, nearly all those people are dead now. Young Japanese are heaps cool today. I see them here on the Gold Coast in Queensland, with their dark tans and long hair, driving shity old cars with surfboards on the roof – good luck to them!!!
Stay Cuel deudes!
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THank you and take care your grand father
Well if I ever go to Japan, I know I can sleep on the streets like I always wanted to here.
japan sucks all you japanese fuckers look like you’ve been squeezed DIE JAPS DROWN IN YOUR FUCKING LAVA YOU CANT DRAW YOU CANT FILM
japs are losers.
fuck japs
A loser is someone who blames other people for their problems. People like japnazi and jappy jappy are quintessential losers…
chill out j and jj.
Have a beer. Listen to some music.
c
i am a proud american. i have a lot of respect for the japanese. also for all cultures. even the ones we are at war with. to each his own. i really like this site. it has enlightened me. thank you for the oppertunity to behold such truthful banter between the cultures.
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haha i’m just thinking ‘and no one nicked his phone?!’ O_o because in the uk if you left your phone on the floor and you sleeping then your phone would be gone in a matter of seconds! haha loving your site it rocks!
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im japanese and i sumtimes see people lie down on the streets ans sidewalks like that. sumtimes i notice they have cell phones so that amuses me. lol!
I don’t know about you guys…but this makes me INCREDIBLY sad. Honestly, I love the Japanese. But, this article made me feel very differently. Why do you think it is cool to leave someone on the ground? If she’s sleeping, okay. What if she wasn’t? What if she was really unconscious? What would you do if she was bleeding to death? “Oh, I’m Jap, I’m cool. Let her die.” Sorry to break it to you, that’s NOT cool.
Masa, this is the first time I’ve come to your site. I came to see the lolis. I regret stumbling upon this. I hope that if I go to Japan and I collaspe due to a heart attack or something, that a Japanese person won’t be “cool” and let me die. I hope someone will save me.
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Be cool. you seem to forget that cool has lots of means.
I’m surprised his things didn’t get stolen. His mobile is even in plain site!
Well, if there are many meanings of cool, what meaning of ‘cool’ are you talking about when you refer to “Jap is cool”? ;__;
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You can decide it.
He is drunk.
Japanese university students sometimes get dead-drunk.
Most of people don’t drink too much, because they can control themselves.
So such stupid students are often ignored, but not always so.
If he looks ill too much, somebody will call an ambulance.
If you want to survive in Japan, you have to learn sleeping in public areas.
This tecnique was originally invented by koga ninjas, and called ‘robou-no-isi’.
If you can’t use this, you’ll never be somebody in Japan.
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Hey, Toshiaki ! dont tell the Japanese secret !
If you read Masa’s comments closely enough, you can see what he really means.
Here in Finland, people are “cool” too. It’s a cold country, after all. If you pass out, people will try to ignore you because everyone else does and because it’s none of their business. If they call help, it’ll be the police to pick you up, not the ambulance.
This behaviour is not country-specific (although I’m surprised about the cell phone…)
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THank you for your good read.
hehe this site makes me smile alot i sometimes sleep on train and on floor i like cat naps ^_^
Owwwh Gawdd!! I loveee Japan!!!! <3 *huggs it
and the boy..is..zo damn SEXY!!
That is very powerful photo-journalism right there. I’m in awe. This is by far your best work I think.
the same thing in poland. When I was getting back from concert in nearby city there were 3 old drukners laying on the ground (huh, after a little while fourth came:P). One of them stinked worse than the trash can which was nearby. It’s so sad… I wonder sometimes whose fault is it that they ended like that… nevertheless someone should help them, but now thats the problem, who? Someone can say that it’s their own fault, and probably not once it’s true. But what about the rest? masa, you’re wrong, jap are not cool, humans are cool. jap r even less cool a little, here the cell would disappear in a jiffy as well, amazing.
PS great site, japan from the side you can’t find in guides :>
iam live in jap also i not see this kind of stuf may be he drink to much in this world this is normel
Ha! This made me laugh so hard ^^ I must come to Japan and try that sometime
I just found this site, and it is my new favorite. I live in America, but love Japan, it has the best culture on earth.
I don’t mind the broken english, at least it’s understandable.
I almost pissed in my pants laughing
Ha ha, In the United States if you fall down people don’t care eiter, in fact they will step on you, mug you, and most likly kick you in the nuts.
Did anybody check his wallet for cash or credit cards? Maybe book bag for sandwich or valuables? Take cell phone, get 2000 Yen. HAHAHA !! Welcome to JAPAN!!!
Great!
If I go Japan I don´t need pay hotel. I can sleep where night catch me… I can put my cellphone in floor and nobody steal it 🙂 good!
In Mexico this guy could be stolen, arrested, kiddnaped, raped, sell his organs, used for politcian campaign, filmed for TV show (like “changoleon”), robbed, struck, accused of a crime he didn´t, disguised, undressed and make up just for fun, and I am sure, many people could dropped one coin for him.
I would like go to Japan
Good work Masa, you did it again
OMFG!!! this is the funiest shit i’ve ever read!!!
this site is fucking stupid! and i love it. you cant even spell properly, and that just makes it a million times funnnier!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
JAPANESE DONT CARE THEY ARE JUS LIKE ROBOT .
THEY LOOK AT ME STRANGE WHEN I CROSS STREET EVEN THOUGH THE LIGHT IS GREEN BUT THERE ARE NO CARS FO RLONG TIME!! SO CROSS THE STREET DAMIT!! TOO MANY RULES IN JAPAN AND PEOPLE DONT THINK FOR THEMSELF AMERICA IS SAME WAY!!!
fucking i d like japs girl.it is cool when u make love with them
I’m sure things like this happen everywhere.
Especially if a camera is on that person on the floor…I might even think it were a photo shoot!
Very nice story. Japanese are either “cool” (if the case is that this man was voluntarily “sleeping one off”) or the Japanese are “too cool” (if the case is that this young man was dying and in need of help).
In America, we often react in the extreme.
Americans react totally “un-cool” or “lame” by enforcing the law on a sleeping man. The Law says no loitering, trespassing, soliciting, no public drunkenness, no obstruction of fire exit, (if the guy lost his wallet) failure to provide identification. The Law states that the state must pay for shelter, pay for detox (rehab), pay to ensure sleeping man takes drug tests and searches for employment. Law requires sleeping man to pay fines and attend classes. In USA, hobo (person that sleeps in public) hides from society.
Or, on the other extreme, Americans react “wicked cool” or “sick cool” by taking the law into their own hands. “Sick cool” Americans would step on him, kick him, and take his cell phone. If they could get away with it, “sick cool“ Americans would piss on or burn a sleeping man. If you burn a hobo, they most likely would not sleep in “your” public area again.
America would not let this kid sleep. A good American would help this kid, a typical American would inform a cop / employee about the sleeping man. Most Americans are too cool to help someone themselves.
There are many meanings to “cool“. Cool is letting a rich kid sleep on off on the train station floor. Cool is not hurting or stealing from a sleeping person. Cool is not caring that a person sleeps in public.
The ultimate cool is reflecting on why we have situations like the ones documented at masamania- why homeless, why we have mental illness, why we have poverty, why we care about stuff. Why we look away. Why society looks away.
I would not have taken this man’s cell phone. I would not have stepped on or intentionally hurt this man. I would not have asked this man if he required my assistance. I would not have informed the authorities.
I am cool, but I could be cooler.
I wish German people would be as cool as Japanese.
But here you can’t sleep in public place.
I try it every day, but people step on me or police guys come and say I’m not allowed to sleep there.
Fuck’em, they’re not cool.
hey masa, that was very profound man, ive spent a lot of time in japan myself, and that just sort of rang true to me.
great stuff
THIS IS GREAT.How much do you want to come to Australia with some of your female obedient slaves.We’ll bash some of our’s into gear and rage.
ok – time for the truth – guy drunk and passed out at a train station – retard passes by and snaps a bunch of photos – spins the story on the web about peaceful sleeping in a land of cool people….
Japan sucks ass. I live Australia and it suck too but not quite as much as japan. go Norway! fuck you all!
yes, i’ve lived in japan and you can lay down if you want. privacy is guaranteed. your english grammer really sucks by the way. also, about a third of these pictures would have told the same story. one more thing, i think you are an idiot, but that’s just my opinion. have another ignorant day. bye.
Hi,umm what im gonna say… well,,
it’s my first time visiting your site. i like your story,-and photos too!. now im studying japanese major in the unversity in Bangkok,Thailand.(i luv studying japanese) i’ve heard so much about japanese people-in both good and bad ways. i also studied japanese culture,tradition in class. i think it’s very difficult to understand other’s countries’ culture and traditoin also the way they’re thinking.(espeacially japanese) so i wanna go to japan so much, i wanna live and study there ,so i can see everything with my own eyes and understand everything by myself. i wish someday i could! //anyway Luv your site!
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Jap is the shit!!! If your english sucks, if it makes you feel better, so does my japanese. Hope its readable, trying to practice while living.
hey masa you fucking JAP fucker.
When I come to Japan, I’ll be sure to fuck your slant-eyed mother you bunch of fucking animals. I hope somebody splashes acid on your face and drops nuclear bombs on your country. FUCK ALL JAPS!
yourso fucking stupid and yeah your site blows!
I love this guy!! v>o<v He’s as cool as japan!
go Japan! v>ow<
I never like this country.
One day they gona be send to hell by their own hands.
This is so freaking funny, was that guy drunk or something?
he’s no homeless, he has a celphone and alllmaooo
why was he laying there on the floor?
Stupid japs!!!