[TruthNtegrity]

And beward that poor gaijin if he doesn't understand that ONE date with a Japanese girl means that she will chase him and hold onto him forever, hoping for a large American house with washing machine, dryer and no relatives living with them!

I saw, from the vantage point of a Navy base in Japan, how dangerous it was for any American to ever think of asking a Japanese girl out on a date. A guy from my company SAT with a Japanese girl at a Sailor's wedding to a Japanese girl, and this girl considered it to have been a date. She chased him while he lived in Japan, and when he returned stateside, she found a way to get herself to DC, "to study English". Yup - she got him - they married. He could never get away from her, although he had started dating other women when he had returned here. But then, Japanese girl shows up - end of dating other women, end of freedom - married within a year.

My problem was with Japanese men, who are frankly, disgusting in public, but especially in those tightly packed trains. If you've never seen those "pushers", who shove all the people on a platform onto a train, you are in for the experience of your life. Japanese men use it as an excuse to rub themselves against you - totally disgusting experience, and no way to get away from them.

[sushiman]

" My problem was with Japanese men, who are frankly, disgusting in public, "

Yep . They grope women ( and sometimes men ) on the trains and elsewhere ( some Tokyo rail lines now have " women only " cars ! ) ...Pee anywhere they feel like it ...Spit anywhere they feel like it ...Fart anytime anywhere they feel like ... I hear ya !