"Dave Fossett" <reply@via.newsgroup> wrote in message news:<4cdCc.9$_z1.0@news1.dion.ne.jp>...
> "Kirin" <fake@email.com> wrote:
> 
> > I saw someone in a Japan-related forumn complain that you can't tip in
> > Japan, because the service is so good.
> >
> > This is offensive.
> 
> Not so much offensive as incomprehensible. I didn't know there were people
> that actually *liked* to tip.

In the US I have no problem tipping if the person deserved it. I even tip my barber.

John W.