Kirin <fake@email.com> wrote in message news:<2jt47rF15hj8bU1@uni-berlin.de>...
> 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. 

Read this from the Mainichi.

http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20040625p2a00m0dm014000c.html
Mourner moans funeral undertaker buried extra charges

"ITAMI, Hyogo -- An undertaker illegally overcharged a man for his
father's funeral service by including tips for employees, a local
court ruled Friday...."

Still think Japan is a good service, no tipping society? Is and always
has been.

John W.