"Sean" <sean@false.con> wrote in message 
news:yauBh.93743$Oa.72043@edtnps82...
> Many moons ago, I attended a stag party for an American guy who was 
> marrying a Japanese lass. This was in Chiba prefecture. Most of the 
> attendees were Americans, with me and one or two Japanese guys the 
> exceptions. A party of about twenty.
> We had a chow-down and piss-up at some place. It was a decent place with 
> our party being served in a big tatami room. Good food, lots of beer. We 
> had a lot of fun.
> Near the front door of the establishment was a wall with lots of 
> cubbyholes for regular patrons' "keeper bottles" of whiskey.
> When we were on the train heading into Tokyo for more shenanigans, I was 
> gob smacked to see about half of the guys proudly displaying the whiskey 
> bottles they'd stolen from the place we'd just left. They really crowed 
> about how clever they were.
> I would utterly support that place for putting up a "no gai-frickin-jin" 
> sign. I don't know if they did or not. I slunk off home at the earliest 
> opportunity that night and never went near the establishment in question 
> again.

Yes, some of the behaviour I've seen from foreigners in Japan has been of 
that order or worse.

A lot of the contents of the "ura fairu" magazine seems to me to actually 
have some valid complaints about fairly objectionable behaviour taking 
place. It's OK to complain about the racism or the racist tone of the 
magazine but that doesn't mean it's OK for foreigners to behave badly in 
Japan. I believe the original complaint about the Otaru onsen involved 
Russian sailors who misused Japanese bathing facilities so that the Japanese 
customers were dissatisfied, hence foreigners were banned. Debito basically 
used this banning as an excuse to grind his political axe.