Stark reminder

This kind of feels like one of those weird mythologized Japanese culture posts

Japanese people jaywalk all the time - especially if you’re in a rural residential neighborhood.

I always though "jaywalking" was one of those US-only concepts. It certainly doesn't exist here¹ and I've never heard it from anybody else.
1 - We do have a fine for crossing a street close to the pedestrian crossing but not on it. It was applied at least once, and I know because it made the news. The person that received it contested it and didn't pay.
- In France you're supposed to use crosswalks but drivers are always responsible if an accident occurs. Most drivers stop to let pedestrian across on crosswalks.
  Except in Paris where drivers are entirely unaware of the concept of crosswalks. So most crosswalks have dedicated traffic lights, and those that don't might as well not exist.
- Welcome to Japan is one of our closest allies because we ~~kidnapped their military~~ ~~nuked their asses~~ are really close friends. Lots of cultural exchange happening cause of that.
- Unfortunately it exists in Poland too.
- It's a thing in Australia but only within a certain distance of a pedestrian crossing like in your example. I think that's pretty fair, there are some notorious crossings I've seen where jaywalkers regularly endanger themselves and fuck up the flow of traffic when there's a crossing literally right there. For most streets though...yeah it doesn't make sense imo
- Jaywalking is known in every country with somewhat big streets.
  You will get fined if you jaywalk across a highway in every country that has them.
Living in Chofu, Tokyo and can confirm I see it everyday. The one exception I've learned is if there's children in view, people (seemingly) will not jaywalk as to not set a bad example. There's a bad apple every now and then but this largely holds up from my observation.
Also people will wait for someone to break the ice and jaywalk first, then a bunch will follow lolol.
It's worse, it's a fascist dogwhistle.
Hello Kitty with a rifle implies Maoist-tank.
- How is the link relevant? Was there something specific or is it just general? I was wondering if this tweet uses some specific phrase mentioned in the link but can't seem to find it.
- Traffic rules are literally 1984
- my daughter loves hello kitty, where do I get hello kitty with a rifle merch?

BS. Jaywalking is an American concept.

Yup, pushed by car companies actually. Capitalism yay!
:/
- I guess Japan isn't capitalist
...Invented by carmakers to indemnify their product from liability.
- It's wild because jay was a slur.
Wanna know how dumb my brain is? I almost told you that America isn't the only place people walk across the street not at an intersection. I thought you to be an idiot.
Alas, it is I. The idiot.
- Self-awareness is the first step towards enlightenment.
Lmao no others have that concept too
- I mean, not really. It was a concerted effort by American automobile manufacturers to clear the roads of people so cars were supreme and they could sell more cars. As well as to shift blame onto victims for “accidents.”
  Most other countries haven’t picked up this attitude.
  Least of all Japan, where side-streets mix pedestrian, vehicle, and bicycle traffic freely. Granted, freeways don’t allow people and larger roads have pedestrian overpasses.
- I can only speak for the UK, but it's not a thing over here. We can cross where we please, as long as we're not putting ourselves or others in danger. And even if we are we wouldn't get much, or any, police intervention. Motorists would call us a wanker, but that would be about it.
- Lmao, no others have that concept ~~too~~
  FTFY

All day long I watch Japanese jay walk as Japanese drivers roll stop signs and fail to signal their turns.

Someone find that man and tell him his country needs him.

He tried, but as an old man he's dead now.
Which is good because he did awful, awful things in the invasion of China.

I call BS. A lot of small residential streets in Japan don't even have sidewalks, and people just walk in the street as you should:

Sometimes they have sidewalk-ish areas, but they're not physically separate from the road, just painted differently. Again, people just walk in the street, and as a result cars go slowly. Pedestrians make an effort to get out of the way of cars when there are cars on the street to be polite and not inconvenience the driver, and cars drive slowly and carefully because their drivers acknowledge the street as a shared space.

Now, if the OP meant a two-lane road with crosswalks, a yellow dividing line, street lights, etc. Then that would be different. I could imagine someone objecting to walking across that kind of road without using a crosswalk, even if it was empty. Those aren't shared spaces, those are car spaces. It would be keeping with Japanese culture to obey the traffic laws there even if the road was empty.

Japanese cities are so lovely.
cars drive slowly and carefully because their drivers acknowledge the street as a shared space.
As someone who lives in Japan, I can assure you that this isn't true.
My life is going to end under the wheels of a hi ace or a mamachari.
- I'm not saying they always drive slowly, but in my experience in Japan, they do in those small, one-lane residential streets where there's no room for a sidewalk. Is that not what you've experienced? I never lived in Japan long-term, but I've visited a bunch of times, and whenever I was in areas like that the drivers were cautious.
People regularly jaywalk in Japan as well. Not everyone, but it's not a rare sight either. It might have been different back when mama moved to Japan.
Yeah, that was my first thought. Second is that, with the levels of English fluency (or lack thereof) around here, and especially that phrase, anyone saying that is very exceedingly unlikely.
Edit: the only time I've seen people scold one another is when ignoring a "don't walk" signal at a crosswalk and, even then, usually only when kids/teens are present to not set a bad example.
- I agree that most Japanese have pretty low English fluency. But, the part about that that rings true is that sometimes there's a quiet Japanese person who could speak very good English, but chooses not to speak at all because they're embarrassed that their English isn't perfect. Compare that to something like Italy, where people are eager to try out their broken English on you, and don't care that they forgot most of what they learned.
  One memory I have of something like this was standing in front of a map in a Tokyo metro station, trying to figure out how to get from where I was to somewhere else in the city. This was in the days before Google Maps, etc. I'd probably been staring at the map for 5 minutes, and hundreds of people had walked past me, then suddenly out of nowhere a young woman appeared next to me and asked me in very clear (but accented) English if I needed any help.
  Something about that situation made me think it wasn't just someone walking by and casually saying "oh hey, need some help?" Instead, it felt like someone who had been watching me for a bit and had taken some time to practice the phrase she was going to use until she felt confident that she had it right, then she approached.

"... And in perfect Japanese she replied: Get fucked old man! Society already died! Get money, fuck bitches! Then she ran off making loud vroom vroom sounds."

"And then the entire neighbourhood clapped!"

Just a reminder that "jaywalking" is made up bullshit pushed by car manufacturers to shift the blame for pedestrian deaths onto pedestrians instead of drivers.

I was so confused as a child in the UK when after hearing about “jaywalking” being a crime for years I finally found out it meant “crossing the street”
- Crossing the street without a street crossing license.
- Omg Trying to go anywhere in continental europe is impossible
  Waiting for fucking lights so I can cross AHH

That totally happened. In Japan residential streets often don't have sidewalks and drivers are actually considerate towards pedestrians.

What the hell is "jaywalking"?

the action of crossing a road somewhere where there’s no pedestrian crossing, or while it’s not the pedestrian’s turn
it’s a word that was invented by car lobbies to turn something done by humans for millennia (cross a road) into a shameful action, and in some places, a crime
- Jay is also an old timey slur akin to hillbilly or redneck, a way to call someone uncouth
walking like a small blue bird
- make sure it's the right bird, you find want to get fined for titwalking

I appreciate appealing lies, tell me more.

She did not cross the street as an individual. She pushed a stroller, so we can assume she was with a baby, so there were two of them - a group. Thus, the old man did not speak about her. He spoke about himself as he was just about to

A baby hasn't been established so I dispute your assumption

That's a cryptid

No, this is a stark reminder:

The first death is in the heart, Harry

I had something similar, but it was near a school. I was looking for my Airbnb the first time visiting Japan. It was on a smaller street with very few people. I was standing behind a line that was at a school. The volunteers came over and told me I can't stand behind the line since that is the school. Moving 3 inches made it automatically ok.

The volunteers was very nice and didn't tell me whatever society bullshit. Just that I can't be near the school unless I'm picking up my kid

Where is the insult?

going over your fat American head.
edit: it appears I have struck a nerve with the Americans. surprising I hit it despite all the fat.
- Album name
- Lmao u got me

Lmao stay in line peasant

rare accurate retort🤣

If I was the mother in this situation, I’d 柔道 throw him face down on the floor, insert the handle of the stroller up his ass, and say “And this how the downfall of imperialism looks like, fascist boot matt.”

And kick his jaw off.

— 日本人