J-News Flash

Aug 7, 2012 03:30 am

Sleepninja wrote: I have no clue about Japan, but in the U.S you don't need a license for a sword. There might be some regulations about carrying it in public, but we can own whatever kind of blade we want. Well actually, switchblades are illegal.

Here in Oklahoma double-edged knives also illegal

Rubyy

Aug 8, 2012 09:43 pm

Aphrodite_Yuuki wrote: Father have a samurai sword as a decoration but yes it's currently illegal in the UK to have swords, they only allow it to martial arts experts and people like that plus it's punished by law to carry a sword in public but my husband told me that those regulations are going to change soon :)

I dont think i'd carry one around in public. But i wouldn't mind one for decoration.

Bladey

Sep 28, 2012 02:51 pm

Being different is fine, but isn't this taking it a bit too extreme?

http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/bagelheads-japans-take-on-the-klingon-forehead.html

boutux

Sep 28, 2012 03:18 pm

Bladey wrote: Being different is fine, but isn't this taking it a bit too extreme?

http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/bagelheads-japans-take-on-the-klingon-forehead.html

another wtf japan moment

Becca256

Sep 28, 2012 03:48 pm

Bladey wrote: Being different is fine, but isn't this taking it a bit too extreme?

http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/bagelheads-japans-take-on-the-klingon-forehead.html

boutux wrote: another wtf japan moment

lol!!! Japs are crazy!!!!

M0niisek

Oct 8, 2012 02:08 pm

You've gotta check this out:
And for further reading: The Grand Narrative's article

Elisabetta

Oct 8, 2012 02:30 pm

Moniisek wrote: You've gotta check this out:
And for further reading: The Grand Narrative's article

That so adorable, and it's fun to see how they can laugh about stereotypes and use them to their advantage.

M0niisek

Oct 8, 2012 02:44 pm

I know right! Frankly, I find this kind of parody much more pleasant than Gangam style (which is starting to be incredibly annoying these days...) Oh well, I'm a hopeless pacifist so songs like these make me smile straightaway. And about the bagel people: it's so funny how the stereotypes about Japan are about a society that pushes people to be ordinary however at the same time everybody's like wtf japan... I mean, look at the awesome street fashion!! A country of contradictions after all.

annette69_us

Feb 21, 2014 10:55 pm

i think it is anything longer than 4 inches is considered illegal. so you have to be careful. some of my girlfirends carry some pretty serious pocketknives and you are stopped it will be confiscated and u might go to jail, if not more depending on the situation u are in. i myself dont have anything. it is generally pretty safe where i am but i dont walk alone at night. to dark and there are a bunch of tweakers out.

Mako

Feb 21, 2014 11:22 pm

My friends Dad has a Japanese samurai sword hanging above a door frame from when he was in Japan and he hasn't been told off for it, I think as long as you don't reveal it in public or anything stupid you're fine, also at mcm expo they sell proper samurai swords and metal replica of game swords. So I think it's just in public.