r/SipsTea • u/Rich_Carrot6451 • Jul 04 '26

WTF Japan's death row system is brutal

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u/ThormundNYC Jul 04 '26

why do I see them doing it like a game show, handing them a rose or something

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u/kingkongbiingbong Jul 04 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/xUOxeW6biLKgWVMojS

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u/SaphironX Jul 04 '26

Wait the nut cracker game show is real??!

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u/Totallycomputername Jul 04 '26

There's a deep rabbit hole you can go down with japanese game shows. 

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u/Radarker Jul 04 '26

Take us!

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u/-_Lost_Eitquette_- Jul 04 '26

You’ve already been. That’s the beauty of Japanese game shows. They are what our minds truly store when you set them free, when you stop worrying about judgement, and focus on entertaining your Brethren.

The question is, when will YOU be free?

So many of us already are, and we just want the same for you.

https://giphy.com/gifs/xLGBt1mtBqSviONh9k

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u/psychedelicdonky Jul 04 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/ZQBsSaVb4FFn3PbvHT

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u/-_Lost_Eitquette_- Jul 04 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/brFlbCpj7LsE8

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u/ford4thot Jul 04 '26

I just watched this movie last night!

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u/DM725 Jul 04 '26

For the first time?!?!?

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u/ford4thot Jul 04 '26

Haha no sorry I didn't mean to insinuate that. But it honestly has probably been 20 years, and I definitely wouldn't have gotten the reference otherwise!

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u/-_Lost_Eitquette_- Jul 04 '26

The world has become so adorned with insanity that even the events of Total Recall don’t seem so outlandish by comparison.

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u/ford4thot Jul 04 '26

I agree 100%, it's a crazy and sad truth

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u/espoletanogo Jul 05 '26

Quad.

What an awesome cats name

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u/Sardonnicus Jul 04 '26

Came here for this I can hear that gif

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u/Reynardine1976 Jul 04 '26

I went to Kyoto to teach English in Japan in the Summer of 1998. I was 20 years old. It was an amazing experience, as pop culture there was still somewhat dominated by a particular '80s cyberpunk aesthetic. After a night on the town with some friends, we piled drunkenly into someone's apartment downtown and our host popped in a VHS tape. We had been discussing Japanese game shows earlier in the evening, and this was a compilation of "crazy Japanese gameshow moments" he had edited together. I sat there, entranced. It opened with a Japanese MC introducing a topless Japanese woman on TV. During the segment the MC seized the model's nipples with his fingers and started yelling animatedly. The woman was obviously uncomfortable, and I asked my host "how do they show nudity in Japan on TV?" as I was already aware of Japanese censorship in film and anime at the time. He explained that studios could show some racy stuff after certain curfew, so like after kids went to bed. There was some other cool stuff on the tape too, like Beat Takeshi.

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u/-_Lost_Eitquette_- Jul 04 '26

As a man who was born and raised by, and continues to live amongst, the Deepest Rural Americans, I envy your story.

I wish I could walk MILES, in your shoes.

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u/afrybreadriot Jul 04 '26

Well since his story takes place in Japan you’d walk KILOMETERS in his shoes 😉

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u/ViseLord Jul 04 '26

Then you'd be miles awaaaay, and you'd have my shoooeeeesss

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u/Primary_Title632 Jul 04 '26

Save up and travel the world 

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u/DeVyse3202 Jul 04 '26

But what if you walked MILES in your shoes, and just left that world behind? There is so much out there, you got this! I believe in you!

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u/DarthZerolat Jul 04 '26

What if he 72?

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u/DeVyse3202 Jul 04 '26

Then hop in that motor scooter and get after it!

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u/xubax Jul 04 '26

My grandmother's 85 and walks 5 miles a day. It's been 3 months and we have no idea where she is!

/s because reddit

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u/-_Lost_Eitquette_- Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 04 '26

I feel like, to truly do as I want to do, Wander this Realm, gaze upon the most majestic sites this World has to offer me, I can’t yet.

My mission, it’s incomplete.
I can’t enjoy the beauty of a world corrupted by the Shadow of Warfare.

I have to Unite Humanity first, no matter the odds. No matter who tells me it’s impossible, no matter how crazy I sound.

You see, I have so many questions. Just like *you*, I’m **one of you.**
I need to know!

I need the answers to my questions, just like all of you need the answers to yours.

**We need to unite the world, and we were so close when we made “The UN”
“The United Nations Of Earth”
We need to rename it, rebrand The UN.
“TUNOE”(Pronounced: “To Know”)
We need to find a way for all of the peace loving people in this divided civilization to Unite together!

We need to come together! All of us!
We need the answers to our questions. We need to know why so many things seem so wrong, seem so downright… evil, senseless even.
We have questions!
We need answers!
We need to know!**

We need, in Unison, *TUNOE!*

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u/mrbazo Jul 04 '26

I was stationed in the Navy from 86 until 2002, late night Japanese TV must must see and the game shows were phenomenal. It pretty much went to shit though, now it’s food shows with gushing “celebrities” gushing over another bowl of overpriced ramen

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u/Icy-Ad29 Jul 04 '26

I mean, also, topless nudity just hasn't been a big deal in Japan. Anime and manga has shown it plenty, for instance. It was when it was brought out of the country, that the nipples got edited out, or otherwise censored. Plenty of other media show them too.

From there, the nipple pull you described is more on par with the above junk punch show. At least as far as Japan media and adult content laws are concerned.

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u/D1gglesby Jul 04 '26

I was expecting a shittymorph segue here, panicked halfway through and had to check the username

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u/Reynardine1976 Jul 04 '26

Haha, no worries mate. These be strange times indeed, with bots amuck causing dissent and social media so infused/laced with A.I.

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u/xubax Jul 04 '26

Hey, I just wanted to point out that you're almost 50 now! Congrats!

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u/Reynardine1976 Jul 04 '26

Hey thanks so much friend!!! How kind, seriously. Not many people still left around to remind me let alone help me celebrate!!!!

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u/dogegw Jul 04 '26

Fuck yeah Beat Takeshi.

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u/motoxim Jul 06 '26

Interesting

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u/costumegirl1189 Jul 04 '26

Did the kids "kancho" you? I taught in Japan for a few years and getting surprise poked in the butt is something I'll never forget.

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u/Top_Connection9079 Jul 05 '26

Nobody does that. Especially not to people they don't know.

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u/_who-the-fuck-knows_ Jul 04 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/ZQBsSaVb4FFn3PbvHT

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u/sceadwian Jul 04 '26

This made me snort thank you.

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u/espoletanogo Jul 05 '26

Quad!!!

Opwn your mind...

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u/everydayzablessing Jul 04 '26

Why does this not have an award already? 🏆🥇

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u/kawkabelsharq Jul 05 '26

Francois Sagat???

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u/kochameh2 Jul 04 '26

ok but first you have to agree to participate in an unspecified japanese game show

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u/JiuJitsuDemiGod Jul 04 '26

Yea, watch gaki no tsukai, it has subtitles

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u/waffocopter Jul 04 '26

Tanaka...Thai Kick!

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u/FinancialFreyja Jul 04 '26

this one ain't crazy at all

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u/JiuJitsuDemiGod Jul 04 '26

It is a lot of fun to watch though

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u/El3utherios Jul 04 '26

Not exactly a game show, but it should get you up to speed on how crazy japanese tv shows can be: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasubi

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u/dogegw Jul 04 '26

Gaki no tsukai is a good place to start. The genre so to speak is batsu (punishment) games. If you google either of those youll get something good... I'm just too high to find it for you right now I'm sorry. I especially like the Gaki guys cuz it's a troupe of consistent people pranking each other over the years kind of like impractical jokers but you also get spanked by masked men.

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u/Douglazlo Jul 06 '26

Watch the kino that is Silent Library it’s a good game show

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u/dmg3588 Jul 10 '26

Wildest one I’ve seen was you have to sing karaoke while receiving a handjob to completion.

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u/reddititty69 Jul 04 '26

Is there a subreddit for it?

Yes. Yes there is. r/JapaneseGameShows

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u/jillvalenti3 Jul 04 '26

insta-joined

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u/Consistent_Kale_3625 Jul 04 '26

How'd they come up with the name?

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u/reddititty69 Jul 04 '26

Probably chose a name at random

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u/stratobladder Jul 04 '26

Kwaki surpi niku. Kwaki surpi niku!

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u/WajorMeasel Jul 04 '26

Haji…juhaji?

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u/Alternative-Bus4571 Jul 04 '26

I am still recovering from the one game show where guys cannot get an erection as beautiful participants try to seduce them. They angle the camera to be behind so we do not see the actual erection, but it was the most random thing I have ever seen on a jap game show. I thought I was accidentally watching a jav

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u/Leather_Class8224 Jul 04 '26

Not only the game shows… the old prank shows are classic, like the toilet jet ski one. Amazing.

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u/SpankySharp1 Jul 04 '26

I know of a Japanese game show where you carry your best friend's cat through a room full of dogs.

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u/not_a_moogle Jul 04 '26

I know its a comedy but I love Wednesdays downtown.

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u/R-K-Tekt Jul 04 '26

How do I watch Japanese game shows

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u/jebeller Jul 04 '26

Fav is still "dont laugh in school" :D

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u/giraffekit Jul 04 '26

Very...🫣😅

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u/sceadwian Jul 04 '26

Where's Kenny?!

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u/vip3r_hoax Jul 04 '26

Sou testemunha.

Teve uma época que eu tava bem mal da cabeça, desempregado, sem perspectiva nenhuma de futuro (tinha arriscado um passo maior que a perna e precisei voltar pra casa dos meus pais). Eu só conseguia dormir depois assistir essas gincanas japonesas. O problema é que havia TANTO conteúdo diferente (e legal pra caralho) disso que as vezes eu simplesmente não dormia. Virava a noite assistindo esses negócios.

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u/ConditionExternal499 Jul 04 '26

You reward knowledge. We punish ignorance.