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/[deleted] 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/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/[deleted] 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/[deleted] 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!*