{"id":468,"date":"2006-01-19T16:11:28","date_gmt":"2006-01-19T16:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2006\/01\/for-chris\/"},"modified":"2006-01-19T16:11:28","modified_gmt":"2006-01-19T16:11:28","slug":"for-chris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2006\/01\/19\/for-chris\/","title":{"rendered":"For Chris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"nipponjin03.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/archives\/nipponjin03.jpg\" width=\"345\" height=\"554\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nA Japanese law enforcement officer takes a whiz facing the a busy street (invisible from this angle) next to the Yodogawa river. The steady line of traffic that passed by shortly after I snapped this photo must have been able to see him, as he failed to conceal himself behind the taller shrub to his right. Maybe he was just a cosplay urination exhibitionist.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"minitorii01.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/archives\/minitorii01.jpg\" width=\"451\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<b>Fun fact:<\/b> it is socially acceptable to whip it out and take a leak almost anywhere on the streets of Japan, especially if you are an old man.<br \/>\nThe only way to prevent this is to put little torii (the red Shinto gate) up in places where you don&#8217;t want people to piss. Pissing on a torii, as my brother explained, is like pissing on God.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"minitorii02.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/archives\/minitorii02.jpg\" width=\"451\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nThese things apparently work pretty well. Juso, famous for snack bars, colorful non-chain izakayas with an authentic Kansai atmosphere (rivaled only by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cosmicbuddha.com\/rice\/archives\/000888.html\">Shinsekai<\/a> in my humble opinion), and negiyaki (a type of okonomiyaki, which on a side note I refuse to call a Japanese pizza- who came up with that anyway!) as well as drunk people making their way home from these establishment. The fact that this particular wall does not smell like urine is a testament to the power of the mini torii to ward off those who would otherwise urinate in this area.<br \/>\nUpdate: Mark has some <a href=\"http:\/\/champon.blogspot.com\/2006\/01\/my-contribution-to-higo-blog.html\">related pictures<\/a> up at the <a href=\"http:\/\/champon.blogspot.com\/\">Champon Adventures<\/a>. Thanks dude!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Japanese law enforcement officer takes a whiz facing the a busy street (invisible from this angle) next to the Yodogawa river. The steady line of traffic that passed by shortly after I snapped this photo must have been able to see him, as he failed to conceal himself behind the taller shrub to his &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2006\/01\/19\/for-chris\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}