Your Engrish Funny

When you walk around Japan, you see people wearing one of two types of clothes. Generic (solid colors or patterns) or graphic tees. The generic clothes in this part of Japan are not at all what you would think. The style resembles that of what people in America would relate to "older" people clothes. That doesn't fully describe it but I can't pinpoint the decade so that is as close as I can get to what I'm seeing here. haha.

I'm sure the fashion is way more extreme in Tokyo. Yet, out here, as I have mentioned before, it is a huge farming area. The biggest city is 2 hours away which is Fukuoka. I'm sure there and Tokyo and other big cities you would find the iconic Japanese fashion statements. Here? Not so much...moving on...

The graphic tees and their styles are closer to what kids would wear in the states. However, you can easily and quickly differentiate the ones that were made in Japan and the ones that were imported. The words are in English and make no sense. I like to refer to this as Engrish. I got that term from my cousin Mike. Haha.

Anyways, these clothes are down right hilarious!!!! Some are so bad I can't even infer what the message is. I have also noticed that Japan is a big fan of the word (close your eyes kids) "fuck". It is so weird. Do they even know what it means?! I was told by my friend Sayaka, who is 50% Japanese and can speak it, that the Japanese don't have any cuss words or negative hand gestures that mean the same as what we have. No wonder these people are so nice. They have been taught to think positive without the option of negative. That and karma is a big deal here. Haha.

Ok on to the good stuff. Want to see some of the stuff Say and I found on our way through a shopping center in Japan?

Let's start off with a more thought provoking piece....

Hm....I'm not sure what is...what is for you?

Yeah I do know...wait what?

That one I can kind of understand what it is trying to convey but it is so grammatically awful it hurts my brain to think about it. Hahaha.

 I don't even know where to begin with this one....

Minus my hideously creepy face here....lol....look at what these hats say!!! Holy crap! We might go back and get these because this was my favorite by far. I don't know what it means but its fun to say!

This clearly is not any kind of apparel but in Japan they must be better friends with Waldo cause they know him as Wally. Haha

Last but not least, my snack for a day of exploring. Well more like an hour of exploring. At the bottom of this ginormous shopping center there was a grocery store and of course they had a ton of sushi plates to choose from. Boom!

Later tomorrow (or 'today' when you read this), my friend and I are going to the 100 Y shop. Basically the dollar store. They have them all over. They range in sizes from like, garage size to multiple stories big. We are hoping to go to a big one tomorrow! They honestly have everything. EVERYTHING!

So excited!!!

Sayonara!