Well, You Wouldn’t Want the Digit to Go to Waste

by Robert Koehler on August 23, 2007

in Asides, East and Central Asia, Japan

A very angry rightwinger in Japan has given Prime Minister Abe the finger…

{ 7 comments… read them below or add one }

1 R. Elgin August 24, 2007 at 3:07 am

First the Koreans, now the Japanese. The average Chinese seem to like their fingers but have horrible leadership, so maybe they should cut off their government and declare themselves better off than their neighbors.

2 wjk August 24, 2007 at 6:48 am

so, western expats, are you now ready to accept that Korea is not the only country where men cut off their fingers to make a point?

It’s an East Asia thing, dating to many centuries, with probable origin from China.

I wonder how that douchebag that was saying this was a Korean thing is taking this new event. Denial, most likely.

I personally like my fingers. The most I would do is shave my head.

3 xixi August 24, 2007 at 9:21 am

It just confirms the fact that Japanese people and culture originated from Korea. I think it is the 25% Korean DNA that’s behind the finger cutting.

4 slim August 24, 2007 at 9:39 am

Yakuza have been cutting off fingers for decades. Wussified modern ones do it with local anathesia in outpatient surgery.

5 austin August 24, 2007 at 10:58 am

Unfortunately if you cut off a finger, whenever protesting an issue, the maximum times you can protest is 10, unless you start moving onto other digits, then it’s 21!

6 Zonath August 24, 2007 at 11:11 am

Never ask a chick in Japan for her digits. :P

7 hoju_saram August 24, 2007 at 1:29 pm

At least they pay severance in Japan…

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