As long as I'm typing out Japanese addresses, a funny story for you: Japan Post is over-the-top awesome, particularly in small towns.
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The US Social Security administration once failed on a mail merge and addressed a letter to "Patrick McKenzie, Ogaki, Japan"
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It got to the Ogaki post office, was stamped "Insufficient address -- return to sender."
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This was struck out w/ annotation "The American who lives by the river? Ask him. Works M-F; try Sat AM. Speaks Japanese."
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This is a substantial improvement on the routing algorithm an older Japanese gentleman used to get my wallet back to me once.
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"A foreigner, eh? Well, they all know each other. Hey you Chinese kid! Wallet! Foreigner! *Yoroshiku*!"
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The young Chinese gentleman, who spoke neither Japanese nor English, wandered around the mall for half an hour until he found a white guy.
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That white guy looked at his friend and said "What, like we're supposed to know him because we're white?" "What's name?" "Patrick." "Buddy!"
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Do I miss Ogaki? Yeah, more than a little bit. Occasionally exasperating but I got to live on the set of It's A Wonderful Life for my 20s.
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@Tvaw You were in Seki? Did you know Keith by any chance? (@harisenbon79)2 replies 0 retweets 1 like - 4 more replies
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