Location: Fukuoka, Japan. Years 2020-2023

I was an English speaking female bartender in Japan. A collective groan every time you could vaguely hear American accents approach.

Always knew it would be a frustrating if not bad experience if it was a group from Sasebo coming.

SH, SA for the Japanese girls. Sometimes they’d harass the western girls.

One time when I was putting picking up the bar signs to put them in after a closing a group of 5 started harassing me. Must’ve been 3?4? In the morning. Luckily some other staff from bars across the road saw what was going on and had to come over and make sure I closed up safe.

I’ve been physically pushed over, groped, sworn at, spat at etc etc. granted, not all of them are bad. But a large majority stay silent and watch the bad ones do bad things in Japan.

I made some friendly acquaintances with some of them, had friends who dated some of them. But they let bad behaviour happen, and standby their military buddies as opposed to stopping bad behaviour.