It’s pretty well-known that Japan has incredibly strict laws against certain things, like smoking in public. However, not everyone knows about the various rules, especially tourists unfamiliar with the language. So, when I saw this video of a Japanese man tearing an Australian woman a new one because she was smoking outside a ski resort, I knew I needed to look into it. It seems there are people in the world who sometimes need another person to yell at for no reason.
The video shows a Japanese man seemingly running up to a woman and yelling at her to stop smoking her cigarette. The woman, holding a cigarette in one hand and a can of something in the other, immediately tries to defend herself aggressively. To be fair, if I was in her shoes, I would’ve acted the same way if someone ran up to me like the Japanese man did.
Then, the woman’s husband intervenes and tells the Japanese man to lay off her because she didn’t know she couldn’t smoke there. I completely agree with the Australian man’s point of view, and several commenters under the video seem to feel the same.
“The cameraman is a YouTuber whose focus is to scream at people for smoking in public. Even the local called him out as “you just need something to be angry about”
Regardless of the rules of the area, the Japanese man had no reason to approach the woman in that manner. Had he approached her calmly and asked her to put out the cigarette in a less aggressive tone, she would likely have done so, and everyone would have moved on with their day.
“I completely agree, but this she was smoking on the top of a mountain with no one around. Everyone is basically wearing masks (ski masks). She wasn’t harming anyone. She was in the wrong but that doesn’t justify the guy’s temper.”
Just before the video ends, the Japanese man follows the Australian man to continue the argument before the latter shuts him down, telling the former that he shouldn’t talk to women that way. Hopefully, he takes those words to heart the next time he approaches a woman like that.
