Bad news, bears

So, there is some pretty bad crap going down right now. Rather not talk about it here.

So here's another list of random completely true facts about Japan:

- The ninja has been a long standing cultural icon in Japan. So esteemed is it that it has been incorporated into pay customs at restaurants. Most people will opt to wave for the waiter and pay for their meal, but you are free to make a mad dash out of the restaurant and see if you can out-ninja their restaurant ninjas.

Hint: You can't.

- Black ink is used to write everything. If you aren't writing with black ink, technically whatever is written does not exist. This can also be used as form of ridding yourself of unwanted children, by writing on them with blue or green ink and just ignoring them completely. It's okay, they're entirely invisible to everyone else.

- If you like a movie at a theater, you must remain entirely silent, before, during, and after the film. You are in fact not allowed to speak until you are out of ear shot of the viewing area. This is in respect to the movie.

- Tonkatsu, fried, breaded pork, is a meal that restaurants train pigs to cook for you themselves as a means of entertainment. The pigs are told that the meat is chicken.

- Video games and anime/cartoons are culturally adored in Japan. If you enjoy either of those things, be sure to tell every Japanese person that you meet, repeatedly, how much you love those things. They will be excited and impressed with your knowledge of Japan, and not at all creeped out by your oblivious foreign manchildness.

- If you bought clothes that didn't cost 300 dollars per outfit, then what you are wearing is worthless

- The hornets here are huge and will kill you

- Seriously