there were actually nutcases who were trying to promote tipping here in tip-free japan as a means of “boosting service industry employees’ self esteem.” for whatever reason (rolling my eyes as i type this), the project never got off the ground… ☺
the thief that broke into my apartment many years ago here in crime-free japan seemed to know exactly where to look for the couple dollars i’d brought back from a business trip to the states and put in what i thought was a safe place. maybe he had more luck in the other apartments he also broke into. the cop who showed up thought he was columbo, kept cracking jokes the whole time he was “investigating”…
arbeit macht frei…