FREE HUGS in JAPAN
Back in 2006 I wrote about, Free Hugs – Any takers in Tokyo?
I was very dubious that the Free Hugs Campaign would amount to much in cold-fish Japan where nobody hugs in public. Right off, the Japanese huggers only use signs written in English as you see (since in Japanese it would look insane/perverted).
Well, I was proven wrong. FREE HUGS [フリーハグ] JAPAN has become an institution at Harajuku’s freakazoid bridge. Every Sunday there will be some freakazoids (wallpapers.3yen.com) with signs soliciting hugs. However, my photographer friend, MasaMania, posted these camera-phone photos of too FREE HUGS.
I think I will go to Akihabara’s open street afternoon on Sunday to get my my free hugs from now on.
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February 14th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Those two girls holding the placard don’t look nearly old enough to ‘hug’.
February 15th, 2008 at 10:31 am
No sweat. All Japanese look like that. They are college age or older and perhaps they working part-time in a “Maid Cafe” rather than random cosplayers on the street.