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I first came across Japanese style assault in
Vancouver. I worked for the summer program at
Columbia College and I was getting into the tour
bus. We were taking mostly Japanese students
and showing them around Vancouver on the first day
of the program.
As I got into the bus, a Japanese male student
stuck his finger (outside my pants) --but into my anus and said happily, "Koncho."
I was so shocked and spun around and
exclaimed, "what are you doing!?"
I thought this guy has got to be strange. But I
was told (not ever having been to Japan), that a lot of the kids like to do that--stick their fingers up another person`s butt, and triumphantly state: "koncho."
This guy was around 20 years old though! I have
never seen anyone that old do it to someone they
have just met --in Japan. Little boys love to do it to each other and to their English teacher though so if you come to teach here, you have been warned.
I learned quickly not to bend over while teaching
little boys in Japan! Or turn my back.
I sell corks if you are interested.
Be careful out there!
Jun 26, 2010 Rating
Just hit him! by: Rudy
One year in the 90s, Nova began teaching kids. Some time later, a deferential ECC leader made his pronouncement: I'ma gonna teach kids, too!!
Teaching kids is fun except for all the germs and getting hit in the privates. I learned the word 'oppai' from my co-worker. It was part of the all-too-real term 'oppai-punchi'. I experienced 'kin-tama-punchi'. Many times. (Tip: Never let the kid see you flinch!)
I remember telling this one mother to ask her kid to knock it off! She laughed for her own reasons. She told me to just hit her kid back. Straight faced, too! "Listen, lady, I don't wanna hit your kid... I'm suppose that I'm asking YOU to hit your kid." Doh!
Through experience, I came to learn that "time out" for the young rowdies was devastatingly effective. Try it! No kids wants to be singled out in Japan-- even for praise! Naturally if one kid smacks another attend to the smackee before the smacker.
That said, I was not averse to physically lifting a naughty/dangerous kid up in the air and placing him in the corner. I could and did. Try that in an early class and save yourself some trouble later on!
IMHO, the parents think that they are paying for discipline as well as language tuition. YOU must provide it to construct their kid's little Japanese soul. That is my take...
