Tonight while I was YouTube surfing... ummm.. I mean working very hard, I came across this gorgeous video about a guy in Sydney giving out free hugs. It is so lovely and made me a little teary thinking about how much I miss hugs from my friends in Australia. The music is by a band called the Sick Puppies.
I then got to thinking... I wondered if this would work in Japan. Japan isn't a country known for its hugging. I searched further and found many responses to this first video from Tokyo and Kyoto. Here's one of them
So to everyone out there to whom I can't give a real hug to - cyber hugs to you (to everyone other than the sighing, eye rolling, ignoring bank teller that is).
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"Ahh! Gaijin da!" "It's a foreigner!" the kid screamed after rounding the corner of the supermarket aisle and running into me. He quickly turned on his heels and darted off to find his mother. Yes, there was no doubt about it, I was a gaijin, a thing to shock small children and adults alike
About Me
- Melanie Gray Augustin
- I've recently returned to Australia after three years living in Japan. I continue to be inspired by the culture, the fabric and the paper of Japan which I use in sewing, jewellery making and papercrafts.
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Other Japanesey Blogs
- 7:10 to Tokyo
- An Englishman In Osaka
- Barbarian at the Gate
- Big On Japan
- Big Red Dot
- Bloggy Brad
- Blue Lotus
- Geisha Interrupted
- i-cjw hiking and climbing in japan
- Jamaipanese
- Japan Blogger
- Japan. A Blog. By a Penguin
- Jason Robert Taylor
- JDonuts
- La Fuji Mama
- Mel and Seigo
- Mike's Blender
- My Life In Japan
- My So-Called Japanese Life
- Present Simple
- The Monster Flower
- The Ritchie Memiors
- Transcendental Drifter
- Urutora No Hi
- Western Woman - One Way To Tokyo
Other Blogs on my Roll
3 comments:
what a great service! maybe someone should start hug bars and cafes!!!
Hi Melanie
I got onto your blog through your brother and sister-in-law. Thank you for your response to them about how to display a video Leigh had found.
Here's a virtual hug to you from me in gratitude.
Do you know about the Carnival of Australia? It's open to Aussie bloggers or those blogging about Australia. Would be great to have some posts from you to include.
You take care
Megan
Hello,
Yesterday I was searching for the guys doing the Free Hugs here in Kyoto, but couldn´t find them. I think they took a break at that moment!...hahaha Anyway, later I met them at a bar and even though they were not holding their signs anymore I received lots of HUGS!...
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