Were foreign visitors' wild brawls at Shinjuku's Golden Gai a taste of the Olympics to come?

[bill937ca]

How about that sign? I guess sitting down is OK.

 

https://japantoday.com/category/features/kuchikomi/were-foreign-visitors'-wild-brawls-at-shinjuku's-golden-gai-a-taste-of-the-olympics-to-come?

[katoftw]

Xenophobia at its best for the interviewed. Before the foreigners, it was the salarymen taking a piss in corners.

 

Sure 'wild' brawls as they put it will happen in a rugby or soccer workd cup situation. Boozed up hooligans is normal for those types of sporting events. But the Olympics attract a different type of sports fan.

[Welshbloke]

My experience of rugby fans in Cardiff is that they tend to be rowdy but not fighty. Expect lots of beer and dodgy singing, but not large scale brawling and destruction. I can see how this would utterly horrify the quiet and reserved Japanese cultural stereotype though!

[Kanpai Keith]

We did the RWC, no troubles at all.  Shinjuku area was a tourist hotspot, Golden Gai area was grotty and was serving up overpriced drinks.  People crashed out on the street the following morning but they didn’t look like rugby fans.

[railsquid]

Well the Olympics are turning out quiet so far, the main issue has been heat exhaustion with a record number of spectators and athletes needing hospital treatment.

 

Oh wait, sorry, wrong timeline, ah yes we're in the 2020 with the global virus pandemic thing. As you were.

[Ochanomizu]

Hello raisquid,

 

Actually, we're in the middle of two pandemics: Corona Virus, and Stupidity !!!