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Clerks really don\u2019t get paid enough.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n There have been a lot of reports on the growing problem of customer harassment<\/a> in Japan, which can range from rude language to threats of physical violence. Perhaps because it appears in so many different forms, it\u2019s a difficult problem to tackle and only seems to be getting worse.<\/p>\n To see just how varied acts of customer harassment can get, let\u2019s take a look at a recent arrest in Kyoto. A 49-year-old unemployed man living in the Minami Ward of Kyoto City was picked up by police on suspicion of coercion, having forced the clerk at an electronics store to shave his own head.<\/p>\n The incident began on 4 April, when the suspect is said to have called an electronics store in the same ward to complain that electric hair clippers he bought there didn\u2019t work<\/strong>. He demanded that a new one be brought to his home and the 42-year-old clerk agreed to do so.<\/p>\n When arriving at the home with the replacement clippers, the suspect is said to have shown his tattoos to the clerk, suggesting he\u2019s not so much \u201cunemployed\u201d as he is \u201cdifferently employed\u201d in organized crime. The suspect then told the clerk, \u201cIf you\u2019re really sorry, shave your head. You know, a repentance shave,\u201d<\/strong> adding \u201cIf you were in my gang you\u2019d do it right away.\u201d<\/p>\n \u25bc Shaving one\u2019s head is a well-known act of contrition<\/a> in Japan but is generally considered old-fashioned and extreme.<\/p>\n The clerk then shaved just the right side of his head using the new clippers he had brought and was made to clean up his own hair trimmings before leaving.<\/strong> A report was filed with the police who made the arrest. The suspect is said to have admitted to the charges, but I\u2019m not sure this counts as an admission: \u201cIf that\u2019s what the other guy said, then oh well.\u201d<\/p>\n And in a chilling twist to this story, police found that the original clippers the suspect complained about were perfectly operational all along<\/strong>.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s just non-stop harassment and fraud going on.\u201d<\/em> It\u2019s true that Japanese news reports often clearly state if a suspect is a member of an organized crime group, something helped by the fact that they have to be legally registered as such. However, he has been given the label of \u201cunemployed\u201d instead, suggesting that he is not registered.<\/p>\n However, with the increasing number of restrictions on yakuza<\/a>, it\u2019s been said that the number of unregistered quasi-organized crime groups is one the rise. Such groups include the hangure (half grey) groups often affiliated with bosozoku biker gangs, who are also no strangers to tattoos.<\/p>\n But career criminal or not, his actions are just another example of the increasingly prevalent<\/a> abusive behavior that retail workers have to worry about. It seems like it\u2019s going to require a major cultural shift to improve this situation, that or introducing robots into customer service \u2014 big, strong robots that don\u2019t take any crap.<\/p>\n Source: MBS News<\/a>, The Sankei Shimbun<\/a>, Itai News<\/a><\/em> Clerks really don\u2019t get paid enough. 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\n\u201cWhat was the point in that? He didn\u2019t get any money out of it.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cThat\u2019s why I like being bald.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cHis boss is probably going to be pissed he got arrested for that.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cHe\u2019s just a bum pretending to be a gangster.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cThe news never said he was a part of a gang, so maybe he\u2019s just lying.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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