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One interesting aspect of living in Japan is hearing violent and sexual lyrics played in songs at the most inopportune times.

I was in an Angel Blue store helping Reiko buy presents for a friend’s baby. Angel Blue specialises in clothes for the tween - colours are heavily weighted to blues and pinks and they always feature wide-eyed cute characters proclaiming some aspect of cute happiness and love.

When I was in the store, they were playing Red Hot Chili Peppers. Sample lyric I heard - “Most motherfuckers don’t give a damn.” I’m not an outraged puritan. The shoppers milled around quite happily and even Reiko seemed unaware until I told her

This seems to happen mostly in clothes stores - in the trendy shops of Americamura, they can play whatever they want but in more mainstream stores where there is a more varied clientele, it is a shock.