Group of teenage Thai actors punished for dancing on Japanese train
Group of teenage Thai actors punished for dancing on Japanese train
By Scott WIlson
Apr. 13, 2015 - 07:39AM JST
BANGKOK —
Anyone who has ridden the trains in Japan has probably had a very different experience from riding them in their home country. The trains I ride in Boston are loud, not the cleanest, and full of people talking and listening to music as if there’s not a hundred others around them. In Japan though, that doesn’t fly. Everyone is motionless, remains quiet, and mostly respectful of others.
One group of Thai teenage actors found that out the hard way. They filmed themselves doing the unspeakable act of dancing while on a train in Japan, and quickly found themselves on the receiving end of some harsh punishment from their production company when they got back home: being grounded for six months and banned for six months from all forms of social networking sites.
The group of Thai teenagers are all actors on the drama “Hormones,” an extremely popular college TV series. It seems that they originally came to Japan to shoot scenes for the show, and during their time off went skiing and sightseeing in Hokkaido, all the while uploading pictures of their travels online.
That was all fine and dandy until some of the girls in the group started uploading pictures of themselves “abusing” sakura trees. Instead of using the sakura merely as a backdrop, the girls got all up in the sakura’s grill, pulling down the branches and flowers to get better shots. One of the images riled Japanese netizens.
The sakura incident could mostly be forgiven though, until the teenagers decided to – *gasp* – do an impromptu dance while riding a train. We could try to describe it for you, but instead just watch the video of the whole thing below.
As the faces of everyone around the dancing teens probably signaled, the Japanese people were not happy about this behavior.
After the video caused an uproar online, GTH, the company that produces the drama the kids all star in, released an official apology to not only Japan, but also the Thai people whose image was hurt by the teenagers’ actions.
The company who manages both GTH and the actors also released a statement saying that they will be producing a video to instruct Thai people who will be traveling to Japan on how they are expected to behave overseas. So far none of the teenagers involved have said anything on the matter, most likely due to the fact that they’re all banned from using social media.
Source: Hamusoku
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Group of teenage Thai actors punished for dancing on Japanese train
By Scott WIlson
Apr. 13, 2015 - 07:39AM JST
BANGKOK —
Anyone who has ridden the trains in Japan has probably had a very different experience from riding them in their home country. The trains I ride in Boston are loud, not the cleanest, and full of people talking and listening to music as if there’s not a hundred others around them. In Japan though, that doesn’t fly. Everyone is motionless, remains quiet, and mostly respectful of others.
One group of Thai teenage actors found that out the hard way. They filmed themselves doing the unspeakable act of dancing while on a train in Japan, and quickly found themselves on the receiving end of some harsh punishment from their production company when they got back home: being grounded for six months and banned for six months from all forms of social networking sites.
The group of Thai teenagers are all actors on the drama “Hormones,” an extremely popular college TV series. It seems that they originally came to Japan to shoot scenes for the show, and during their time off went skiing and sightseeing in Hokkaido, all the while uploading pictures of their travels online.
That was all fine and dandy until some of the girls in the group started uploading pictures of themselves “abusing” sakura trees. Instead of using the sakura merely as a backdrop, the girls got all up in the sakura’s grill, pulling down the branches and flowers to get better shots. One of the images riled Japanese netizens.
The sakura incident could mostly be forgiven though, until the teenagers decided to – *gasp* – do an impromptu dance while riding a train. We could try to describe it for you, but instead just watch the video of the whole thing below.
As the faces of everyone around the dancing teens probably signaled, the Japanese people were not happy about this behavior.
After the video caused an uproar online, GTH, the company that produces the drama the kids all star in, released an official apology to not only Japan, but also the Thai people whose image was hurt by the teenagers’ actions.
The company who manages both GTH and the actors also released a statement saying that they will be producing a video to instruct Thai people who will be traveling to Japan on how they are expected to behave overseas. So far none of the teenagers involved have said anything on the matter, most likely due to the fact that they’re all banned from using social media.
Source: Hamusoku
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—We knew elephants could paint, but we didn’t expect them to be so good at it
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