Retired Pachinko Machines
Posted on 06. Sep, 2007 @ 5:24 pm by harvey in Crazy Consumers, Osaka
Sometimes even the machines have to take a break.
Pachinko and electronic slot machines being hauled out of a store in an Osaka shoutengai.
I hate pachinko. It’s loud. Smokey. Expensive, and boring!
I asked the pachinko hauling man if I could take one home as a souvenir… but he said no.
- Harvey
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Thomas
Sep 6th, 2007
at 19:13
I have to know .. please tell me that they don’t make any noise when they are unplugged like that.
Alex
Sep 6th, 2007
at 21:40
That dude doesn’t look too happy to have his picture taken.
I heard what they do is they make the old pachinko machines and they make them into “Silent Pachinko” and feed it to the young pachinko machines to make them stronger and louder.
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at 02:23
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Godzilla
Sep 7th, 2007
at 17:54
Not cool if Harvey’s taking these picture’s without approval and not pixelizing the eyes or such. There’s laws against stuff like that.
Alex
Sep 11th, 2007
at 11:27
Whenever I see a black bar over someone’s eyes, I get the impression that something naughty is going on. Is it just me?
harvey
Sep 11th, 2007
at 20:32
Usually I pixelate
http://www.japannewbie.com/2006/06/03/bad-priest/
These days though I’m kinda borderline. For example, what -is- the law on pixelating? How much does it have to be pixelated to be legit? What if it’s a video that you have taken of a famous site, and there are other people standing around in the video?
I wonder what kind of rights the individual has if they catch their photo being used somewhere without their permission… And I wonder how these laws work internationally!
Someone get me a lawyer!
Layne
Sep 12th, 2007
at 07:02
Dear Harvey,
I really love your blog and all the cool things you have on it!!!
I live in Los Angeles and would love to get a set of the sumo figurines from the Loft that you have posted under Gaijin Gifts.
Unfortunately I don’t speak or write any Japanese.
Do you have any suggestions as to how I can purchase them?
Thanks!!!
Layne
Clive
Sep 13th, 2007
at 10:27
Loft is an awesome store with lots of cool stuff you can’t find.. well outside Japan.
When we were in Japan, my GF spent aaages in there at the ones in Kyoto and Shibuya. Ok and I had cool stuff to look at too like the taitskun dudes.
A pity their website is all Japanese.
Harvey
Sep 14th, 2007
at 13:04
Regarding photos, I asked a lawyer friend and he says this.
As long as the photo was taken in a public place, you haven’t slandered or defamed the person in the picture, and you are not using the picture for business purposes, you’re free to use it as you please.
Of course, no idea if the law is the same in Japan.