Japan Images: Shibuya Free Hugs
Thursday, December 10th, 2009
We were on our way back to the train station after a morning wandering (read: clothes shopping and visiting Loft for the 35th time) around Shibuya.
As we approached the main square outside the station there were about 10 girls/guys giving out free hugs and generally running around being very happy.
A rattled off a few shots but I like this one the best.
We spoke to them afterwards and my initial assumption about some type of substance abuse to be that happy, turned out to be incorrect. ^_^
LOL!
Very funny!
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LikeAre you sure no substances were abused? You did not convince me much ;)
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LikeI'm not convinced myself ^_^
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LikeI just can't believe that free hugs are banned in most parts of the world. I mean,what's so bad about them? It makes people happy! It's not like you stand there and force people to hug you. Some higher-ups just don't understand the true meaning of a hug because they work too much and only think about money and reputation. And if they see something like this they fear the worst. Like,people will think their country is perverse etc etc... Just stupid if you ask me.
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LikeA couple of years ago at a U.S. sci-fi convention, some rather attractive, underaged, and somewhat provocatively dressed teen girls were giving out "free hugs." A lot of us were uncomfortable with their approach, especially since it doesn't take much these days to be perceived to be on the wrong side of the law or to have certain "tendencies" (if you catch my drift). _
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LikeUnfortunately that is what it is like these days - you have to really watch out. It's a shame when most people are honest and nothing is going on.
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LikeHere's some more of then huggers in Fukuoka. Not as much traffic as Shibuya so they had a bit more time to wait for the next huggee.
http://www.fukuokadreaming.com/?p=847
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LikeSugoi. I guess they do that pretty often. I ran into a group of free huggers myself at shibuya eki in July. I couldn't keep myself from giving all of them a hug :).
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LikeAnd I wasn't there to hug 'em! :( Kanashiiii... :(
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LikeAny chance that they would be willing to give awkwardly long hugs?
Odd that they'd be using signs written in English to give hugs to Japanese people.... unless they just wanted to give hugs to western women... mmmmmm...
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LikeLOL tempting thought - were a couple of very tasty looking huggers of the female variety just out of frame but with the word ちかん ringing in my mind I decided it was best I moved on ^_^
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LikeThat free hug thing started in Australia, I thing, and is spread across the world :D
It's nice to see it in Japan
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LikeYep it did - great background story on it here - http://www.freehugscampaign.org
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