Japan Warning or Danger Tips by manuelEB

Japan and the Japanese know well about the language skills of its visitants. For years since occupation by the US Army ("the Allies") the Japanese have tried hard to make light the burdden for "foreigners" (foreigners are supposed to understand English) and from time to time you can see very sui-generis translation into English of announcements, info board and caution signs. Those translations could make you laugh and even say sh:ts of the translator, the Japanese and the society in general. Laughing about the low English skill in a country which has Japanese as an official Language sounds "pretty logic" to me. My recom is to give a second chance to those strange phrases. They could help you to save time and money. In this country to say "I did not know" is not good excuse for not following the law and/or the rules. Laugh and smile all you want, but try to extract a meaning of what it is written.
Ooops, I know there are several of you that struggle to understand and to extract meaning of what is written.

It should read:
Staff Parking. Dead-end street (cul-de-sac)

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From hotel rooms to toilet seats. From offices to stairs.
From steaks to salads. From *bleep* t o condoms...
All -absolutely all- can be rather small in Japan... And you can go and complain about the country all you want. It only makes you small as human being in spite of your large @ss.

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