Hello all, I've read through these comments and can relate to your reactions. Sadly, only once in a blue moon is anyone going to interfere with this cranky old man, and the person who does may likely be a foreigner. Having lived in Asia for a few generations I can recognize this man's derangement, and while it never gets easier to see, it is a hard fact. I for one would and do speak up. You can't physically intervene, though I have, but you learn to back them off with sharp words.

Now the situation is that these sad, pathetic old men take out their anger and defeat on the weakest people, those in the service industry.

In Japan they call them "Iyagarase" which I translate as "bitchy fuck-face". A Japanese friend once confided to me sadly that they are spiritually very primitive, "they cowtow to the powerful and abuse the weak."

It is such a known phenomenon that the stations are full of signs pleading with people to stop it, here I present you a few of these signs to illustrate.

Yes it is sad, it is a miserable little phenomenon. Abused little puppy-men barking at the weakest individuals they can find, and those individuals avoiding them to get on with their lives.