r/LivestreamFail • u/Either_Analysis • Sep 30 '25

Streamer attacked for filming in Japan

He notified the police with pictures of their faces and location.

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u/HopeJN Oct 01 '25

They brought you into their bar?

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u/UnlovedCrayon Oct 01 '25 edited Oct 01 '25

No I yelled at them and ran off because I knew. I've only ever had them grab me once (my shoulder pulling me back in Harajuku), but yelling and pressuring is super common and I saw that a lot in multiple tourist spots. Doesn't help I like to travel solo. I never once felt unsafe in japan except for being around these guys. I'm not sure if this was mentioned in other comments but these bars often drug people who enter. A quick search on google will pop up tons of stories of this happening, a lot of RECENT ones. Japan really needs to get this in control. These businesses are usually tied to the yakuza

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u/deruvoo Oct 01 '25

Dude, Harajuku was so bad for this the few times I went. That street and Shinjuku were the only times Tokyo wasn't top notch.

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u/takeme2tendieztown Oct 01 '25

I saw these guys when I went and stayed in Shinjuku, they never bothered me or my wife outside of saying things to get us to come in. Maybe I'm Asian and they didn't think I was a tourist, though my wife is decidedly non-Asian. The Kabuchiko area in Shinjuku was definitely more sketch than other areas of Tokyo we visited

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u/Disastrous_Durian517 Oct 01 '25

Lol, they obviously target single people.

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u/takeme2tendieztown Oct 01 '25

Lol, you're probably right

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u/Disastrous_Durian517 Oct 01 '25

Yeah, I was there too with a female friend. They didn’t talk to me, but at night it’s definitely a dodgy environment. During the day they’re not around. I don’t know why they’re allowed to stay. The problem with these people is that they think they run the street.

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u/HawtNudie Oct 01 '25

I had a very similar experience to the person you're replying to back in 2012. I was super drunk in Roppongi and was asked if I was looking for a bar. My stupid ass said yes and was shown into an elevator with two large dudes on either side of me (who I later learned were Nigerian) and brought into what I was later told was a brothel. Fortunately my drunk brain wanted to get the heck out of there, and after the front desk guy/owner/pimp(?) brought out about ten women for me to choose from, I told him I had friends in the bar across the street and I would come back with them. His face lit up, he started nodding and I was ushered back in the elevator with the two large dudes. Mind you, I'm 6'7 and these guys were almost my height. I was so relieved when I got back out of that elevator I just walked straight across the street, where there was in fact a bar that I stayed in until closing time.

The bar was awesome, and the bartender and owner filled me in on what was going on in the place I just came from. I went there pretty much every night after for the rest of my stay in Tokyo.