Frankly I'm astonished that these things are street legal, but they're a whole level of more fun and less-douchebaggery than the uyokoha soundtrucks. I get where you're coming from and have mixed feelings, but frankly what are us gaijin, if not disrupters of the wa?
Dear foreign tourists in Tokyo: I get that you're happy to be here, but please know that anytime I see you wearing these hats &/or driving in cosplay on public roads in gokarts, I & a LOT of my fellow Tokyoites have judged & found you guilty of being a complete douchebag. 
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Oh so true, and I'll be the first to admit that 1) I'd take Mario Karters over soundtrucks any day of the week & 2) I've actually been in the room when a fellow gaijin was accused of "raping the group wa", so yeah...
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Sometimes I embrace my inner wa-breaker and deliberately jaywalk when no cars are coming (no risk if others step off the curb). Other times I resent loud (and non-drunk!) gaijin on trains, resent anyone with the gaul to say something to me unless they've been introduced, etc.
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My son (half-Japanese) used to wear his hat a lot, though – or are you now talking about the nonsense of "cultural appropriation"?pic.twitter.com/ctm7Pd1sDJ
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Kids're always gonna be a little goofbally - my own included - so しょうがないね, but a sweaty, dirty looking 22 y/o dude? Fuck that guy. Cultural appropriation is a whole other can o' worms that I'm not even gonna touch here.
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How is this しょうがない? These hats are worn by Japanese to this day – what is so horrible about them? My wife (Japanese) had no problem with my son wearing it. Are you embarrassed on behalf of the Japanese, who don’t give a toss? That would be actually quite arrogant.
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Let's put it this way - if you're a gaijin in BFE inaka rice paddy country you're gonna get stared at regardless of if you have a kasa on or not. In Tokyo Station at 8:30 on a weekday 'cause you think it's ironic though? It just looks silly & frankly a bit stupid.
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Yeah, but it would look odd on Japanese in that environment either, so it’s not a foreign tourist/Japanese thing, like you’re putting it. You’d look stupid wearing a Tyrolean hat in Germany, too, unless you’re in or from the Region(s) where it’s still common to wear it.
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If you wear that hat on the right side then you are a tripple douchebag-wanker-idiot-twat
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Then please feel free to tell that to the triple douchebag wanker idiot twat I saw traipsing around Tokyo Station in one this morning who obviously can't tell the difference between Japan & Vietnam.
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Haha. I would love to. Thankfully I generally don’t run into those mega wankers.
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But if not in Tokyo, where else in the globe?
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It can still be in Japan, but how 'bout on a go kart track and not on taxpayer funded public streets? You think people in NYC wouldn't have a coronary if a bunch of Japanese showed up driving gokarts around Manhattan?
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I’m always told to stop and smell the roses. Since there are no flowers on my way. I might as well watch a few Mario karts zipping by
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These pass by Tokyo Station Marunouchi often and last night while I was waiting for the light to change, they came by and an older distinguished looking salary man said "アホ臭い” to his colleague and I lol'd!
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That can't be true! In my thread there were many that claimed to have took the tour and they said every Japanese person on every corner thought they were wild and crazy and had never seen anything like this before. Everyone had their phones out taking video and photos.
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Here's one of those tweets:https://twitter.com/RodJacson/status/1133132013483974659 …
No people don’t like them in your followers, that’s different. I think I was taken in picture at ANY trafic light. Bit bothering actually (think about smiling, say heey etc. I’m not a model..
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It could be that or they were very likely Chinese tourists. I've never seen Japanese care about this in any kind of, "OMG! These are the wildest tourists I've ever seen!"
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Me either. Pretty sure Isa would think it's silly and my Japanese aunts would probably say あららら～.
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