Emperor Keitai Puns

TV set-top bilingual boxes

Sunday Western Movie Theatre

Nagaharu Yodogawa (sayonara, sayonara, sayonara)

Takeshi’s Castle

Little House...

Oshin

Chuck Wheeler

Chiyonofuji, Konoshiki, Terao

¥500 note

Randy Bass

Bob Horner fever

Emperor Hirohito’s “final days” (TMI) health coverage

zero consumption tax

purchasing a phone line

phone card collections

AMVIC

Aum

0-157

The Art of Japanese Management

“Miracle Economy”

price war

Rockefeller Center/Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers”

Nakasone, Reagan, Thatcher

roadside beer machines

blue aerograms

post office soroban

>0 alcohol driving tolerance

no net, no pc, no keitai, minimal English signage

Japanese intestine length

fingerprinting

Ito, Date, Nomo

Recruit scandal

pre-computer Immigration office visits

You Gotta Have Wa

Princess Di visit

beer price collusion

omnipresent smoking

US$2+/minute to call the US

Kallback

dogs 90% chained outdoors/100% barking

no JETs/ALTs

dimming headlights at intersections

All genders seemingly riding red mamachari with squeaking brakes (just behind you).

speedometer chime warning

Jean Pearce

The two Kents

salary/bonus cash envelopes

Hanshin quake

The monster with 21 faces

JAL 123

Internationalization

Christmas cake/OG

prevalent Omiai

Osamu Tezuka

Tokyo Disneyland opening Studio Ghibli formation

Hibari Misora

Issey Miyake

monochrome fashions

white/black cars 90% Grey/red 9.9%

BS-2a launch

Nikkei 38,915 DJIA <3,000

The Plaza Accord

&gt;200¥/US$

Inflation

people pointing/children crying/intimate others hyperventilating

signature requests

the eternal NHK man

Kathy Morikawa

Donald Richie

Wayne Graczyk

All gaijin gathering conversations inevitably gravitated back to everyone’s satisfaction and contentment with their lives in Japan.
(ok, that one never happened)

reddit being reddit disclaimer: these are not intended to spur commentary on the woke/non-wokenss of people/things mentioned or Japanese society as a whole, nor is it asserted that they are exclusive to only one time period. They are simply recollections from times long past that may stir a few memories and perhaps elicit a wistful smile or two from those who experienced them in context.
(Please feel free to add your own from any time period.)

Do your worst!

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

Buenosdillas

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

When I got home, they were still there.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

I won't be doing that today!

You take away their little brooms

This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

There hasn't been a post all year!

It’s pronounced “Noel.”

After all his first name is No-vac

Why

What, then, is Chinese rap?

Edit:

Notable mentions from the comments:

• Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits

• French/Finnish art

• Country/Canadian rap

• Chinese/Country/Canadian rock

• Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap

There hasn't been a single post this year!

(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)

Nothing, it just waved

Bob

So that I could frequently say, "I am going to walk 5 miles now."

Edit: My most popular post on Reddit! 😀 Thank you for the awards.

Just to clarify, 12345678

Me grabbing a soda from my (what I thought was) half full 12pk...

Notices there's only 2;

Me: "Awe man... This is a damn bird box!" Her: "What the hell does that mean?!" Me: (Pulls both cans out & shows them to her) "It's only got Toucans."

I'm not ashamed to admit the look on her face was glorious.

I was just sitting there doing nothing.

“BOOM”?!

"That's what they're fighting about."

free

Because his Visa didn’t work.

Because the audience only responds in a low ha