Is nanpa more common in Japan or your home country?

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1. > For example, catcalling specifically is very common in the UK and not common at all in Japan in my opinion.

   Yeah…in Japan they skip the catcalling and jump straight to the physical harassment. Women-only train cars aren’t for makeup and J-drama gossip y’know.

   As for nampa/hitting on people in public, some of that depends on location. Try walking around Kabukicho for a bit, it can be pretty rough.

2. Depends what you mean. Guys standing at the entrance to a busy street and trying to talk to every girl who goes past and following them is bizarre yeah and I’d never seen that before coming here. But if you mean more generally approaching people in the street or other ‘public’ locations and starting a conversation is only seen as a big deal or trying to ‘nampa’ them just because people generally don’t do it (e.g. talk to randomers on a train etc). In other countries it’s just seen as more general behavior and not a specific activity.

3. Are you really trying to equate nampa with yelling in the general direction of women? 🤔

   I never noticed it back home but it does feel like its everywhere here in Japan. For example I can’t think of a spot back home like Ginzs Corridor Gai that everyone knows about. Beyond that I’ve never seen anything like Shibuya Centa-gai anywhere else.

4. Nampa is life.

5. As someone else said, nampa as in standing on the street trying to talk to as many girls as possible as a kind of hobby or lifestyle, definitely a Japan thing. But normal people spontaneously chatting (for flirting or otherwise) with strangers is less common in Japan.

6. In my country it’s seem as harassment.

7. Chris Chan is the most famous American nampa artist.