Vietnamese in Tokyo arrested over illegal haircuts to thousands

27 comments

1. Prices are high and these vietnamese and others are barely making a living. Things like this wouldn’t have happened if theres no such thing as “slave visa”, learning while working. This is just an excuse to give them a low income salary.

2. Oh yeah, he’s really breaking the law here, giving out unlicensed haircuts. Shaking the foundations to their very core .

   Fucking silly stuff like this makes me question the laws here sometimes. Is this guy really committing a heinous crime giving haircuts to people from his house?

3. Real stellar police work here. That oughtta show those barbarian barbers.🤡

   So much energy investigating such BS, while criminal syndicates run bars that drug and scam people out of their money and all they can say is shouganai.

4. I wonder if the police will ask them to return the hair?

5. In the greater scheme of what should be considered important, this seems pretty stupid.

   Are there really not more important things that the cops could be spending our money on, especially in this economy?

   Shit, they’ll probably be investigating violent gangsters making unlicensed money next, it’ll be bloody chaos.

6. Another reason why I can’t take the japanese police seriously.

   Meanwhile batshit people killing each other with knife / burning their babies and police be like: 🤷‍♂️

7. …… What the hell is “illegal haircuts”??

   Let me guess.. They didn’t get any tax bribes from it, therefore it’s illegal and must be punished?

8. Illegal fades running rampant on the streets of tokyo.. what has the world come to :'(

9. Surely there is more important shit to do.

10. I kinda get it. You need to graduate school in order to get a license. Gotta nip it in the bud before it becomes a larger issue since it’s a relatively easy field to get into illegally. This was prob just done to make an example of what *could* happen.

    Note: I hate the police. Is there something else they should be focusing on? Yeah there are a lot of other problems. But that’s irrelevant to this story. And all of you talking about pedos getting off with light sentences and whatnot…you do realize there are multiple branches of government and the police aren’t the judicial branch…right? Right?

11. Japan is a network of vested interests.

12. They made such a big fuss and PR move last year in a Tokyo beautician school because they accepted 3 non-Japanese girls into the school to learn how to cut hair. You would think it was a humanitarian effort. I remember article reads in the end “you cannot work in hair salon or cut hair without a beautician license. And usually foreigners are not approved to enter beauty school here.”

    Wtf???? Is that why cutting hair is so expensive unless you go to DB house where they will ruin your hair half the time?

13. So many people commenting without knowing the full story. You need a license to cut hair; doesn’t matter what nationality you are—you need to go through the proper process in order to do that here.

14. Possible defence: OP was being paid to dispose of the hair. The haircut was free.

    It probably wouldn’t work since they were advertising on SNS, sadly.

15. Can we go after rapists instead of fucking barbers please? This is a joke and quite frankly anti-gaijin propaganda.

16. So .. why are the police bad here again?

    You can’t cut people’s hair without a license in Japan. I can think of a few reasons why it wouldn’t be allowed.

    Man the absolute victim complex of some expats. Police can stop small crimes and big crimes as well. Unless you have actual evidence that Japanese people can charge for haircuts without a license and the police won’t care?

17. So, a person is arrested because he is unlicensed to cut hair? If the customers don’t mind it then I see what the fuss is except this is Japan.

    They have some weird laws that is illegal outside Japan.

    https://pop-japan.com/tradition/things-okay-in-japan-but-illegal-around-the-world/

18. Man this is a new low

19. Oohh weee, barracks barbers better be watch out 🙄

20. No wonder the Vietnamese lady was afraid of her employer finding out about her baby. Good grief.

21. Haircut is something different then barber services such as shaving. If you don’t work according to certain hygiene standards in this kind of procedures that could become a public health hazard. So I understand why it’s illegal. Other than that I agree that there are more urgent matters.

22. license are necessary because cutting hair requires using edged tools like razor on people and reckoned as pre-medical act. i think it’s pretty normal rules to be followed🤔

23. You need a license to cut hair. Nationality and race has nothing to do with it.

    90% of the comments section is just racing to the opportunity to call out Japan for racism in a place where it is not.

24. So much for most libertarian country in the world

25. OH NO! The travesty.
    This is a joke

26. Glad this sick son of a bitch is behind bars

27. Ah yes doing important things Japan I see instead of y’know fixing the failing infrastructure, economy, allowing foreign parental rights, and the black company abuse on it’s workers. It’s important in stopping these menaces from giving sick fades, everything else can wait. Good for you.