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Japanese tourism poster with elderly man saying phrase for “I’ll have sex with you” puzzles Japan soranews24.com

posted by  AkihabaraBot | 4 years, 4 months ago

That’s well-known 63-year-old rakugo comedian Shinosuke Tachikawa, a native of the city of Imizu, Toyama Prefecture.
Making things even stranger is that the poster, which Meg spotted in Imizu, was made by the city’s tourism association.
▼ Meg, outside Imizu City HallFiguring she must be misinterpreting the poster’s message, she spoke to a representative who explained the real, at least in Toyama Prefecture, meaning of daite yaru.
“In Toyama, ‘Daite yaru’ is used to mean ‘It’s my treat.’”See, ordinarily in Japanese, “ogoru” is how you say “treat someone (to a meal, drink, etc.
Still, the Imizu Tourism Association is aware that to most of the rest of Japan, daite yaru is more about nighttime desires than dinnertime generosity.