Re: [tlug] Wifi hotspot access in Tokyo

[Raymond Wan <rwan.kyoto@example.com>]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 10:00 PM, [SCA] SCHWARTZ, Fernando G.
<fgs@example.com> wrote:
> On 03/11/2014 04:48 AM, Benjamin Tayehanpour wrote:
>> On 10 March 2014 23:41, [SCA] SCHWARTZ, Fernando G. <fgs@example.com> wrote:
>>> Much to my amazement, I once entered that library
>>> in Tokyo, with my own computer and was asked to stop using it or leave.
>>
>> Wait, what? Aren't you allowed to use computers in libraries over there?
>
> Certainly not on this one:
...
>
> Wish I could have said to him like "just a gaijin here, Sir. Looking for
> a better antenna. I need connectivity to work and what I'm getting is
> fuck depressing."


Hmmmm, well, the "just a gaijin here" is probably the type of thing
that you could say that would give foreigners a bad name.  It's
probably good that you weren't able to say it!

I think I've noticed this before at another public library in Tokyo.
There was a sign that said you can't use computers.  Silly them for
thinking that the purpose of a library is for patrons to read their
books, right??  :-)

Seriously, just because you can do it elsewhere doesn't mean not being
able to do it in Japan is a bad thing.  When I went, no, there weren't
laptops open but the library was full and people were ... reading
books!  I'm sure if no one was reading their books and it was empty,
then they would allow laptop users to come.

For what it's worth, university libraries aren't like that so it isn't
true for all libraries in Japan.  At least the one or two public ones
I've seen in Japan...

Ray