If you don’t want to appear nude on Japanese TV, don’t let them film you taking a bath
A TV Asahi news piece from 2006 about Eddie, an American in Tokyo who dreams of becoming a lawyer in Japan and living in an expensive apartment in the Roppongi Hills complex:
Eddie was living in an old public bath that had been converted into a Sakura House group living space. The wall of his room was covered with Japanese flags (including an imperial chrysanthemum flag) and photos of Aya Ueto (his ideal woman). To prepare for his dream of becoming a lawyer, he was reading weekly tabloid magazines for Japanese language practice.
Eddie, who uploaded this video himself to YouTube, provided the following description:
“When we went to the onsen, they promised me that they would only film me from the waist up, but they turned out to be a bunch of liars as i was practically naked in the first shot of the whole interview. The whole process was really awkward since my Japanese was great and the TV crew spoke no english. I had also just gotten back from America the night before so I was exhausted from jetlag. It is easily my most embarrassing moment (many kids came up to me the next day at school saying they’d seen me naked, and one of my bosses at the law firm I used to work at saw it by chance while in the hospital) So more or less I appeared naked and acting like a total douche clown on the Japanese equivalent of NBC Nightly News. “
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