Kyle's World

I've noticed that Japanese older men will pee anywhere. I'm not sure if I'm generalizing, or if it's really the case. A while back, I saw an ojisan in plain view, broad daylight, peeing on the side of a major highway, in full view of the passing motorists. He wasn't even peeing on grass or anything, it was like a parking lot or something. Then yesterday, I saw another man unzipped and peeing. To his credit, he was behind a shopping complex and peeing on grass. But both men had available facilities near by, which begs the question, why pee in public like that? And I've only ever seen ojisan do it. High school boys don't do it. Mind you I did see some elementary school kids from my apartment complex peeing in the runoff gutter, but they're kids, you'd expect that from them. Maybe Japan has lax public urination laws. Who knows, but it's quite the mystery.