Tuesday 23 July 2013

Bradcat's Japanese Culture Focus... Ice Cream Baka!



Blunder! This 21-year-old, who is the son of a Lawson franchise convenience store owner, has just had his store closed down. The boy had a friend take a photo of him lying in the store’s ice-cream freezer on June 17 and then uploaded it onto Facebook.

Sure enough, the photo went viral and spread all over Japan causing some people to boycott Lawson stores. Lawson canceled its contract with the franchisee and closed the store on Monday.

Lawson said the photo was taken while the employee was off-duty, but added that mishandling of foodstuffs is strictly forbidden by company policy.

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