I’m Bill Tsutsui with another Postcard from Asia from the Center for East Asian Studies.

Annoyed with your boss? Got a bone to pick with your spouse? Angry at that sales clerk who ignored you? Come on down to The Rising Sun Anger Release Bar and beat those suckers up. Well, not those suckers exactly but baristas dressed up like those suckers. A bar here in Nanjing, China has come up with a new method of attracting clientele: it lets them beat up the staff. Clients ask the staff to dress up like the person they wish to muscle up on most. As of now, China lags behind the US as a liability/litigation culture, but something like this could catapult it to the frontrunner position before you can say "So sue me."

With thanks to Randi Hacker for this text, from the Center for East Asian Studies, I’m Bill Tsutsui. Wish you were here.