Things got real this Friday — real funny — as non-Japanese living in Japan admitted their biggest blunders, mistakes and unpopular opinions using the #gaijinconfessionfriday hashtag (see Birth of a Twitter trend: the story behind #gaijinconfessionfriday, for the origin story). Here are just a few of the top mishaps people confessed to.

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