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The Japanese dont seem to employ wordplay in the same way native English speaking cultures do. One time at a bar I was trying to jokingly express my struggle with some of their words that sound the same but mean drastically different things, and the people I was talking to just didn't understand the humor in it.
They definitely do similar things though. I was out at dinner with some of my Japanese coworkers and one of them was having steak (suteeki in Japanese). I asked him if it was suteki ("great, wonderful, attractive") and they all groaned and said I was telling "oyaji gyagu" (old man/dad jokes).