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"How white anime obsessed teens are about Japan I am for the US"
"Every story is the same - a 5 - 7 girl moves to japan to be a.... Fuck I dont even know what half of them do. They explain their careers and it sounds either like prostitution or something adjacent because they will say 'modeling' or being an 'idol' but you cant find any examples of them actually do"
"I like Japan but anime is genuinely one of the worst and most cringe mediums of storytelling in existence...horrible voice acting/grunting/sound effects, dumb and derivative plots, stupid ass battle sequences, cliche after cliche"
"When I was young every cool thing came from Japan. Pokémon, DBZ, Melt Banana. All these things became popular naturally from my experience. It's mind bending to me that sushi is seemed as old fashioned in my city. The cultural exports from Japan were in contrast with what was available to me when I "
"Man, the people online are not exaggerating. They're all over the place and literally the only people I've seen be rude in public. Loud on trains, running into people, eating and drinking where they're not supposed to, etc. We took two trains and a bus to stay at a traditional Japanese ryokan in tru"
"Exasperated, sunburnt, not a single word of the local language, making insane food and beverage combos no one has ever heard of, but somehow generally pretty cheerful and fun when you hang out with them. Genuinely love that vacation is a trial by ordeal for them. (In Japan btw)"
"Has US bases but no one cares about their culture unlike Japan or South Korea."
"What really blackpilled me on this was hearing from some friends who visited Japan recently. It's like the main thing tourists do there is just buy cheap plastic junk?? I know it's a common practice everywhere but it's especially egregious there. NInja t-shirts worn once and then thrown out. Tacky p"
"Japan is a country of 125m people and had like 700,000 babies last year! They have like no immigration either so it's just like what, the country just fades away? East Asian people live forever so like in 20/30 year's you're just going to have what was once a major nation with like 70 million 100 ye"
"Everyday I open instagram and I see people my age and younger going out and travelling to places like Europe, Japan, Canada, Southeast Asia, even places like Bangladesh and Morocco with their friends."
"Truly, the internet is so useless and disconnected from reality that it has convinced a generation of Japanese zoomer shut-ins that their country looks like the US-Mexico border"
"Japan had the concept of a hikikomori years before NEETs permeated the public consciousness in the west."
"I've been in Japan five days now, and have had a number of very excellent pork dishes. I have just finished a very excellent pork chop in Yokohama as I write this. The other day I was served a nice juicy pink slab of pork shoulder in Ginza, absolutely phenomenal, and I have paid more for inferior fo"
"Have you been to those places? They're incredibly comfortable. In fact, they seem almost DESIGNED to do things on your own, you can order food without talking to people, go to a restaurant and eat alone alongside 10 other people eating alone, pursue countless loner hobbies (the pachinko parlors in T"
"And ironically now everybody's beloved Nippon is considered a cutesy, peaceful anime wonderland compared to all the Western 'brutes'. Kinda makes all the bubbly Otaku culture seem creepishly sinister imo."
"There was a whole thing with his shoes, which he would keep directly in front of the front door because it made him nostalgic for his gap year in Japan. Oh yeah, the Japanophilia is a whole thing. He had a long conversation at me once about how he loved the etiquette system there because he 'hates c"
"I will simply go to Italy every year and Japan maybe every 3 years to go shopping"
"Who knew the schadenfraude would be this suß, und schmekt so lecker... One thing about those tables is ... they always turn."
"The playwright and social media personality (and Dasha nemesis) brought drugs to Japan for some reason and didn't realize that is the kind of thing that could fuck your life. Does anyone know what's next for him at this point? Are they actually going to trap him in a Japanese prison?"
"Recently moved to Japan (I know) and trying out the dating apps here as I know no-one and want to see some cool places. Joined bumble, got 800+ likes in 24 hours so thought that at least a few of them would be decent."
"I was reading this book called In Praise of Shadows by Junichiro Tanizaki who is some well known Japanese guy and he's basically trying to build a 100% japanese house in the modern era and failing because so much modern shit is inherently western."
"Before anyone says I'm just being spoiled by my stay in Japan, Germany's trains are actually ranking as ones of the least reliable, and are behind countries such as Czechia or Italy. Even Russia is outpacing us and I don't even need to talk about East Asia"
"90 minute flight within Japan, had a hot meal and drinks and amazing seats. On Air Canada you get none of that for a 5 hour flight from Toronto to Vancouver because it just so happens to be domestic."
"Paintings from the short time period of conversation in Japan to Catholicism"
"Perhaps for this spider, the size of the book is like the size of Japan and five minutes may be fi ve to ten years."
"Try pulling something like this when entering Japan, Australia, etc.—you'd be deported instantly. That's just how border enforcement works."
"It's suicide rate is the highest among developed countries and is significantly higher than Japan's, a country more often stereotyped as suicidal."
"Currently travelling in Japan. Yesterday I was on a train to a small town near Mt. Fuji. The train was packed with people, hardly any room to turn, and quickly filled with the miasma of a hundred people recycling the same breath. All around me different languages were being spoken."
"The solution to the literacy crisis. Japan has incredible book covers too but I don't have pics of those sadly"
"Japan might have gotten its revenge for the bombs, the damage they've done to emotionally stunted men is insurmountable"
"Had to buy designated trash bags and the middle-aged woman who ran a barbershop downstairs went through my trash and asked me, those trash are not correct, I wonder who's trash this is? Every Japanese person I came in contact with just ignored the rules"
"On this day in 1970, renowned author Yukio Mishima committed seppuku after a failed attempt to overthrow the Japanese government."
"Also look at Japan and Korea. They are physically healthy yet still depressed as shit. Their fish, veggies and walking have not cured them."
"I have never been more sad to leave a place. want to go back Asap but it's so far…going for any less than 2 weeks is just impossible. My job is remote tho so maybe if I perform rly well the rest of the year they'll be open to letting me work alternate hours while abroad🤨🤨 my favorite place was kawag"
"after 12 years of Hitler, Germanys institutions remained intact enough to become one of the most successful industrial powers in the world a short decade later. Infrastructure and scaffolding was preserved from graft and hysteria under fascism, and wiping the slate clean was easier in Japan than Per"
"What if Japan was still hardcore Shinto instead of being majority atheist. Same for Sweden, they are majority atheist and everyone seems to know their culture."
"Much of the appeal of Japan and SK is because of its exoticism and how "alien" its fans see it compared to the west. As Japanese food, media, fashion etc became more well known and to some extent understood by western audiences, they moved onto SK as the new big thing to obsess over"
"liberals and the left are hypocritical in condemning ethnonationalism in places like the UK, France, israel and Germany, but just about never do so in regards to East Asian countries like South Korea or Japan... Not only are the few immigrants composed almost wholly of other East Asians — their sist"
"I've been watching Trump's state visit to Japan and every other statement of his is a eulogy for Abe."
"The Cold War heats up with Japan trapped in the middle while a middle class Japanese family tries to make sense of it all as the world begins to end around them."
"Also learning that the Japanese bar exam has a pass rate of 22%. Before the 2010 reforms of the exam the pass rate was 6%."
"i personally don't like anime at all, i've tried watching many different recommendations and it was all unwatchably corny to me. don't like melodrama and bad dialogue. however i love almost everything else about japan- their cars, music, the general aesthetic of their cities, their history, lifestyl"
"Of couse "sex work is work" is not about real prostitution, but about commodifying every part of human relationships and extracting capital through every step (Japan is very good at this)."
"I genuinely feel like I'm thriving and have a lust for life when it's just me and my internal monologue. I love to see movies, sightsee and have travelled to Japan, New Zealand, South Africa and other states within my country (Australia) alone and absolutely loved it."
"I'm not a doomer that thinks Japan is gonna stop existing but it's hard to imagine what Japan might look like a few decades from now food wise. I've been here a while and it's pretty stark that a lot of the GOOD non-chain restaurants/ izakayas are being run by either 40+ men or 60+ grandmas. The rea"
"Japan should just purchase Mexico. This would solve all of both countries problems."
"Here's the deal: Im early 30s, female, currently living in Japan, single & lesbian. I work a low stress job at a Japanese company with a retirement plan, free healthcare, etc. My salary is a bit low, but manageable. I have lots of friends here and am 3 years out from qualifying for permanent residen"
"I know Japan and the UK have been uniquely shit for a while, but is it not possible that this is the beginning of a broader worldwide recession?"
"It's inspired other countries like South Korea to step up their game. Others like Japan and Phillipines are producing even more and am happy to see that."
"Pan-Asianists in Japan were known to heavily advocate for increasing the already good relations they had with Ethiopia up until Italy subjugated them."
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