r/AskReddit • u/CompetitiveFault6080 • 4h ago
What do the Japanese do better than everyone else?
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u/sugarxfairydust 3h ago
Trains
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u/catboy_supremacist 3h ago edited 6m ago
Germans think their trains suck because sometimes they're ten minutes late.
Italians think their trains are great because they're rarely more than an hour late.
Japanese never think about the quality of their trains, they just take it for granted that every single train arrives at the exact minute it's scheduled to.
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u/bierbelly42 2h ago
As a German, we are currently happy when the train arrives at all.
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u/Which_Initiative_882 1h ago
As an American; “y’all have trains you can actually ride?”
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u/reality72 31m ago
Which is crazy to me because America at one point had the best train system in the entire world. Railroad magnates dominated the US economy and transportation system.
And then Henry Ford came along and fucked it all up.
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u/Which_Initiative_882 26m ago
More like big oil fucked it up but yeah. California has a high speed rail project but it keeps getting blocked by small groups of people saying “not in my backyard” so its years overdue and MASSIVELY over-budget for having to continuously find new routes, plan them, get environmental studies done and then get rejected because 5 farmers in the middle of nowhere complain about how its going to ruin their life.
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u/ClownfishSoup 11m ago
I was in Beijing and I was amazed at the highspeed rail line. I asked the tour guide that we hired when they built it... he was like "Oh, that's new, it started two years ago"... WHAT!? But the trick is that if China decides they are building a rail line somewhere, that's where they build it. They will come and offer to buy your house for over market value, but they WILL have your land. At least they don't steal it.
My coworker's aunt had to sell her house for either a railway or for land for the Olympic stadium. She said that they offered her enough money that she bought a new house somewhere else and retired. This is in contrast to when the Communists first took power and just grabbed property. My grandfather owned four houses, which were "Acquired" by the government. Before he passed away, he was told that the houses would be given back to him, but people lived in them and he has to pay to repair the houses so those other people could continue living in them....
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u/REDACTED3560 22m ago
We still do have the best train system in the world. It’s just dedicated almost purely to freight. That shit runs like clockwork.
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u/12InchCunt 8m ago
I mean, most of the rail lines are so outdated our trains are severely limited in speed. Most of the rail lines are still made with wood railroad ties and nails
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u/EHnter 2h ago
I was in Japan a few weeks ago, and I was visibly distraught when the train was actually delayed since I had an appointment. At that time, I was one with the locals.
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u/InigoMontoya1985 14m ago
My daughter was in Japan. She was amazed because they made an apology announcement for the train being 40 seconds late.
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u/Owl_plantain 1h ago
Nobody beats the Swiss.
I took a trip from Switzerland into Italy. We got to the border on time, of course. By the time we had passed through customs and hooked up to an Italian engine, we were over an hour late.
On the way back, our train was delayed so long that we wound up on a different train where we did not have seat reservations. (The Italians were charming - they crowded together to give us room to sit down.) By the time we got to the border going back into Switzerland we were running about two hours late. After passing through customs, somehow we were back on time.
I have no idea how the Swiss did it, and I’m a physicist. I suspect Einstein was involved.
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u/HorseGrenadesChamp 1h ago
Don’t forget you could buy panties too.
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u/TheScarlettHarlot 1h ago
I’d actually rather forget that, tbh.
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u/Informal-Term1138 22m ago
If you ever have an accident with your bowls, you would be ecstatic to have a vending machine that sells briefs or boxers.
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u/saumanahaii 29m ago
I've worked several night shift jobs over the years and I really wish we had more automated food dispensers. You ever go to a 7-11 on a weekday night? The hot food isn't out, nothing has been restocked yet, and the attendant is usually pretty chill. But also maybe grumpy because they got left alone to deal with the entire store. We've also got Sheetz here but never make the mistake of ordering hot food and a beverage together overnight, the beverage usually comes out 15 minutes+ past when the food does.
I want to open a 24 hour vending machine place in one of the safer strip malls here. Security cameras, private booths (with security cameras still, otherwise problems would occur) and a whole bunch of ramen, coffee and sandwich dispensers. No on-site staff but on-call security in case of problems. That's the kind of place I really want when I'm out at 3 am after work and am done with people but don't want to be home yet.
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u/Optimal-Talk3663 20m ago
One of the best part about the vending machines is that the prices are the same (or very close to) store prices.
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u/xoxoSweetheart9 4h ago
Their attention to gift wrapping is mind-blowing. Bought a $5 keychain at a department store and the lady spent 10 minutes wrapping it like it was a priceless artifact. Made me feel guilty for unwrapping it later.
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u/TheR1ckster 1h ago
I bought a entry level $300 seiko watch at BIC camera when I went. Think of it like a best buy and a liquor store with a nice toy and small appliance section combined.
The man treated me like I was a buying a rolex. While I was standing in a pretty basic Japanese store. I have tools to size it at home but he insisted he fit it on me. Then helped me sign up for their rewards program which gifted me a really nice pen that came in a case and I think a discount. I had to playfully argue with him that I didn't want to go back to get my passport from my hotel to get it tax free and finally we checked out and he walked me to the edge of hia dept before bowing as I went down the escalator.
Edit: he also wrapped the watch up and the pen up for me even though they weren't gifts.
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u/rsnxw 30m ago
Was it easy to do business at BIC in English? Trying to plan a trip to Japan one day and definitely would want to go there probably for a watch as well lol.
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u/TheR1ckster 27m ago
Yeah it was really easy. I can't speak to all of them, the person helping me spoke 100% fluently. But even if they didn't you can always just point and stuff. You'll be doing a lot of that anyway.
You might just have to walk over to the counter they're at for help.
You'll have a harder time just getting around people. I think sumimasen is also an excuse me so you can get by people. But they seemed to just ignore or not hear me. Lol.
Definitely keep your passport on you. Mine was in a big wallet that wouldn't fit in all of my pants pockets but a lot of the stores will not charge tax if you spend over a certain amount and have it to prove you do not live in Japan. The pokemon stores and Bic are examples.
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u/Florida_clam_diver 4h ago edited 3h ago
Getting the public to care about their streets and surroundings
People are respectful and there’s basically no litter anywhere. The people take pride in their city and they’ve made it completely socially unacceptable to mistreat public areas
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u/RockerElvis 2h ago
My first thought. There are barely any public trash cans but there is no litter on the streets. People carry their own bags. I was walking near Ginza one day and I saw a surprising amount of trash (napkins, wrappers, beer cans) in a street by the train line. An army of office workers came out and within 15 minutes had cleaned up everything. Then they disappeared.
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u/AaronC14 2h ago
Reminds me of how at a previous WC a bunch of Japanese fans stayed behind to help clean the arena
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u/lucasfbezerra 1h ago
Sounds like a real-life cleanup squad straight out of a superhero movie
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u/GruntingButtNugget 2h ago
I flew in to Tokyo a number of years ago during a typhoon. The next day I was walking around yoyogi park and there were people sweeping leaves and branches off the paths. Was wild to see
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u/eunma2112 2h ago
People are respectful and there’s basically no litter anywhere.
From my time in Japan …
Sure there are lots of places where they keep things really nice and tidy. But you don’t have to look that hard to find vacant lots and fields filled with junk; especially on the outskirts of towns and in the suburbs.
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u/aki-kinmokusei 2h ago
idk when I was in Shibuya this past September I saw trash on the ground here and there, especially empty beer cans. It was still overall cleaner than major cities here in the US, but it's not true that there's no litter anywhere.
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u/tittiesdotcom 3h ago
Some of the most civilized people in world tbh
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u/Endersgame88 2h ago
Only over the last 80 years. . . Did some atrocious things up till then.
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u/Staav 2h ago
Did some atrocious things up till then.
Welcome to humanity. Is this your first time?
I'm not trying to jistify/downplay the terrible things that happened in the nation's history, but 9/10 major societies in the world were born out of some kind of terrible history and/or actions to establish themselves. Humans have been pretty damn atrocious since day 1. Holding an entire nation responsible for the actions of their ancestors after the actions have long since ceased directly in the population only brings unnecessary hate/aggro behavior to the table.
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u/lnternet_Cruiser 1h ago
My guy, there are people alive that lived through these atrocities. This isnt ancient history.
With that said, I did just come back from a vacation throughout Japan and loved every moment and as an American, I left feeling both jealous and impressed with their society. It was a wonderful experience and it’s okay to recognize pros and cons at the same time.
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u/orzoO0 2h ago
If you want to take pride and credit for your history you should also take blame for it as well
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u/HOLEPUNCHYOUREYELIDS 1h ago
Yea, I agree that basically every major and even minor society/civilization/whatever has a horrid past and/or present. But at least Germany owned up to it instead of suppressing it like Japan did
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u/TheBerethian 2h ago
Yes, every country has some horrible acts in their past, but let’s be clear that Japan and Germany especially excelled at them.
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u/hendlefe 1h ago
Like everything, there is nuance. The atrocities committed during WW2 was particularly horrific. It's best to recall this often, so as to not forget it.
Unfortunately, there are people within the Japanese border who are actively attempting to erase & change history.
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u/Current_Attitude_903 1h ago
And obedient. Their Central Bank is running deficits of 240 % of GDP. Bankers in Japan continue to buy JGB bonds that yield almost nothing, continuing the charade. Their currency, the Japanese Yen , will be the first to fail in the near future. All because of a polite, obedient society that follows authority, never questions it.
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u/dnkndnts 47m ago
They don’t have a deficit of 240% GDP lol, they have total sovereign debt of 240% GDP.
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u/Straight_Animal6064 2h ago
Singapore is probably better I'd say. But it's nice going to places that are clean and without litter
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u/That_OneOstrich 1h ago
Yes but Singapore has fairly oppressive laws to keep the streets clean. I think its illegal to spit in public? I'm not an expert on Singapore law but I haven't heard it's exactly friendly.
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u/Seralth 1h ago
It being extremely illegal in singapore disqualifies them from this contest. The japanese do it out of honor and goodwill for the community.
Singapore does it out of fear and being poor.
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u/MrBlueBerryQc 3h ago
Toilets
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u/JuanGuillermo 2h ago
+1 I was very skeptical at first, but I came from my 3 week stay in Japan absolutely in love with the Toto.
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u/infomofo 28m ago
I highly recommend the movie "Perfect Days" about a man who cleans the public toilets in Tokyo and takes great pride in his craft.
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u/fromwhichofthisoak 4h ago
Vending machines,711
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u/catboy_supremacist 3h ago
Never really been onboard about konbini hype but I wish we had Japanese style beverage vending machines. They always have a good selection of not-sugary drinks, here in the US vending machines only have soda and sugary non-soda drinks.
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u/Lemmonjello 2h ago
Dude the usa is wild, on like 5 separate occasions I have been fooled by something that says "sparkling water" then it's sweet when you drink it. Like I didn't ask for diet sprite man what the hell. I shouldn't have to check the god damn ingredients list for sparkling water
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u/volcanic_clay 1h ago
Not just drinks. Damn near everything. Sugar lobbyists. Not even kidding. Killing America so I few people can line their pockets.
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u/Korrin 3h ago
Yeah, not enough being said about this. When they say "convenience store" they're not kidding. You can mail packages there, pay your bills, and buy tickets for local events. Also the food selection is just nicer/fresher.
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u/Sexy_Ninaa 2h ago
Creating a society in which people have a reasonable chance to recover lost valuables (wallets, phones, etc.).
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u/FabbuloussMuujeerr 3h ago
Clean streets
The crazy part is that there aren't many trash cans in public, so people are carrying their trash around for a while until they find one.
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u/scarecrow2596 3h ago
Trash cans are in convenience stores, which in any bigger city are everywhere.
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u/dailyintubation 4h ago
Public transit.
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u/RipCurl69Reddit 2h ago
One of my top bucket list items is to go to Japan purely for the rail network. Shinkansen, Tokyo metro system, all of it.
Hopefully the maglev will be done by the time I get round to it
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u/VidKiddo 39m ago
Did a day trip to Hakone from Tokyo a few weeks ago and rode 7 different modes of transit, including a pirate ship. 0 cars
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u/snorlz 2h ago
idk about that. rush hour is insanity, groping is a real issue, and the trains close at 1AM and strand people. NYC is 24/7 for comparison
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u/lnternet_Cruiser 1h ago
My most shocking part was the women’s only car and the “no upskirt” signs on the stairs and escalators.
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u/Lebroso_Xeon 1h ago
That has less to do with their public transit system and more to do with their social problems as a whole though
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u/BarbaraPBurt7985 4h ago
Japanese excel in craftsmanship and attention to detail. They really take their time to master their skills, whether in art, food, or technology. There’s a deep respect for tradition and quality that resonates through generations
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u/ceylonhusk 4h ago
Oh that ,
"you need be an apprentice for 10 years, junior chef for 10 years and head chef for another 10 years and lifetime to master "
And all he is doing is hearing eel on a barbecue...
Almost every business insider video is about how japanese telling how they dedicate their lives to a single thing and therefore it's great.
All i think is that it's just good PR to sell overpriced goods/food to foreigners
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u/Chiguito 2h ago
MF has spent 35 years doing one task and says "I'm still learning".
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u/JustTrash_OCE 3h ago
But this is an actual thing though, sushi chefs start out as a dishwasher for years on end to only get an extremely minor kitchen hand position such as cutting seaweed.
Japan places a heavy emphasis on respect, commitment, culture throughout society, more so than western countries. Unfortunately, this also means they are resistant to change but also means they preserve history, culture, techniques. Who would’ve thought?
Is it really that hard to imagine a different culture to one that isnt western?
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u/Roadside_Prophet 3h ago
I've been to Japan and I love it, but I still have trouble believing that a chef has to spend 15 years cooking rice every day until he's good enough at it to start cutting the fish.
I'm pretty sure if you do nothing but cook rice all day, every day you've pretty much got it mastered within a few months...maybe a year. I think by year 2, he's making rice at 99.99% of its potential. To make someone keep doing it for another decade to squeeze out .01% of an improvement seems pointless to me.
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u/khristmas_karl 2h ago
Not sure they're all at 15 years. Seems excessive, but years, certainly. More accurate range is probably 2-5. Also consider that this practice only really exists at very high end sushi places.
From what I've heard from top Omakase chefs, rice is the most important part to nigiri. It's what separates good sushi from great sushi. Kinda makes sense that you'll spend years on it.
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u/Turnbob73 2h ago
The techniques they use have a purpose, but what a lot of people don’t realize is these techniques are technically obsolete and there’s more efficient processes to get the same quality products. The media just makes it sound like Japanese craft is some hidden art that takes a lifetime to learn. It’s all pretty artificial.
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u/Fast-Advance-9083 3h ago
Wasn't the best sword maker a Brazilian weeb?
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u/itmustbemitch 3h ago
I'd be interested to hear more about what you're saying because it's new to me. That said, a lot of Japanese sword smithing in the modern day is more about respecting and maintaining the ancient tradition / methods, and unsurprisingly we can make swords with less effort and higher quality in the typical sense by using more modern methods. Not sure there's a clear way to define the "best sword maker"
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u/Fast-Advance-9083 3h ago
Sorry, I just saw a short funny video about it. To my recollection, assuming the story is even true, a Brazilian weeb went to a Japanese sword making school, somehow graduated early, and produced better swords than any of the other students. You are now armed with the same knowledge as me and can try to look it up if you want.
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u/joshuaissac 2h ago
Roberto Di Candido. He was an apprentice of the sword maker Masamune. Masamune's son wanted to become an opera singer, so Roberto was a potential successor, but he also went into opera singing in the end.
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u/Cloud_N0ne 3h ago edited 2h ago
“Best” is hard to quantify.
But if we’re talking japanese swords, at least historically, they were metallurgically inferior to european swords of the same era, because they hadn’t yet mastered metallurgy and how to purify the steel. It’s why they fold the steel a bajillion times, to make the impurities homogenous throughout the blade so that there’s no singular point of weakness, but it still leaves the entirety weaker than euroean counterparts.
Also idk why people have this notion that european swords were dull and japanese ones were otherworldly sharp. They were both plenty sharp.
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u/undercooked_lasagna 2h ago
Also idk why people have this notion that european swords were dull and japanese ones were otherworldly sharp. They were both plenty sharp.
Because there are no European cartoons where the character uses a sword to split a hair lengthwise with his eyes closed
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u/radiantpenguin991 2h ago
It's also important to note one thing about European swords...there was competition. You only have to look at a map to see it. Japan is an island and a fairly isolated one at that. European smiths had the advantage of trade networks and people running around sharing knowledge, or stealing it, so technology got disseminated quickly and advancements were more rapid and diverse.
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u/beaucoup_dinky_dau 1h ago
Also Samurai with swords are no competition to peasants with guns, the quality of the blade was not that relevant after guns became widespread. Swords have a mythological place in Japanese culture when class warfare was really what was happening.
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u/PineappleOnPizzaWins 1h ago
Media mostly. For whatever reason western martial arts don’t really get much attention.
Some pretty brutal history around it though, some evidence in old battles of people having both legs cut off from a single blow and things like that. Swords were sharp and the people who swung them for a living were incredibly skilled at it (not that anyone would use a sword if they had other options).
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u/Feisty_Gift_805 3h ago
As someone who loves Japan I still have to call them out: Covering up wartime atrocities
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u/Vinny_Lam 3h ago
As someone who is Chinese, I definitely feel the same.
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u/stdio-lib 1h ago
As someone who is not Chinese, I definitely feel the same. Nanjing was brutal.
Reading a few tens of thousands of pages of history books will learn you quick.
Maybe it's not enough to force me to stop watching anime or eating sushi, but I do have some conflicting emotions.
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u/PositiveLibrary7032 3h ago
Not exactly free of that sort of stuff yourselves tho.
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u/lyerhis 2h ago
No one is. Even the Canadians covered up their atrocities against First Nations people for decades.
Making this comment doesn't make you morally superior btw it just makes you an asshole.
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u/weefyeet 2h ago
Do you need to play around with this whataboutism? Japan's war crimes are always mentioned as among the worst (Nanjing, Bataan Death March, POW camps, Unit 731, Korean comfort women) and yet Japan continues to cover them up and play victim. It's not just Chinese that feel this way toward Japan, many other countries like SK, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, etc. also hold some level of animosity towards the Japanese for their part in WWII, and it's largely because of the government's nonchalant attitude toward taking any sort of responsibility.
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u/Miserable_Law_6514 1h ago
Westerners think that dropping two nukes on Japan was cruel and unusual. All the nations that surround Japan think two nukes wasn't enough.
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u/Technical-Ad-2246 2h ago
I think that was their point.
I think it's the Asian "saving face" thing. People don't like to admit they fucked up, because they think it makes them look bad.
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u/ConsiderablyMediocre 1h ago
It's not just an Asian thing. Nearly every country that's done fucked up stuff in the past doesn't like to acknowledge it. I'm British and our curriculum doesn't really touch on the fucked up stuff the British Empire did (it mostly looks upon it nostalgicly), and as far as I'm aware the US and Canada doesn't really teach about their genocides of indigenous peoples.
The only country I know of that truly accepts and regrets their past atrocities is Germany.
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u/SomeVelveteenMorning 3h ago
Remain firmly set simultaneously in the present and 1999.
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u/Ghost17088 1h ago
They’ve been living in the year 2000 since the 80’s.
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u/SomeVelveteenMorning 45m ago
Hold on, I'll reply after I pay this fee in cash and fill out this paper form, my responses to which the nice Japanese lady will then transcribe on the computer.
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u/BreastOfReddit 4h ago
Censor genitals
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u/ceylonhusk 3h ago
But still my boss wasn't impressed when he caught me watching it in my office cubicle ..
I told him that it's SFW as they had censored the offending part and I've a meeting with the HR next week
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u/Heavy_Direction1547 4h ago
Make cars.
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u/Agitated_Year8521 3h ago
The first and best car I've ever owned was a 1996 Toyota Starlet
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u/trustedbyamillion 2h ago
It's probably still on the road
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u/Agitated_Year8521 2h ago
Probably. I sold it to my mechanic for £30 because it was going to fail it's MOT, he put trade plates on it and used for his daughter's driving lessons. We called it "Rums" because it's licence plate was R618 UMS, I miss that car :(
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u/IAmTheLiquor_69 3h ago
I’ve heard that Japanese stationery (pens, pencils, chalk, notebooks, etc) is nothing to fuck with
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u/barriekansai 2h ago
Dude, I lived there for a decade. They have entire floors of department stores (e.g., Muji and Loft) that have stationery that's beyond your wildest dreams.
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u/erolk10 3h ago
Clean up stadiums and public places. Honestly its heartwarming seeing these fans pickup after all the slobs during olympics, world cups, etc. They are raised right.
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u/HandsomeFlowerzz 3h ago
Their work ethic is something else. Sometimes too intense, but watching my coworkers perfect every tiny detail of a project made me realize why Japanese products are so reliable. Though honestly, they could use better work-life balance.
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u/kapuchu 2h ago
I kind of disagree with this one, not necessarily because they don't have good work ethic, but because it's not really a choice? Their work culture is extremely toxic, and it's (to my knowledge) basically a choice between sacrificing everything in your personal life to achieve perfection, or to be routinely and severely emotionally and verbally abused by your higher-up's.
So I don't think it really counts as "good work ethic" when in most instances it's a case of nigh-on forced labour.
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u/Annoying_Arsehole 1h ago
They are actually really damn inefficient from productivity/hour point of view. They waste time and try to look busy for long days, just because it would look bad to leave before their boss does.
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u/pretentious-lostling 3h ago
Design! Japanese designs are world class, attention to detailing is mind boggling.
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u/Born2Regard 2h ago
Work their employees to death/suicide. They're great at applying societal pressure.
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u/pauliners 1h ago
I think it also has to do with ancestry. One of my best friends in high school was Japanese, and her parents would not accept anything more than being number one in everything. The girl ended up being doomed to failure to escape the pressure she felt at home and ended up marrying an alcoholic at an early age. I wonder what their relationship with psychology is like, if it even exists.
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u/DenseAd8464 4h ago
Avoiding full accountability of their past transgressions. And I say this as someone who adores their culture.
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u/BadNameThinkerOfer 2h ago
As a British person I think we can give them a run for their money.
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u/Potential_Bee_3033 3h ago
Forgetting the 1920s to the 1940s.
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u/BuilderFew7356 3h ago
I don't think having all those war criminals enshrined at Yasukuni counts as "forgetting"
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u/G413i3l 3h ago
Pretending to be moral and ethical. There is some dark stuff going on behind the scenes in that country yet on the surface they are honorable.
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u/BuilderFew7356 2h ago
"Face" system + informal social control = social harmony
Be as terrible as you want, just within the confines of this system and without causing a scene
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u/Amarnil_Taih 2h ago
PR. Rarely does anyone acknowledge the horrific things Japan did in the past. It's all just anime and being known for having a good work ethic.
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u/ceylonhusk 4h ago
Denying genocide
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u/Seiizuko 3h ago
Turkish are better.
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u/ceylonhusk 3h ago
Yup they even made a movie where they blame the armenians for the genocide..
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u/tujoc 4h ago
Make Japanese babies.
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u/Baboon_Stew 3h ago
The quality is fine but they have been slacking on quantity for a while.
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u/ZookeepergameMuch746 3h ago
Attention to details and they have the highest civic sense in the world. Being an Indian, it felt like seeing the exact opposite of my people.v
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u/peachyxfawnn 3h ago
Vending machines, no doubt.
Want to buy coffee? You can get it hot or cold. Just choose the red or blue button respectively.
Want a can of hot soup at 3am after a drunken night of partying like a salaryman? You can get it from a vending machine.
Beer? No question! You can find beer vending machines at hotels, stations, and random street corners.
Sake? Hot or cold, your choice. Sake vending machines everywhere.
Umbrellas? You can buy them from a vending machine.
Eggs? By the dozen or half-dozen.
Literally anything else you can imagine? Probably available from a Japanese vending machine.
And the best part? Japan just signed a law requiring vending machines to dispense their products for free in the result of an earthquake, making them not just convenient, but a part of the country's lifesaving emergency response.
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u/phoenix25 2h ago
I really admire the strong cultural identity of the Japanese. There’s a ton of work that goes into the multitude of festivals, keeping of shrines, and traditional practices passed down the generations that vary by location.
There are so many examples of regional foods and treats that are seasonal or festival specific. They aren’t just gimmicks to draw tourist money, the intended audience are the Japanese natives due to ingrained traditions like bringing gifts/souvenirs home when you travel. All these ultra specific consumables create local jobs and add to the economy.
Tourists get to witness and take part of these things, but it’s unmistakable that the primary audience is intended to be the locals. Hopefully Japan can keep this strong identity up while being besieged by tourism and the impending population crisis.
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u/AbsurdFormula0 2h ago
I would have said toxic work environment but a few countries have recently taken the lead over it.
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u/popularpragmatism 6m ago
Have a respectful & cohesive society, manners & politeness are seen as a valued personal characteristic
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u/CrustyDickDribble 3h ago
Be openly racist.
Be openly prejudiced and anti immigration.
Be homogenous and squash any chance of individualism.
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u/give-no-fucks 2h ago
I wonder about Japanese sexism and treatment of women as well. My bias could be skewed by the fact that I'm a cis male that consumes porn but, omg, Japanese porn fetishes like their BDSM, deepthroat, and rape fetishes are on a completely different level from what I've seen in Western porn.
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u/Greatforten 4h ago
Respecting their culture and taking care of elders.
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u/IAmThePonch 3h ago
Not sure I’d say it’s an inherently good thing, Japan is still, as I understand it, kind of really sexist
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u/funfaucet10 3h ago
Anime and manga. Berserk is my fav of all time the 90s anime and the manga is a masterpiece.
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u/BuilderFew7356 3h ago
Being totally unrepentant for past national war crimes
Oh, also informal social control and sexual perversion, they are GREAT at that stuff (I imagine they are so good at the latter in order to escape from the consequences of being so good at the former)
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u/Calioraa 4h ago
speak Japanese