Correct. To be a college drop out because you didn’t study enough for your exams is akin in Japan to be a total piece of shit and your own parents will wish you killed yourself so many do anyways. Also being a salaryman working at the office like fifteen hours a day 24/7 all year round will kill off the rest of the Japanese population. There’s a reason there’s no breeding going on and the only people left are old age pensioners which in theory they should have Hari Kiried the elderly at this rate too so at least the younger ones would have their resources. Japan is going to shit and the anime fantasy world as we know it won’t be around in fifty years.
The USA has a higher suicide rate and has similar suicide rates to the Scandinavian countries (besides Denmark) which are supposedly the 'happiest' countries in the world.
They don't. You're operating on information from decades ago. Japan is ranked 49th for suicides. Many 1st world countries rank higher including the US.
Initially based. He’s pretty funny at times but I like more how earnest he is in showcasing the country. He’s not an animegay so he’s kind of unbiased in that way, so that’s nice. It also helps he’s not American? He’s married now though so I only see a decline in quality though but whatever makes him happy. We all get old.
Hostess clubs, karaoke, bidets, mos burger, pachinko, go karts in Tokyo, purikura photo booths, modern Japanese architecture, train station bento, fruit sandwiches, Japanese television, and then the last one is just a section labeled "microagressions"
That's fine. Really and truly fine. But if you don't want to be poisoned by the outside world, maybe don't actually let a shitload of tourists in, export a shitload of fantasised media that glorifies your isolationist state and generally play the schizo gf about the whole situation
north korea wants to remain isolated and went about doing it. Japan can
tl;dr: isolate if you like, just do it fully
all he said is it's annoying and not really an aggression that every stranger NPC dialogue trees him with the exact same canned convo for foreigners: nihongo jozu, chopsticks?, food?, weather?
hell, I don't talk to people where I live for the same reason.
>Hostess clubs
kino anda thing I want in my country >karaoke
kino and a thing I want in my country >bidets
fricking dirty pig not liking bidets >mos burger
idk burgers are good >pachinko
not my problem >go karts in Tokyo
cool >purikura photo booths
SOVL >modern Japanese architecture
the same as everywhere >train station bento
better than mcdonalds >fruit sandwiches
and I bet he eats pineapple pizza, bread with fruit is a common thing tho >Japanese television
Fricking Sovl >microagressions
holy fricking homosexual, hope he gets raped by the Black folk in shinjuku and then gets deported
Lots of bad things like fricking everywhere but still studying there was the best year of my life >Muh I will never be fully accepted in Japanese society >Muh racist bureaucracy!
Lmao expats homosexuals yes life sucks it's not like in your animes and you won't make Japanese friends if you are a weirdo.
I notice there's a cottage industry formed around 'disillusioned expats' in Japan lately. There's a lot of these videos popped up roughly at the same time for some reason.
The following redpill is gonna be hard for you to swallow. I invite you to watch the movie Manbiki Kazoku (Shoplifters) for a realistic impression of everyday Japanese life. Japan isn't clean, sparkly and odor-neutral like in your animes. The Japanese live like cattle on a farm, cramped into tiny one-room "apartments" that are filled to the brim with trash. The only reason you don't notice how dirty it is is because there's not enough room on the floor for piles of dirt and dust to form. They come home from shopping at a konbini and sit down at their floor-table thing without even washing their hands. They sleep in futons which they never wash (too big for a washing machine), they simply "air them out" every now and then. Yes, that's right, they sleep in their own fermented sweat and maybe piss until they buy a new futon. The summers in Japan are very hot and humid, yet the Japanese don't shower after getting home. They wipe their sweat into the furniture (which they never clean) and take turns in bathing in the same bathwater later at night. They slurp their ramen noodles for banmeshi and spill thick drops of grease everywhere. You can't even clean the floor properly since it's covered with tatami, mats made of flimsy rice weed, which are destroyed if you even step on them forcefully, let alone wipe them. They have no proper doors or windows, just paper-thin covers that slide to the side which are always open in summer, meaning the inside of their "homes" is teeming with insects. In winter they sit inside at a kotatsu in full winter clothing because they don't know about isolation in the 21st century.
Do I need to go on? I guess you're dizzy by now. "How could the country I adored for most of my adult life be such a backwater shithole?" I hear you squeal in disbelief. I know you weren't ready for this. But reality doesn't care about your feelings. I promise, you will be better off knowing this a few years down the road
>they sleep in their own fermented sweat and maybe piss until they buy a new futon. The summers in Japan are very hot and humid, yet the Japanese don't shower after getting home. They wipe their sweat into the furniture
You could call me somewhat of a "smellgay" so I might actually like a GF/wife like this, I basically live the same way already, though 1 of the main reasons I don't change my ways is because I've been alone
You think you do but you don't want >sweat encrusted ass and warm snotty puss smell wafting up
You think your ass smells after a while, women are literally always exposed to the elements
I guess it makes sense why so much porn has a smell fetish, when it's a fact of life it becomes a feature and not a bug. It's interesting to me how many people seem to have a smell kink now and I wonder how much of that is people who have consumed so much Japanese porn it sounds appealing.
That guy at the end sounded like he had a pretty miserable life. Just stay at work so much every day he rarely goes home, even sleeping at the office. Twenty years there, eventually the stress gets to him and can't take it anymore. Everyone gossiping and insulting you behind your back plus your boss disliking you because you won't go out for the mandatory afterhours work drinks. And after all that time, it's like he just has nothing and has to start over?
This guy whines a lot though. He’s literally a weeb who thinks he needs to gatekeep Nippon so he makes YouTube vids like “oh noes don’t come here it really sucks “.
These kinds of dudes move to Japan and never learn the language or put in the work to make Japanese friends, then spend the rest of their lives fetishizing the country to all the "uneducated" foreigners since, despite only leaving his apartment to get convenience store food, he's the real expert on the country. Not sure if this applies to the OP's guy but it's usually a safe bet; most of the other white guys I run into in Japan are fricking losers. On the one hand it's nice because a modicum of effort makes you stand out, but it makes locals kind of assume you're a dumbass before they get to know you.
This guy whines a lot though. He’s literally a weeb who thinks he needs to gatekeep Nippon so he makes YouTube vids like “oh noes don’t come here it really sucks “.
he's not a weeb and he's right to disillusion the multi-million hordes of teen anime watchers
Protip, after long stays in japan I can tell you at least 90% of what you hear about japan in the west is false.
Both the good and the bad.
For example, no, most people don’t work till 10pm.
No, they don’t give super over the top amazing customer service.
They are not extremely polite.
No they are not collectivist zombies.
Yes, there is a lot of homeless.
Pretty much the only stereotype that is true is that it is vary safe if you stay in the normal areas.
Other than that the cities feel like America, with better street food.
In fairness the Japanese put on a veneer of politeness (well at least the ones in government and professionals others on the street will be rude asf) but yeah they can be sarcastic and rude to foreigners when they want. Sometimes it’s warranted though because they don’t suffer fools gladly. Much like Australians or Brits or the Dutch or Germans or French they do have a bit of cheeky attitude if you lead as a moron. But like those other cultures as long as you’re not a dumb fricking American or whatever Third World shithole you come from they can be nice to you too if deserve it.
Never been there but I have seen an assload of videos and I'd say the biggest problem is that their boomers live 120 years and never retire.
This means their bureaucracy is a huge shitshow, composed of extremely nitpicky rules accumulated from decades.
Their systems are so bogged down by pointless bullshit that if you want to get anything done, you need to jump through a load of hoops and if there's even a single mistake, you'll have to repeat the process.
Japan is far from efficient, they simply look that way because anything mechanical works like a clockwork. Anything not mechanical is just a fricking mess.
On top of this their corporate systems are so stuck in the past that their workforce is leaving for places like Philippines, because the Nip engineers can make double the money they'd make in Japan after 10 years of working for the company.
No matter how good you are in Japan, if you're not of certain age they will not promote you and increase your salary. That stuff is basically just a formal seniority system.
Reach an age, get a promotion and frick your actual productivity. Japan doesn't give a shit about how much you actually produce at work.
Where as Chink companies that are established abroad are poaching the hell out of Nip brains.
If things don't soon change, Chinese products are going to be Chinese only in name but Japanese in design.
>Never been there but I have seen an assload of videos and I'd say the biggest problem is that their boomers live 120 years and never retire.
how does retirement and social security work there? most places it was implemented for this very reason to cycle out the fossils for capable fresh blood.
Their system is incredibly strict and gives people the bare minimum.
The general idea is that you basically just save a ton of money for your retirement and live off that.
Japan does have a state pension, but it's small as hell. It's about $5000 a year. Companies can have private pensions which are 50% higher.
The retirement age is 65, but you can retire at any point past age 60, but doing this will give you less money.
So it's: >Retire at 60, get 76% or $3788 >Retire at 65, it's 100% $4985 >Retire at 75, 184% royal sum of $9172
Basically you're fricked if you haven't saved money your entire life and if you don't own your home.
Pensioners are often forced to shoplift to feed themselves.
Japan actually has a surprising amount of shoplifting, the old folks steal a frickload of stuff.
Plenty of these videos there:
This intense Japanese savings culture is actually one big reason why they had their lost economic decades after the fall.
Despite being a massive economic powerhouse, they just couldn't get people to use money and buy stuff.
Their ultra lavish spending before the early 90s crash was basically a cautionary tale about how not to live your lives, so everyone became ultra stingy and it fricked their economy to a standstill and their banks didn't want to give loans to anyone eve if they had money.
You can imagine what the lives of anyone born after 85 are like, as they haven't been able to build careers like their parents.
They have frickall in terms of savings for their old age, but a lot more debt.
It'll be interesting to see what happens to Japan in the next couple of decades.
Another load of not true bullshit.
This is like posting about American oil workers working 160 hour weeks and claiming that’s the norm.
You littertally have no idea what you are talking about
Another load of not true bullshit.
This is like posting about American oil workers working 160 hour weeks and claiming that’s the norm.
You littertally have no idea what you are talking about
A fair amount of this is true.
t. worker for a Japanese-based corporation and travels to Japan for business twice a year
>don't watch anime >don't watch japanese tv/movies >rarely listen to japanese music >don't really feel attracted to asian women >don't want to actually live there unless I was rich
And yet I love Japan. Their streets look so comfy. Where I live every house looks the same and sterile like it's out of Sims but in japan every house looks different which gives them a personality. Things like the exposed power lines add even more character. I would love to just walk through the streets in japan.
Also I love their language. It looks cool and sounds cool. I love japanese retro tech from Sony, Seiko watches and retro japanese sports cars. I also love how sharp and minimal dressed they are and how at the same time they have those wacky maximalist fashion styles like you see in Harajuku.
Most actual yakuza gangs are registered businesses. They do shady shit, some drug smuggling, extortion, running night clubs that go bankrupt then open under a new name, loan sharking. But for the most part they are harmless.
The way they carry themselves is completely different.
I’ve only spoken to one yakuza member in my life.
He was serious and well spoken to the point that even a gaijin like me could tell the difference in tone.
Just experienced 10 days there for the first time. I was in a hostel in dotonbori for a few nights and met a bunch of crazy college kids who took my 31 year old ass night clubbing. I wasn't expecting the night life to be as crazy as is is in both tokyo and osaka. Not really my thing, but I understand why locals hate gaijins now. Many are just there to drink, litter, and try to get laid without giving a frick about the country they're in. Food is great and cheap but work culture and obnoxious foreigners were downsides for me.
One cool buddhist exhibit in Nara and the mori modern art one in Roppongi, but that one sucked. Lots of castles and shrines too. A ryokan in fujikawaguchiko was the highlight of the trip.
I bought a pack for 200円. It was like 95° that day and the deer were on the verge of heat stroke before it started to rain. Couldn't avoid stepping in hot roasted deer kuso.
It's probably the same in most 'exotic countries' that attract tourists but the cringe is real when you're a foreigner and a crowd of foreigners are behaving like absolute Black folk . I'm not being 'owwuu disu whitu piggu aporogizes on behalf of them' but I went to Japan at the beginning of the summer when they FINALLY ended their covid restrictions bullshit and trying to enjoy a night out and the amount of tourists making scenes fricking everywhere was unreal. No wonder nips pretty much all give you the stink eye when you go pretty much anywhere.
Good time to go to japan though, yen is like 50% weaker than it has been for the last 15 years so everything is ultra ultra cheap in Ameribux.
>go to Japan >have sex a few times with different girls >bodies are sexy but the girls moans are so annoying almost takes me out of it >realize I can just wear my noise cancel headphones >listen to opeth
lol
i ignore the problems because japanese girls in one piece swimsuits
are there pussies pixelated in real life too?
they're actually sideways
wouldn't know
never seen one irl
yeah but you have to wear special glasses to see them like that
they have tentacles just like in the manga
post the webm
post it
There is literally nothing bad in japan.
Is that why they kill themselves so much?
They do that because of other Japanese, not Japan itself.
But Japanese society produced those people
Correct. To be a college drop out because you didn’t study enough for your exams is akin in Japan to be a total piece of shit and your own parents will wish you killed yourself so many do anyways. Also being a salaryman working at the office like fifteen hours a day 24/7 all year round will kill off the rest of the Japanese population. There’s a reason there’s no breeding going on and the only people left are old age pensioners which in theory they should have Hari Kiried the elderly at this rate too so at least the younger ones would have their resources. Japan is going to shit and the anime fantasy world as we know it won’t be around in fifty years.
Comeplelty false view of japan.
The USA has a higher suicide rate and has similar suicide rates to the Scandinavian countries (besides Denmark) which are supposedly the 'happiest' countries in the world.
They don't. You're operating on information from decades ago. Japan is ranked 49th for suicides. Many 1st world countries rank higher including the US.
Yea it's amazing everyone is super happy all the time that's why they have a forest full of people hanging themselves
is this guy based or cringe?
>hangs out with Cdawgva and by extension the prostitutes of vshitshow
Dunno m8.
He married a fat untalented prostitute who left her previous husband because she “got bored.”
Initially based. He’s pretty funny at times but I like more how earnest he is in showcasing the country. He’s not an animegay so he’s kind of unbiased in that way, so that’s nice. It also helps he’s not American? He’s married now though so I only see a decline in quality though but whatever makes him happy. We all get old.
Haven't watched him in years but I enjoyed his videos back in the day.
he's based because he's the rare normal westerner living over there. every other gaijin seems like a complete freak.
he just learned japanese for his job and kept at it from what I remember, have not seen this guy in years
what are the 12 things?
Well, all the fricking Japs for one.
Hostess clubs, karaoke, bidets, mos burger, pachinko, go karts in Tokyo, purikura photo booths, modern Japanese architecture, train station bento, fruit sandwiches, Japanese television, and then the last one is just a section labeled "microagressions"
>microaggressions
based, not all country should be a Plural society, especially a small country like japan.
That's fine. Really and truly fine. But if you don't want to be poisoned by the outside world, maybe don't actually let a shitload of tourists in, export a shitload of fantasised media that glorifies your isolationist state and generally play the schizo gf about the whole situation
north korea wants to remain isolated and went about doing it. Japan can
tl;dr: isolate if you like, just do it fully
all he said is it's annoying and not really an aggression that every stranger NPC dialogue trees him with the exact same canned convo for foreigners: nihongo jozu, chopsticks?, food?, weather?
hell, I don't talk to people where I live for the same reason.
hating bidets? wtf?!
Not we he said. He hates ground toilets. Not bidets.
Ah ok, I was just going by the labeled sections/headers of the video, didn't actually watch the whole thing yet
>Microaggressions
Opinion discarded. What a homosexual
The term actually does have meaning. asiatics are notoriously passive aggressive
>Hostess clubs
kino anda thing I want in my country
>karaoke
kino and a thing I want in my country >bidets
fricking dirty pig not liking bidets
>mos burger
idk burgers are good
>pachinko
not my problem
>go karts in Tokyo
cool
>purikura photo booths
SOVL
>modern Japanese architecture
the same as everywhere
>train station bento
better than mcdonalds
>fruit sandwiches
and I bet he eats pineapple pizza, bread with fruit is a common thing tho >Japanese television
Fricking Sovl
>microagressions
holy fricking homosexual, hope he gets raped by the Black folk in shinjuku and then gets deported
>bidets
stopped reading right there
So either things that aren't problems or things that also suck in other countries
what are half those things even
The 11 black people still allowed in Japan and the prices of camera equipment.
because it's still better than living in america.
>AAAA PEOPLE KEEP TO THEMSELVES, WORK LONG HOURS, AND HATE FOREIGNERS IM GOING FRICKING INSAAAAAANE
Lots of bad things like fricking everywhere but still studying there was the best year of my life
>Muh I will never be fully accepted in Japanese society
>Muh racist bureaucracy!
Lmao expats homosexuals yes life sucks it's not like in your animes and you won't make Japanese friends if you are a weirdo.
Total sexpat death.
>I'm Paolo from Japan, and this is the day in the life of an overworked, clearly depressed Japanese corporate drone!
deport all filthy gaijins, keep Japan pure. Frick Abe, frick globalization!!
I notice there's a cottage industry formed around 'disillusioned expats' in Japan lately. There's a lot of these videos popped up roughly at the same time for some reason.
Anime is a prime example of why two nukes just wasn't enough.
Weabs.
The following redpill is gonna be hard for you to swallow. I invite you to watch the movie Manbiki Kazoku (Shoplifters) for a realistic impression of everyday Japanese life. Japan isn't clean, sparkly and odor-neutral like in your animes. The Japanese live like cattle on a farm, cramped into tiny one-room "apartments" that are filled to the brim with trash. The only reason you don't notice how dirty it is is because there's not enough room on the floor for piles of dirt and dust to form. They come home from shopping at a konbini and sit down at their floor-table thing without even washing their hands. They sleep in futons which they never wash (too big for a washing machine), they simply "air them out" every now and then. Yes, that's right, they sleep in their own fermented sweat and maybe piss until they buy a new futon. The summers in Japan are very hot and humid, yet the Japanese don't shower after getting home. They wipe their sweat into the furniture (which they never clean) and take turns in bathing in the same bathwater later at night. They slurp their ramen noodles for banmeshi and spill thick drops of grease everywhere. You can't even clean the floor properly since it's covered with tatami, mats made of flimsy rice weed, which are destroyed if you even step on them forcefully, let alone wipe them. They have no proper doors or windows, just paper-thin covers that slide to the side which are always open in summer, meaning the inside of their "homes" is teeming with insects. In winter they sit inside at a kotatsu in full winter clothing because they don't know about isolation in the 21st century.
Do I need to go on? I guess you're dizzy by now. "How could the country I adored for most of my adult life be such a backwater shithole?" I hear you squeal in disbelief. I know you weren't ready for this. But reality doesn't care about your feelings. I promise, you will be better off knowing this a few years down the road
Tl;dr
japan u no rike
>they sleep in their own fermented sweat and maybe piss until they buy a new futon. The summers in Japan are very hot and humid, yet the Japanese don't shower after getting home. They wipe their sweat into the furniture
You could call me somewhat of a "smellgay" so I might actually like a GF/wife like this, I basically live the same way already, though 1 of the main reasons I don't change my ways is because I've been alone
You think you do but you don't want
>sweat encrusted ass and warm snotty puss smell wafting up
You think your ass smells after a while, women are literally always exposed to the elements
I've thought about this and showering together seems like a fun activity, you can even clean her to your liking if she lets you
>having sweaty unwashed summer sex in a modest danchi while cicadas chirp like crazy
sounds comfy tbphwyf
lucky me, i have a sweaty smell fetish
imagine thinking this lmao. you subhumans have no fricking idea how bad it is. they HATE that people don't want to live around Black folk
Sounds like soul to me but thanks for the input
I guess it makes sense why so much porn has a smell fetish, when it's a fact of life it becomes a feature and not a bug. It's interesting to me how many people seem to have a smell kink now and I wonder how much of that is people who have consumed so much Japanese porn it sounds appealing.
This is pretty kino:
how do they shower and clean themselves? do they just carry everything they own on their back?
with my tongue
That guy at the end sounded like he had a pretty miserable life. Just stay at work so much every day he rarely goes home, even sleeping at the office. Twenty years there, eventually the stress gets to him and can't take it anymore. Everyone gossiping and insulting you behind your back plus your boss disliking you because you won't go out for the mandatory afterhours work drinks. And after all that time, it's like he just has nothing and has to start over?
This guy whines a lot though. He’s literally a weeb who thinks he needs to gatekeep Nippon so he makes YouTube vids like “oh noes don’t come here it really sucks “.
These kinds of dudes move to Japan and never learn the language or put in the work to make Japanese friends, then spend the rest of their lives fetishizing the country to all the "uneducated" foreigners since, despite only leaving his apartment to get convenience store food, he's the real expert on the country. Not sure if this applies to the OP's guy but it's usually a safe bet; most of the other white guys I run into in Japan are fricking losers. On the one hand it's nice because a modicum of effort makes you stand out, but it makes locals kind of assume you're a dumbass before they get to know you.
>Not sure if this applies to the OP's
he's not a weeb and he's right to disillusion the multi-million hordes of teen anime watchers
Protip, after long stays in japan I can tell you at least 90% of what you hear about japan in the west is false.
Both the good and the bad.
For example, no, most people don’t work till 10pm.
No, they don’t give super over the top amazing customer service.
They are not extremely polite.
No they are not collectivist zombies.
Yes, there is a lot of homeless.
Pretty much the only stereotype that is true is that it is vary safe if you stay in the normal areas.
Other than that the cities feel like America, with better street food.
In fairness the Japanese put on a veneer of politeness (well at least the ones in government and professionals others on the street will be rude asf) but yeah they can be sarcastic and rude to foreigners when they want. Sometimes it’s warranted though because they don’t suffer fools gladly. Much like Australians or Brits or the Dutch or Germans or French they do have a bit of cheeky attitude if you lead as a moron. But like those other cultures as long as you’re not a dumb fricking American or whatever Third World shithole you come from they can be nice to you too if deserve it.
They are just like any other first world country, with how random shop keepers/servers;0/strangers on the bus
Treat others.
It’s all the same
because even the bad things are awesome compared to most places
Have you seen the video? It's about "People still use fax machines!" "People use stamps instead of signatures!"
Never been there but I have seen an assload of videos and I'd say the biggest problem is that their boomers live 120 years and never retire.
This means their bureaucracy is a huge shitshow, composed of extremely nitpicky rules accumulated from decades.
Their systems are so bogged down by pointless bullshit that if you want to get anything done, you need to jump through a load of hoops and if there's even a single mistake, you'll have to repeat the process.
Japan is far from efficient, they simply look that way because anything mechanical works like a clockwork. Anything not mechanical is just a fricking mess.
On top of this their corporate systems are so stuck in the past that their workforce is leaving for places like Philippines, because the Nip engineers can make double the money they'd make in Japan after 10 years of working for the company.
No matter how good you are in Japan, if you're not of certain age they will not promote you and increase your salary. That stuff is basically just a formal seniority system.
Reach an age, get a promotion and frick your actual productivity. Japan doesn't give a shit about how much you actually produce at work.
Where as Chink companies that are established abroad are poaching the hell out of Nip brains.
If things don't soon change, Chinese products are going to be Chinese only in name but Japanese in design.
>Never been there but I have seen an assload of videos and I'd say the biggest problem is that their boomers live 120 years and never retire.
how does retirement and social security work there? most places it was implemented for this very reason to cycle out the fossils for capable fresh blood.
Their system is incredibly strict and gives people the bare minimum.
The general idea is that you basically just save a ton of money for your retirement and live off that.
Japan does have a state pension, but it's small as hell. It's about $5000 a year. Companies can have private pensions which are 50% higher.
The retirement age is 65, but you can retire at any point past age 60, but doing this will give you less money.
So it's:
>Retire at 60, get 76% or $3788
>Retire at 65, it's 100% $4985
>Retire at 75, 184% royal sum of $9172
Basically you're fricked if you haven't saved money your entire life and if you don't own your home.
Pensioners are often forced to shoplift to feed themselves.
Japan actually has a surprising amount of shoplifting, the old folks steal a frickload of stuff.
Plenty of these videos there:
This intense Japanese savings culture is actually one big reason why they had their lost economic decades after the fall.
Despite being a massive economic powerhouse, they just couldn't get people to use money and buy stuff.
Their ultra lavish spending before the early 90s crash was basically a cautionary tale about how not to live your lives, so everyone became ultra stingy and it fricked their economy to a standstill and their banks didn't want to give loans to anyone eve if they had money.
You can imagine what the lives of anyone born after 85 are like, as they haven't been able to build careers like their parents.
They have frickall in terms of savings for their old age, but a lot more debt.
It'll be interesting to see what happens to Japan in the next couple of decades.
thanks for the effort post, lines up with my knowledge of Japanese cinema docus and books- despite OPs conjecture.
Another load of not true bullshit.
This is like posting about American oil workers working 160 hour weeks and claiming that’s the norm.
You littertally have no idea what you are talking about
A fair amount of this is true.
t. worker for a Japanese-based corporation and travels to Japan for business twice a year
OP name 5 japanese films you have sought out that attempted any kind of social realism or critique.
I'll wait
>don't watch anime
>don't watch japanese tv/movies
>rarely listen to japanese music
>don't really feel attracted to asian women
>don't want to actually live there unless I was rich
And yet I love Japan. Their streets look so comfy. Where I live every house looks the same and sterile like it's out of Sims but in japan every house looks different which gives them a personality. Things like the exposed power lines add even more character. I would love to just walk through the streets in japan.
Also I love their language. It looks cool and sounds cool. I love japanese retro tech from Sony, Seiko watches and retro japanese sports cars. I also love how sharp and minimal dressed they are and how at the same time they have those wacky maximalist fashion styles like you see in Harajuku.
What did you do last time you were in Japan?
I have yet to visit japan out of monetary and health reasons sadly. It's my dream.
You love from afar
good luck man.
Would you ever try working for a Japanese company to get a justification to go there? like Working at a Toyota or Honda dealership
kill all weaboos.
why do these homosexuals never adopt japanese names, but always cries about japs not accepting them as one of them?
>fantasize about how great japan is
>start talking shit when reality does not meet his fantasy
why are they like this???
LIP MY STOCKING
Sometimes I think that as bad as the corporate hellscape is in the US
I'd argue its worse in Japan
Jow bad is the Yakuza compared to gangs in the US?
the upper echelon of the yakuza are all business orientated
do they have lower scum bags doing their dirty work on the streets?
its foolish not to think so
They barely even exist anymore, it's just street punks trying to sound tough now.
Most actual yakuza gangs are registered businesses. They do shady shit, some drug smuggling, extortion, running night clubs that go bankrupt then open under a new name, loan sharking. But for the most part they are harmless.
You left out human trafficking
The way they carry themselves is completely different.
I’ve only spoken to one yakuza member in my life.
He was serious and well spoken to the point that even a gaijin like me could tell the difference in tone.
Like most gangs they have a "code" and have legit businesses as well as helping out the locals for some good publicity
Of course as soon as their interests are threatened they reveal their real selves quickly
Just experienced 10 days there for the first time. I was in a hostel in dotonbori for a few nights and met a bunch of crazy college kids who took my 31 year old ass night clubbing. I wasn't expecting the night life to be as crazy as is is in both tokyo and osaka. Not really my thing, but I understand why locals hate gaijins now. Many are just there to drink, litter, and try to get laid without giving a frick about the country they're in. Food is great and cheap but work culture and obnoxious foreigners were downsides for me.
did you check out any museums while there?
One cool buddhist exhibit in Nara and the mori modern art one in Roppongi, but that one sucked. Lots of castles and shrines too. A ryokan in fujikawaguchiko was the highlight of the trip.
If you were in Nara you experienced the deer
Did they try to steal food from you or did you buy biscuits and try to make them now?
I bought a pack for 200円. It was like 95° that day and the deer were on the verge of heat stroke before it started to rain. Couldn't avoid stepping in hot roasted deer kuso.
It's probably the same in most 'exotic countries' that attract tourists but the cringe is real when you're a foreigner and a crowd of foreigners are behaving like absolute Black folk . I'm not being 'owwuu disu whitu piggu aporogizes on behalf of them' but I went to Japan at the beginning of the summer when they FINALLY ended their covid restrictions bullshit and trying to enjoy a night out and the amount of tourists making scenes fricking everywhere was unreal. No wonder nips pretty much all give you the stink eye when you go pretty much anywhere.
Good time to go to japan though, yen is like 50% weaker than it has been for the last 15 years so everything is ultra ultra cheap in Ameribux.
>japan would be great except for all the foreigners
-T. foreigner
>on how bad it actually is there
Oh I see it's commie o'clock right now with the trash posting
What is that giant thing on the roof in Asakusa?
You know the old saying: The Japanese are certainly not the most mentally unstable people throughout history.
>go to Japan
>have sex a few times with different girls
>bodies are sexy but the girls moans are so annoying almost takes me out of it
>realize I can just wear my noise cancel headphones
>listen to opeth
lol
>have sex a few times
LARP
>the girls moans are so annoying
Confirmed LARP
Stop watching JAV and pretend you actually went there. You aren't fooling anyone.
For me, it's Sarah from Tokyo Creative.