Why are so many people fascinated with Japan and everything japanese?

Why are so many people fascinated with Japan and everything japanese?

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    because it's a nice place that's internationally popular due to anime, manga
    it's exotic yet safe and developed, any babby can travel there and not get stabbed to death

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      says you I exclusivley have it out for baby's

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >any babby can travel there and not get stabbed to death

      they might get locked into a building and burnt to death, or maybe inhale some cyanide gas in the subway

      🙁

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        japan is safer than most western nations let alone third world shitholes like you come from

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It's a place that is fundamentally similar to the west in standards of living, day to day living and media consumed, but different enough to be exiting, exotic and new. Also helps with manga/anime/vidya idealizing things.

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    their traditional culture is quite interesting. it has less impact these days but it is rooted in shinto, the only country to be so, and is historically quite isolated and closed off country, making it unique. the influences of buddhism, ancient china, and port trading allowed it to be what it is now.

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Immaturity, simple as

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    lets not pretend that a "Place" in a bumfrick fly over state is the same as a "Place" in a country with a distinct rich culture and history. Japan or otherwise.

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I was amazed by the fact that the people are friendly, and in japan everything works.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >friendly

      oh dear he doesn't know

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >people are friendly

      they were 'friendly' when they showed you how to use the Suica card, eh?

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    yes - literally any country has more culture and history than the US

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Not true, none of Africa, Australia, or south America do that's most of the world, plus Europe culture is all gay, that just leaves Asia and the middle east and the middle east is all blown up leaving just Asia, what do they have besides pollution and trannies? Not much

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Wow you really Calulatus Eliminatus'd a fool

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Spoken like a true brainwashed American.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        [...]
        yes - literally any country has more culture and history than the US

        America has culture, it is just disappearing and becoming a stain. Cowboy culture is cool, but no one today is a cowboy are they? I love 1920s America but if I went to LA today I would see homeless people off their fricking chops on fentanyl shitting and fricking in the street. >Australia is beautiful and unique, it's mix-of-cultures culture gives it a similar vibe to America, but they haven't become like America in the way that people are still nice, laidback and easy-going
        >Africa is beautiful and has some of the oldest cultures in history. It has unique animals and is extremely diverse than most Americans think it is.
        >South America is also beautiful, has great people and a good vibe to it, still home to tree people. The food there is fricking exceptional and incredibly cheap, the women are very beautiful too.
        >Why would you say that about Europe when most of your c**try was founded, influenced and settled by Europeans
        >The Middle East has a lot of peaceful places, why are you so scared of going there? Why are modern day Americans such fricking pussies?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        People forget about Northern Africa (the parts inhabited by non-natives). Egypt was essential to classical civilisation.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      lmao cope. usa scored such an early cultural victory that you dont even notice its pervasiveness.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >American culture saturates the world the last 100 years
      >homosexuals on four channel constantly post that America has no culture
      My noggin in joggin

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Because this is SighSee. It's an Laotian tapestry forum. Of course people like Japan here

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Let me ask you this
    If New York is America's biggest and best city, why is it so small and tacky?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      and smelly and pozzed

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      There's 8.5 million people in the 5 boroughs of NYC. There's 9 million people in the 23 special wards of Tokyo. There's 23.5 million in the NYC metro area including Yonkers, north Jersey, etc. There's 28 million people in the area around Tokyo and its suburbs not including cities that fairly separate like Yokohama. Apples to apples they're fairly similar in size and population

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        You count New Jersey as part of NYC but Yokohama not as part of Tokyo? Why?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Yokohama's more like Philly.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            distance wise not really.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      N-

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >New York
      >small
      kys

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    No crime, no blacks/arabs (except nigerians), safe space, convenient consooming and the only non-white civilization that is culturally on par with us.

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Thjat's it. I'm going there. Done.

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Not only are tons of American people are fascinated with Japanese culture but the same goes vice-versa.

    It's because from like a developmental, 1st world standpoint they're essentially the same, but the culture and personality between the two are perfect polar opposites.

    Americans are loud and proud, opinionated, extraverted people; the Japanese are a quiet, reserved, repressed and polite people. Naturally, opposites attract.

    As a more quiet, reserved American who does find Japanese culture very interesting, the reason why I do is because it's like a society full of people like me, I understand them perfectly.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Sort of sad (genuine use) that you relate to such a foreign culture than your native obe but I suppose tgat speaks volumes of the lack of cultural unity in the US.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Why exactly? It's culture, not a cult. You do know your personality can differ from the national stereotype in any country of the world, right? Or do you actually think literally everyone is extraverted in the US and everyone intraverted in Japan?
        Not the weeb you're replying to btw

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        That isn't sad, that's just a lack of maturity or self-awareness. Americans are very similar to Japs in ways they can't conceive, such as how terrified they are in the face of confrontation, how actually mentally repressed your average American is (not unlike your average German, which isn't surprising due to their common history). The only thing the Japanese and Americans may not have in common is the idea that anyone can make it vs knowing your place as the best way to help your community. And even then THAT could be argued, because half of Japan's cultural output are stories about subverting this expectation, so they're themselves very critical of this aspect of themselves.

        You want impolite people, you go work with a bunch of frenchies who regularly swear like sailors at their bosses, and subordinates, in formal and casual situations. You want opinionated people, you deal with mediterraneans. the only anglos that aren't introverted are Aussies and that's it. The rest of you are as much on the spectrum as the Japs are.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Americans are loud and proud, opinionated, extraverted people; the Japanese are a quiet, reserved, repressed and polite people. Naturally, opposites attract.

      You can just go to Finland bro, kek. Brainwashed idiot

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      This is just light skinned people vs dark skinned people.

      White midwesterners and japanese people are quiet, racist, reserved. This loud american you're describing is not an american, It's an immigrant. Browns are not american citizens, george washington said so.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >there are no loud jock types in american society except Black folk
        is basically what I read reading your post and its wrong, Americans are very open and opinionated as well as very directly rude in comparison to other cultures. Its not limited to coloreds either

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Japanese have no place to whine about "loud" Americans in any case.
          In Japan, everything makes noise, in most cases needlessly.
          >everything
          Completely automated ticket machine will play a song. Why? Japanese shout at each other in public all day long. Convenience store entrance has some speaker that plays jingles constantly. Irasshaimase! Everywhere, regardless of how disinterested you are in the wares.
          TV program is interrupted by commercials every 5 minutes featuring loud noises and lots of flashing lights
          >even for some mundane product like bleach
          Every TV or radio personality is overly enthusiastic and loud. TV is always on at the max volume in every place there's a TV.
          Why are the Japs like this?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            the case your making isnt even about the people but rather the environment they work or live in. tbh i dont know what youre trying to get across as a similarity between loud type japanese people when youre referencing store greetings in japan

            You’ve never met many, if any, Americans. You’re just stating your uninformed opinion into the void.

            People who believe this are either American themselves who never had an actual long term social experience abroad and thus can't really compare, or are people who never had to deal with actual Americans.

            As a non-American who had such an experience, Americans are the exact opposite of what they look in the movies. They are a mild, polite people who may have strong opinions but are terrified of sharing them in a real life context. The only ones who are not quite like this are a minority of 2nd gen immigrants who got their american education mixed up with their parents education, or a minority of african americans, who have their own culture that is more slightly more blunt in nature, but are still very much in the same league when it comes to not being rude. It's still incredible to see people actually conflate what they see on the internet with what they're getting IRL and speak with such assurance about shit they do not know about, especially on a board like this where you'd at least expect some kind of savviness.

            It's like you people watched a few gopnik meme videos and thought every slavic person behaved that way when they actually are actually quite phlegmatic and hate the idea of being rude.

            sure im only a wisconsin native with in laws from different countries to give me a different perspective. To say it doesnt exist because you never saw it growing up and to place the onus on coloreds only is beyond moronic OR maybe its just a symptom of the times. I grew up in white suburbia in the 90s not the inner city with the nigs and still met plenty of loud c**ts growing up

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >sure im only a wisconsin native with in laws from different countries to give me a different perspective
              Precisely. You are an American guy first and foremost, and there are so many reasons why bringing up your in-laws doesn't legitimize you at all here. What you believe to be "loud" is the kind of noise you'd either see from a fellow American, from an African American, or an americanized immigrant.

              >to place the onus on coloreds only is beyond moronic
              No, not necessarily colored. An Italian American is louder than your average american, but he won't hold a candle to his fellow italians. It's only logical that people who are only adapting to a culture that isn't quite theirs, do not behave in a way that aligns completely with it. Even then, they have more in common with you than with whatever they might believe they identify with.

              You guys are not loud, take that as a compliment. You guys are also extremely uptight. And you're not big drinkers no matter how much you believe that to be true. You guys like Japan because you all believe that the others are loud whereas you're the calmest guy ever when in reality everyone fricking likes japan, everyone is fricking calm, and the japanese expat crowd, no matter the what that exact same guy who keeps whining about it in every thread says, it's pretty decent. The only reason you think you're loud is because your own people tend to be more visible when they act like morons because it's late at night and it's fricking late but the truth is that you have ignored the dozen of japs acting in the same way just to focus on that particular cracker/Black person/spic/towelhead.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          You’ve never met many, if any, Americans. You’re just stating your uninformed opinion into the void.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          People who believe this are either American themselves who never had an actual long term social experience abroad and thus can't really compare, or are people who never had to deal with actual Americans.

          As a non-American who had such an experience, Americans are the exact opposite of what they look in the movies. They are a mild, polite people who may have strong opinions but are terrified of sharing them in a real life context. The only ones who are not quite like this are a minority of 2nd gen immigrants who got their american education mixed up with their parents education, or a minority of african americans, who have their own culture that is more slightly more blunt in nature, but are still very much in the same league when it comes to not being rude. It's still incredible to see people actually conflate what they see on the internet with what they're getting IRL and speak with such assurance about shit they do not know about, especially on a board like this where you'd at least expect some kind of savviness.

          It's like you people watched a few gopnik meme videos and thought every slavic person behaved that way when they actually are actually quite phlegmatic and hate the idea of being rude.

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I doesnt have Black folk or other shitskins for that matter

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      You have never been to Japan my dear anon, prepare yourself to be disappointed if you think

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        GET OUT OF MY JAPAN

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The answer will make you seethe

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      if you're born in a post ww2 western country your options are cope about picrel or try to experience a lost future vicariously through squinty eyed autists abroad.

      China's way more impressive but it's too hard for westerners to see themselves in them, so they cope via japs.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Projection : the post. the 80ers were probably the last generation to think that Japan would take over the world economically. Most people here are at least ten years younger and have lived under Japan's economic decline, not its growth. It has nothing to do with the search of a lost future, but more to do with the paradoxal duality of exoticity and familiarity due to all the jp media people consume nowadays.

        China has nothing of the sort going for them, and HK was only really influential in the sinosphere so nobody gives a frick about China culturally. They were trying to use Hollywood to change that but it's failing hard as their credibility has tanked since COVID.

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >best snow conditions in the world for snowboarding
    >clean
    >public transport is efficient and punctual
    >everything's cheap there
    >extremely safe
    >very easy and cheap to get to (pre-covid you could get off-season return flights from Australia to Japan for $200)
    >drinking in public is legal
    >easy to get around
    >can experience being in an Asian country without having to go to a shithole
    >lots of historical stuff to see
    >lots of cultural stuff to see
    >lots of nerd shit to see
    >good SighSee
    >lots of good hikes
    >great surfing
    >good whitewater rafting
    >can see cool shit you cant get back home like volcanos or earthquakes
    >foodie's paradise; stay in a hotel in Tokyo or Osaka and you have ~1000 restaurants within a 5min walk of it
    its top tier for traveling and has something for everyone

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      oh also prostitute houses and sex industy there is solid. its like $90 for an hour to do whatever you want with the woman of your choice in a knock-shop.
      you can have a 4-some in a soapland with big tiddie asian girls and not have to worry about catching Ebola-Aids like you would in a shithole like the Phillipines

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >its like $90 for an hour to do whatever you want with the woman of your choice in a knock-shop.
        are you getting chink prostitutes or do you consider blowjobs the "whatever you want" kind of thing

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          going off of the prices of the literal prostitute house pamphlets that get delivered to my mailbox each week

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            well you aren't getting more than a blowjob and a few grabs for that price, anon
            that is if your japanese is good enough for them to let you in

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        You’ve clearly never been to Japan because this does not happen. Especially not for foreigners. And it is much more expensive than that, not to mention you can’t really do anything you want
        >Doesn’t know that veganal penetration is “technically” illegal in Japan

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >clean
      Well, depend where you are and what time. Shibuya from midnight to 6am, it's a very different place.
      And those who have been to Osaka already know.
      >everything's cheap there
      No it's not. Fruits, vegetables and meat have a very high value compared to other countries. CDs, DVDs and Blu-Rays are also quite expensive. The trains and especially Shinkansen too. Don't even mention rent or electricity.
      >drinking in public is legal
      But smoking not

      >friendly

      oh dear he doesn't know

      Obviously

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Well, depend where you are and what time
        Japan is clean by any measure for a city of its comparable size anywhere else in the world.

        Where I live the public spaces are tent encampments with people using injection drugs in broad daylight, piss on the street, shit in planters and such and trash getting thrown everywhere. This happened within the last 5 years.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >Where I live it's shit so if you compare, Japan is very clean.
          Of course, but just because you have very low standards in accordance with where you live anon, doesn't mean it doesn't exist in our beloved Japan

          They didn't read the tokyo adult guide and see how it really happens.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Oops I messed up the quote!

            It was

            You’ve clearly never been to Japan because this does not happen. Especially not for foreigners. And it is much more expensive than that, not to mention you can’t really do anything you want
            >Doesn’t know that veganal penetration is “technically” illegal in Japan

            They didn't read the tokyo adult guide and see how it really happens with escort/soapland/massage

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          In Osaka, in the south of the city, I saw a guy peeing in the middle of the street in the late afternoon and quietly returning to one of his karaoke bars.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Why the frick you post is a copy/pasta?

            >And those who have been to Osaka already know.
            In Osaka, in the south of the city, I saw a guy peeing in the middle of the street in the late afternoon and quietly returning to one of his karaoke bars.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >And those who have been to Osaka already know.
        In Osaka, in the south of the city, I saw a guy peeing in the middle of the street in the late afternoon and quietly returning to one of his karaoke bars.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      This. As someone who's travelled extensively Japan is one of the rare places that feels unique and its own thing, globohomosexual has destroyed so much of the first world. Also you can't understate how nice it is to be around people that are respectful, helpful, polite and well dressed - even the elderly make an effort. Coming back to my country was depressing seeing all the overweight ugly slobs in the airport.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >and well dressed
        this is the biggest one
        everyone dresses like fricking trash in the West.
        being somewhere where women still wear skirts, pantyhose, cute clothes, nice hair & make-up is very refreshing

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >great surfing
      Where? All the beaches I've seen in Japan are pretty shit. The exception is probably Okinawa

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Shonan Coast, Miyazaki Prefecture

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    they want to be pegged by an anime girl

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    They somehow managed to stay on the tracks despite losing to Evil in WW2

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Now they didn't, their birth rate is down 90%

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >muh birth rates
        all countries with more than 100 million people should have birth rate 0 and death rate 1 trillion until they get to proper sizes again

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Edgy take from the college moron

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            edgy opinion from the moron that says "college moron" and "take"

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous
  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It's different enough but still reasonably comfortable.

  19. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It's mostly just incel Weebs who think that Jap women are going to sleep with any short, fat white guy who are obsessed with Japan.

    Normal people mostly just see Japan as one of many decent places to travel to.

  20. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It has good PR, is just foreign enough to be a source of wacky stories, while also being safe from getting mugged for 90$ in your wallet.

  21. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    When I went through my weeb phase it was because I thought they valued honor, family, intelligence, tradition, and natural beauty. Plus no black people

    Now, I just like their cartoons. They arent exactly bugs like the chinks but their way of life is too repressed. Their women get too friendly with nogs,and a lot of them now are NEETs or mentally sick.

    YMMV

  22. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Anime and video games

  23. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    My home country (USA) is going through a collapse right now, so living in Japan is like paradise, by comparison.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      two more weeks

  24. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    i think a more important question is if anime and manga didn't exist would anyone give a frick about japan?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Food? Language? J-Pop?

      And what about Korea? There are a ton of k-weebs that go there now and there is no anime and manwha It is not yet the equivalent of manga in terms of worldwide popularity

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        You live a sheltered life don’t you

        Yeah because there are 0 Japanese car fans out there and women never liked sushi.
        Good god you're oblivious

        what animu and mango series are you guys following rn senpais?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I'm

          Food? Language? J-Pop?

          And what about Korea? There are a ton of k-weebs that go there now and there is no anime and manwha It is not yet the equivalent of manga in terms of worldwide popularity

          and the answer is none

          None

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I am rewatching the Mazda 787B on Le Mans anime and reading the Toyota Supra manga.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      You live a sheltered life don’t you

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah because there are 0 Japanese car fans out there and women never liked sushi.
      Good god you're oblivious

  25. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Escapism

  26. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Cities are built at human scale, with high population density. So Japan feels like a very convenient, accessable place and theres always something going on.

    Anime and weebs aside, its the only East-Asian country thats 1st world and has 4 seasons so white people think Japan is like a white country but with asiatics in it.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      South Korea and Tier 1 chink cities are pretty first worldly anon, I have no idea why you think Japan is the only one.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      South Korea and Tier 1 chink cities are pretty first worldly anon, I have no idea why you think Japan is the only one.

      >white people think Japan is like a white country but with asiatics in it
      I think this line says everything. The West has a fascination with East Asia. Here you have: China, Korea, Japan and Taiwan. That's it. Korea and Taiwan are too small and irrelevant. China is too inaccessible but otherwise would be the competition (and historically always beat Japan at this). Modern Japan really just feels like home for a white person while it's also fascinating as it is East Asian. Other parts of Asia look a little too yellow, too hot and smell bad.

      When I went through my weeb phase it was because I thought they valued honor, family, intelligence, tradition, and natural beauty. Plus no black people

      Now, I just like their cartoons. They arent exactly bugs like the chinks but their way of life is too repressed. Their women get too friendly with nogs,and a lot of them now are NEETs or mentally sick.

      YMMV

      >and a lot of them now are NEETs or mentally sick
      positive lol

  27. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Anime website, also Japanese culture has gone really mainstream the last few decades so even normies and zoomers obsess

  28. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    is it true that men can get jobs as a pussy eater in japan, bit like how theres women that work in blow job bars in philipines and such?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      You couldnt pay me high enough to eat pussy. That is a beta submissive gesture

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        nobody cares

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        calm down kahled

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >you couldn't pay me to get a woman wetter
        we can tell

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >You couldnt pay me high enough to eat pussy.
        Ironic considering the only way you'll ever have access to a pussy is by paying them

  29. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Yellow fever
    t. Yellow fever victim

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      this isn't the 90s, Blackss are exotic to them now than whitoids.

  30. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Why are so many people fascinated with Japan and everything japanese?

    I don’t think so and why do Japan haters give off chud vibe much more than actual weebs?

  31. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    sideways pussy bro

  32. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    You're on an anime website, what do you expect?

  33. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Some anon whos been to Japan level with me. How easy is it for a normal white guy to get laid in japan without resorting to hookers? Is clubbing popular as an option? Do they allow gaijin in? Are one night stands a thing?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Anons whove been to japan level with me trutbfully. How easy is it to frick regular japanese girls/women as a mere tourist on a night out/ / during a short (1-3 weeks) stay? And how would you do it? Do people go clubbing there? Would they allow a dirty gaijin in? Are one night stands a thing there? How does it compare to thailand for example? (Where you can frick hookers, but could without much difficulty also frick regular girls on a night out)

      Get a load of these LBHs turning SighSee into a coomer board. 2 posts right after each other

  34. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Anons whove been to japan level with me trutbfully. How easy is it to frick regular japanese girls/women as a mere tourist on a night out/ / during a short (1-3 weeks) stay? And how would you do it? Do people go clubbing there? Would they allow a dirty gaijin in? Are one night stands a thing there? How does it compare to thailand for example? (Where you can frick hookers, but could without much difficulty also frick regular girls on a night out)

  35. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Because deep-down everyone wishes to live in a homogenous society.

  36. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It's peaceful and safe unlike most of america

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Wisconsin is safe!

  37. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    because they like anime

  38. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Because anime is ideal and you begin to associate this not-of-this-world ideal-ness with Japan and Japanese stuff after watching a couple of anime.

  39. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Because it's cool and interesting. The answer to your question is so simple but you only think about memes.

  40. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
  41. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >why is everyone so obsessed with the country that's clean and has more Michelin restaurants than France and has wacky unique fun places and everyone is professional and you don't have to worry about getting shot or stabbed or poisoned and has a museum on every corner and is top dog in the service industry and has literally anything you could ever want to buy and more?
    Gee, it's a mystery.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      French cuisine is overrated as frick though. Hell even the Michelin stars (at least the one star ones) taste fricking normal as shit.

  42. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Weeaboos exist because Japan is a genuinely one-of-a-kind country. Not even South Korea and Taiwan are close. It takes a long time to explain why, but Japan is like an evolution of your classic Asian society with a twist. Anyway, I think most Japanophiles get jaded once they figure out how the place really works.

  43. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Anime. Simple as.

  44. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    If you brought in cash enough for it to be required to go through customs declaration, do they give you back a copy of the form you filled up?
    I remember two forms
    1
    >the usual disembarkation form, usually handed out by flight attendants during the flight
    >Are you carrying cash in excess of x yen? Yes/no
    2
    >another form given by the customs officer after you go through immigration
    >exact amount, source, purpose

    I'm about to make a deposit to my newly opened bank account and I'm worried they might reject it, can't fricking remember if customs gave me a copy of the form or not.

  45. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Is RL Japan even that good? I really want to visit but a lot of what I read online says its not that great, mostly from western expats. Am I being memed, and its actually amazing, and they just don't want any other westerners ruining their secret gaijin walled garden?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Travel isn't about what's good but really about what's different. You want to be surprised, you want to see shit you didn't see. Japan is just that.

      it's just extremely different from what you'd see in America or Europe. the faces aren't the same, the streets are very safe, the buildings aesthetic will remind you of 90s japanese animes like City Hunter which might be a nice feeling if you're a millenial who grew up watching these, the rural sights tend to have some traditional asian sights that are very far from common back home, the food is very special (not so true nowadays with everyone and their cousin cooking jap and asian food), they got some cookies and pastries you've probably never had in your life, and they are usually way less "in your face" than your average westerner.

      Now some moron will argue that in many ways it is actually very similar to the west because of baseball and globohomo, SURE. But at the same time, while all the amenities are similar, they are still designed in alternative ways that are quite uncommon to witness back home. The same way the former soviet states have these uchronical appearances that are pretty interesting too, America is also interesting for the same reason to a european because it feels like europe but not quite like it, etc. Japan even more because there is way less cultural proximity.

      Once that surprise effect wears off and Japan becomes the norm in your life (such as it does for western expats), the novelty disappears and it's fricking boring for a shit ton of reasons, so no wonder why they said that. Just go there and give ti a shot

  46. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Dunno how it is for Europeans, but for a lot of Americans, Japan is babby’s first taste of foreign pop culture. Japan exports a lot of things for children, mostly anime and video games. So a lot of that shit gets imprinted in children at a young age. By comparison look at a SEA country like Thailand or even an East Asian county like China. They don’t really produce anything that children can consume and build that lifelong curiosity about their country. Also, anime is a pretty visually distinct. Winx Club for example is an Italian cartoon, Miraculous Ladybug is French, but to a lot of Americans, those shows are localized to an American audience and most kids just assume they’re American cartoons. Other countries can’t really do what anime does to children because of how visually distinct they are from western cartoons.

  47. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >say that japan is a safe haven full of nice people, you're based
    >explain why japan is a safe haven full of nice people, you're a racist

  48. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    love moronic Japanese girls

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Used to want to go there, but ever since covid Japan proved to be super moronic. The fact that they only just opened up yet STILL are going through stupid procedures tells me that the Japanese are uber schizo and it sounds like an awful place to visit.

      But that's a top class Japanese girl with an actual ass

  49. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I do love to consume japanese media. Anime and video games are great. However I have a fear of people being dishonest with me. I don't want to be told that I look great when I look like a bridge troll. I don't want someone who dislikes me to pretend to be my friend. Japan seems like the absolute worst place for that.

  50. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
  51. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    this image is so fricking stupid. just more jingoistic, anti-asian propaganda. dumb trads can pat themselves on the back for never leaving their flyover state because of course the entire world is exactly the same and only a moronic pussy would step out of their comfort zone or find interest in a culture outside of applebees, walmart, and bass pro shop

  52. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It's astonishing how the most obvious of answers hasn't been posted yet.

    Most people do not give a frick about Japan as much as you think you frickers do. A shit ton of savvy internet users, especially the millenials and zoomers, devouring japanese media for more than 30 years now. Old shit like city hunter or detective conan or many other medias that were realistic or artistic renditions of old rural japan or modern urban Tokyo. Most of the folks watching anime usually use subtitles, and I doubt you guys are doing it for any other language (aside from english for euros). So basically, the languages you've statistically heard the most are English and Japanese (possibly a third language), you have seen a shit ton of Japanese media too, so anything Japanese strikes you as oddly (because it's foreign) familiar (because you've been molded by it).

    This is especially true of millenials because a lot of the old animes and games borrowed way more from traditional Japan than the newer ones that tend to be more globalized in their content. And even more true of a lot of changays whose culture was even more japanese aligned some time ago. Also, unironically, every american art that fed upon the japanese fad that also had a snowballing effect (i'm thinking of filthy frank, vaporwave aesthetics and whatnot).

    And this is why wojak goes crazy when a place has a fricking dojo. like a friend you haven't seen for so long, or rather- someone you've been playing video games with for 20 years since you were a child and now finally meeting. It feels nice and warm, because it reminds you of all the hot choccies you had when watching Detective Conan.

    Japan has managed to develop a narrative that was a strong as the "American Dream" of the last century, while you americans may not be aware of it, but a lot of people would watch "Friends" and be like "oh, how nice it would've felt to live there". It's the conditioning of the young imaginary subconscious of many generations.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      As a kid, playing flash games on the internet was my first exposure to Asian stuff, like MapleStory or those eccentric Japanese flash games (there was one where you played as a cat in a house like Hello Kitty). Or Wutai in Final Fantasy VII. I was always super fascinated by Asian stuff. Something about Japan is just different. You can go on google maps and drop a street view marker into any place and you'll see those low concrete walls, the overly-painted streets, the oddly cubic urban planning and oddly meticulous effort put into keeping the place clean (usually). Westerners have honestly always been interested in the east, since Marco Polo. Japan is only now trying to capitalize on that with tourism, but even then they don't want a lot of foreigners there.

      Hell, if Westerners knew much about China 1000 years ago we'd see the same thing. Everyone would want to live in Beijing and see the tea ceremonies and the opera and stuff.

  53. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Why do you all want to go to the ultra nationalistic country with autistic chinkoids who are too moronic to speak English?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Less Black folk

  54. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
  55. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I like Japanese culture insofar that I don't have to watch anime or read manga. I have dignity, after all.

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