I'm Japanese.
I want to learn what you think of Japan.
Please tell me.
Japanese racism against Koreans makes me laugh.
>>118
U.S.: The land where people kill others, rob them relentlessy for the slightest bit of money they may have. It's like a country that never grew up.
If I could choose, I would probably choose Japan.
>>120 Canada is superior to the US, in my opinion. And I'm American. So there.
Japan is...interesting. I think I would consider living there, but I'd also consider Taiwan and South Korea as well.
>>120
But I'm from the US. My country is far from perfect, such as every other country, but at least I don't have it as bad as you two.
In my opinion, every country is great, and every country sucks. Every place in the world has good things and bad things about it. Anyone who wastes time saying that this country or that country sucks, and that theirs is the absolute best ever is an idiot. No matter which country you're bashing.
Personally, I'm from the US. It's not perfect, sure, but my life hasn't been half bad. I've never been oppressed, I have a house and food, and have been educated well. I don't see any reason to say that some country or another is better or worse than this one.
(In before someone says I'm just a stupid fat AmeriKKKan who has no idea what life is like outside his country)
Japan is superior.
Japan has a lot of things that I like, but it's also very strange.
yeah North Korea has some pretty sweet things going for it. it would be a blast to live there i bet
C'mon guys! Do you really think that all japanese love Samurai and cherry blossoms and drinkin' sake?? That's like saying all american love cowboy westerns, cherry pie and drinkin beer! How many of you absolutly hate country music? How many of you cannot stand to watch an entire game of baseball or watch an entire Nascar event?? Japanese are as multifaceted as we are! We are pointing out obvious unique things that we see as being different from our culture. (someone said toilets, that was feckin hilarious) Really, we're all the same, just raised different. (Catches breath, steps down from soap box) Sorry about the rant. Anyways, I like the Japanese that I have know because they have all been funny, compassionate, honest, friendly and loving individuals. Kaori, Mina, Ryo, Shion, Matt, and Chris...You've all left me with a great impression of your country. I hope one day to be able to speak to you with as much enthusiasm as you did to me, when you were learning my language!
This thread is mostly tl;dr, but I don't get what's up with segregating yourselves to such a degree while still borrowing a TON of stuff from western culture.
>>129
I don't see much of a conflict. They admire some parts of western culture but it's not like they want rednecks roaming their countryside or anything.
shithouse ;)
The thing is completely a different thing though generally said that the South Korean
and the Japanese look like well.
The South Korean has the feature that it is tall, and the foot is long.
The Japanese is short, and has the feature of a short foot.
The goodness of South Korean's style is praised when seeing from the Europe and
America people.
The South Korean straightens one's spine and walks by the good posture.
There are a lot of people of the stoop though the Japanese is often compared by
the monkey.
When the appearance that the Japanese walks is seen from a long distance, it is
seen the appearance that two monkeys are walking.
I remember seeing the appearance that a Japanese group walks in me in South Korea, and having mistaken for two monkeys to be walking momentarily.
The Japanese must correct the stoop.
True.
The South Korean is said that the Italian of it about the Orient.
It has aesthetics as a man like the Italian.
It forges gently to the woman, and naturally severely also to me.
It cares about time and the place, etc. , and if a beautiful woman is seen, and
the voice are multiplied and persuaded ..it is...
It is a passionate person that much.
South Korean's root is a nomadism horse riding race.
Meeting at this moment is always valued because it is not for life where it stays in
one place.
The South Korean always travels the world for the haven.
It sets up one's staff there if liked land is found and it lives.
And, there is a South Korea town all over the world.
The South Korean goes out to travel that leaves the footprint on all over the world,
there is a person who settles down, too and finds a new roof over one's head.
The South Korean like this is nomad ..character.. ..taking...
Because it is an island nation, the Japanese is the farming settling down race.
It keeps living at generations a place how many, the relation to the region
between kin is connected, and the house is defended.
It is an ethnicity quite different from the South Korean.
It is necessary to have recognition who is a quite different essentially race though the Japanese wants often to make to this quality when the South Korean and the Japanese are discussed.
Pretty cool place, went to nagoya, kyoto and Nara, and Hida prefecture when I visited last summer.
Much better than the UK T_T
>>135
The fact that he traveled to Japan makes him weeaboo?
Shut the fuck up.
i love naruto too. man, those things are delicious. -.- cant get em here though.
(naruto can also mean those little fish-flavored things you get floating in expensive bowls of ramen. or maybe they just felt expensive. everything felt expensive in japan... :) )
>>138
Narutos are a type of fish cake. They have them in those Nong Shim(?) Bowl Noodle, "Vegetal" type I think. 50 cents at Walmart! Though I prefer the Kimchi bowls which do not have fish cakes. I don't see what's great about fish cakes, really. They're a nice change of texture from the noodles, I guess.
I think its a really cool place, but I will not know for sure until I go there.
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Do you have any friends living in Japan?
>>143 How do you get to have friendship with them?
habe you ever been in japan?
>>144
Online at first, then I visited.
Japanese is my major.
I'll study there for a year on an exchange course.
>>145
Lucky man. (If what you're saying is honest)
I've always laughed at how those packages say "Vegetal" on them. What the hell is "Vegetal"?!? Are Coreans too cheap to afford as spell checker?
My personal favorite though is the instant ramen that has kimchi packets included with it.
And now I'll shut up because I'm talking too much about food here.
I love your guy's tech but aside from that i guess i like the atmousphere most of all
Japan seems like a very civilized country and I'm eager to visit someday.
Japanese culture seems to be more accepting of very dominant/forceful activity from men, whereas here in America it is either looked down on or downright criminal. Pedophilia (ロリコン) also seems more accepted by mainstream society, or at least tolerated, whereas it will make someone an outcast here and it's something that most try to hide.
Japan has some of the World's lowest rates of violence towards children.
If you're thinking of lolicon culture, that's something else: fiction. If anything, there's a pretty strong argument in favor of lolicon-style pornography as beneficial to society, when you consider the amount of rape reported in Japan.
Also, your depiction of Japan makes it sound like it's men are a bunch of grunting, schovinistic wife-beaters.
Please be more specific.
> Japan has some of the World's lowest rates of violence towards children.
you're ignoring the possibility that violence towards children could be less likely to be reported in japan...
>>153
I understand that, but also, not just fiction... softcore child pornography for example
From wiki: "Japan was and still is one of the leading producers of softcore child pornography, which was outlawed there only in 1999, after much international pressure; enforcement remains somewhat sporadic."
I guess it depends on your definition of child abuse...
Japanese women seem very eager to marry western men because they say Japanese men are pigs.
http://www.nationmaster.com/red/country/ja-japan/cri-crime&all=1
http://www.nationmaster.com/red/country/us-united-states/cri-crime&all=1
From 1998 - 2000:
Rapes in Japan: 2,260
Rapes in USA: 89,110
Even when you factor in population differences, the United States' rates are still over four times greater than Japan's.
>>156
Of course you have to consider what constitutes a rape in both countries, for example, do the US statistics include statutory rape? Besides that, many women here are very apt to yell "RAPE!" when they feel unwelcome sexual advances, whereas in other parts of the world cough*Japan*cough they are a part of daily life. Also, the US encourages rape victims to report the crime, and rapists are looked on very harshly. Women are almost too ready to call something rape. Perhaps in Japan, women can't really be sure if they've been raped, or are ashamed to report it, or just don't see the sense in bothering.
That all being said, I suppose the US must have more rapes than Japan, even factoring in those things. I was referring more to the perversion of the sexual culture there, rather than the actual number of sex crimes committed per year. Scat giantess hentai (obviously an exaggerated example) isn't violence or an offense, however it is, by societal standards, very perverse.
If you have japanese friends,the country is amazing place for you.If not,you will better to enjoy only by Manga.
>>153
Lolicon porn isn't just "drawn porn" in Japan, for your information.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolicon#Lolicon_in_Japan
"Generally, it is a term used to describe an attraction to any girl beneath the age of consent, both perceived and actual pedophilia and ephebophilia."
Just visit any 2ch board, lolicon/"loli" <- overabbreviated
is used the same way pedo is on western boards.
I really don't think the low crime-rate has to do with any of the porn. It's a result of the culture itself. Instead of massive criminal activities, they have large amounts of shut-ins. I'm not going to argue this is better or worse, but I do think that you can't put a cause and effect relationship between the porn stats and the crime stats.
>>156
fake. fucking feminists. you made the fucking rape level go up, artificially. now you want to get japan to do the same. sadly, you are winning.
sighs
Rape cases reported in these statistics are police reports. They usually encompass other forms of physical assault and/or murder. They don't only include forms of domestic violence and 'date rape' and many such instances are not reported.
These are serious crimes, and here you're accusing feminists of waging some 'war against men'???
WTF?
These also include male victims, young and old.
Go dunk your head in water.
>>165
Wikipedia is run by a tranny cabal. It's a fact.
http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/6664.html
This is one of the things we think about japan.
Japanese-American Internment Camps
http://www.bookmice.net/darkchilde/japan/camp.html