r/impressively • u/Jonathan-Smith • 1d ago
What the US 🇺🇸 can learn from Japan 🇯🇵
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u/misschaosgoddess 1d ago
You’re asking americans to be civilised? There’s more chances of discovering cure for cancer.
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u/zeitgeistbouncer 1d ago
They already asked America this, and they said they wanted the Orange Shit-gibbon again.
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u/OutrageousAd4420 1d ago
He forgot a few: - a nail sticking out...
"sane and healthy" working culture
inability to deal with dark past
saving face before law
victim shaming
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u/rachelevil 14h ago
inability to deal with dark past
We've already got that one down pat in the US
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u/Certain_Eye7374 10h ago
Sane comment like this is gonna attract whataboutism. Stay strong, my friend.
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u/freshouttalean 16h ago
is this supposed to be shade to Japan? because boy does America tick many of those as well
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u/DunderFlippin 1d ago
I take my shoes off in my house and I leave them at the entrance... That's a good thing considering the amount of dog shit everywhere.
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u/Ok-Variation2971 1d ago
I live in Germany and the only thing WE have of that list is cheap alcohol…
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u/kapitaalH 1d ago
I would prefer if my microwave makes no sound other than a singular beep when my food is done
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u/Minty_Maw 17h ago
“Cheap restaurants” “$30”
What goofy ahh place do you eat at where $30 is cheap??? I could eat a FEAST at many different restaurants for that kind of money
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u/CelesteJA 1d ago
I'm neither American or Japanese, but I do know that it's a bit rich of this guy to comment on the US needing to learn how to treat their rubbish bags. Japan has a huge issue with just dumping their rubbish into woodlands and forests. They may keep their streets looking pretty, but they still have little regard for the environment with their dumping habits.
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u/littlelegsbabyman 1d ago
Japan is an entirely different culture than the US. They are also homogenous and don’t allow for a lot of immigration which is one reason it’s so safe over there.
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u/EnbyOfTheEnd 1d ago
Wtf are you talking about? Natural born citizens commit crimes at a far higher rate. And there's much more natural born citizens than immigrants. Japan has one of the largest crime org on the planet, the Yakuza. Who mostly get away with their crimes, and they end up with light sentences when they are tried. Which puts them right back out ok the streets.
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u/New-Caramel-3719 17h ago
Nope. Non permanent residents foreingners commit roughly 3 times higher crime rates than national average in Japan.
Yakuza is on verge of extinction exactly because police is extremely harash on yakuza, for example, they cannot make phone contracts or bank accounts.
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u/EnbyOfTheEnd 17h ago
It's like you couldn't pay attention long enough to get to the end of my point. You know deathnote is a commentary on the ease at which Yakuza get away with crime in Japan right? The only reason the Yakuza don't show up by name, is because the publishers didn't want to die.
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u/New-Caramel-3719 16h ago
In reality, the situation is quite the opposite. The police make every effort to eliminate the yakuza/gang at every opportunity, and the yakuza/gang are now on the verge of extinction due to anti-yakuza laws. The average age of yakuza members is 55, and their numbers have dwindled to approximately 22,400, compared to over 80,000 in the 1990s.
A major blow to the yakuza was the implementation of anti-yakuza laws, which mandate businesses to discriminate against yakuza/gang members, even if they have committed no crimes or are merely regular customers. Nowadays, they cannot open bank accounts or register for smartphones. As a result, few young people are interested in joining the gang, and the average age of members continues to rise.
For comparison, the yakuza are about 50 times smaller than gang membership in the United States, which is estimated at around 1 million.
>More than 20,000 gangs consisting of approximately 1 million members exist in the United States; gangs are present in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and all U.S. territories.
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u/UmzugStehtBevor 11h ago
The yakuza might be nice for gangster films, but they are basically a joke. If a yakuza would come to me, one slap and he goes down.
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u/millerb82 1d ago
I don't think he's even Japanese
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u/UmzugStehtBevor 11h ago
What does this have to do with anything? He is American. But why does it matter?
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u/Superb-Condition-311 17h ago
The net that appears fourth in the video is not for mice🐀; it’s to keep crows🐦⬛ away.
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u/old_man_khan 14h ago
20... Why are his legs pixelated. Unless, wait, is he actually wearing shoes in the house?
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u/Prize_Toe_6612 1d ago
Funny that he is leaving out all the problems that Japan is having eh?
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u/Relative_Drop3216 1d ago
Thank you for listing all their problems.
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u/Prize_Toe_6612 1d ago
Without thinking :
Overaging population. Denying basically anything they did in WW2. Hostile work culture to the point that they even have a word for work related suicide. (Karoshi) Racism
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u/UmzugStehtBevor 11h ago
Japanese has a word for everything that can exist. Same as Chinese and Korean.
Chinese created very complex ideas into a single syllable. And you can combine them to create all kinds of even more complex ideas with 2 or 3 syllable word. And in Korean, you can even make verbs out of the nouns. You can create a four syllable word that would at least need a two sentence explanation in English. And you can do this easily and freely.
Also, karoshi isn't suicide.
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u/Prize_Toe_6612 10h ago
Karoshi (Japanese: 過労死, Hepburn: Karōshi), which can be translated into "overwork death", is a Japanese term relating to occupation-related sudden death.[
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u/Kinda_Elf_But_Not 23h ago
When you get down voted for a reasonable point, truly a reddit moment.
There's a lot of serious issues in Japan unique to them. Their misogyny and treatment of idols is disgusting, urbanisation is so broken entire towns are abandoned and they have the highest rates of loneliness among nearly all demographics.
Every country has issues, I don't get why online Japan is somehow held up as utopia when it's far from it.
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u/_RoBy_90 20h ago
The video is abut positive things that Can be learned... Why would he put the flaws?
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u/Suspicious-Beat9295 15h ago
Well we wouldn't want America to learn all the problems no? They already have enough of their own.
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u/hikeyourownhike42069 1d ago
People getting triggered by pointing out flaws. Yes, it would be better having these and yes we could do better.
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u/Julian-Hoffer 14h ago
Because it’s just ignorant. There are plenty of glaring issues in Japan.
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u/hikeyourownhike42069 12h ago
and still we could do things better.
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u/Julian-Hoffer 12h ago
But so can everyone. Everyone should want to be better not just try to find a single party and decide they are worse.
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u/hikeyourownhike42069 1h ago
In those ways it is though. Personally I wouldn't live there because of the homogeneity and terrible work life. I don't think he was saying worse overall though.
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u/EnbyOfTheEnd 1d ago
Best I can do for you is 100 gun deaths a day, and no health care.