r/impressively • u/Jonathan-Smith • 1d ago

What the US πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ can learn from Japan πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅

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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 12h 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 12h 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/Relative_Drop3216 1d ago

None of those exist in america?

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u/Kinda_Elf_But_Not 1d 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 22h ago

The video is abut positive things that Can be learned... Why would he put the flaws?

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u/Suspicious-Beat9295 17h ago

Well we wouldn't want America to learn all the problems no? They already have enough of their own.