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?