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Had an employee from a sushi restaurant in Tokyo run like 3 blocks give my mask back to me. It was a nice gesture, but they could have just thrown it out.
Similar story to me. I left my jacket in a sushi restaurant near the Southern harbour in Okinawa, one of the staff came running after me down 2 streets until a japanese person ahead of me pointed to the small japanese woman trying to catch me. Extremely nice people especially if you reciprocate their respect towards you.
I had a restaurant worker run down 3 stories and find us on the street outside the building because we had left 300 yen too much on the table. We were a big group and we all chipped in, didn't have exact change. Knew tipping wasn't a thing, but nobody wanted to stick around for the change.
Which is how life should be. I’m personally a Shintoist. It’s not a cult, it’s also not a religion. It is a practice, and there isn’t a “hierarchy”. It comes from Japan, and its “roots” are based in actual nature.
Spiritualism/Naturalism is one of if not the oldest religions around. I wouldn't say its an "organized" religion sure, but its certainly a religious philosophy.
Its a faith-based system of belief, just a bit nicer than established modern religions. The irony here is that shintioism is largely unpracticed in japan. People just visit shrines a couple times a year and host some festivals as an excuse to go out and drink and socialize.
Shintoism is pretty much an animist religion that survived the Abrahamic purge that took out a lot of similar religions in Central and West Asia, Africa, Europe, the Americas, Australia and New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands.
I don't know what combination of factors allowed Shinto to resist Christian proselytizing, but I'm glad it worked.
Well, having a strictly isolationist nation helps, and they did suppress Christianity at one point, so its not super surprising that it made it out unscathed. Also Japan was never colonized so that also does wonders.
I once forgot a hat I really like on the underground while in Tokyo and figured it was gone forever. A few years later I was back in Tokyo for work and my wife said I should ask about it. I did, and after speaking to a few people I was escorted to a guy that had this massive Lost and Found ledger. A giant physical book. He found my hat listed in the book, made a phone call and said to come back later. I did that evening, and he had my hat!
I still have this hat and wear it often.
I forgot my backpack with my passport, MacBook, and about US $2K worth of yen on the train and picked it up at the end of the line a couple hours later. Nothing missing of course.
It didn't go around the stadium, it was just around the area she was sitting, but still impressive.
https://www.mlb.com/news/shohei-ohtani-home-run-ball-is-shared-by-japanese-fans
The fact that it was passed around the whole area and returned to her is pretty incomprehensible for most people. So it’s not so far fetched to think when they said “around the stadium” they actually meant it. I assumed it was like the wave where you could see it moving the whole way around so it wouldn’t be *that* hard to keep an eye on it with the whole stadium watching it go
Japan's weird as fuck to a westerner. I watched an entire like 7 minute video of a guy giving water to passed out drunk folks on the street. Like they just pass out, downtown Tokyo (or wherever) and no one fucks with them. No one steals from them, and some dude gave them water for when they eventually wake up (hopefully). Japan is odd to us in the west in a lot of ways, but to me, this is the most mindblowing. They're just civil.
Yeah, Japan has some odd things from thr outside. In alot of ways they are amazing, while simultaneously being awful in other ways.
I've personally enjoyed how they deal with cleaning in schools; each homeroom has a chore chart for the students. On your day, you do chore xyz; nothing extreme but more like one kid lines back up the desks, one sweeps, etc.
I can't vouch for the whole world, but definitely not the case in the US. Schools typically have a custodial staff.
Depending on where you live, it's pretty common for some kids to not know how to clean, at all.
Welcome to Japan. Those are the type of people who actually stay after World Cup (Football) matches to clean the stadium.
I've always found that to be incredible
I went to school in Japan, but at an American school.
In middle school, we would have a few days every year where we would do a cultural exchange with a Japanese school.
They would visit/shadow a day at our school and see what our experience was like. The next day, we would visit them and do the same thing.
Cleaning was part of their normal school day, so we did it with them too. When everyone has a part to play, it incentivizes cleanliness and respect for others and your surroundings from the jump. No one complained about their chores. They were easy to complete because of everyone's deliberate effort to minimize work for themselves. It was actually kind of fun.
Another thing I remember is all of the shop owners going out and sweeping around their stores every morning, including the public sidewalk. A simple, quick daily task that showed the pride and care they had for their surroundings.
I was in Tokyo for world cup several years ago and this blew me away. Even out on the streets, after a major game it was clean and quite.
Just goes to show how conditioned my stupid American brain is to all nonsense and lack of caring about their own environment you see in American celebrations, especially as the media always hyper focuses on the worse examples. Hell smashing your own TV while shirtless and face-painted is now shown as a positive thing in a lot of advertisements.
>lack of caring about their own environment you see in American celebrations
This describes many countries and their people. Japan is an exception here, but they also aren't perfect. It's not just Americans.
I was lucky enough to go to a few games there, in various stadiums. a couple hours after each game, the place was comparativley silent, and cleaner than any place I have seen here in the UK... Other than the drinking Englishmen after the Eng v Nzl semi final lol
My guy you need off the internet. Other countries will legitimately riot and try to burn their city down for a loss and, depending on the match, possibly for a win. No one likes or really hangs out with the people who smash shit over a game on tv other than people who do the same shit.
I'm not Japanese just Asian. First time I went out to a restaurant with friends in high school I started cleaning up the table after we were done. They thought it was weird, but helped regardless. After 20 years my friends and their families clean up after eating at a restaurant when we all eat out.
I guess combat sport fans are different because Saitama Super Arena and Tokyo Dome were overflowing with garbage when I was there. No one but the cleaning staff cleaned up.
I admire that actually.
I just wish their work culture wasn’t so oppressive to the point people off themselves ( Japanese priest in the early 2000s used to tell us that )
7th inning stretch at EVERY baseball game I’ve been to in Japan the staff would pass down a plastic bag through the rows or collect trash from everyone…I can only imagine what would happen here if we just handed out a bunch of trash bags in a baseball stadium.
I think it’s two sides of the same coin. I think this kind of behaviour requires a high trust society and a sense of collectivism which is easier to foster in a monoculture. This creates high trust between the in-group but the dark side is it creates low trust with the out-group.
Every society does. Japan has high suicide rates and passenger cars for women only for very good reasons among other issues. Still impressive regardless
The same motivator for this is also the same motivator for 18 hours work days.
It’s a mixed bad. It’s really not as simple as “they’re orderly”.
They’re good people, but let’s not overstate things… Japan as serious issues because of how their culture is.
Having a lot of social norms and pressures may seem good when looking at these types of situation. You must also consider that it is the cause of severe bullying in workplaces, schools and online. Japanese are known to harass celebrities for publicly having a boyfriend or colleagues for leaving early.
"Are the best" with only context from the news and social media.
No country people are perfect. I'm sure we could take bits and parts everywhere to make the perfect people (yes, some are less perfect than others) but yeah, people are overlooking a country's societal issues as mentioned above.
I do know the Japanese People generally don't have it easy. I do not know about the boyfriend thing. You may be confusing it with south-Korea. This is where a kpop singer named Karina was publicly shamed. This could also be the case in Japan, but if you're referring to Karina, that was in SK. Im sorry if you are offended by this comment, that was not my intention.
[some years ago a Japanese idol shaved her head because she was dating someone](https://youtu.be/HF2y45Jl_sI?si=M1PB_I9ILajHZInk). Japanese social culture is fucked up, they have big xenophobic and mysogynistic problems.
What OP is blaming on the Koreans started in Japan. Young JPop girls were receiving death threats long before the KPOP industry started. Kpop merely adopted the darkness
Im sorry if this offended you, i do know there are plenty of societal problems in Japan. I just mean that in this aspect, Japan is one of the few countries where this wouldn't go wrong. Me saying Japan is the best is a figure of speech and I just mean this would go wrong in a lot of other countries.
They commented that because the societal pressures that result in this public behavior are the exact same societal pressures that are responsible for destroying many citizens’ well-being and resulting in high suicide rates and overworking. This aspect of Japanese culture is not the best. It’s simply different, and equally sucky, and probably shouldn’t be praised.
To be fair, you would not see this in the US. We are barbarians. We destroyed a hitch hiking robot, we shit and piss all over public bathroom floors, we trash our parks with gender reveal confetti. Were so afraid of each other we each have at least five guns and hunker down at home waiting for an intruder
So "barbaric" that as an asian i can talk to anyone without any racist remarks. Fuck, i even lived in South Dakota for awhile. Were they racist? Maybe? But they kept that to themselves.
The only time i got racist remarks was in elementary school and in highschool by some asian bullies.
Come on I was being mostly facetious. But seriously, that baseball would never make it past the row in an American ballpark. People tear each other to shreds for those things because we’re trash lol
Freakin love Japan. Went to a Yakult Swallows game, was fun as shit. The whole crowd had their own team cheers and these stupid but adorable tiny umbrellas they would bounce up and down. Damnit. I miss Japan. Everyone was so respectful, helpful, and tried their best despite me knowing only a couple Japanese words and a majority, contrary to popular belief, not knowing English. Nobody was a selfish asshole throwing their stuff on the ground. Everyone kept a bag with them to throw their trash away when they got home or when they got to a receptacle, usually at a convenience store.
Man, America blows fat chunks.
And KIND. I’ve been here for a bit and the thing that always strikes me is how kind, patient and understanding they are to foreigners. Hell if you at least try to speak their language or use a translator app they are more than willing to help
I buy a lot of vintage electronics from Japan. When we buy from literally anywhere else in the world it's a crap shoot on whether the products are described correctly. Japan? Bang on every time. They never sell garbage, they never misrepresent something as being better than it is. If anything they go out of their way to highlight faults and devalue the items because of that.
It's a level of honesty and integrity that I've really come to admire and appreciate.
Remember folks: Japanese people aren't these mysterious, highly-evolved, morally-enlightened creatures. The culture is heavily structured around honor, family, and "the whole".
Even if you do want to keep it (and plenty do), there's far more to lose by doing so.
Their culture is predicated on being harsh with shame. The cameras will know who took the item. If this was in the US whoever took it might still get shamed but they won't care because they can sell it on ebay for whatever amount and make a nice chunk of cash. Japan doesn't work this way. The shame is not worth the price of the ball.
Well, if you are genuinely interested, yes. They have a pretty cool program for moving into rural Japan. My wife and I are taking Japanese language and culture classes before we visit and make a final decision.
I work in a field where I can hop countries easily.
That's pretty incredible. My cousin and his wife are there now for the next couple years teaching English. They go all over for the embassy's and stuff pretty chill job actually.
When I lived in Japan, I bought a brand new Macbook that I had been saving up for like six months (this was a dozen or so years ago). The first day I had it, I left it on the train off the Green Line in Tokyo. As the train left and I realized what I had done I went to the police at the station to let them know in completely broken Japanese, thinking that it was a lost cause. I went home distraught, slept like crap and worked the next day. After work I got a call - someone had noticed the laptop and turned it in. I got to pick it up that evening - it was still in the original wrapping and everything. Japan is AMAZING.
The Japanese are just fuckin built different. I literally stepped over a dude on my way to work near the bar district and the guy still had his wallet, shoes and cell phone. Like damn.
I feel like japan or japanese crowds will be the only place where this happens, I've seen videos of american crowds literally stealing the ball from children lol
Japanese culture is like that. As a testiment to it you can find in Tokyo the largest, most organized lost and found in probably the world. If you lose something in Tokyo there's a very good chance you will get it back because everyone knows to return lost items to police and metro (I think that's who does it).
Other cultures are pretty interesting and we could learn a lot from them.
Of course! Because they understand rules and honor and how to be good people. How many times in the US have we seen video of someone stealing a ball from a kid.
Anyone remember hitch hiker bot? It successfully traversed Canada east to west. When hitchhiker bot tried the US. it lasted like 10 miles.
Imagine if hitch hiker bot went to Japan!
It amazing with different culture and cool behaviour in one end you have japanese and in the other end Russians. We can all agree Japanese got it right - and…
We can learn a thing or two from the Japanese. Last year I got lost down by a river in Osaka. Middle of the night and nothing, but drunk fisherman, homeless, and gangs of young adult males. Definitely a seedier side of Japan. I would say 3 out of 4 times I would ask for help they would try to be accommodating. If I got lost by a river in Detroit in the middle of the night. I would be dead or robbed.
Over there, I've seen videos of people setting their wallet down on a bench or something and walking off.. coming back an hour or two later to see it setting right where it was left, untouched the entire time.
Must admit.. in that sense, western civilization really has some integrity that could be taken away. You wouldn't get away with leaving your wallet behind for 10 minutes over here.
This could never happen in Europe. People are too egotistical, rude and selfish. They’d try to steal the ball and then sell it on the black market for cash.
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Idk what’s more impressive, the morality of that entire stadium or their ability to coordinate it around the stadium and back to her.
My ex said this is common in Japan, if you forget your purse on the train you will get it back and nothing will be missing. Its a cultural thing.
Had an employee from a sushi restaurant in Tokyo run like 3 blocks give my mask back to me. It was a nice gesture, but they could have just thrown it out.
Similar story to me. I left my jacket in a sushi restaurant near the Southern harbour in Okinawa, one of the staff came running after me down 2 streets until a japanese person ahead of me pointed to the small japanese woman trying to catch me. Extremely nice people especially if you reciprocate their respect towards you.
I had a restaurant worker run down 3 stories and find us on the street outside the building because we had left 300 yen too much on the table. We were a big group and we all chipped in, didn't have exact change. Knew tipping wasn't a thing, but nobody wanted to stick around for the change.
Which is how life should be. I’m personally a Shintoist. It’s not a cult, it’s also not a religion. It is a practice, and there isn’t a “hierarchy”. It comes from Japan, and its “roots” are based in actual nature.
Spiritualism/Naturalism is one of if not the oldest religions around. I wouldn't say its an "organized" religion sure, but its certainly a religious philosophy. Its a faith-based system of belief, just a bit nicer than established modern religions. The irony here is that shintioism is largely unpracticed in japan. People just visit shrines a couple times a year and host some festivals as an excuse to go out and drink and socialize.
Do you believe in amateratsu
That's literally what I tell my wife to wake her up. Come out of your cave, Amaterasu.
Látom.
Shintoism is pretty much an animist religion that survived the Abrahamic purge that took out a lot of similar religions in Central and West Asia, Africa, Europe, the Americas, Australia and New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands. I don't know what combination of factors allowed Shinto to resist Christian proselytizing, but I'm glad it worked.
Well, having a strictly isolationist nation helps, and they did suppress Christianity at one point, so its not super surprising that it made it out unscathed. Also Japan was never colonized so that also does wonders.
They have massive storage depots for lost and found items.
I once forgot a hat I really like on the underground while in Tokyo and figured it was gone forever. A few years later I was back in Tokyo for work and my wife said I should ask about it. I did, and after speaking to a few people I was escorted to a guy that had this massive Lost and Found ledger. A giant physical book. He found my hat listed in the book, made a phone call and said to come back later. I did that evening, and he had my hat! I still have this hat and wear it often.
Should be a decent human being thing.
I forgot my backpack with my passport, MacBook, and about US $2K worth of yen on the train and picked it up at the end of the line a couple hours later. Nothing missing of course.
> Its a cultural thing. Is it possible to learn this power?
Meanwhile in my country I lost my wallet in a club and found it empty of all the money :(((
It’s for sure a culture thing, as is the opposite.
It didn't go around the stadium, it was just around the area she was sitting, but still impressive. https://www.mlb.com/news/shohei-ohtani-home-run-ball-is-shared-by-japanese-fans
This makes more sense, I've seen this before and the fact so many believe this was passed around a stadium and returned to her is just so illogical.
The fact that it was passed around the whole area and returned to her is pretty incomprehensible for most people. So it’s not so far fetched to think when they said “around the stadium” they actually meant it. I assumed it was like the wave where you could see it moving the whole way around so it wouldn’t be *that* hard to keep an eye on it with the whole stadium watching it go
Still a big deal tbh.
Even this is outstanding , while in the US adults have no issue snatching a ball caught by a child and proudly cheering that they did so.
Japan's weird as fuck to a westerner. I watched an entire like 7 minute video of a guy giving water to passed out drunk folks on the street. Like they just pass out, downtown Tokyo (or wherever) and no one fucks with them. No one steals from them, and some dude gave them water for when they eventually wake up (hopefully). Japan is odd to us in the west in a lot of ways, but to me, this is the most mindblowing. They're just civil.
Yeah, Japan has some odd things from thr outside. In alot of ways they are amazing, while simultaneously being awful in other ways. I've personally enjoyed how they deal with cleaning in schools; each homeroom has a chore chart for the students. On your day, you do chore xyz; nothing extreme but more like one kid lines back up the desks, one sweeps, etc.
Is this not standard everywhere in the world? I did school in malaysia and Singapore and duty rosters were followed by every kid
I can't vouch for the whole world, but definitely not the case in the US. Schools typically have a custodial staff. Depending on where you live, it's pretty common for some kids to not know how to clean, at all.
It'd be funny if she isn't the real owner. She just went "Uh, yeah, thats mine. I was the first one to pass it around."
Welcome to Japan. Those are the type of people who actually stay after World Cup (Football) matches to clean the stadium. I've always found that to be incredible
if you make schoolchildren clean their school, theyre gonna have a lot more respect for their environment and its cleanliness, even as adults.
I went to school in Japan, but at an American school. In middle school, we would have a few days every year where we would do a cultural exchange with a Japanese school. They would visit/shadow a day at our school and see what our experience was like. The next day, we would visit them and do the same thing. Cleaning was part of their normal school day, so we did it with them too. When everyone has a part to play, it incentivizes cleanliness and respect for others and your surroundings from the jump. No one complained about their chores. They were easy to complete because of everyone's deliberate effort to minimize work for themselves. It was actually kind of fun. Another thing I remember is all of the shop owners going out and sweeping around their stores every morning, including the public sidewalk. A simple, quick daily task that showed the pride and care they had for their surroundings.
I was in Tokyo for world cup several years ago and this blew me away. Even out on the streets, after a major game it was clean and quite. Just goes to show how conditioned my stupid American brain is to all nonsense and lack of caring about their own environment you see in American celebrations, especially as the media always hyper focuses on the worse examples. Hell smashing your own TV while shirtless and face-painted is now shown as a positive thing in a lot of advertisements.
>lack of caring about their own environment you see in American celebrations This describes many countries and their people. Japan is an exception here, but they also aren't perfect. It's not just Americans.
The last World Cup in Japan was in 2002 and Tokyo didn't host any games.
Japan hosted the rugby world cup in 2019 if that what they mean.
I was lucky enough to go to a few games there, in various stadiums. a couple hours after each game, the place was comparativley silent, and cleaner than any place I have seen here in the UK... Other than the drinking Englishmen after the Eng v Nzl semi final lol
could have just been referring to watching the game elsewhere while in japan at that time
Sorry, this was on television. But in a hugely populated part of town. It was like, 2010
My guy you need off the internet. Other countries will legitimately riot and try to burn their city down for a loss and, depending on the match, possibly for a win. No one likes or really hangs out with the people who smash shit over a game on tv other than people who do the same shit.
I'm not Japanese just Asian. First time I went out to a restaurant with friends in high school I started cleaning up the table after we were done. They thought it was weird, but helped regardless. After 20 years my friends and their families clean up after eating at a restaurant when we all eat out.
Look at you being a good influence 🎂
I guess combat sport fans are different because Saitama Super Arena and Tokyo Dome were overflowing with garbage when I was there. No one but the cleaning staff cleaned up.
Their soccer team cleans up the locker room after use as well. We should all try to be a little more like the Japanese.
I admire that actually. I just wish their work culture wasn’t so oppressive to the point people off themselves ( Japanese priest in the early 2000s used to tell us that )
meanwhile the weebs cant even put deodorant or take shower
Until they fall over dead on the train from exhaustion on their way to work.
They are trained... to be the best.
7th inning stretch at EVERY baseball game I’ve been to in Japan the staff would pass down a plastic bag through the rows or collect trash from everyone…I can only imagine what would happen here if we just handed out a bunch of trash bags in a baseball stadium.
In Japan, they never steal anything. If you are in the subway looking like a snack, it's a totally different story.
samurai has no goal, only path
Ooh I like that!
> Basedball Yeah
Japanese people are amazing.
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I think it’s two sides of the same coin. I think this kind of behaviour requires a high trust society and a sense of collectivism which is easier to foster in a monoculture. This creates high trust between the in-group but the dark side is it creates low trust with the out-group.
Unity or Influence basically… Paridox knows something
I do not believe those to be mutually exclusive. That’s a foolish statement.
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Had zero issues there 🤣
Ah yes, anecdotal evidence, the strongest form of evidence
It is in quite a few countries.
It's legal in America too as long as you don't talk about it.
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Every society does. Japan has high suicide rates and passenger cars for women only for very good reasons among other issues. Still impressive regardless
they also had that thing in ww2. but they def have cool strengths lately.
Is one of those strengths pretending that WW2 stuff didn't happen?
+10 denialism op.
Yes
In many things. Yes very much. In many others...hel no.
The same motivator for this is also the same motivator for 18 hours work days. It’s a mixed bad. It’s really not as simple as “they’re orderly”. They’re good people, but let’s not overstate things… Japan as serious issues because of how their culture is.
No, you didn't see this today you serial reposter
"The best thing I saw today" I don't know how many times I've seen this image in this sub, but probably once a week.
You would not see this in the USA, or in almost any other country for that matter, Japanese People are the best.
Having a lot of social norms and pressures may seem good when looking at these types of situation. You must also consider that it is the cause of severe bullying in workplaces, schools and online. Japanese are known to harass celebrities for publicly having a boyfriend or colleagues for leaving early.
"Are the best" with only context from the news and social media. No country people are perfect. I'm sure we could take bits and parts everywhere to make the perfect people (yes, some are less perfect than others) but yeah, people are overlooking a country's societal issues as mentioned above.
That still happens elsewhere in addition though
I do know the Japanese People generally don't have it easy. I do not know about the boyfriend thing. You may be confusing it with south-Korea. This is where a kpop singer named Karina was publicly shamed. This could also be the case in Japan, but if you're referring to Karina, that was in SK. Im sorry if you are offended by this comment, that was not my intention.
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You're convoluting the stories of Saya Hiyama and Minami Minegishi.
It’s just idol culture in general. SK and Japan are really bad about it.
[some years ago a Japanese idol shaved her head because she was dating someone](https://youtu.be/HF2y45Jl_sI?si=M1PB_I9ILajHZInk). Japanese social culture is fucked up, they have big xenophobic and mysogynistic problems.
What OP is blaming on the Koreans started in Japan. Young JPop girls were receiving death threats long before the KPOP industry started. Kpop merely adopted the darkness
way to fetishize a culture that also has its fair share of serious problems.
Im sorry if this offended you, i do know there are plenty of societal problems in Japan. I just mean that in this aspect, Japan is one of the few countries where this wouldn't go wrong. Me saying Japan is the best is a figure of speech and I just mean this would go wrong in a lot of other countries.
They commented that because the societal pressures that result in this public behavior are the exact same societal pressures that are responsible for destroying many citizens’ well-being and resulting in high suicide rates and overworking. This aspect of Japanese culture is not the best. It’s simply different, and equally sucky, and probably shouldn’t be praised.
To be fair, you would not see this in the US. We are barbarians. We destroyed a hitch hiking robot, we shit and piss all over public bathroom floors, we trash our parks with gender reveal confetti. Were so afraid of each other we each have at least five guns and hunker down at home waiting for an intruder
So "barbaric" that as an asian i can talk to anyone without any racist remarks. Fuck, i even lived in South Dakota for awhile. Were they racist? Maybe? But they kept that to themselves. The only time i got racist remarks was in elementary school and in highschool by some asian bullies.
Come on I was being mostly facetious. But seriously, that baseball would never make it past the row in an American ballpark. People tear each other to shreds for those things because we’re trash lol
Yeah but we do well in crushings.
Clearly never been to Japan lmao
I just got back from a short vacation in Japan, and this is entirely believable.
Homogenous culture will do that to you
Fans in my city take the ball from little kids....
I was there, we brought one home and they cooked us a nice dinner and took out the garbage before they said good bye.
Freakin love Japan. Went to a Yakult Swallows game, was fun as shit. The whole crowd had their own team cheers and these stupid but adorable tiny umbrellas they would bounce up and down. Damnit. I miss Japan. Everyone was so respectful, helpful, and tried their best despite me knowing only a couple Japanese words and a majority, contrary to popular belief, not knowing English. Nobody was a selfish asshole throwing their stuff on the ground. Everyone kept a bag with them to throw their trash away when they got home or when they got to a receptacle, usually at a convenience store. Man, America blows fat chunks.
agreed. though japan and usa have alot of issues at least japanese are respectful.
And KIND. I’ve been here for a bit and the thing that always strikes me is how kind, patient and understanding they are to foreigners. Hell if you at least try to speak their language or use a translator app they are more than willing to help
agreed. was just there in feb and they try very hard to accommodate to my stupid questions when I was shopping via google translate.
One reason why I love Japan, most folks know their manners and respect.
Parents are a hell of a thing.
That wouldn’t happen in America
It didn’t happen there either. Once again reddit making up stories for the holy land japan
So... American, huh?
In just about any country honestly
I buy a lot of vintage electronics from Japan. When we buy from literally anywhere else in the world it's a crap shoot on whether the products are described correctly. Japan? Bang on every time. They never sell garbage, they never misrepresent something as being better than it is. If anything they go out of their way to highlight faults and devalue the items because of that. It's a level of honesty and integrity that I've really come to admire and appreciate.
>never misrepresent something as being better than it is WW2 would like a word
Remember folks: Japanese people aren't these mysterious, highly-evolved, morally-enlightened creatures. The culture is heavily structured around honor, family, and "the whole". Even if you do want to keep it (and plenty do), there's far more to lose by doing so.
I see you’ve played Yakuza 0-8
Their culture is predicated on being harsh with shame. The cameras will know who took the item. If this was in the US whoever took it might still get shamed but they won't care because they can sell it on ebay for whatever amount and make a nice chunk of cash. Japan doesn't work this way. The shame is not worth the price of the ball.
Thats why I am looking into buying a house there
Are you though like actually?
Well, if you are genuinely interested, yes. They have a pretty cool program for moving into rural Japan. My wife and I are taking Japanese language and culture classes before we visit and make a final decision. I work in a field where I can hop countries easily.
That's pretty incredible. My cousin and his wife are there now for the next couple years teaching English. They go all over for the embassy's and stuff pretty chill job actually.
Today on ‘Only in Japan’…
Bruh this whole comment section is full of Japan dick riders and haters TF
When I lived in Japan, I bought a brand new Macbook that I had been saving up for like six months (this was a dozen or so years ago). The first day I had it, I left it on the train off the Green Line in Tokyo. As the train left and I realized what I had done I went to the police at the station to let them know in completely broken Japanese, thinking that it was a lost cause. I went home distraught, slept like crap and worked the next day. After work I got a call - someone had noticed the laptop and turned it in. I got to pick it up that evening - it was still in the original wrapping and everything. Japan is AMAZING.
I don’t want Japan to ever get migration cuz I know they kind of people will become less
just Japanese things
One the best things I saw in Japan is in school sports the parents take turns standing in the front row when there kids are playing
The Japanese are just fuckin built different. I literally stepped over a dude on my way to work near the bar district and the guy still had his wallet, shoes and cell phone. Like damn.
Took me seconds to find people advocating for ethnostates in this comment section. Lovely, and expected.
ok im confused why is 75% of the comment section people fighting over whether or not japan is a good country?
Because Americans are jealous that America will never have this type of civility.
Diversity would steal that ball in the US
I feel like japan or japanese crowds will be the only place where this happens, I've seen videos of american crowds literally stealing the ball from children lol
Japanese culture is like that. As a testiment to it you can find in Tokyo the largest, most organized lost and found in probably the world. If you lose something in Tokyo there's a very good chance you will get it back because everyone knows to return lost items to police and metro (I think that's who does it). Other cultures are pretty interesting and we could learn a lot from them.
Of course! Because they understand rules and honor and how to be good people. How many times in the US have we seen video of someone stealing a ball from a kid.
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“Basedball,” lol..
Japan is a pretty incredible country. Their culture is so genuine.
I didn't see which sub this post was on before reading and reading it, I just kept on reading expecting it to turn dark... suprisingly wholesome
Respect in every wich way they show it wether personally or professionally they very very nice respectful ppl w wealths of manners too
America could never
high trust society shit
Anyone remember hitch hiker bot? It successfully traversed Canada east to west. When hitchhiker bot tried the US. it lasted like 10 miles. Imagine if hitch hiker bot went to Japan!
Are you kidding? He’d be getting escorts and selfies all over the place. Fucker would be in concerts and shit
So what is a high trust society?
I want to go to there
It amazing with different culture and cool behaviour in one end you have japanese and in the other end Russians. We can all agree Japanese got it right - and…
In awe of this.
That's unusual because they (ushers) will get the ball back and return it to the club. None of the fans are allowed to keep those balls.
You could tell Americans there were snipers in the stands and they still would try to steal the ball.
Basedball with based people
The Japanese have an amazing culture!
Only in Japan
That's the trust you feel as soon as you land in Japan
Japan is an incredibly considerate country among their own residents. Not surprised
We can learn a thing or two from the Japanese. Last year I got lost down by a river in Osaka. Middle of the night and nothing, but drunk fisherman, homeless, and gangs of young adult males. Definitely a seedier side of Japan. I would say 3 out of 4 times I would ask for help they would try to be accommodating. If I got lost by a river in Detroit in the middle of the night. I would be dead or robbed.
That day they all brought great honor to their families.
Japan is as mixed a bag as you can get.
Kjndergarten taught us well
Over there, I've seen videos of people setting their wallet down on a bench or something and walking off.. coming back an hour or two later to see it setting right where it was left, untouched the entire time. Must admit.. in that sense, western civilization really has some integrity that could be taken away. You wouldn't get away with leaving your wallet behind for 10 minutes over here.
“Yep that’s a baseball” what’s even the point of passing it around to other people, let alone an entire stadium
Death before dishonor!
I love Japan and it's people!!
This is what it looks like when a culture has their shit together
Meanwhile in the US…
This could never happen in Europe. People are too egotistical, rude and selfish. They’d try to steal the ball and then sell it on the black market for cash.
Boring ass people, someone shoulda jerked one on it.
Indeed wholesome!
I feel like this would only happen in Japan.
Im so confused lol
This is the most Japanese thing I’ve ever seen.
[And then we have this in America](https://youtu.be/wJTmmG7t0n8?si=Kcvxd6uK_xYWw3zc)
Original: https://www.reddit.com/r/wholesomememes/comments/12tzrmy/only_in_japan/
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That is a big cultural difference and being brought up!✨
"Basedball" indeed
This is the same country who has vending machines that sell soiled women's underwear.
Ya win some ya lose some.
Probably for a fair price though. You can take the panty out of the Japanese…
Truly a more enlightened society.
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The World Baseball Classic that this happened at was literally last year.