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Well, Japan and the US are joined at the hip both economically and militarily, so I guess the comparisons are unavoidable.
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Bloodnose posted:So are they just like slacking off and browsing Facebook all day, or is this symptomatic of a business world dominated by fax machines? And oh god, the health problems that go along with spending that many hours in the office. My boss back in Japan would boast about how he didn't go home until after midnight every day last week, and both him and his assistant were just physical wrecks every time we saw them. That's one part of the Japanese work world that I 100% refused to get involved in. When my work was done, I went home. Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 18:24 on Mar 3, 2013 |
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I've often wondered if its true that Japanese just don't respond to bargains, that if someone is discounted that people will assume its no good and be overall less likely to buy it. Are there any statistics to that effect, or are people who set prices on consumer goods in Japan just going off their gut feelings when they decide to set them so high?
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Sheep posted:vv I see bargain stuff sell out all the time, though not on stuff like electronics where there are often very marked differences in products.
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Some older folks I knew there would complain about regional foods being available in other regions, and available out of season. It makes them less special. Yeah, I'd say people are pretty serious about local food. Also my town having a squid festival and squid song and dance contest every year.
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I once went to the ER at night with breathing problems brought on by my moldy apartment in the winter, and sure enough, it was closed. I was rather incredulous to see an ER just closed for the night. A security guy directed me to the hospital that was open, a few miles away. On the way there through my breathing improved and I went home.
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caberham posted:That's really odd about your friend. The Japanese manufacturing partners I work with love systems, orderly procedures and engineering. The 5S is enforced - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5S_(methodology). Everything in a factory has to be neat, tidy, and orderly. And they also implement "Kanban" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban (billboards to facilitate just in time production). Lots of modern manufacturing techniques came out from the Japanese power houses during the 80's and was a shining model for other factories to follow. I'm surprised that manufacturing is so sluggish in Japan. Look at Canon, they don't even allow chairs and have messages on the ground (if you don't walk faster, the world will burn). Sorry for the Danny Choo link Did anyone else see Gung Ho? That was one of my first introductions to (images of) Japanese manufacturing culture. It slammed both Japanese and Americans pretty hard. Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 10:59 on Mar 7, 2013 |
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Mar 7, 2013 10:57
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A fully fluent foreign Japanese speaking hostess can know how badly she is being screwed (possibly literally) by her employer, no wonder they don't want that.
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Sheep posted:If you want fetishy stuff, go talk to the Thais employed in the hostess/sex trade in Thailand that cater to Japanese clientele. Holy poo poo is all I can really say about that whole scene.
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ookiimarukochan posted:It was also fairly popular when it aired in Japan!
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Mar 9, 2013 10:30
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To me, she doesn't seem to be making the traditional silly Japanese mistakes that westerners supposedly make, but more realistic ones. She's still acting like a buffoon but I'm totally used to that by now. Not that I'm in charge or anything but I feel like this thread has gotten way off track since I posted that thing about Japanese prisons or something like five pages ago. Does anyone have any recent stories of old men loving each other?
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This thread in the last few pages sure has reminded me of the talk over the water cooler (so to speak, we didn't actually have one) when I worked over there. And not completely in a good way.
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The thing is, I've spent a long time now talking to foreigners from completely other places in the world, and a lot of these westerner-japanese dichotomies are really just insider-outsider dichotomies, not worth framing just in the context of West vs. Japan (which is a rather dubious distinction at all if you think about it).
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I dunno, I saw a healthy number of high school boys and girls walking home hand in hand when I was there, I don't think it's all that bad. On the other hand though, I dated a Japanese exchange student in college and one of her friends found out and started squealing like a middle schooler. Hell, I don't even think girls in middle school would squeal like that at the announcement that you are dating their friend.
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Lemmi Caution posted:There was never any risk to Tokyo.
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What's with the "jo" in kikokushijo? What about it is especially for girls/women? edit: also, for the purpose of our discussion isn't just saying "repatriate children" easier? Or is it some unique Japanese thing that justifies using a Japanese word in English discourse?
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A distinct branch of primates? Holy poo poo. I know those guys were nuts but that goes beyond anything I had heard before.
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Mar 12, 2013 05:13
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ArchangeI posted:Wasn't there an incident at the Bejing Olympics where the Emperor Himself said something like "Yeah my family is originally from Korea (like immigrated from there in 800 BC or so)" and Japanese TV went THIS NEVER HAPPENED?
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I am OK posted:Thought y'all might be interested in this BBC article written by a Japanese woman about the state of current history education in JPN: Plastic Chin Fairy posted:Man, I live in Japan and don't pay attention to any of this stuff. Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 20:53 on Mar 14, 2013 |
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Mar 14, 2013 18:56
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I've read articles before about how hard calrose rice gets pushed in Japan and how hard Japan pushes back. Article after article about how it just isn't right for the Japanese palette and that's why they tariff the poo poo out of it to make sure no one buys it. Hm...I feel like there's some disconnect in logic there...can't put my finger on it though.
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Do they have any actual motivation to really change this situation or are they comfortable just saying gently caress you to the West forever?
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Mar 15, 2013 10:19
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Stringent posted:Farmers were considered next in the pecking order after samurai.
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I dunno about Japan but a Korean friend told me why she only ever ate white rice growing up: when her parents were young, white rice was rationed, they had to eat brown rice most of the time. Now that they are adults they sure as HELL aren't going to make their children eat anything but the whitest rice. Just the act of rationing it massively increased its psychological value over other kinds or rice.
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Mar 19, 2013 03:40
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Kenishi posted:Jobs.
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Mar 21, 2013 06:28
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Ganguro King posted:This is already an actual thing on the local level in rural areas. One place in Tottori even brought in a literal busload of women from Osaka for one of their matchmaking events.
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Bloodnose posted:Does that imply that if they didn't want to get married before 25, they could find meaningful and rewarding employment?
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Mar 22, 2013 08:51
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Japan has a freaking Equal Rights Amendment written right into their Constitution, for all the good it does.
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Cliff Racer posted:Koreans use Hangul and Vietnamese use some romanized system left over by the french, I had been led to believe? Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 02:58 on Mar 28, 2013 |
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ocrumsprug posted:If everyone that was an expat was coming from a third world country, I could buy that argument. However if you are a North American, European or Aussie/Kiwi/Japanese expat, you aren't likely to be digging in a coal mine or something. It even goes beyond typical first world community disengagement, as I have no doubt were I to pick up and move Japan or Europe I would find the Canadian expats there to talk/cry/bitch about the motherland with. So yeah, she definitely moved to America for get me the gently caress out of here reasons.
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Japanese business, you dumbasses. Among many many other things, lifetime employment is a thing of the past so don't hold that up as a reason for not hiring people with awesome international educations.
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Mar 28, 2013 04:36
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Protocol 5 posted:I dunno, seems to me like its just a higher proportion of kids in Japan have figured out that the current socioeconomic system is a grinding, soul-crushing engine built to enrich the well-connected elite and they want no part in it beyond making a livelihood. You can hardly fault them for knowing whats up and opting out.
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Genpei Turtle posted:Holy poo poo, what is wrong with some people edit: I don't think Japanese students learn how to structure arguments properly in school...like...at all. Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 22:22 on Apr 11, 2013 |
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Bloodnose posted:The South China Morning Post already has an editorial about that girl's call for a massacre.
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Yasukuni Shrine has got to be the closest thing any country has to a "piss off the neighbors" button sitting on the head of state's desk. It's just so convenient.
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NewtGoongrich posted:They could, you know, stop visiting the Yasukuni.
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LimburgLimbo posted:It's not exactly crazy that people want to pay respects to the war dead. edit: just like any country, conservative politicians have to show that they don't give a poo poo about anyone else in the world in order to get brownie points with their psycho nationalist backers. This is how they do it in Japan. One of the ways anyway, whaling "research" is another. Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 10:07 on Apr 23, 2013 |
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Bloodnose posted:Have any of you guys tasted whale? I still really want to eat some. I regret not seeking out some whale sushi or however they prepare it the last time I was in Japan. The reason I heard for why Japan cares about whale at all (rather, why they can be manipulated into caring by the people I mentioned above) is that it was part of school lunch for the baby boomer generation, and has strong nostalgia associated with it.
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Do young ultra-nationalists eat whale to boost their credentials or anything?
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From what I have heard, Germany is an absolute model of how a country in their situation should deal with their former war atrocities, across the board. Japan is...not.
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A new Japanese student came to my class on the first day wearing a six pointed star necklace, and against my better judgement I asked if she was Jewish. Of course not. After that she didn't wear it anymore, I probably made her feel self-conscious about it for no good reason.
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