Geographically and ethinically, Japan would hardly be Western. Also philosophically again, hardly Western.Hard to see how any one would define it as Western,except for usage of some later developed western technology.
Yeah, I don't think Han is that kind of person...ricecake must have been confusing him with Ghettodoink
Absolutely agree!!It's easy, Japan is Japan.
Neither Western, nor Asian. Just Japan, so let it be
Japan is unique in its own way. Its almost like its own seperate world.
And that world kicks ***.
I found that Japan was more similar to these countries than some European countries together.
I had heard, maybe from a Japanese professor (memory...),because they are also asian.
you sir are what's called a neo-intellectual. A person that tries to sound smart by condemning things, and or ideas. If you dont like our country then leave.Food
Clothing
Hair Styles
Youth Attitudes
Foul Language
Vulgar Public Behavior
Erosion of Cultural Values & Traditions
Ghastly Music
. . . to name a few.
Do you not see the irony in an American mourning Japanese culture? My culture is ruining yours and you do not seem at all concerned. It is shocking and very sad.
Do you not care about the integrity of your culture?
If you dont like our country then leave.
Sir,you hit the nail on the coffin.
S Koreans are grinding out top line big screen TV,cell phones,plus numerous Western-technology inspired consumer products in recent years,how come Western people haven't contemplate whether or not Korea is now fit for " Western Country "
Not at all....
that Korean, Japanese, and Chinese culture are more different
from each other ...
This realization however is often more common for Chinese, Japanese and Koreans who are living abroad or have been, due to greater exposure and understanding.
I think Japan is modernizing, not westernizing. If any country in asia was to be considered most western, it would probally be the philippines
Japan is just playing the role of poser, it's like calling someone a model just because they own a pair designer jeans, or a better example is like Matsui coming over and playing for the Yankees, they have baseball in Japan but wait, whats that? america has it made and this makes japan fiend to be more "western" in everything it does to the point that they are fleeing their tiny island smaller than california to try and get a piece of our rich golden-brown american pie. so this leads me to believe what i hear time and time again, that the "majority" of Japanese people want to affilate themselves with america in any way they can, thus the reason why we don't have mail order brides in the states, case closed.
God bless america,
Josh
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Perhaps westerns are only for the movies...
seriously, I think industrialization and government types are not the leading thing to say which country is western or not, more like which nations were originally european and became the majority of that particular country, along with the language spoken...asia is predominantly asian, africans are predominantly black....Australians and New Zealanders tend to be run under British rule, so it is now a western nation with european values, and so is america (even if it became independent of British rule)...think these are what makes a country Western....and Japan is definitely not taken after the european mold, even if the government was set up by americans after the second world war...
Yes, forming opinions of a nation's political and cultural make-up from photos would be pretty wild.Japan is not a western country. I've never seen it but I can take a wild guess from the photos.