Unpleasant things about Japan

[silver angel]

@8

ummm have you ever been around Hispanic people??

@6
When I went to El Salvador, I was scared for my life when I got on a bus. There are killings everyday there. You get robbed on the bus and the police wont or can't do anything about it. The bus seats are stained with people's blood. Danger is everywhere. Here in Canada, there are places where women get raped, assulted and murdered. (men as well)

Try to understand that some of the thing you have said can be misunderstood by different people and may cause some misunderstandings.

 

[antantrevolution]

I visited Japan, and I am gooing to write some disadvantages about Japan


1) japan has the filthiest toilets in the world.

2) Japan is sexually too corrupted.

3) Japanese girls love ONLY white people, and they are nice to ONLY white ppl

4) All Japaneses are rpoud of WWII. May be they are brainwashed by their education, but ppl are so simple-minded that they believe everything they are taught at school.

5) Living expenses are too high

6) tokyo Yokohama are too dangerous places

7) There are so many crazy things in Japan ushc as cults

8) Many Japanese ppl talk too loudly, and they don't care about others.

@1 - Come visit Las Vegas, go into a Terribles gas station and see if you want to have a poop - let alone even risk touching anything to wash your hands.

@2 - Have you been to Germany? To the Japanese end of it, I will say that Bukkake is a little much.

@3 - Strangely enough, I saw Japanese girls and people in general nice to everyone during the entire time I was there. As to whether they meant it, that is another story.

@4 - I don't think that is a valid statement at all, none of my Japanese friends, nor my fiance are proud of WWII at all. I think that it is actually a bit if brainwashing going on inside of your own country that may be making you think that. I will admit that Japan still has not apologised for any of the atrocities they commited during WWII, but that is the government, not the average person.

@5 - It really does depend on where you go. If you went to Tokyo, then yes, I would have to agree with you there. However, if you went to Fukuoka, then it is not too expensive at all.

@6 - Anytime you enter a major city, you are bound to have dangerous parts, I don't think Japanese cities need be singled out. I bet you that I can go to Seoul and get my *** handed to me if someone was really itching for a fight. Same goes for Vegas, NYC or LA.

@7 - You wanna hear crazy? It's caled organised religion.


@8 - Were ya in a Karaoke bar at happy hour? Or have you been basing your opinion of Japanese people through anime? Not only are they not loud people, anytime I was near any of them, they were quiet as hell in public.

Now, what you should have done was labeled some of the finer points of Japan.

Here, I'll do it for you.

1 - Godzilla. No matter how you slice it, you can't beat a grown man in a rubber suit doing a victory dance over a destroyed super size model of Tokyo.

2 - Japanese women. They are hot. 'Nuff said.

3 - Japanese beer.

4 - Nissan Skylines - It doesn't matter which. They're all top.

5 - Katsu Curry.

6 - Cigarette vending machines every 4 feet with cheaper American cigs than in America.

7 - B'z.

8 - That girl in Narita airport that wanted to touch my hair.

9 - Sonny Chiba.

10 - The inspiration for Kill Bill.

11 - my fiance.

12 - Arcades in EVERY building.

13 - Polite people.

14 - Toilets that confuse you.

15 - automatic hand dryers everywhere.

16 - Road construction workers in Tokyo look like the dozers in Fraggle Rock.

17 - Many wonderful places to see historical type stuff.

The list could go on, but I have to go to work

Ant

 

[Giorgia_]

>I visited Japan, and I am gooing to write some disadvantages about Japan

Visited Japan? You did, indeed!!

>1) japan has the filthiest toilets in the world.

that's a lie.

>2) Japan is sexually too corrupted.

may be, but may not be. i sort of agree with you in some sense...

>3) Japanese girls love ONLY white people, and they are nice to ONLY white ppl

how can u say something like that!! it's a complete crap.
NEVER generalise a thing without knowing it well.
u know what? one of my japanese friends likes black people
(i think it's because she likes Hiphop music)
as well as the white and yellow people.
what a pity!! u must've met only the discriminative girls in Japan.

>4) All Japaneses are rpoud of WWII. May be they are brainwashed by their education, but ppl are so simple-minded that they believe everything they are taught at school.

MY GOD!!! i can clearly see that u've never been to JAPAN!
That's just the opposite.
They are not proud of WWII nor they are not brainwashed either.
besides, so many Japanese students have doubts about their education at school and each one of them have their OWN opinions about the wars and other things.
japan is now getting better in the sense of their ways of thinking.
before, japan was stereotype kind. Now, it's not like that any more.

>5) Living expenses are too high

that's kind of true.
probably not for Japanese people who earn money there.
must be a serious problem for tourists, though.
but still, it depends on what u're comparing it to.

>6) tokyo Yokohama are too dangerous places

i'll rather shut my mouth here since i've never been to Yokohama.

>7) There are so many crazy things in Japan ushc as cults

(ushc=such?)
i have absolutely no idea for this one.
could be true... could be...

>8) Many Japanese ppl talk too loudly, and they don't care about others.

True. even Koreans talk loudly (just for u to know).
i have 3 Korean friends and they are all nice.
if i were to choose one bad point of them,
then i would say that they talk in such a loud voice...
i'm not saying that YOU are talking loudly,
but it's the same things as you say "Japanese ppl are too noisy".
i feel it when i see japanese tourists talking in a restaurant.
they just kept laughing... o, was it noisy...
But most of them are not like this, i believe. (i hope.)

PLEASE DO go to japan and see what it's like.

 

[fugue]

I visited Japan,

No, you didn't.

 

[Mike Cash]

Have you actually been to japan ?

I have been to Japan three times.

Hehe, no. I think I should be happy with that, as I said I like freedom, but you will find a weird freedom in America. Allowing guns but the usage of drugs is against the law :? That's weird crap. Guns are actually one of the few things that should be banned...

I wish Japan would require all motorists to carry loaded handguns. Driving manners would take a sharp upswing.

@1 - Come visit Las Vegas, go into a Terribles gas station and see if you want to have a poop - let alone even risk touching anything to wash your hands.

I remember going into a T/A truck stop in Florida, back when I drove trucks in America, and finding the toilet in such a horrible state that I wouldn't even use the urinal. I went back outside and pissed in the parking lot. I'm sure we've all seen crappers so nasty we wouldn't sit/squat to do our business there, but that was the one and only time I've ever seen something that was too nasty to even piss in.

While on the subject of truck stop toilets, let me put in a good word and a bit of advice for anyone motoring across America. You can always count on finding spotless facilities at any Flying-J truck stop. Toilets and showers both. And you don't have to be a truck driver to make use of either. They're fine places for any motorist, and you can stop there with complete confidence in a pleasant experience.

>3) Japanese girls love ONLY white people, and they are nice to ONLY white ppl

how can u say something like that!! it's a complete crap.
NEVER generalise a thing without knowing it well.
u know what? one of my japanese friends likes black people
(i think it's because she likes Hiphop music)
as well as the white and yellow people.
what a pity!! u must've met only the discriminative girls in Japan.

Here's a little known and seldom remarked upon secret.....

<heresy>
Lots of Japanese girls like Japanese guys
</heresy>

 

[Giorgia_]

Here's a little known and seldom remarked upon secret.....

Lots of Japanese girls like Japanese guys

Exactly!!!!!!!!!! that's what i forgot to mention....

 

[Hero]

I also noticed Japanese are very nice/welcoming to "white" ppl...
Also noticed the Japanese girls often want to talk to the "white" ppl, lol.

There were many guys/girls that wanted to be my friend. And there was many girls that wanted to go out with me, lol. Also one of them wanted to have casual sex with me whenever I wanted even though she had boyfriend... very strange, lol.

sorry.. not trying to brag or nothin.

I met this old man who just started to talk to me outta no where. He was in WW2 and just kept talking to me about how he lost many friends in the war... he was smiling the whole time. I was thinking "Is he not bitter about it?"
Many ppl i met there felt war is bad.

Yes, Fukuoka is great!.. even though it's only part of Japan I've been, lol.
Maybe soo many ppl talk to me and girls want to be my girlfriend because they don't get much foriegners.. or so I heard.

 

[Kyoko-san]

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[Mike Cash]

I met this old man who just started to talk to me outta no where. He was in WW2 and just kept talking to me about how he lost many friends in the war... he was smiling the whole time. I was thinking "Is he not bitter about it?"

My father-in-law was in WW2.

He can hold a unit reunion anytime he wants to. He's the only one from his unit to survive the war.

 

[Brooker]

1) japan has the filthiest toilets in the world.

2) Japan is sexually too corrupted.

3) Japanese girls love ONLY white people, and they are nice to ONLY white ppl

4) All Japaneses are rpoud of WWII. May be they are brainwashed by their education, but ppl are so simple-minded that they believe everything they are taught at school.

5) Living expenses are too high

6) tokyo Yokohama are too dangerous places

7) There are so many crazy things in Japan ushc as cults

8) Many Japanese ppl talk too loudly, and they don't care about others.

My list of unpleasant things about Japan....

1) While using Japan's "filthy" toilets, my legs cramped up and I had to keep from falling backwards with my pants around my ankles.

2) Hostess bars are too expensive and there's no nudity.

3) Not nearly enough Japanese girls threw themselves at my feet.

4) Japanese people constantly brag about how they lost WWII.

5) Since I made so much more money while I was in Japan, now that I'm home, I feel poor.

6) While walking the streets of Tokyo/Yokohama I was deathly afraid of being attacked by groups of school kids or salarymen who are an entire two feet shorter than me, cause, I don't know about you, but Japanese people scare the crap out of me.

7) Japan didn't have nearly enough cults for my taste. I like to have enough options that I can worship satan in the morning and still manage to squeeze in enough time to toss a virgin into a volcano in the afternoon.

8) I wasn't able to eves drop on Japanese conversations because they were being drowned out by the conversations of foreigners.

 

[blessed]

1) hmm, toilets...
ever seen trainspotting?
now halve that and place it in most unmodernised parts of moscow and other big russian cities. trust me, there is no safe distance from a russian public toilet.

2) key, some of their porn is wierd, but, hey, so is germany's (no arguments here please, i've probably seen more than is safe for a whole mongolian horde)
russian paedophile problem? I think ballkicking is incomparable.

3) no idea... but my time will come...

4) yeah, well sadly everyone has some form of patriotism (idiocy from my point of view). They were an empire. You declare yourself an empire, you're out to conquer, so basically, everyone else get ready. In affect, if you get conquered, you have little to complain about, you were given a warning, your fault for not listening. This isn't in defence of human rights issues, but simply of territory grabbing, of which they grabbed a lot in the short time. They should be proud of this achievement, just like England is proud of the fact it owned a 1/3 or 1/4 of the world.

5) in my opinion, the whole world is too expensive: why should a piece of cloth be worth way up into 4 digit numbers?

Consider this: I was in Ukraine just now. Average earnings 20$ a month, yet when it comes to products: petrol, decent clothes, decent houses, and decent foods are priced not too differently from those in western shops. In that sence, life is seriously expensive for the 170 or so poor countries where incomes are so low food is expensive. heck, russia is the 3rd most expensive country but with an average income 20 times lower than that of Japan.
in my opinion, if we exclude tourists, then japan would be, like, one of the cheaper countries: huge incomes and prices that dont increase too much from harrods.

6) In Japan, there were 380000 reported cases of "major" crimes: includes murder, rape, arson, kidnapping, robbery, thefts.

In New York alone, there were 400000 thefts in 2000. with 200000 more serious crimes and 1000 murders.

Murder is 13 times less likely in Japan than in America, with around 1000 murders in the whole country per year (if anyone has seen bowling for columbine, those statistics are seriously underestimated)

so, overall unless you walk around asking people to duel you, you'll be fine.

But still, if you feel unsafe in the safest country in the world, I advise the ISS where crime is non-existent.

7) the biggest cult is any organised religion (which are, to a large extent, abscent in Japan)

8) people talk loud everywhere, but here i agree, it could be annoying for a while, but then you either realise that sometimes you yourself shout in public and think "damn, and I thought I was special, infact I'm just like everyone else", or you just tune it out.

 

[Genius]

1) japan has the filthiest toilets in the world.

I beg to differ on this. You need to come to America and look at some of our public toilets. They are so nasty you think you might catching something just from looking at it. I went to a concert about a year ago and had to piss. All urinals were taken so I went into a stall and found crap on the toilet seat and ground. That was gross.

 

[Brooker]

Of course you can expect that at a concert. That's why you're supposed to take a crap before you go. But if you're at a fancy restaurant or something, the toilet is probably going to be quite clean.

 

[jieshi]

hehe he. If you think tokyo and yokoham are dangerous (and they are meant to be two of the safest cities in the world) come to sydney and have a look around kings cross, darlinghurst and oxford street. I think that would change your mind.

 

[smartguy1]

I agree with you.
The funny thing is that Japaneses are very proud of invading Asian countries and even proud of murdering some Americans.
In some countries, these things are shameful history, but Japaneses think it is a proudful thing.
I also agree that in Japan, students have no respect to any eldery or any ppl that they don't even know.
USA is far better than Japan.

I love the US

My list of unpleasant things about Japan....

1) While using Japan's "filthy" toilets, my legs cramped up and I had to keep from falling backwards with my pants around my ankles.

2) Hostess bars are too expensive and there's no nudity.

3) Not nearly enough Japanese girls threw themselves at my feet.

4) Japanese people constantly brag about how they lost WWII.

5) Since I made so much more money while I was in Japan, now that I'm home, I feel poor.

6) While walking the streets of Tokyo/Yokohama I was deathly afraid of being attacked by groups of school kids or salarymen who are an entire two feet shorter than me, cause, I don't know about you, but Japanese people scare the crap out of me.

7) Japan didn't have nearly enough cults for my taste. I like to have enough options that I can worship satan in the morning and still manage to squeeze in enough time to toss a virgin into a volcano in the afternoon.

8) I wasn't able to eves drop on Japanese conversations because they were being drowned out by the conversations of foreigners.

 

[senseiman]

I agree with you.
The funny thing is that Japaneses are very proud of invading Asian countries and even proud of murdering some Americans.
In some countries, these things are shameful history, but Japaneses think it is a proudful thing.
I also agree that in Japan, students have no respect to any eldery or any ppl that they don't even know.
USA is far better than Japan.

I love the US

That is complete BS. I have never met a Japanese person who was proud that Japan invaded its asian neighbors during the war. Americans proud of their country invading Vietnam, Iraq, etc? Yeah, meet them all the time, but never have I met a Japanese who possesed such jingoistic views. You have no idea what you are talking about.

 

[Tateishi]

Smartguy1 just seems completely blinded by his hate for the Japanese or he has ran into a few dumb arse Japanese people. Your view are completely ignorant and you put all Japanese in the same category. I have never meet a Japanese who is proud of their war history or boast about their defeat in WW2. I have however meet Japanese who do respect the elderly and show plenty of respect to people who deserve it, even without knowing them. I suggest you get your facts straight before before posting sutff like this.

 

[Hero]

Yes I noticed lots of respect and kindness in Japan. Even to strangers. Some of the students who also came on the trip got lost in the city and a Japanese person (stranger) drove them back to the dorms, lol.

But I did notice in the university classes... a lot of the girls chatter and E-mail while the teacher is talking. I think it's rude.. but then again, us Americans are always told not to do this 'cause it's rude. Maybe it's ok in their society???

There were a few times I was referred to as hakujin and gaijin... my girl says gaijin is bad version of gokujin (however you spell it). I was kinda mad but I got over it.

 

[jieshi]

Smartguy1 just seems completely blinded by his hate for the Japanese or he has ran into a few dumb arse Japanese people. Your view are completely ignorant and you put all Japanese in the same category. I have never meet a Japanese who is proud of their war history or boast about their defeat in WW2. I have however meet Japanese who do respect the elderly and show plenty of respect to people who deserve it, even without knowing them. I suggest you get your facts straight before before posting sutff like this.

I second that motion. No one likes a person who posts stuff about something and can't back it up with facts or evidence

 

[Eve]

what's katsu curry?

 

[Mike Cash]

Yes I noticed lots of respect and kindness in Japan.

Out of curiosity. Was any of the going-out-of-the-way sort of kindness you observed Japanese-to-Japanese? Or was it all Japanese-to-foreigner?

 

[TyPe-ZeRo]

It's fairly obvious that many people have their own experiences about Japan and other countries. May the be bad or good, it shouldn't discourage a person's adventurous side to visit any country in this whole world. It's funny how theres people who say "so and so's country is horrible" and theres always someone to contradict that statement. Everyone has THEIR OWN experiences. Also I will re-iterate that it SHOULD NOT discourage anyone from visiting Japan or ANY OTHER Country!

Theres a lot of bad places, they don't just exist in the U.S. / Japan. These places exist EVERYWHERE in this world.

the whole weird fetish / cult thing is absurd. I've read that the Japanese are fairly more open to sex than europeans / americans where sex is a topic that isn't as widely spoken about (ie Paradise T.V.)

and it's suprising that you bring up sexually corrupt. The U.S. is corrupt also, if a male touches a females shoulder accidently, the female can file a lawsuit for thousands of dollars and get some type of compensation from their employer. What about divorce in the U.S. , the ex-wife would get 1/2 of all possesions? I'm not saying its corrupt, I believe that women should be treated as fairly as men and shouldn't be considered inferior to each other. But I believe the sexual harassment thing a bit too harsh. Sorry I offended anyone :?

 

[Mike Cash]

I second that motion. No one likes a person who posts stuff about something and can't back it up with facts or evidence

Unless it's something positive. Those are among the more common posts here.

 

[Reiku]

I've never had the fortune to visit Japan, but I know prejudice when I see it--and smartguy1 is full of it.

I've been letting myself get into arguments on this forum a little too easily, so I won't bother responding in detail--but there is one thing I have to point out:

4) All Japaneses are rpoud of WWII. May be they are brainwashed by their education, but ppl are so simple-minded that they believe everything they are taught at school.

Yeah, well, like I said I've never been to Japan, so I can't really comment on the validity of that statement...

....but I can say that we in the U.S. seem pretty proud of WWII as well, and--last time I checked--we were the only country that nuked two cities full of innocent civillians during that or any other war.

Personally, I think any country that hasn't committed such an atrocity should be damned proud of itself.

 

[kirei_na_me]

what's katsu curry?

Tonkatsu with curry sauce poured over it. One of my favorites. *drool*