What do you not like or hate about Japan?

[Gaijinian]

And they are different from teenagers in the US and S. Korea? U.S. teens are awful (I should know, I probably trained most of them ;p), and S. Korean teenagers are no better.

It is always charming to see people stereotype ten of hundreds of thousands of people after MAYBE, what 50 examples or less (how that equates to "most" teenagers in the US, I have no idea)?

Your just jealous because you going to die soon.

Oh, and from your profile: you like "Modern culture," right? In general, what age group do you associate with "Modern culture?" ....maybe it is because you having a mid-life crisis (of which the people effected are MUCH worse than teenagers).

Anyway, it is not my generation that is ruining the world, the economy (quite the contrary, do you know what the economy would be like without teenagers? We buy A.LOT), and voted Bush into office...
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As far as this thread is concerned, I was only there for two weeks, so I tried to make the best of it as I could.
THINGS I LIKED:
1.) Being a serious chic magnet.
2.) In general, the food (BUT--heh, sometimes this could go either way).
3.) Using/hearing the Japanese language (I don't know why, but I love studying the language soooo much).
4.) Watching 80 year olds climb hundreds of stairs to put a few coins in a bucket at some shrine (it was inspirational).
5.) The trains (especially the shinkansen, I loved being able to rotate my chair).
6.) Seeing people bow while talking on a 携帯.
7.) Toilets (the cool ones).
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Things I didn't/don't like:
1.) Yasukuni jinja.
2.) 白い目で見られる事。 I felt like I was a criminal.
3.) Even if I spoke Japanese, people would reply in English (or in not English, some thing like: Nihongo Joooo~zu!!! Sunngoi!, and if in a group, they'll often talk amongst them selves: Sono GAIJIN, nihongo shabereru'nda!, as if it is too unreal to believe).
5.) In general, the people are pretty ignorant of politics and other cultures.
6.) So HOT! No AC!! I'm going to go crazy!
7.) The toilets (the not cool ones, the "Japanese" style ones).

 

[Ravenwood]

The only thing I do not like about Japan are some of the attitudes of older Japanese men. They seem very sexist.
This may be a stereotype due to the limited broadcast of things Japanese in the US. Please correct me if I am wrong.

 

[Gaijinian]

Hello, my fellow Wisconsinite!!!!!
Hmmm, you might be somewhat right, 残念ながらそうかもしれません・・・。

Where in WI do you live?

 

[Mike Cash]

Anyway, it is not my generation that is ruining the world

Yes it is.

Before your generation it was my generation that was ruining the world. And before mine, it was my parents' generation. Before them, theirs. Ad infinitum backwards one step at a time all the way to Cane and Abel.

 

[Carlson]

lol damn it.. you know what i mean.. it could happen to anyone...

 

[Mike Cash]

lol damn it.. you know what i mean.. it could happen to anyone...

Absolutely I know what you mean. We're all human, it could happen to anyone, and I certainly don't think any less of you because you had a little fender bender.

I only wanted to point out that it is important to recognize that you weren't an innocent victim; you caused the accident.

 

[Carlson]

well then what about the amount of damage i caused and what they actualy charged for?

i did not push the bumper in at all.. it ended up with a slight around 15 cm vertical scratch.. did not break the paint. and they charged me for a new bumper and new paint job for the car...

 

[Ravenwood]

Hello, my fellow Wisconsinite!!!!!
Hmmm, you might be somewhat right, 残念ながらそうかもしれません・・・。

Where in WI do you live?

I live north of Madison.

 

[Mike Cash]

well then what about the amount of damage i caused and what they actualy charged for?
i did not push the bumper in at all.. it ended up with a slight around 15 cm vertical scratch.. did not break the paint. and they charged me for a new bumper and new paint job for the car...

Welcome to the land where insurance companies don't require three estimates and where the person at fault has little other option than to cough up the dough.

What was your attitude at the scene? I once had glass from a broken mirror (mine) fall down and damage the paint on the door of a taxi. At the scene I accepted full blame for the damage, promised full restitution, and apologized sincerely for the inconvenience....and the cab company said "Forget about it, we have paint around the shop and we'll just touch it up ourselves."

 

[Child_prey]

I read somewhere here on the jref.forum that they consider it OK to take baths with their 20 year old doughters (the fathers) and that the chiildren sometimes sleep in the same room as their parents, even though they are like 14-16 years old...?!!! Thats... something I wouldn't want to do..... And that they don't seem to have a real sence of humor, they laugh at anything, esp the school girls... quite annoying..... And the fact that they love themselves so much and look down on others.... Women are supposed to quit their job when they marry.... heh, I can go on and on.... But they have good sides too.

 

[Mike Cash]

I read somewhere here on the jref.forum that they consider it OK to take baths with their 20 year old doughters (the fathers) and that the chiildren sometimes sleep in the same room as their parents, even though they are like 14-16 years old...?!!! Thats... something I wouldn't want to do..... And that they don't seem to have a real sence of humor, they laugh at anything, esp the school girls... quite annoying..... And the fact that they love themselves so much and look down on others.... Women are supposed to quit their job when they marry.... heh, I can go on and on.... But they have good sides too.

Any opinions based on something other than hearsay garnered from the internet?

 

[Child_prey]

Any opinions based on something other than hearsay garnered from the internet?

it's only the part about the parents and children that I read about, the other stuff I experienced....

 

[yukio_michael]

Dislikes, hmm... obatarian, the cost of a commerical music compact-disc, the cost of beer!, generally speaking the cost of everything, mayo on pizza, people not looking where they are going a lot of times, cheesy yankii tuff guys & their loud cars, the lack of a good Meixcan joint or Italian restaraunt (I'm sure the latter exists, I just havent found it....), spaghetti sauce from the store tasting like "Chef Boyardee", the use of English primarily as an aesthetic device on packaging or clothing etc, obnoxious designer wear such as Red Monkey, or A Bathing Ape which create value through scarcity or fad, rather than actual quality or worth (I know that scarcity and fad can create a percieved value anywhere, but this is the exact intention of Nigo's Bathing Ape line, to instill an instant value through scarcity...), 'binbo culture, or poor culture' on television and in the media, 'slow life' culture proponents who don't acknowledge that you can't actually practition such a lifestyle in Japan unless you're a freeter living with your parents, too much manga...

 

[Mike Cash]

it's only the part about the parents and children that I read about, the other stuff I experienced....

I stand corrected. My misunderstanding arose from the way your post was phrased up until the words "quite annoying". Each of those items was connected back with stuff you read on JREF.

 

[Raoul_Lion]

hi at all,i'm a newcomer and i don't know well how to use this site,soon i'll write what a like of the beautifull japan!!

 

[Carlson]

well i thought i was nice.. lol..

my gf did most of the talking i just waited and answered whatever questions she asked...

 

[yukio_michael]

hi at all,i'm a newcomer and i don't know well how to use this site,soon i'll write what a like of the beautifull japan!!

This is the dislikes thread.

 

[Carlson]

he got lost?... lol

 

[Ebichu_chan]

1. Geographic conditon (earthquake, typhoon, etc)
2. Everything is soooooo expensive!!!!! (hotel, transportation, clothes, even foods! Can't shop much there ... )
3. Some areas are too crowded