/jp/ - Otaku Culture

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whats life like living in japan?

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Depressing.

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>>20772185
but i thought it was the land of the dreams

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i love anime may

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>>20773841
and manga!

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>>20773895
its mongga (몽가) you uneducated shit

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Like anywhere else bud.

Work here takes alot of time up.

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>>20779837
>here

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You get to go to an all female high school and the girls all crave your dick.

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>>20772171
Very fast paced and with little rest.

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>>20772171
Tokyo is just like the US to be honest, but you take a train everywhere instead of driving, which has its upsides and downsides. It's definitely more convenient, and the inside of the major train stations usually have some surprisingly good stores even, but there's a weird loss of freedom you experience when you are shuffling through jampacked trainstations all of the time. I never appreciated driving once in my entire life until I was in Tokyo.
Convenience stores everywhere is also nice, but honestly, in most major US cities there are convenience stores full of edible food too. The only real difference is the price in US City convenience stores is exorbitant, while the ones in Tokyo are cheap. If you live in the US Suburbs where convenience stores are pure trash it'll be neat though probably.
US Work culture is pretty excessive, and Japan makes US work culture seem like heaven. The worst part is the forced drinking afterwards, the required social obligation of drinking with your co-workers and boss is soul crushing. You'll either quickly become an alcoholic, or grow to absolutely loathe alcohol and japan's drinking obsessed culture.
Once you become good enough at Japanese to handle daily conversations it becomes increasingly frustrating. People stop being nice to you as you reach the uncanny annoyance of speaking/understanding enough for everyday conversations, but not really enough to have deep conversations with (though not that japanese have any real "deep" conversations, everything is tatemae).

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>>20790405

Please tell us your story and give few practical examples

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>>20772171
Enjoy your karoshi. So many people get worked to death there's actually a word for it and then there's the suicide rate. You'll be married to your job and you won't have a life on top of being a dirty gaijin.

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I'm studying abroad in Japan for 5 months starting in April, and I know basic Japanese. Any advice for living there? Or small things not to do in general? I know not to be
>>20790459
But any more advice on basic interactions or things not to do?

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>>20772171
Offtopic.
>>>/trv/
>>>/int/
>>>/bant/

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>>20790405
How often do they go out drinking? Can't you just have a single beer or something?

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>>20772171
I lived in Japan for a few months, hated everything.

Japanese Women either only have a physical interest in you due to fetishism. Or because they are projecting their rom-com fantasies on you from numerous western romance films she has seen. They literally call this "white guys are gentleman" and they have unrealistic expectations like you giving roses and getting on your knee kissing their hands like in some weird anime. There is also a stereotype that American men are oversexualized animals because every single older woman (married or not) is going to approach you for sex and if you refuse they get angry and tell you that it's free and even grab you by the arm trying to force you in since they can't possibly comprehend that you have emotions and feelings since you are just some non-human gaijin in their eyes.

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>>20790611
>So many people get worked to death there's actually a word for it
You mean like the phrase "worked to death"?

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>>20791439
Truth is married life in Japan is usually devoid of sex as both husband and wife have tons of affairs outside of their marriage. The older women usually go for white guys for the same reasons middle-aged white women make trips to Jamaica and Africa. They think they can score relatively tall well-endowed men for their hardcore sexual fetishes. I personally even knew of one rich Japanese women in her 50s that actually paid a late teens/early 20s white kid as a kind of "sugar mommy" relationship where she paid his rent and gave him gifts and everything all the while she was married of course.

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>>20791439
>>20791469
>women are cheating whores
Imagine my shock

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>>20791458
A phrase isn't a word, numbnuts.
>>20791439
>you giving roses and getting on your knee kissing their hands
Yeah I'd do that, maybe that's just the Italian part of me talking.

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>>20791554
>A phrase isn't a word, numbnuts.
That's my point. karoshi isn't a word, it's a phrase.

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>>20791475
It has a lot to do with Japanese culture. That shit is toxic to the fucking core, I can't understand why anyone would like it. Obligation/sense of duty is huge in Japan, so cunts will work 12 hour days + work drinking parties out of duty, get married and stay married all the while cheating on the spouse, and people will have kids out of obligation to their family/society only to treat them like shit. You can be a huge piece of shit in Japan, but you better do it privately.

This isn't rare either, it's insanely common. I myself regrettably have cheated with a Japanese girl, married and partnered women have sexually propositioned me (once in front of their spouse fucking weirdly) and I know of and have witnessed the same thing happen to others. My interest in Japan and Japanese people has basically dropped to zero because of it.

Next post will deal with their education system.

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>>20791565
Perhaps you could say its a compound word?

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>>20791439
>>20791469

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>>20791608
how's their educational system?

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>>20792687
>how's their educational system?
Atrocious, absolutely Atrocious. Take my experience as hearsay.

In my lowly days as a high school English teacher in Japan, I remember thinking that the way teachers work here is extremely inefficient and unnecessarily tiring. Talk for 2 hours while drinking coffee, complain about being tired for 1 hour, and do all your planning and paperwork after hours. I know there's a cultural element there where people work together and stay late to support others, but it always seemed like they could shave a lot of time off of their work day and still get everything done. I have watched three teachers fail badly at the school I work in, and have seen ludicrously inefficient practices. Teachers fail to use technology well and have little chance for professional development. The kids at risk (those living in poverty, or with learning disabilities, or emotional/physiological problems) do not have special needs teachers, and school counselors have few days at our school and are booked up all the time.

Japan is a dying Nation not worth saving.

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>>20792853
Ah, thank you for your insight.
If possible could you tell us the nightlife or how it feels to live in the countryside?

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>>20792853
>Japan is a dying Nation not worth saving.
Come on, anon, it can't be that bad. There has to be something you still like about it, right?

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>>20792853

>Teachers fail to use technology well and have little chance for professional development.

Can you elaborate on this, I've understood that teacher is a well paid and respected career that also very competitive (getting a spot as one), although terribly overworked even by Japanese standards.

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>>20792853
>they could shave a lot of time off of their work day and still get everything done
nobody does this shit even in the west. imagine if you had a job where if you worked more efficiently, you can go home early while being paid the same amount. doesn't fucking happen. jobs are basically 50% wasted time, keeping you where you'd rather not be for the sake of training you to become an obedient modern slave that thinks it's the norm.

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>>20772196
doraemon forever!

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>>20793793
Lewd

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I came into this thread knowing what to expect and I got just that. That's the depressing part about it.

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>>20792853
There's always some guy posting doom and gloom about japans future. If you look at the facts though, you'll see japan is the third largest economy in the world and that's not going to change anytime soon. Japan is doing just fine.

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Are the japanese subways clean at all?
Here in the US they smell like piss and shit

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Izuna 3 fucking when?

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>>20792853
"hearsay" is the key word here.
An individuals experience motivated enough to speak about it.

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>>20791469
do celebrities cheat on their wives/husbands

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T-this isn't like my Japanese sweatshop doodles.
>Rampant cheating
I saw an interview about it on some YouTube channel that painted the same picture, but i didn't want to believe it.

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I guess it all depends on what you compare it with.
If you live in a shithole it will seem better, if you're used to an higher standard then it will seem worse.
I heard for years how expensive Japan was, to the point of being a mythical luxurious place in my head. But not too long ago I discovered my city, in a shitty country, is actually most expensive than fucking Tokyo.
Also heard how many hours they can work, being the whole country some sort of massive sweatshop; but then again, in my beloved homeland I have worked for years 70h/week for little more than peanuts.
I guess Japan isn't too bad if you're there legally and you don't go expecting some sort of holyland.

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>>20798529
It's still coasting off of the late 80's high and being a US client state.

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>>20772171
Mostly normal. I was a hermit in America, I'm a hermit here.

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>>20792853
>>20793003
>Japan is a dying Nation not worth saving.

All the native Japanese people I know agree with this sadly. The schools and work environment are apparently awful but show no signs of changing because of how strongly ingrained things are in the culture.

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>>20798933
Very clean, also incredibly depressing. Just droves of people addicted to mobile shit that are clearly fed up with life

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>>20803663
While it doesn't apply to your post, my question to "country X is dying" is always:

1. Is your country not dying?
2. If it is, is there anywhere which is not?
3. If not, what's the net negative?

It's not political, as much as I've had so many fatalists online give this line in an offhanded fashion (you don't).

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>>20803696
For context I bounce between Canada and Australia which both have myriad of issues. I've just heard compared to other first world countries Japan has some of the worst education and work conditions in terms of the culture bringing people to suicide. I should note my evidence only comes from visiting and talking to friends and not statistics so its anecdotal at best. I've also heard the same people say out of all of Asia they'd still pick Japan.

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This video sums it up pretty well.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M_j2FHtxB6I

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>>20803714
>Canada
lel

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>>20803913
I'm surprised you didn't chirp Australia

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>>20803714
>Australia
lel
t. ausfag

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>>20804761
I'm Canadian.

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>>20807060
I'm sorry

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I have lots of money living in Tokyo but I don't really know what to do with it

Too scared of STDs for soaplands

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I tried this sugar daddy website and it seems like guys really pay girls just to go to lunch/coffee

I had about one hundred girls looking at my profile and lots of them messaging me in hopes of money before I lost interest

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>>20809866
Get pure schoolgirls to come over and give you the soapland treatment instead.

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>>20791608
It's always unattractive/unpopular women that proposition me. That or golddiggers

Most cute girls just want to get married, have kids then never have sex again.

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>>20809893
I can't decide what's worse - Tinder culture in the west or just paying for companionship/sex here. I guess the answer depends on whether you're Chad or wealthy

It's kind of pathetic how excited Japanese guys are just to talk to a girl (hostess clubs, etc.) They're still in middle school mentality.

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>>20791439
>There is also a stereotype that American men are oversexualized animals because every single older woman (married or not) is going to approach you for sex and if you refuse they get angry and tell you that it's free and even grab you by the arm trying to force you in since they can't possibly comprehend that you have emotions and feelings since you are just some non-human gaijin in their eyes.
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>>20791439
>Japanese Women either only have a physical interest in you due to fetishism. Or because they are projecting their rom-com fantasies on you from numerous western romance films she has seen. They literally call this "white guys are gentleman" and they have unrealistic expectations like you giving roses and getting on your knee kissing their hands like in some weird anime.
You know what, I'd like that. As long as it doesn't have to be some super-gross obaa-san.

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>>20791439
>every single older woman (married or not) is going to approach you for sex and if you refuse they get angry and tell you that it's free and even grab you by the arm trying to force you in
Oh no the horror

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>>20813121
you know you were just replying to an old pasta right?

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I enjoyed my few months there, but I am not whitey white, I am a tall Italian/Asian looking dude(im 'white Hispanic') . If you are a stick in the mud, i.e blonde hair,ginger etc you will be treated as a mega novelty by most Japanese but on the plus the elusive gaijin hunter will beeline for you.
Japanese Girls are muuuuch more roundabout than western girls, but ended up scoring a lot simply because I went out a lot. Including making out with a Highschool girl(dont worry i am 21 and she was 18), fucked 25-30 year olds in love hotels(i prefer older women) blah blah sex is everywhere. I love being able to drink at basically whatever time I want and that the city/train system locks everyone out to party till train open.

Honestly going to Japan for anime or weeb shit is a fucking mistake, dont do it if thats why you want to come over. You will be bored within a week. If you love to party and seeing new culture and dont have a disgusting level of yellow fever you will have tons of fun.

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>>20815315
jk, it sucks

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>>20815315
>implicitly claims not to be a weeb
>posting on a weeb board
*SNAP*
This one's going in my cringe compilation!

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>>20815336
>implying i said i wasnt, learn to hide ur power level for a few months its all worth it

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>>20815315
> Including making out with a Highschool girl(dont worry i am 21 and she was 18), fucked 25-30 year olds in love hotels(i prefer older women) blah blah sex is everywhere
nice larp

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>>20815370
At least let me roleplay in this mongolian puppet show board :(

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>>20815336
>>20815342
who are you quoting?

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>>20815457
a larper

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>>20791469
Very interesting... Just out of curiosity, where could one find such women?

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ITT: fox and grapes fags that've never been in Japan

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>>20813709
That doesn't make the story truer or faker.