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Why Japan? Why are we interested about it? |
Travel Info Why Japan? why are we interested about it so much (I mean we gaijin's). That question poped in to my head after reading CYN question: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;... After reading CYN's question I started to think, Yeah why Japan? Why im i so into Japanese Culture, Jpop, and Anime. Then I realize the roots of this intrest - When I was a young I alywas watch this show called 'Japan Video Topics'. It was a show about Japan made to attract tourist. Then there was this Anime boom when I was in Philippines that made me learn more about Japanese Culture. To be honest as well i'll include Japanses girls and Japanese fassion (especially Cosplay!). So how about you? Travel Tips As a foreigner who has lived in Japan for the last six years, the initial attraction was the way that Anime and Japanese life are surprisingly close. I have seen places in Anime and then accidentally stumbled accross the same places whilst out and about. It is the strange "life but not as we know it" feel where day to day life seems to pass by as normal nobodyelse bats an eyelid when you see somebody bobbing down the street in a completely outrageous costume. For the first two years I was here, I felt as though I was living in an anime! Cosplay has to be seen to be believed. It is truly the missing link between real Japan and anime. I think that rather than growing up Westernised as many other countries did or holding their own culture dear as other countries do, Japan went on a crash course of Westernisation which did result in some tragic losses in real Japanese culture but also means that some really Western things also hold Japanese culture within them. This theme fascinates people from western countries as it is almost like an alternative to the life you know. The remains of customs that are performed daily but most people don't even know what they mean or where they originate from. The striving factor to keep the "wa" or the balance by not straying from the crowd. The poor business men who routinely take responsibility for the mistakes of their peers and commit suicide accordingly. The people who live with their parents until their mid thirties so that they can blow the larger portion of their salaries on designer wear. Major Japanese companies who refuse to employ the great great great great grandchildren of shamed samurai. The refusual to lose face by admitting mistakes even in the face of the facts. The "dango" where the police, government and yakuza all work together behind closed doors. I could go on forever... On the outside it is amazing to behold yet on the inside, the depths that some things run to is unbelievably deep. No matter how deep you run into Japan, there is always more waiting for you and that is what makes us keep coming back again and again and again. Source(s): 6 straight years of living in Japan running a legitimate business despite "pressures" from external sources to do otherwise. Other Travel Tips I am still relatively young. I'm not so much intrested in Jpop unless it is involved with anime. There is two reasons in particulary intrested in: food and parks in while sakuras are falling. Because they have saturated our markets. And frankly they are pretty healthy people. i love their fashion..its very unique and they r very creative ..so as their tech Asian culture yes, japan not so much. For me Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, been to Indo and Thai, Msia next year oh and my gf is Indo too - that helps What other culture can put a smile on your face so easily? |
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