Japan experience...
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- Stoph
Hi guys
Just been briefed on a project for Japan for a product launch site. Can't tell you the product, soz!
Does anybody have any cool insights (links), cultural or whatever on the day-to-day Japanese way of life.
The product will be aimed at adults as opposed to the youth market.
Just looking for that spark of inspiration but I don't now much about Japan or the current culture... other than the obvious technology, small homes, etc.
Any help would be great!
Cheers.
- mrdobolina0
what type of product is it?
- honest0
Japanese are typically modest, humble and proud. Their day-to-day is made up of motions towards respect, kindness and considerateness.
TV adverts are only ever watched by housewives as they tend only to be at home with spare time on their hands.
They love coffee, social drinking and quirky things.
any more questions?
- 23kon0
one of my mates was over in japan teaching english.
he reckoned that a lot of them were very racist towards him in day to day life and almost considered a second class citizen.
definitely not the sort of way i'd thought the japanese would be.- I think the same can be said of any nationality with foreign visitors.
I was born in Hammersmith but still get told to 'go home'.honest - 23kon can have a point. japanese have closed their country for 2-3rd world immigrants.drgs
- there were a few moments where I felt discriminated against in tokyo, I was called a gaijin by 3 salarymen on a train. some old folks wouldn't ride the elevator with me, etc.mrdobolina
- on a train. some old folks wouldn't ride the elevator with me, etc.mrdobolina
- Yeah, but you looked like a skinhead dobs...:)TheBlueOne
- shaved head, khaki shirt 6 foot 2mrdobolina
- I had the total opposite effect. I've been there twice. They loved me! specially the chicks!sofakingzero
- I think the same can be said of any nationality with foreign visitors.
- Stoph0
This is good...
- Hanseatic0
They can't say R, unless they mean L, and then they can't stop saying R.
If they mean L though, they say R.
- I mean, if they say L, it means R ( R is L)Hanseatic
- Learry?Seanbot
- quite riterlally.Hanseatic
- rolls royce.mrdobolina
- TheBlueOne0
Keep in mind most Japanese interaction with the internet is via cel phones - so you better have a mobile component to your project. Also check out Japanese social sites like Mixi, etc.
- e-pill0
i use mixi a lot when im in japan.
- BrokenAC0
i very much want to get to Tokyo by the end of '08 beginning of '09. stay out there for a minute, teach english, freelance design, get our music in stores and rock mad shows.., oh and eat lots of japanese food yum ^A^
to 23kon et al ยป what race(s) were the "2nd class citizens" you're all referring to? or just foreigners in general?
- futuremongolian0
lived in japan for quite about a year and a half. woke up in a few gutters, ate alot of ramen and gyu don. all around good times.
- Llyod0
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