I ❤ Japan
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- MrT17
- This is my kind of shiz.shellie
- +1garbage
- Super neat. This is totally going to get stolen for a telco or energy companies next campaign.thumb_screws
- Lol. This is for a power company, Kandenko, big grid company in Japan. But let's see the western companies with their tasteless Getty image stock footage motionshapesalad
- graphic videos catch up and try to copy it.shapesalad
- AwesomeGnash
- magicalutopian
- PhanLo16
- lolskinny_puppy
- Less thinkin’... More drinkin’!!!ideaist
- Kanpai?Continuity
- RIPBRAIN BARsted
- de4k16
A project I worked on with some travel photographers recently...
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- drgs7
If you hire a moving company in Japan, they will do this to your building to avoid damaging anything. This costs a fortune, of course. Just use the same money for any repairs, you donkeys
- yeah, never mind the environment impact of all that plastic.shapesalad
- the customer wants to do everything possible not to 'offend' neighbours by having their removal scrap the wall a little... oh no, can't offend, keep it polite.shapesalad
- I think its cardboard
https://translate.go…drgs - https://www.the0123.…
https://www.cmc1000.…drgs - I'm sure it's for high quality goods not for the averageAQUTE
- That's looney tunesPhanLo
- More effort than just being careful.i_monk
- They're surprisingly wasteful over there.Nairn
- Vinyl plastic wrap...it's also a human carcinogen.utopian
- I've had a bathroom remodel company and a moving company do similar to a lesser extent, and leave glue residue all over the floors and walls. Hard pass.5timuli
- This is what living in fear looks like at a societal level.shapesalad
- Collective, country-wide obsessive–compulsive disorder. If there is one place where LSD water supply terrorism could be allowed, it is definitely Japandrgs
- Just be perfect, avoid damaging.********
- milfhunter8
Uonami Fish Bar - Tokyo
- Continuity4
Time in Japan.
It works different.
- Is it because they don't trust foreigners and they want to be extra sure?palimpsest
- There's gotta be a better way than tacking 5 extra hours on the day, though.Continuity
- Time is a flat circle. 24 hours is just *aléatoire*.palimpsest
- A more precise directive would have been: No drinking if you're having fun.palimpsest
- time works differently in japan...pango
- Dat temporality-feel.palimpsest
- flol!Continuity
- Could they be implying "unitl 5am"?stoplying
- the ❤ in the NO is such a subtle dick moveKrassy
- stoplying, yes, that's exactly what they're doing, fairly common tactic in asiaimbecile
- Yes Stoplying-san, writing 29:00 they imply 5am. It's common way to write "one evening duration" in Japan.sephil
- Ah, thats right, sephil-kun — you live in Japan, don't you?Continuity
- Yes Continuity-sama. I do.sephil
- Nice, sephil-dono! Expect me to reach out to on LinkedIn soon, I've been having some Japan thoughts in the last few months, and might want to pick your brain.Continuity
- ok_not_ok6
- Cool bar. Would love to open a bar like this.microkorg
- I could really do with spending an evening in there.Nairn
- very nice. would spend time there.umbee54
- with Gardener on your side, guaranteed successimbecile
- There's also Shinichi Osawa's http://ginzamusicbar…shapesalad
- https://www.youtube.…shapesalad
- milfhunter9
Tomorrow i'll be flying to japan! Staying for 3 weeks together with my fiancee.
- Awesome!********
- Oh, so no MILF hunting in Japan?********
- Awesome!
- shapesalad4
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"Even the decades old machines are free of any kind of vandalism. I would love to live in this kind of respectful society!"We have a lot to learn from the Japanese.
- I found it crazy those being out in the street, even ones selling beer. In Scotland, people would shag them.PhanLo
- the japanese are a homogenized culture. everyone is cut from the same cloth.hotroddy
- @hot, nicely put. +
"everyone is cut from the same cloth."******** - highest suicide rate worldwide an #1 cause of death for people aged 14-29. 70 suicides/day.mekk
- pros and cons to every country...inteliboy
- I prefer a society where the suicide rate is high and the murder rate is low.imbecile
- drgs0
https://www.qbn.com/reply/386955…
5. Arguably the most racist country in the world. Japan is a closed country and the people are culturally narrow-minded. A Japanese person who has lived abroad together with the "white apes" and who has absorbed even a little bit of foreign culture will never be Japanese again when he returns home.
6. People talk about nothing else but food -- especially true for women. Japanese women are void of personal opinion. Topics like politics, movies etc are limited to a certain group of people. People in general avoid voicing any strong or shocking statements. Say if you have some bad news, like you been fired from your job, you cannot say it directly, but you add the word "maybe". "I was maybe fired from my job" while avoiding eye contact.
7. The country which invents nothing and copies everything. Normally that's what we think of China, but where China copies something, they will somehow make it better. Japanese science consists of people working 100 hour weeks (50 effective hours + 50 pretending hours) on the dumbest and most useless problems possible
8. Romantic, courteous, passionate love which we consider to be universal, is really just a part of our Western culture, and does not necessarily apply to other cultures, especially true for Asia in general, but they do like sex. People are either complete virgins, fetishists, pedophiles or something else sexual, but not interested being in a relationship for other reasons than sex. For this reason most people are single, dare nothing and avoid everyone.
- increasingly get the feeling you're writing a 'manifesto'
don't do anything silly.Fax_Benson - sounds like you've not actually met or got to know any Japanese people. there's 120m of them, hard to generalise. you could look at UK or USA from outside andshapesalad
- make such sweeping statements...shapesalad
- Equally - it sounds like you know some Japanese people well.shapesalad
- I have a childhood friend in Japan whom I visitdrgs
- The xenophobia is strong with this one.i_monk
- Hmmm so Asian people don't fall in love? Romance was invented by white people?yuekit
- This kind of reads like a 4chan post so not sure if serious or not.yuekit
- Asians fall in love, but they don't build their whole existence around it, like we do. If 99% of our music is about love, in Japan its maybe 50%.drgs
- The other half is sentimental snot chewing, like rainy weather, a song about an oil painting, living a quiet life etcdrgs
- Cultures are different, shockingdrgs
- Lol @shapesalad, hypocrite king of generalized statements against “Americans”imbecile
- I think they put all their love and passion into their work and craft if not each other._niko
- Cultures are different but it’s possible to exaggerate this to the point of absurdity...I mean cmon hahayuekit
- About “romantic love” you ever watch a Bollywood film or Korean TV series? Just to name two examples off the top of my head.yuekit
- "sounds like" comments are usually unsubstantiated.cannonball1978
- "Things not to like about Japan" followed by "cultures are different, shocking".i_monk
- I don't know any other country which is more soulless, depressed, lonely, at the same time conformist and inflexible than Japandrgs
- It will be dead in 20-40 years because of all these reasons. Fuck Japan and all anime loving losers who stay at home, groom themselves and do nothing elsedrgs
- Starts: "Arguably the most racist country in the world"
Ends: "It will be dead in 20-40 years.. Fuck Japan" ...sheeshSlashPeckham - Racial hygiene is their primary concern -- at the governmental level. They might be one head shorter than you, but rest assured they look down at you from abovedrgs
- https://www.youtube.…Beeswax
- increasingly get the feeling you're writing a 'manifesto'
- Nairn1
:( poor girl
- This popped up my Youtube recommends too. Those places look brutal.PhanLo
- I'd love to know how many of my YT recommendations are global and how many are from the QBN bubble. I'm sure the latter has some input.Nairn
- I'd watched a short thing about those places before, but I reckon there is some QBN crossover for sure. :-)PhanLo
- i think i saw this before on qbnrenderedred
- Seems like both people are depressed. It doesn't seem like they can't afford to live elsewhere. I wonder where they keep their stuff?sarahfailin
- "QBN" Bubble for sure...keewee
- they keep stuff in locks, coin lockers are stations. seen it myself when i lived there. there was a guy that 'slept' at a 24hr restaurant... very neat and tidy.shapesalad
- That guy is doing the 'digital nomad' thing all wrong. He should buy a laptop and go work from Okinawa or Fuji Five Lakes...yuekit
- shapesalad3
- Does self-isolation mean we're going to see shades of the old internet, as here? If so, CoronaVirus 2020 might just be worth it!Nairn
- That is some top notch translation.i_monk
- I think we already are Nairn, way more creative self initiated projects out there. I've seen so many good animations lately.PhanLo
- this is really strange even without the Sax.Beeswax
- that’s a strange saxMrT
- GuyFawkes2
Damn
- holy fuck! so much power but also one of the best shaped waves I've ever seen!capn_ron
- did you see the cat surfing it?AQUTE
- I missed that by 3 days :(********
- I was also all booked up to be in Phuket for Xmas 2004.********
- Damn. All of those people on the jetti just took it...toemaas
- Ex colleagues two daughters were in a beach hut bar in Phuket in 2004. Wave ripped the place apart. Two of them clung to a pillar and survived.microkorg
- Others in the bar didn't. Heard the story firsthand from one of them. Horrific.microkorg
- The land grab that followed is a great under reported story.********
- drgs4
- lolGuyFawkes
- I wanted to believe: https://pbs.twimg.co…zarkonite
- it's nikka and it's deliciousdoesnotexist
- utopian1
FUCK YOU JAPAN!
- You tell em!Maaku
- we all cry when it's a large sea going creature but I don't see any tears shed for sardines! Sardine lives matter too!shapesalad
- I’m having sardines for teaMrT
- whales don't produce methane, so it's okay.bezoar
- whales killing is the most stupid thing everBennn
- I agree with Benn, those murderous whales won’t get away with it!_niko
- killing whales is the most stupid thing everBennn
- the most stupid thing ever, is killing whalesBennn
- the most stupid thing ever, is whales killingBennn
- BuddhaHat2
https://japantoday.com/category/…
A Japanese filmmaker is shaking Cannes film audiences to the core with a dystopian vision of her country in which old people agree to be euthanised to solve the challenge of a rapidly aging population.
"Plan 75" by Japanese director and writer Chie Hayakawa is based on a very real problem.
Japan is the most rapidly-aging industrial society, a trend that is causing huge economic and political problems as a dwindling number of younger people must support a growing army of the old.
Close to 30 percent of Japan's population is over 65, the majority women, and that rate is expected to continue rising in coming decades.
In the movie, anybody over 75 is encouraged to sign up for a deal with the government by which they receive a sum of money in return for agreeing to be euthanised. A collective funeral is thrown in for free.
- wow!oey_oey
- ok... but.. EARS!!!! What the fuck is up with her EARS!!! OMG!shapesalad
- Slightly odd ears, yes.jagara
- What do they do with the money?drgs
