/jp/ - Otaku Culture

I don't know if I'd actually want to live in Shirakawa village. There's no cute lolis, only hoards of fat tourists.

>>14886912
You gotta go somewhere that nobody knows about.
Like somewhere in Touhoku, where there are tons
of cute lolis who get moist in the pantsu if they
ever see a white gaijin.

>>14886904
Is that Hinamizawa?

>>14887230
It is indeed, anon.

Went to see countryside from one of my fav. eroges. Or rather, the small town and the countryside around.

I want to go see Shirakawa-gou too, probably soon.

>>14887209
You are sick.

I wonder if you could find youkai in those forests.

>>14887368
What eroge, what town?

>>14886904
I live in rural Hokkaido (population less than 5000). Ask me anything.

>>14887585
Can you use chopsticks?

>>14887466
Monobeno

Kami, Kouchi prefecture on Shikoku.

>>14887585
Dounan? Doutou?

>>14888014
Doutei?

>>14887653
Yes.

>>14888140
道東

>>14886904
The people are always so kind. I can't count the number of times that complete strangers have offered up some freshly-harvested home-grown vegetables on my way home.

It's basically just Pennsylvania.

No I'm serious. The houses are of a different design and everyone's asian instead of white rednecks, but the landscape of the region is pretty much the same. I spent money seeing the countryside in Japan and it's the same shit I have at home, even some of the same genus of trees.

>>14886904
Northern part of Japan looks so cozy.

>>14892690
That's hardly the north dude, it's just a few km north-west of Takayama, which itself is nort of Nagoya, central japan....

>>14886904
That big house in the middle (Wada-ke) is pretty cool.

It's been made into a museum for old farm things and some other general information about the village.

I can't remember a whole lot from that house since it's been a while since I went there (2010), but I remember these silkworms really well.

Used to be stationed in Japan.

Loved riding my motorcycle up in the mountains and away from the cities of the Kanto plain. Cooler weather, no traffic, nicer people.

Get to see bears, deer, and monkeys in the forest.

I stayed for a week in Yokkaichi.

Live in rural Ibaraki and have been shitposting on /jp/ since 2009. Follow your dreams.

>>14899218
How's the internet?
How big are the bugs?
Is it inconvenient to travel on those tiny ass roads?

It seems selfish to me to visit those isolated towns. I think they should be preserved and free from outsiders.

>>14899371
Eh as long as you don't move there or something you'll just be another face come and gone before they have a chance to even care. I got looked at more in fucking Kyoto than I did in shirakawa go, they've seen your type before and they'll see your type again.

>>14896358
How was Yokkaichi?
Was thinking about passing by it on the way to Ise.

>>14899371
You'll be fine as long as you mind your manners and say hello.

>>14899371
The world isn't a bubble anymore, bro.

>>14899371
It's fine, just treat it like a nature reserve
Take photos, leave footprints

They're ordinary people, not endangered tigers or something.

>>14899354
Japan's internet is lightning fast.
Bugs depend on the region.
Not if you use public transportation! (Japan's public transportation is heavenly. Use it as much a possible.)

>>14899371
By going and touring Japan, you're contributing to its dying economy/society. If you want to "preserve" Japan, go there, and bring your money. Lots of it.

>>14901298
And even better, knock up some of their girls before you leave.

>>14901751
You think fatherless mixed race children are a good thing?

>>14901870
Yeah, they need anything they can get to pay the pensions for their aging population at this point. Half Japanese kids are better that complete foreigners.

How common are dogs in Japan?
They're pretty uncommon in the japanese animes I watch, and when they do show up it's often stray/wild dogs.

>>14902086
No. The Japanese men need to stand the fuck up and create some families.

>>14902154
Yeah, if japanese men just decided to fuck more and make some children, japan's aging population problem wouldn't be this bad.

But it doens't look like it's changing anytime soon.

>>14902154
But they don't so it's good if we give them a little help with their birthrate problem.

>>14902171
All western societies have terrible reproductive rates when you exclude immigrants

I think literally less attractive people are getting rapidly weeded out of the gene pool by not marrying due to mutually impossibly high standards. I still wonder if I should have tried harder and aimed for a gravure idol wife...

Also when you think about it the average Japanese woman doesn't look very fertile

Skinny, small butt/hips, small breasts, etc.

>>14902272
Older women are less fertile, not younger one

>>14902142
I think many people have dogs in Japan.
Unlike animes, wild dogs are hardly seen but I often see wild cats.

>>14886904
>Isn't there something really relaxing about the
>Japanese countryside?

Nope, nothing particular is relaxing about it. It is same as any Western / European rural countryside. You're just fetishizing the Japanese one because you're a weaboo. If anything, Japanese countryside is worse.

The bugs are huge and super loud, like it kills you inside having to listen to that shit all the time and the country Japanese people eat waspmaggots as "dessert".

>>14902500
damn

>>14893050
What the fuck is in those boxes?

>>14902086
>>14902171
>muh aging population
This is retarded. It is no problem unless you think the western system of eternal growth is sustainable, which it isn't.

>>14902500
Nah there's no way people who aren't old as hell still eat that shit. I remember I saw fried crickets being sold, which are comparatively tame, and the only people buying them were super old.

>>14902558
Silk worms. Shirakawa's signature roof style developed so they could store silk worms in the attic.
Also it wouldn't be as much of a problem if there wasn't currently a huge push to let your country be flooded with darkies going on. Euope seems to have largely fallen for it, but Japan seems to be doing well fending them off. We'll see how long that lasts.

>>14902615
The "old people" still force the young kids to eat it (whether they like it or not) because of muh tradition. Countryside Japan is scary!

>>14902500
Never had wasp maggots, but did have boiled silkworm in Korea. Actually weren't so bad once you got over the fact that you were eating literal grub.

>>14902619
Well since I actually do know what you're talking about I can't really deny that you could be right.
How do you know though?

>>14902624
Yes but those are Korean dogs. They are soulless uncivilized pig who should have been forever servants of great Nippon empire.

>>14902626
That guy from MK, who has blades growing out of his forearms and sharp teeth, who makes a living doing documentaries about Japan nowadays, told me.

>>14902635
I talked to the same guy, and he told me over a bowl of boiled wasp larva that he just lied to you about it cause he thought it'd be funny. Sorry.

>>14902646
Nice try, but he wouldn't have let me put it on video and lie to the whole world if it was so.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pio3v2FndOU

>>14902615
>Japan seems to be doing well fending them off. We'll see how long that lasts.

they'll be ok, since they don't have to follow the Kalergi Plan

>>14902654
I guess I'll be back in half an hour. I'd better be in for 30 minutes of japs gargling wasp spawn.

>>14902657
I looked up that plan. That shit is eerily accurate even if it is just a conspiracy theory.

>>14902654
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4jdkf0Ql6o
What kind of insanely boring person watches this stuff?

>>14902678
>Not enjoying unique takes on life however micro they may be
Go back to your flashy-trashy anime, you little runt

>>14902690
I don't watch flashy-trashy anime. I only watch Umaru.

Seems pretty scary.

One of my friends was suicidal after returning from Japan, he couldn't bear with western civilization anymore. He wasn't even a weeb.

>>14902500
Tried fried spiders in Cambodia. They got those in Japan?
The legs are great, crispy like chips

>>14903151
That's a pretty big difference, fool. Spiders are almost the same thing as lobsters and shrimps (more closer related than either of those are to insects).

>>14902500
Insects have been part of the human diet for millenniums. Insects are nutritious ,and well cooked can be tasty

I used to live in backwoods Alabama, and the few Asians that live here always told me "it reminds them of home".

They were Japanese working for Honda, so I don't think there is any particular allure to the Japanese countryside that you can't find any where else.

>>14900466
It's a plain ol' city. If you're used to suburbia, then it's not too different. 15 minutes out of town though, and you'll run into rice fields and crap.

>>14903484
Whatever you say, I'm too busy enjoying my fillet mignon because I am white (and therefore rich and don't have to eat peasant cuisine).

>>14903576
>and the few Asians that live here always told me "it reminds them of home".
Probably because of the racism.

>>14902615
Most of the "push" to admit lots of unskilled third world labourers (because that's honestly what most anti-immigrant people are angry about - I've never seen more than a small minority of assholes get angry over foreign students and 1st class engineers coming to our shores) is almost entirely a response to business demand for cheap labour. Every major wave of immigration to a first world country takes place to meet the demand for construction workers, ditch-diggers, fruit pickers, and so on. IIRC Merkel only agreed to let in all the Syrians when German businesses got it into their heads that they could have their own slave armies of muslim labourers to produce sausage for pennies on the euro.

Westerners won't take these menial jobs because they're minimum wage dead-end mcjobs that barely pay the bills and not real jobs that you have to go to college for, and businesses learn that immigrants (especially temps and illegal workers that you can exploit the shit out of) are less likely to quit after two months to go chase delusions of becoming an entrepreneur who sells jizz-flavoured soap on twitter (patent pending). I remember watching some documentary about Japanese businesses that basically ignore the country's strict immigration laws and import chinese and other SEA monkeys by the boatload to build office towers and shell crab.

And even then Japan doesn't have near as bad a dependency on foreign labour as many other countries (I know of whole cities in my country where the major employers actively refuse to hire anyone but foreigners for temporary agricultural work) since there's enough of the residual parochial business culture left over in the Japanese private sector that employees can feel a reasonable degree of security when they get hired.

Of course, western businesses would convulsed with anger if their employees expected such luxuries as company dorms, so really I guess we're all fucked until we finally go bankrupt and the Chinese start calling the shots.

Man, I hope some qt Han commissar picks me out to be her breeding bull and sex pet.

>>14904366
>Of course, western businesses would convulsed with anger if their employees expected such luxuries as company dorms
No need to go even that far, the management at my place goes into frothing fits if we so much as talk to each other while doing our job. (no, not instead)

>>14886904
Screw the dam, that pavement cutting right through the village is disgusting.

>>14904377
It seems these days that every other /jp/sie is working a job straight out of a Bukowski novel or is a NEET that will eventually be forced into one where the supervisors write us up for taking fifteen minutes on a ten minute break.

It's very sad that a lot of villages are disappearing due to the population getting older and people moving to the big cities.

>>14886904
Idiots keep saying that the countryside in Japan is so similar to their whitebread countries when all they have going for is how they're on the same latitude and superficially glancing at the flora.

>>14902766
Returning from Japan is a serious matter, anon. I returned from a two month backpacking trip in Japan to southern Indiana in the U.S. and I felt like I'd entered a different universe. Like I'd entered an inescapable fog.

Let me just navigate to my Japan folder and pick a picture at random.

>>14905672
I don't even fucking remember where I took this. Might as well have been a dream.

>>14904366
>IIRC Merkel only agreed to let in all the Syrians when German businesses got it into their heads that they could have their own slave armies of muslim labourers to produce sausage for pennies on the euro.

Doubtful. Merkel & her owners are not stupid. They knew that 90% of the ones coming to their country will never work for an hour of their lives. They're not doing this for cheap labour, they're just doing it to extract more money from the already working natives via increased taxes and increased guilt-mining industry. They're just trying to leech the most out of a dying economy (and a dead country, who lost their future after the second World War anyway), nothing more.

The "slave armies and muslim labourers" is just a placebo explanation for the naive "optimists" who think that there's still a future for them in their country (there isn't).

Japan, on the other hand, is doing it perfectly right - they ACTUALLY do immigration only because they need unskilled labourers and they treat them appropriately (work like a slave or fuck off). The Japanese government's intention is to have a slave army of Chinese and other Asian races that they consider "subhuman" (compared to their Nippon amster race). Germany is nothing like Japan. They're just importing leeches (because via the leeches the rich get richer) and hopefully the best outcome for them is that the social security system will implode.

TL;DR - Intent of Japanese immigration policies is to exploit the immigrants to help Japan. Intent of German immigration policies is to exploit the natives to help the rich pockets.

>>14905672
You mean you escaped an inescapable fog (Silent Hill is in Japan).

Countryside or not it's just another place As long as I have good internet and good shops then that's all I need.

>>14906482
So the countryside is not for you then.

>>14906466
/pol/ pls.

Honestly we have been naive, but I do think that we have been simply thinking that we can save all Syrians/Iraqis/whatever comes along by taking them in and expecting them to integrate when there is unemployment to begin with (at least in my country). There of course was also a hint of hopeful thinking about "ageing population", which I don't think will be a problem once the fourth industrial revolution gets properly underway.

The open gates policy has been changing lately though, and I suspect there will be no more "Germany! Germany!" chants among the refugees if (when) they again when spring is here again.

All in all I wish US would take more responsibility for all the shit they have caused in the Middle East/North Africa. Hillary remarking about Gaddafi, "We came, we saw, he died", is chilling as fuck. That is the reason this refugee problem exists.

>>14906511
>they again
*they come

/jp/ - Politics

>>14906511
>/pol/ pls.
Expected this kind of pathetic ad hominem. Ignored the rest of your post because of it, since you're clearly not worth talking to. I doubt you will find a single post like that on /pol/, because I don't actually post there. /pol/ is for autistic children like you.

>>14906530
>ad hominem
>Ignored the rest of your post because of it, since you're clearly not worth talking to
>I doubt you will find a single post like that on /pol/
>because I don't actually post there.
the irony is staggering

>>14906530
That was in good humor, probably just as much as you mentioning things like white guilt, subhuman and master race.

I could have stopped the post there but instead attempted to write something constructive.

Anyway, just I just think tat the refugee problem simply came suddenly, and Europe was caught pants down with it and reacted poorly.

>>14906543
No, it's not ironic at all. When you use a low level appeal to emotion argument like that, the rational discussion is over, child. I'm done with you.

>>14906611
It was a joke, dudester. Gee chill the f*ck out.

>>14905672
How was backpacking trough japan? What part did you visit?

If I lived in one of these places the only thing I'd wanna do is smoke weed all day and listen to the cicadas and birds.

>>14906794
Drugs are far more taboo in Japan than in America, you'd probably be reported and deported in short order.

Do these backwater places still use squat toilets and have public bathhouses instead of individual baths? They looks nice to visit, but seem like they'd lack anything good about modern life.

>>14903576
>backwoods Alabama
Maybe they were trying to be polite

you guys will love this video comfy as fuck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-oitkmfkXI

>>14887209
Faggots like you are what we need less of.

>>14887585
Do you ever take trips to Tokyo or any other big cites? How long does it take by train? Assuming you're an English teacher?
>>14887653
Don't say that! Don't you know that is racist to the gaijin.

>>14899218
>>14899354
Fuck! It's the bugs that hold me from living in rural Japan. Do get indoors a lot or is it more of an outside thing?

>>14907299
>squat toilets
If I had the money I'd install a squat toilet in my house.

I already have hemorrhoids and don't want them to get worse. Plus, have you ever actually squat to take a shit? It's fucking awesome dude, when I had to do it once it was like a valve in my ass was released and all my shit just flowed straight out of my ass with almost no resistance. I read somewhere that humans are actually built to squat while shitting and from my own experiences I believe it. Only reason I'm not shitting in the woods is because I'd eventually get seen and then for the rest of my life I'd be the guy who shits in the woods.

Anyone who is living in one of these backwaters. Does it feel good when you go to a big city at the week-ends once or twice a month?

>>14908188
There are stools on the market that fit around the toilet and allow you to stand on the stool while your ass hovers over the toilet.

>>14902500
>Nope, nothing particular is relaxing about it. It is same as any Western / European rural countryside.

I live in the Canadian countryside and it's relaxing as fuck.

>>14908188
I'd never be able to use a squat toilet. Defecating is difficult for me, I wouldn't be able to focus enough to squat and defecate without falling over or something.

>>14906771
It wasn't easy but it was great. Started in Osaka and Kobe, then Kyoto, Tokyo, Kawaguchiko, through Kofu, Matsumoto and Takayama, stopped in Shirakawago, Kanazawa, as far north as Niigata, stopped at Aizu-Wakamatsu, Iwaki, Ito, Yokohama, back to Osaka, over to Hiroshima, Onomichi through Okayama, and back to Osaka again

>>14908238
>Defecating is difficult for me
That's because you sit straight. Educate yourself. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYcv6odWfTM

>>14908116
Get the fuck out of /jp/ you non-lolicon

>>14906466
Isn't this a rather roundabout way of expanding the welfare state? If Merkel's goal was to force the state to expand by adding more mouths to feed to the welfare rolls, she probably would have done that already by adding elderly pensioners, poor children and veterans. People that even many AfD supporters would be okay with having more tax dollars going towards.

I still believe that my original post (>>14904366) is correct. German labour is heavily dominated by unions and German businesses sought a way to dilute their power by expanding Germany's pool of unskilled labour. Even Merkel herself was fairly anti-immigrant until recently - remember that talk show she was on where she made that Palestinian girl cry on stage?

>>14906466
>Germany is nothing like Japan. They're just importing leeches (because via the leeches the rich get richer) and hopefully the best outcome for them is that the social security system will implode.
I really don't understand how forcing taxes to increase and making the country's largest pension fund implode will make the rich richer.

>>14908239
Hitchhiking?

>>14908425
Only once actually (in the middle of fucking nowhere). I used trains and buses to get from city to city and I'd sometimes use a bike to get around.

>>14908518
I bet it was great, I hope i can do it at least once in my life. Was it hard to find cheap places to sleep and buy food? Did you go in a small group or in a large one?

>>14908564
It's not hard in Japan. There are hostels in every major city and internet cafes around the train station in others. There's a Lawson on every corner so cheap food is easy to find. I did it alone

Hinamizawa has been mentioned in this thread so I'll dump part of my Shirakawago folder

rural japan is cool i traveled on bicycle for many months

i slept on the streets, on bus stop benches, in temples/shrines, or abandoned houses. so that part of the trip was free, but it cost $1000 for a roundtrip flight to osaka and back to usa

i bought a bicycle and the lady registered it for me all for under $50. it had a front-light, a back-rack, bike lock, a front basket to store things. these sorts of bicycles are called mamacharis, mama bikes, they are nice city bikes. i used that for all my transportation on land. it usually costs $28/hour to use a ferry to cross between the big islands, like from kyushu to shikoku. you can bring your bicycle for the ferries that allow cars

i ate well with food, i spent about $20 a day on food. so it was like $2k for 3 months of food. you can buy potato chips/bread for calories, peanuts are good also. $2 of TRIAL supermarket bread can feed you for an entire day. i foraged for edible greens, ate cattails, chestnuts. there are always abandoned orchards and farms where you can find things like … persimmons, tiny oranges, figs, onions, squash

i think the amount i spent on food, junk food, alcohol, cigarettes, etc was enormous. i gained 20 lbs of weight during my stay in japan, and that was even when i was riding my citybike over the hilly mountains and horrible roads for 10 hours every day. you could probably live well off $10 a day if you didn't buy tobacco or alcohol

Irie clinic

This thread is making me want to rewatch Higurashi.

>>14908645
How did you get the money? Saved up?

>>14908656
I knew higurashi was based off real locations, but I didn't know this place actually existed. o_o

>>14909131
At the end of an episode (the last one from kai iirc) it actually shows a bunch of photos of irl hinamizawa

>>14908645
How didn't you get lost? Where did you keep your valuables/money?
I understand that crime rate is low, but still it's hard to understand how you can just sleep anywhere and or not get mugged randomly.
Where did you wash/shower, etc?
Did you have some kind of access to internet like phone/laptop or at least camera?
What about bad weather? rain and such?

>>14908689
This thread is making me want Non Non Biyori.

>>14909441
it sounds like bullshit tbqh

>>14908153
If you live above the ground floor in a newer apartment and keep your windows closed, they don't get in much. It's the older, draftier places that really get invaded.

>>14908189
No. I always can't wait to get back home to the peace and quiet of the countryside.

>>14909441
People are very helpful and you can usually find your way by using various maps and asking around. Mugging really doesn't happen in Japan, especially in the country. There are public baths that cost one or two hundred yen to use. It's not hard to get around.

>>14909505
What did writing "tbqh" contribute to your post?

>>14908249
>>14908204
I have something that would allow me to do something similar.

However, I'd honestly prefer the squat toilet since squatting just feels very comfortable and natural to me. (I'm irish, not slavic)

>>14909779
Ugh! Just thinking about the bugs makes my skin crawl. But at least there is some solution to it. Not guarantee that you will be in a new apartment and not on the first floor.
>>14909783
Don't know if bullshit or not. I know there are people like this but on 4chan the chances are small.

>>14910664
Sometimes I want to move to the countryside and work from home but for now I'm saving up money to start a game company or just take it easier later in Tokyo

>>14910664
I too prefer the quiet and calm of the countryside. Might be because I grew up in a village, I'm not sure.
The only thing I like about living in a big city is the convenience of having shops/stores open at almost any given time.
Well, that, and exploring them during the night is nice.

>>14908188
I'm living in Singapore right now and every so often you find a squat toilet (like in old malls). I find it hard to use them since my legs start to hurt pretty quickly so I usually avoid them. They're also really dirty here because a lot of people just use them as one would a urinal, but maybe that wouldn't be a problem in Japan.

>>14910998
>I'm living in Singapore right now

You have my condolences

>>14910664
Not sure why it's hard to believe. I prefer solitude and greenery to crowds and gray concrete.

>>14910664
>on 4chan the chances are small
So you've never heard of /k/, /out/ or /trv/.

>>14905672
I went to Japan last summer for a few weeks and for the past month or so I've really missed it and I desperately want to go back.

Pic related is from the trip

>>14908645
What a remarkably alpha experience. I tip my fedora to you. I couldn't deal with foraging around for food and sleeping on the streets. I like hotels and continental breakfasts.

>>14909505
You know people do these bike travels all the fucking time throughout even more dangerous countries than Japan, right? And muggling definitively happens sometimes:
http://www.chinasmack.com/2012/stories/japanese-man-cycling-globe-has-bike-stolen-in-wuhan-china.html

>>14902500
>The bugs are huge and super loud, like it kills you inside having to listen to that shit all the time

you should try coming to australia, the bugs will literally kill you

>>14910998
You must be the faggot who got banned on /jp/ using the 3G in my area

Is this Japan?

>>14913715
Nah, too big

>>14913715
Japan belongs to a mild and humid climate zone so doesn’t have such bare hills.

>>14913715
Isn't that tacoland?

>>14913715
Looks like the Texas/mexico border region

>>14903859
>fillet

>>14909844
It's not a post worth reading unless it includes a meme, you dip.

>>14919049
Fillet is a legitimate spelling you idiot. Filet is actually a misspelling in British English.

>>14918052
Wow man that's actually beautiful. Would almost make me want to live there if it wasn't for all the insects and the racism that would put southern US states to shame from the Japanese country people who will apparently literally look (stare) at you as if you were some weird monster with their mouth open.

>>14922447
>"Fillet" Mignon
You're killing me

>>14922460
Stop being a shitskin then.

>>14922462
http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/38608/fillet+mignon+with+mushroom+sauce

You were saying?

>>14922480
>.au
Oh you

>>14922447
>Filet is actually a misspelling in British English

I bet you pronounce it Mig-Non, too.

>>14922480

You managed to find the only recipe on the internet to misspell it, was that on the 12th page of Google results?

>>14922510
First page for me.

>>14922524
Are you Australian, or did you use quotation marks on the "Fillet"

>>14918052
This picture wasn't taken by someone from /jp/ right? It's too good looking to be.

>>14886904
me on the left

>>14912122
We'll go back someday, anon. Nice picture.

>>14922460
True. Japanese people tend ruin the experience a lot. If they'd just shut up and mind their own business, this country would be 400% better.

>>14923427
t. Ryan Boundless

>>14923442
Ryan hates Japan just to hate Japan. I don't hate Japan. I'm irritated by stupid people. If you weren't such a weeaboo you'd get that.

>>14913715
Could be South Dakota Badlands or tacoland.

>>14923644
rude

>>14923644
>I'm irritated by stupid people
The only way to get away from that on this Earth is by offing yourself. Go on, no need to thank me.

>>14910664

>Don't know if bullshit or not. I know there are people like this but on 4chan the chances are small.

Really? Given the choice I would much rather live in a small town where I have to deal with substantially less people and have more pleasant things around me like trees. I don't think that's an uncommon preference at all.

>>14886904
As a foreigner I would not want to be lynched so I would never invade their country. You should try Sweden which is very tolerant of outsiders.

This whole "all Japanese people hate foreigners with a burning passion" meme needs to end.

t. foreigner living a comfortable life in the Japanese countryside

Americans complaining about ethnocentrism and xenophobia
in the more homogeneous parts of Asia no less, where people have grown up without having Africans for mailmen, Middle Easterners for shopkeepers and Slavs for repairmen.
How comically typical.

It's like teens entering the adult world and finding out it isn't as rosy and things don't go their way like in the middle class bubble they've been raised in.

>>14924988
Yes but we're talking about people who live in Japanese countryside in real life, not through anime dating sim / visual novels like you.

>>14925124
I've never played either of those things, but I had the impression that they usually take place in Tokyo, not the countryside.

>>14925124
This.

>>14925209
A bit of the opposite.

People in Tokyo are a little more used to having foreigners or visitors around, where as people who have lived in the countryside all their life may keep staring at you from a distance.

To be fair to them, the only real source of their xenophobia is that foreigners might not follow their rules or be a nuisance in the community, as an extension of their response to an outsider.

Once you get to know them and make a conscious effort to keep in line, most aside from the really secluded ones tend to open up and be more hospitable than the urbanites.

There are also places which are simply friendly in general, like in Shikoku.

>>14925276
>There are also places which are simply friendly in general, like in Shikoku.
They're not really friendlier, they're just more desperate for attention because of being the number [last] for tourism of all Japanese islands. Not even the Japanese like Shikoku.

>>14925276
I get that foreigners are stared at - we're an oddity, it's understandable. But the notion that Japanese folk in the boonies outright hate anyone who isn't Japanese is just utter bullshit.

>>14925288
Have you ever been?
If so, you're completely disregarding the concept of お接待

Japan is a horrible country, come to China instead! So many friendly people here and much more beautiful nature and countryside!

>>14925968
No, I'll visit all the east Asian countries, including Vietnam and Mongolia.

>>14926046
racist gwailo pig

soon the great chinese dragon will invade america and conquer the world

>>14926054
>didn't realise by saying "visit all the east Asian countries" that included China too

>>14908122
Sapporo is about 5 or 6 hours by car. Train would take a really long time to Tokyo, flying is between 2 and 3 hours.

>>14886904

The scenery is very beautiful and I'd like to visit again some time, maybe stay longer to meet the people too.

>>14886904
my spouse's family lives in the countryside of western japan. i thought it would be lame as heck before i went but it was actually wonderful (although a bitch to get to)

>>14926455
i'm going back in april and i'm so excited for the fresh air and sunrise over the mountains.

>>14887585
do you miss big city life?
sure there is sapporo, but thats really no match for tokyo or osaka?

are there otakus in hokkaido?

>>14926455
>my spouse's family
Including your spouse, am I right.

>>14886904
Oh absolutely.Though I live in the countryside myself.
It's a lot cleaner than my country's countryside and has more conveniences but that easy-going, nostalgic ambient is still there.
And the great food too.

>>14926222
Is that what I think it is?

>>14886904

Ok so i guess im a weeb, not really native to /jp/ but fuck cities, i wanna go to the japanese countryside so badly.

I love their architecture, and so want to see houses and temples made of wood. Fuck i guess i better start working on my japanese skills, because as i have heard the japanese non city folk have no clue about english. And to be fair, even the city folk know average english, even compared to my european 2nd language english.

>>14925276

Is that not how pretty much any society reacts to foreigners? Even here in slavlands, if you are someone who really stands out, you are going to need to show the people that you can integrate and follow the rules, and once they see that, they are going to be pretty damn friendly with you. Especially anywhere near the sea.

But then again, we slavs are much more buddy buddy with people but can be increadibly hot headed or "temperamental".

>>14926568

It most certainly is!

>>14926568
Nope, that's where the local RR ("rural roricon" in case you don't know) keeps his trophies.

I have some more photos, I'm sure everyone's seen these places before though.

>>14926914

>>14926922

nerds

>>14926931
How do the shrine owners react to this?

>>14925276
>friendly in general, like in Shikoku
this! shikoku people were super kind
some old ji-chan gave me a big bag of mikans

>>14926968
円円円円円円円円円円円円円円

>>14922447
>Filet is actually a misspelling in British English
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filet_%28mets%29

>>14927071
Ah yes.. a french Wikipedia article..I think this is going to reveal new information to me about British English.

>>14927075
Because that's where the word come from. I guess it means that the only ones who write it correctly are the British.

>>14927084
I have better words..in fact I have the best words and fillet is one of them.

>>14927075

Filet Mignon is a French term, the English Wikipedia says it means tender fillet, English uses it as a loanword like tsunami, a la carte, attaché, etc.

>>14927075
Ah yes... dismissing an argument because of its source... I think this is a great way of evaluating arguments.

>>14927099
Man you guys are such bullies, I'm going back to the Nazrin thread, running away crying.

>>14926914
The photos almost made me consider living in rural Japan but then I remembered that only the big city girls have access to all the whitening products and makeup that make Japanese girls look good.

They're really super duper ugly 90% of the time without the cosmetics.

Also a Japanese country girl would probably be really dumb and simple, just like Yutaka in the game where the flat tomboy little girl Yutaka gets a big growth spurt during summer vacation and becomes as big as her sister so all the male townfolk in her village do things to her...

>>14886904

>>14926968
They didn't go full blast with welcoming otakus but are tolerating them, interestingly enough.
The rationale was that since Shirakara-go is now a pretty famous int'l tourist destination, they didn't want to invest in something that might not stick in a couple decades.

>>14886904
This shit looks too crowd for me.

>>14927963
But this makes them easier to impregnate, right?

Right?

>>14909441
yeah, it sounds mostly like bullshit.

Even in Murrica though, I've been traveling by rail for two years. Haven't been mugged yet. Most of it comes down to how streetwise you are... Then again, without speaking japanese, I don't you can be considered streetwise in Japan

>>14928796
No, why would it? The repulsion you will feel towards them makes it harder.

>>14928135
Translation:


Chen Parachutes into Japan!
>"Someone nuke this shithole!"
>"Payback for Pearl Harbor ya gooks!"
>"Make America Great Again!"

No need to thank me.

>>14927963
You sound like a very shallow person.

>>14929700
All men are pigs, you included.

t. a /jp/ femanon

>>14929746
Not him but suck my dick hambeast and the let me motorboat you. I've always wanted to do that

>>14929746
Misandry? On my /jp/?

Anon, please.

>>14929771
>Misandry

can you, like, fuck off with that MRA bullshit back to /pol/?

misandry is about as legitimate as "reverse racism"

>>14929780
Poor bait lad

>>14929795
maybe you should stick on your "hate chen" oh right you don't even have a /jp/ there, losers

The hell is happening?
Why are you shaming Japanese women in this thread?
And why do we have feminists in this thread?

>>14891625
I want to move right now ;_;

>>14929780
>>14929800
First of all, what the fuck are you even doing here? And why did you think it was necessary to respond to my post in particular?

Secondly, I'm not into "MRA bullshit" (I had to google that term, by the way, thanks for wasting my time)

I seriously hope you're a troll, but I am equally annoyed by you either way.

>>14929808
don't post emojis on /jp/

>>14891625
What do you do in jap land?

> And to be fair, even the city folk know average english

And with "average" you mean "absolutely abysmal" unless they are absolutely required to know English for their job.

The average European high school student speaks much better English than the Japanese city folk.

>>14926804
> And to be fair, even the city folk know average english

And with "average" you mean "absolutely abysmal" unless they are absolutely required to know English for their job.

The average European high school student speaks much better English than the Japanese city folk.

>>14930070
The typical English teaching deal. It's a nice gig, and I enjoy it.

>>14886904
It's probably the arrangement of the town.

>>14930077
>>14930080
It's Ryan again I see. Look how good the Japanese are actually at English.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-Z83LjbBxs

>>14930396
How hard is it to find a job like that in the first place? Are you a native speaker? I know there are options other than JET, but are they any good?

>>14931065
You don't have to be a native speaker if you're white and preferably blonde haired and preferably handsome. If you're blonde + white + handsome, you could probably teach English in Japan even if you're Ivan. Meanwhile, brown skinned native English speakers (say quintessentially English people who been living in the UK for three generations but are originally from Pakistan, like me) have it the hardest, especially when they're ugly (like me).

Being a JET is mainly about being social and attractive. Especially in rural areas where they know that English is literally worthless to them, you're mainly there to be the dancing monkey / entertainment / token gaijin. Something to stare at with your mouth wide open when they see you on the street and whom not to allow into all the bars that all the cool 50+ year olds (since no one else lives in rural areas) visit.

>>14931060
>good
I'm from a yurop country where English isn't the native language, and you'd be hard pressed to find people whose English is worse than the average Japanese city dweller's. The Japanese are somewhat okay at English TESTS, but they're not good at actually using the language at all. It's a fun video but it has nothing to do with what that anon said about communicating.
Being a Ryan has nothing to do with true statistics. The Japanese are worse at English than developed countries:
http://www.ef.nl/epi/
Keep in mind, this study is done with English tests, which the Japanese as I said are good at compared to their actual speaking and listening abilities.

Personally though, I'm glad. Traveling is more fun when you can't just depend on languages you're familiar with. I enjoy being able to practice my Japanese while I'm in Japan.

>>14931082
>>14931082
Well, fuck.
I am brown too, not ugly though, and not a native speaker although my English is good. Moreover, the JET isn't an option in my country (hasn't been for around 7-8 years now), so I was actually going to look for alternative options.
Am I doomed, senpai? Or are there still options?

>>14912278
>muggling

>>14923427
>Japanese people tend ruin the experience a lot
Japan is what it is because of the Japanese. How retarded do you have to be believe this.
>If they'd shut up and mind...
Yea so it can become USA 2.0

>>14924875
>uncommon preference at all.
Yes that's why cities are more populated. How retarded do you have to be.

>>14931065
It's not too hard. The requirements (native speaker, prior experience, etc.) vary a bit depending on the organization, but in general you don't need to be a native speaker IF you can prove your English abilities via certification or something similar.

JET is widely considered to be the best option because of the salary and weight the name carries, but other options can be okay as well. I'm not with JET but a private company, and while there are a few things that I'm not completely satisfied with, it's not enough to turn me off of this incredibly rewarding job. Just do your research - see what the major complaints of each company are (there will undoubtedly be some regardless of how good the company actually is) and decide from there.

>>14931561
They're more populated because that's where the work is, dumbass. It often has nothing to do with the environs. Also it seems that you don't have any idea how the "not + (negative)" construction works.

Rural Japan has TWO threads!

>>14933563
Really? I had no idea there was one more. I hope you don't mean this >>14931964 since this is a dead thread compared to this.

I really hope Japan never learns english.
This way, stupid people from the outside would never be able to turn it into their multicultural shithole.

>>14934549
Sorry, /pol/ racist, but Japan is already multicultural and young Japanese people love Western culture and foreigners much more than their own culture and own people. Deal with it.

>>14934549
>I really hope Japan never becomes multicultural so I can move there with all my white weeb friends.

>>14934602
Anon said "never learns English" though. As much as they like the West and its ways they can't speak English very well, so he has a point.

>>14934782
Decades of U.S. occupation has kind of rendered that point moot. As >>14934602 has said, enough outside culture has been imported through the Japan-U.S. relationship to make Japanese society (particularly urban society) fairly multicultural, in the sense that Japan is thoroughly westernized.

>>14934535
If this thread is dead then the sachikp threads must be shambling undead

>>14935147
>If this thread is dead then the sachikp threads must be shambling undead
Wow, thanks for telling me, I thought the sachikp thread died already.

>>14896358
Shit son, I lived there for almost 2 years. Great location, close to all my favorite places and no where near Tokyo. I didn't like Tokyo.

>>14935276
>Great location
doesn't look so great from his photos

>>14927099
When a source is known to be bad, why trust a word it says.

Might as well be expecting honest political commentary from Fox News or The Young Turks.

>>14935147
>fairly multicultural, in the sense that Japan is thoroughly westernized.
In that sense yes. You can' really say it's only westernised. It's a mixture of other cultures as well. Like Chinese, Korean, European (western). Even without the Japan-U.S. relationship, cultures are bound to mix. You can't stop globalization and especially with the internet it gets tough.
>inb4 China firewall
I just like it that Japan hasn't embraced full multiculturalism which comes with a mixing pot. I just see it as:
>Come enjoy our country and culture
>But please leave us alone.
Which I'am totally fine and support.

>>14935401
>I just like it that Japan hasn't embraced full multiculturalism

Then why they aren't closing down JapanCupid and the like?

>>14935556
Because they aren't a dictatorship. Because it's an open market. And what you said has nothing to do with what I said.

What BB girl would most likely be into young black men who are aspiring hip hop artists like me?

Phew, posted it in the wrong tab.

Brazilian here. I have lived both in big cities and in the countryside.
One of the things I most enjoy is wandering around at night, when everything is calm and silent. Sitting on a park bench, talking with a random old person.

But in Brazil I don't dare stepping out of home needlessly because violence is off the charts. Specially being white, my muggability is boosted enormously. Actually, even at home you're in danger of being robbed and all that shithole yadda yadda you're used to.

The countryside is (statistically) a bit more peaceful, sure, but don't you dare to walk alone anywhere past daytime. Daytime means scalding summertime, 365 days a year.

That's why I have romanticized Japan as the place I want to live in. Not because waifus or glorious matsuri. Not for the kanpais nor for the youkais.

I just want to live with no fear for my life and enjoy the outside world if I feel like it.
Even if I can find some place here and there in the Western world, it's generally just a shrine amidst burning chaos.
Japan is surrounded by water and has peace culturally ingrained in its society.

My mind is set. I will either spend the rest of my days inside this barbwire-fenced apartment or in Japan.
In the countryside, if I'm lucky. Wish me luck, jay.

>>14937486
>Brazilian here.
That was enough for me.

How do the Japanese countryside rednecks think about all the shinnichi gaijin living in their towns? Do they make fun of them trying to wear kimonos and kendo?

Anybody here gone WWOOFing? What's it like?

>>14935401
>But please leave us alone.
This attitude will fade to a pale shadow of itself once everyone who can remember the Showa era dies

>>14937486
Most of rural Canada is about as violent as Japan. Even urban centres like Ottawa are relatively safe as long as you stay out of the ghettos.

Japan is not unique in providing safety.

>>14938563
Canada's a lot colder than Japan, maybe he's factoring that in too

>>14901298

That's not how it works. Japan runs on a centralized clientialism-based economy. The countryside gets money no matter what.

>>14937508
These nuts were enough resting against your chin.

Japan's nature is honestly pretty boring. It's not an ugly country, but you can see everything that Japan has to offer in terms of nature (or something extremely similar) in the US, and quite a lot more.

Except for maybe their stinky mountain. It wouldn't surprise me if we had a few sites like Mount Fuji in the US, but nobody is going to really travel to go visit it when they could head over to Zion or Yosemite instead.

If you visit Japan, you're going there for the culture.

>>14939077
This, if you want something exciting, go to America, land of the free, yeeeah! American countryside is the best, you get to dodge white people with shotguns shooting at you if you're black or if they ask you if you support Drumpf and say no.

How can Japanese countryside compare? They don't even have shotguns!

>>14939089

I'm hardly a "best country in the world" retard. I've been around the US and I've been to Japan. Japan's nature wasn't that great.

>you get to dodge white people with shotguns shooting at you if you're black

Shit that the regressive left wishes were true so that they could have a legitimate reason to say that blacks are oppressed by whites in 2016 without sound retarded to anyone who isn't completely insane.

Whites murdering blacks is statistically pretty damn rare. The other way around, not so much.

>>14939089
I can't tell if you're just taking the piss or what, but he made an explicit distinction between nature and culture.

>Drumpf
Please keep your shitty political memes out of /jp/.

>>14939098
>Shit that the regressive left wishes were true so that they could have a legitimate reason to say that blacks are oppressed by whites in 2016 without sound retarded to anyone who isn't completely insane.
>
>Whites murdering blacks is statistically pretty damn rare. The other way around, not so much.

And again, I was right...

>>14939108
About what, exactly?

>>14939113

He probably thinks that I'm a flag-waving conservative.


>>14939108

Protip: Conservatives will generally describe people like you as "liberals"

If they say "regressive left", they're most likely social liberals who believe in equality and don't buy into the bigoted and completely groundless white male-hating narrative that gets pushed by the regressives. I don't know that I've ever heard a conservative use that term. They tend to believe that liberals in general are the problem.

>>14939113
That you're a flag waving, God-fearing, gun-toting, reactionary racist Trump-supporting cousin-fucking parochial ignorant white cis het shitlord.

>>14939129
Why do people pretend that normalfags from outside the US aren't just as racist as any American? Any place on earth will dislike a minority group because they are different from the rest, period. Take a look at the comments on any news site if you don't believe me.

>>14939134
I'm from WA state. It's practically illegal to be any of that here.

>>14939155

>Any place on earth will dislike a minority group because they are different from the rest, period.

It's not really that simple, and attempts to boil things down to that is a regressive left tactic to obscure the truth and avoid dialogue that will reflect poorly on their narrative.

In the case of black people, people hate them because it's not groundless paranoia to cross the street when you approach a crowd of them or keep your wallet close at hand when black people that you don't know are nearby. The reason why so many of them are incarcerated is because so many of them commit crimes. They're like 12% of our population, but they make up over half of our prison system. You'll notice that other minorities in the US don't have anywhere near as much drama surrounding them (except for Mexicans with some crowds, but I'll get to that in a minute).

In the case of Muslims, people see an oppressive and violent ideology moving in on their country. Furthermore, like blacks, they commit a shitload of crimes.

In the case of poor immigrants in general, people hate them because they accept lower pay, and subsequently, lower the amount of money that everybody else makes, with only the immigrants and richfags really seeing any benefit from it. Importing third world residents means importing third world problems. Who wants third world problems in their neighborhood?

>>14939169
I never said claimed or implied that that was the only reason for racism, but that it is undoubtedly one of the root causes of it. The fact that people are afraid of what they don't know is always evident. For example, in the University of Washington, there is a large minority of Asian students. Now they are generally kind and respectful, but because they look and act different from native peoples, people will still bitch about them. Such is human nature.

/jp/ - sociology

>>14939205

Have you considered that maybe they're bothered by the Asians because they segregate themselves? For example, if there's an American and two Japanese working on an assignment at a table in the middle of an American university, and the Japanese start speaking Japanese, that excludes the American from the conversation. That's a bit rude, don't you think? And if they don't speak English at all, that also puts the American in scenarios where he's excluded.

This is what I'm an advocate for learning the language if you're going to move to another country. You can't be united if you don't even understand each other, and you cause uncomfortable situations and inconveniences for other people.

The problem is basically never "because they're different". It's never been that simple, throughout all of history. That's a modern invention to avoid sounding insensitive, which is honestly pretty counter-productive behavior. If differences cause people to dislike each other, it's because the differences lead to conflict.

Also, you have to take into account that some people just bitch for fun. They might say "damn japs", but there's no real malice behind their words, and they might actually enjoy a back and forth where they and a Japanese person make fun of each other. It's like people flipping off their friends. Of course, the nofun crowd in the regressive left can never understand this behavior.

>>14939238
>If differences cause people to dislike each other, it's because the differences lead to conflict.
I dislike all sorts of people I've never met despite the fact that we will never come into actual conflict. Explaining racism away as collective rational self-interest is just as vacuous as the explanation that racists are racist because they're evil.

>>14939262
>>14939238

Fuck outta here you smelly faggots

>>14939262

Very few people are just evil. Sometimes they can be irrational and ignorant, but they generally believe that they're doing the right thing, or that they're at least not doing anything wrong. Overt racists generally feel uncomfortable around certain another ethnic group for reasons that can be clarified, and are looking to make their home environment more comfortable for themselves and their family (of course, the problem is that it's at the expense of people who didn't do shit). Evil will not drive a prevailing mentality. Also, since it doesn't match up with reality, treating people like they're evil is not a productive place to begin a dialogue.

>I dislike all sorts of people I've never met despite the fact that we will never come into actual conflict.

I dislike people who belong to the regressive left, because their bigoted, neo-fascist ideology threatens my freedom in more ways than one, as a straight white male.

I dislike flag waving conservatives, because they'll vote to not fix our various economic problems that influence all of us, myself included.

I dislike various types of obnoxious people, but my issues with them don't start until I have to interact with them and deal with them getting on my nerves and/or causing problems for me.

I'd imagine that your dislikes of certain kinds of people are very similar.

>>14939238
>It's never been that simple
As I've said, it is a ROOT cause. Every argument you made in this post was the result of differences in beliefs or cultures. A complicated situation doesn't dismiss the fact that the root of the problem itself is simple.

>>14939323
>Very few people are just evil.
Yes, I said it was a bad explanation. You don't need to argue this to me.

>I'd imagine that your dislikes of certain kinds of people are very similar.
I hate everyone in this thread.

>>14939347
Well, the first argument could have also been explained by the fact that the Jap students were just dicks.

>>14939347
Actually, let me rephrase this. The only arguments I've been trying to make here is the fact that one (of possibly multiple) factors of racism has a simple root cause of differences in beliefs, and that it only need be this root to cause racism, not that that is the ONLY thing that ever causes racism.

>>14939347

No, it's not the root.

The cause is not simply that they're different. That makes it sound like it's some sort of baseless hatred that's like air, where you just can't wrap your fingers around it. It never is. It also makes it sound like differences inevitably lead to conflict. They don't. There are plenty of very different groups who by and large live together just fine, because those differences rarely cause conflict. Take white people currently in Japan, for example. Are they outsiders? Kinda. Is there a huge movement to get them thrown out of Japan? They're out there, but for the most part, not really, because those white people don't bring many problems with them.

This misidentification also starts things off at an unproductive area, which the regressives love. "You hate them because they're different, which just makes you irrational and ignorant, like a dumb animal." Sometimes, being too stupid to empathize can lead people to be biased and see problems in places where they don't exist, which is what this argument is saying. However, sometimes the other group has brought a legitimate problem into the community, and when this is the case, your approach of the problem stops dialogue and obscures the truth. Saying that people hate them "because they're different" is a nice place to start if you never want to explore where the true problem lies. They hate them because of the conflict, and the conflict needs to be examined in depth and without bias before a conclusion is reached.


>>14939382

But doesn't that go against what you said earlier, that people aren't just acting out of (ir)rational self interest and trying to do the right thing?

>>14939399
>That makes it sound like it's some sort of baseless hatred that's like air, where you just can't wrap your fingers around it
I'm literally arguing that there is a base; the clash of beliefs.

>It also makes it sound like differences inevitably lead to conflict
But they do, everytime. Look at any war. There is ALWAYS a root cause of different beliefs. BASE: One group of people think a piece of land belongs to them, the other doesn't. Go to war. BASE: The soviets believe the world should be a communist state. The west didn't. Start the cold war. BASE: Muslim extremists think western ideas are wrong. Westerners don't. Blow each other up. Is it more complicated than that? Absolutely. Is it still the root cause? Yes. Get the picture?

>>14939399
>There are plenty of very different groups who by and large live together just fine, because those differences rarely cause conflict.
Very rarely in history have different groups gotten long for a truly extended period of time. Times of plenty see peace in all fields, but as soon as times get hard the knives come out, regardless of how well people got along before. One grievance, or one conflict of interest between groups, is all it takes for the in-groups to knit and the blood to flow. Claiming that the original grievance or conflict of interest is the "real issue" that has to be resolved obfuscates the fact that in-group identification and intolerance are a universal driving force in race relations.

Analyzing each racial conflict while looking only at material interest is operating with blinders on. It's as one-dimensional as trying to explain war as caused by conflicts of national interest and therefore the "true cause" of any war would be resolving this conflict. Yes, true on the face of it, and needs study - but saying it's the factor "which really matters" is straight-up bullshit because it ignores that equivalent conflicts of material interest happen all the time without breaking out into the war. Hell, wars have started against the EXPRESS national interest of both parties involved because someone thought his nation had been slighted. It's not all about rational interest.

Would like to note I noticed >>14939434 after writing my post and did not see it before I started writing mine.

>>14939399
>>14939434 here.
I want to point out that the original argument was in regards to racism, and you threw a straw-man at me. However, you actually supported my original claim, because Japanese fucking hate all foreigners, regardless of how much of an upstanding citizen you are, on the basis that you are not a natural full-blooded Japanese citizen. If that isn't the most potent form of obsolete instinctual racism out there, then I don't know what is.

>>14939434
>>14939458

A dude who programs for a living, spends his free time playing videogames, and was raised behind a computer and a dude who builds houses for a living, spends his free time playing and watching sports, and grew up with a handegg in his hand don't necessarily have any beef with each other at all. On the contrary, while they'll probably never be close friends due to lack of things to relate over, they can be decent friendly acquaintances.

While both of these two are American born white guys, it's possible that one of the programmer's good friends is a Russian who was born and raised in Russia who's also into programming and videogames.

These are cases of very different people with different origins getting along together great. Why do they get along? Because their differences generally don't cause any conflicts.

>Very rarely in history have different groups gotten long for a truly extended period of time.

Because they tend to integrate with each other as time goes on. A third generation Chinese-American probably won't think of himself as being much of a Chinese guy, for example.

>Analyzing each racial conflict while looking only at material interest is operating with blinders on.

The material is where you determine if there's a real problem or if it's just a bunch of retards blowing up over nothing.

The regressives love trying to turn the focus towards things that can't be proven with empirical evidence, because it lets them say whatever they like without having to support a damn word of it.


>>14939505

That doesn't support my interactions with them at all. This seems to fall under the "blown out of proportion" segment of racial tension.

People do have trouble making really close native friends in Japan, but this is less because of racism and more because they live their entire lives in the same city. They made their close friends during childhood, and those are their close friends for life. You see the same thing happen in the American south, where people often go their entire lives without traveling outside of a 50 mile radius of their birthplace.

>straw-man

What the fuck are you going on about?

>>14939526
>Why do they get along? Because their differences generally don't cause any conflicts.
This is the fourth time you've said this. We've acknowledged it. When there is no possible source of conflict people will get along. Unfortunately, the vast majority of people in the world are in conflict with one another, because unlike two random internet friends, they compete for resources.

>Because they tend to integrate with each other as time goes on. A third generation Chinese-American probably won't think of himself as being much of a Chinese guy, for example.
That's not what I'm talking about. Many historical groups have existed alongside each other without losing their identities, peacefully in times of peace, bitterly in times of war.

>A third generation Chinese-American probably won't think of himself as being much of a Chinese guy, for example.
Do you think it's plausible that a third-generation white person of Japan isn't going to think of himself as white? Of course not, that's fucking retarded. He's a white person, and everyone he meets will remind him subtly or overtly every day that he is white.

>The material is where you determine if there's a real problem or if it's just a bunch of retards blowing up over nothing.
Materially, it sucks more to be a black person than a white person in America. So, are we done yet?

>>14939526
>That doesn't support my interactions with them at all
The Japanese are known for being passive-aggressive. Take any TV show in Japan. If there is a segment with a foreigner they are always portrayed as a helpless, dumb monkey that shouldn't be taken seriously.

>What the fuck are you going on about?
From logicalfallacies.info:
>A straw man argument is one that misrepresents a position in order to make it appear >weaker than it actually is, refutes this misrepresentation of the position, and then concludes >that the real position has been refuted. This, of course, is a fallacy, because the position that >has been claimed to be refuted is different to that which has actually been refuted; the real >target of the argument is untouched by it.
I'll let you figure out where.

>>14939572
The formatting got screwed up:
http://www.logicalfallacies.info/ambiguity/straw-man/

>>14939572
>Take any TV show in Japan.
Most Japanese people are aware that they don't live in a Japanese comedy show.

>>14939583
Are you sure about that? Anywhere Japs don't have to take accountability for what they say would prove quite different.

>strawman

Please don't keep the habit of citing such terms. Only debate 101 middle school students and /a/ children do this. Address the irrelevance instead.

>>14939566

>That's not what I'm talking about. Many historical groups have existed alongside each other without losing their identities, peacefully in times of peace, bitterly in times of war.

They tend to put up fences of a sort, though. If they're literally living and working alongside each other, they'll combine into one culture after a few generations.

If you have a large enough population of both, you wind up with a case like Latin America, where you have two races combine into one.

>Do you think it's plausible that a third-generation white person of Japan isn't going to think of himself as white?

He'll think of himself as white, but he won't think of himself as American. He'll also be a bit more likely to seek out a Japanese bride, ensuring that his off-spring are more Japanese than white.


>Materially, it sucks more to be a black person than a white person in America.

Not yet. We need to examine why. The fact that white people are well off and black people aren't does not automatically mean that the modern white man holds the blunt of the blame, as the regressives would like to conclude. You also can't keep blaming things on the past. Many white people can claim recent oppressed ancestors, too, including slavery at the hands of the Ottomans. That doesn't mean that they're oppressed.

Let's go back to the crime statistic. Even taking class into account, the amount of crimes that black people commit is completely disproportionate. It's impossible for a community to grow under criminal influence that's too strong. The behaviors of wide spread theft and violence encourage poverty. What proportion of black men know a black man who was jumped, mugged, or had his house broken into by a white man? What proportion know a black man who had the above crimes committed against him by a black man?

Are black people discriminated against in the modern workplace, which would prevent them from acquiring and keeping work? Certainly they claim racism more often, but there's nothing to support that it actually happens.

Conclusion: Black crimes and black entitlement cause black poverty. You can't fix the problem by trying to pretend that it's 50 years ago, the police are killing the poor innocent black people who are just trying to live their lives just for looking at them funny, and the average work place has a policy of not hiring blacks. The police regularly face dangerous black criminals who resist them violently, and this is why they assume the worst when they reach into their pockets. Black people have trouble finding work because they do dumb shit and are still under Malcolm X's venomous influence.


>>14939572

I know what a straw man is, dipshit.

>>14939630
>If they're literally living and working alongside each other, they'll combine into one culture after a few generations.
Muslims and Hindus, Jews and gentiles, whites and blacks have been living alongside each other for far more than a few generations and have managed to retain their identities. Latin America is not the norm.

>He'll think of himself as white, but he won't think of himself as American.
Chinese is an ethnicity. American is not.

>Certainly they claim racism more often, but there's nothing to support that it actually happens.
Workplace resume callback studies.

>Black people have trouble finding work because they do dumb shit and are still under Malcolm X's venomous influence.
Malcolm X had influence because being a black American sucked.

>The police regularly face dangerous black criminals who resist them violently, and this is why they assume the worst when they reach into their pockets.
Police can and do shoot black people with impunity. The fact that they are more likely to be killed by a black person than a white person does not absolve them of a duty not to shoot civilians.

>>14939649

>Muslims and Hindus

One remains in India, the other formed Pakistan.

>Jews and gentiles

Don't know enough about Jewish history to comment.

>whites and blacks

Have faced irregular active resistance.

>Malcolm X had influence because being a black American sucked.

Malcolm X preached the perfect solution for ensuring that the black community never achieved harmony with the white community.

Blacks want whites to accept them, but they want to be allowed to reject whites without criticism. Obviously, this isn't going to work.

>Police can and do shoot black people with impunity. The fact that they are more likely to be killed by a black person than a white person does not absolve them of a duty not to shoot civilians.

The police are not going to allow themselves to get shot to death on the job, nor should they. If black people don't want police to be on edge around them and to suspect them by default, then they need to start by not giving them reason to, and then they need to encourage their friends to do the same. The solution starts be eliminating the root, which black people making dumb decisions with their lives. If the black community were generally law abiding, police harassment wouldn't even be an issue. Furthermore, they also need to learn how to behave when a police officer approaches (pic related to your inevitable response). When he says that he wants to talk, don't reach into your fucking coat pocket. He doesn't know what's in there. Even if it's just gum, if you're dressed like a fucking thug and giving off resistant body language like you're about to fight or run (which he's trained to recognize), his experience and knowledge gives him good reason to suspect a gun, and he's not going to going to wait until he's either looking at a piece of plastic wrap or a barrel to draw his weapon, because if it's the latter, he's dead. Instead, listen to what he has to say and cooperate.

The black community also overblows every incident. More unarmed white people get killed by police in America than blacks. People conclude that they did something dumb to spook the police, not that the police are fucking oppressing them. Goodbye dumbass. The black community is really looking for any excuse to blame Officer David, when the real problem in the community is that Tyrone shot Jamal last week, after Jamal shot Leroy, after Leroy robbed Jamal. Leroy also carjacked Mike before this incident, which made Mike pretty unsympathetic towards the BLM protesters who are trying to claim that white police are the problem and not the large amount of violent dipshits like the one that held him at gunpoint.

>>14939630
>I know what a straw man is
Then how about not pretending like you didn't use it multiple times throughout your retarded post, dipshit?

>>14939752

Let me guess, you're one of those who tell people to "educate themselves" and then believe that you've won the argument, even though the source is your ass or an extremely flimsy study that might as well be your ass for all the other person knows.

>>14939765
Let me guess, you're one one those people who try to detract from an argument because you've realized that you are an idiot that completely misinterpreted the extremely simple point the other person was trying to make and are trying to cover that fact that you still can't even figure out the blatantly obvious logical fallacy that you've made because you have the IQ of an ant?

>>14937486
Canadians are retards, as bad as swedes, just with worse laws.

>>14940125
rude

>>14938553
Hard to tell.

>>14937486
>Live in a free state
>It's pretty peaceful all around
>I can go out at day, or even at 2 AM and nobody bats an eye provided you're not being a fucking weirdo. I just walk my dog.
>get to enjoy the tranquil sounds of the night at parks and never have to fear being in any danger
>even if I were, I can pack heat and defend myself if need be

I only really wanted to live in Japan because I needed to for my career. Otherwise, I'm heading back home after I've spent the amount of time I need to stay here.

>>14940737
Is that guy right in making those assumptions?

>>14925288
>being the number [last] for tourism
Discounting the "Japanese Islands" part, I am pretty sure they do much better for tourism than, say, Western Tohoku.

>>14938631
I suppose. The first reason I don't go out at night at 2AM is because of the shitty weather.

(Bears are reason number two)

(FUCK bears. The most I'd have to deal with in Nihon is those murder hornets)

>>14911148
But isn't it supposed to be all developed and multiracial and shit?

>>14941091
>supposed to be all developed and multiracial
Having squat toilets doesn't make the country backwards.
>Typical American. Thinks the world revolves around them.
I guess the meme about American travellers is real.

>>14940737
What state? The fact you didn't name it makes me wonder.

>>14941619
Seeing how he said a free state, it's probably not California, Texas, NY, or Illinois

>>14925288
>They're not really friendlier, they're just more desperate for attention because of being the number [last] for tourism of all Japanese islands. Not even the Japanese like Shikoku.

Hey now, I want to do the Shikoku Pilgrimage someday.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shikoku_Pilgrimage

>>14945214
I've been to some of those. It's nice. Shikoku is so great

I live in the Japanese countryside. It's nice.

Here's a pic from a local soba restaurant up the road I just went to. It's a phone pic so apologies about the lights, but still. Comfy enough for you?

Suppose I manage to break into the anime industry - will I necessarily have to live in the big city?
I would love to live in the countryside.

>>14948899
You can't, dirty gaijin. Go away

>>14948795
Looks nice. What did you order?

>>14948899
Why the fuck would you want to get into anime industry you damn weeaboo?

>>14949043
>>14949127
That is not the point, just suppose I managed to.

>>14949099

Nishin soba. It's simple yet oh so good.

>>14949146
Man, I can almost taste it. Maybe I'll go out for some soba next weekend...
Enjoy the holiday tomorrow!

>>14922937
It was taken by myself, thanks.

>>14949415
Doesn't prove anything, you could have just beaten up a poor jaypee and stolen his laptop. Or it's your laptop but your mom was the one who took the picture.

>>14908645
It's always been my dream to go to japan and live like kintaro

>>14886904

DPRK countryside is better since there aren't cars or other useless distractions

>>14951132
Shouldn't you be still apologizing for what you did with their flag? Why did they give you access to the Internet already?

>>14949415
Mind uploading it all for us (or me)? You can leave out the ones with you in it if you want.

>>14951132
Going to cock island with your farmer bride!

>>14951115
勉強 勉強 勉強 勉強 勉強 勉強 勉強 勉強 勉強

>>14949415
>>14951734
Yes, please, anon. Upload them for us?

>>14951132
Like electricity, food or freedom?

>>14954840
That's all just American propaganda which the DPRK embraces to get pity money from Westerners. In reality DPRK is the greatest nation in Earth, basically just like Japan, except the people are better looking, and their Korean cartoons are much superior, with better plots, better characters, and cuter cartoon girls.

>>14953865
Rooster Island, you mean.

>>14951734
>>14954064
No problem. It's few GB in size so it will take a while to upload on my potato connection.
In the meantime, you can find few more here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ihniwimd

>>14931082
It's okay anon, you sound very cute. if I was a cute Japanese high schooler I'd let you tutor me on english after school and let our relationship quickly develop into nightly sex sessions where you plow your sweaty raw gaijin dick in my rice field and fill me up every night with your seed.

When I was in rural Japan, everyone thought I was Atsu-Giri-Jason-desu and wanted me to say his catchphrase.

>>14955440
THANKS!

>>14955534
They want all foreigners to say it regardless of nationality or race or sex.

>>14955440
I liked them, John Doe.

>>14932559
>They're more populated because that's where the work is
No. It's because countryside have no life. Nobody wants to have trees as friends. City folk often say they want peace and quiet, but that's only talk. In reality they want just a break like going to the countryside for holidays. Actually live there? No way in hell.

>>14957647
More than one week of 'peace and solitude' and they'll beg to return to the city.

I'd try JET but the thought of singing shit like "head shoulders knees and toes", "I'm a little teapot" etc. to grade schoolers sounds like a fate worse than death.

Guess I'll go for Big Eikaiwa.

>>14957863
What on earth makes you think you'll be doing anything different?

>>14957677
Dude, I've been living in "peace and solitude" in the countryside for the past 6 years and I love it. I hate going into the city.

I find myself more interesting in the trees than the people and buildings in these pictures.

>>14918052
>>14912122
Truly beautiful foliage. American trees seem so dull compared to these.

>>14957863
Weird, I'd thought that an average jaypee would love interacting with grade schoolers.

>>14958442
'Twas bait.

>>14958450
Where are you living, senpai? Since you've been there that long I assume the country folk are nice.

>>14957585
>>14955440
As requested:
https://mega.nz/#!r9dgUSaD!21DgA9M-yV2Z2hQwKQdleFKR4Sh4qrt3iqwtUbTh7GQ
https://mega.nz/#!zpFXyApb!e22gBpfzCOqa7C78TXkBY5_75LYpiQx04bi9ReOTAo0
https://mega.nz/#!jsdkXCgL!zwzkZIlOxd2T9P_pi8F-ez_NUoDLUjzawUrnstQ4VfU
https://mega.nz/#!mklXWJ5R!3H0XmEHNgtBQ0xFsH2XmTvl1BK1yb5WlOIvCt-axxzI
https://mega.nz/#!ul12EZ4a!x9Jyq7tYYxfeZrtrqKrb1xcMZprSAgvK7x-lQhooPGU
https://mega.nz/#!a5l1yLAR!eglK1YlDCUPUvBlqbe1ko_XsBNHfd6DgwSXaoLYhS9c

All photos have geotags if you are wondering about exact location where a photo was taken

>>14959886
thanks fami

>>14948899
There was that one Euro animator/designer who worked on Space Dandy. Story I heard was he worked digitally from his home country.

Working from the Japanese countryside probably wouldn't be a problem as long as you're good, have recognition, doing something you can do from home, and have good Internet.

>>14939077
Guess you don't know about and have never been to the Nagano mountain ranges
Damn good snow slopes during the winter, pretty nice hiker-uppers in the summer

>>14960081
Oh, that's a nice way of thinking.

Also I wouldn't mind gaining some in-house credit first, moving to the country when it's more convenient.

>>14959830
Southern Japan. They're incredibly friendly and I live watching the scenery change with the seasons.

>>14959886
Thanks you.

>>14908645
>slept on the streets, on bus stop benches, in temples/shrines, or abandoned houses
I know this sort of thing has been done, but still can't bring myself to believe it.

>>14961111
How are you sustaining yourself?

>>14959886
Thanks a lot!

>>14964168
Zen Mastery.

>>14964168
Teaching English (typical, I know). But I enjoy it, and I've been somewhat interested in ESL for a while.

>>14965729
Last time I've been to Japan, no one spoke English.
You suck at your job.

>>14965740
Did you speak with a lot of junior high school and/or high school students?

>>14965729
>and I've been somewhat interested in ESL for a while
Can ESLs get this kind of job? I speak two other languages (but nippongo as a fourth is still on the way).

>>14965853
Depends on the company, but usually you can be hired if you have some sort of certification of your English ability.

that feel when my rich friend is going to nihon and I can't afford it

>>14959886
second download link not working

Is there any walking in Japan comutryside video?

>>14908645
Man you are brave

>>14966071
>>>/r9k/

>>14965685
That elicited a chuckle

>>14968238
works on my machine

>>14969167
tried again today, and its working now. :)

>>14970387
>:)

SCUM

TOKYO — A zebra that was on the loose on a Japanese golf course for hours has died after it was chased around by a dozen men including police officers, likely drowning after being shot by tranquilizer dart and plunging into a lake.

Police say the 2-year-old male zebra escaped late Tuesday from a horseback riding club. It had belonged to a farm in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan.

By Wednesday morning, it had wandered onto a nearby golf course in Gifu Prefecture, with TV news footage showing it zipping from hole to hole.

People were chasing the animal around the golf course, some holding lassos, trying to capture it, but with little luck. The animal would let them get close, then would dash off when they tried to rein it in.

It was shot with a tranquilizer dart, but then ran into a lake.

It was rescued within minutes, but its heart had stopped, and attempts to resuscitate it failed, said Takahiro Taniguchi of Tajimi police in Gifu.

Although the cause of death was unclear, it likely drowned, Taniguchi said. A veterinarian on scene said the zebra appeared to have drowned, he said.

“We pulled it out, but its heart had stopped,” he said.

>>14972234
Poor puppy.

>>14972234
those wacky japs LOL!

>>14972234
Huh. I saw pic related from the twitter linked in >>14960563 that day and wondered what the deal was.

one day I will win the lottery and move to a comfy town in Hokkaido and open up a little bicycle shop

>>14973299
That's the dream, brother.

>>14973299
Too bad for you that by then my and all of my refugee brothers will invade Japan, including Hokkaido, and steal all your bikes whitey. Gibsmedat free shit.

>>14973714
the alternate version of that dream is to find a lonely Japanese christmas cake that will support me financially in exchange for companionship

somehow they both seem equally unlikely

>>14973786
Gaijin scum leave. After you impregnate she will kick you out. Only think you gaijin are good for is inseminating women, nothing more.

>>14973795
It's good that you recognize the superiority of the European genome, but don't worry, I'd assimilate much better into Japanese society than a Chinese or Korean immigrant.

>>14973803
are you kidding me? YOU'RE FUCKING A WHITE MALE

>>14975063
I identify myself as trans-japanese

Man, Japan is one backwards as fuck country.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LEW7vu8IHQ

Look at that shit. Outside of big cities like Tokyo, they literally have the electric cables OUTSIDE instead of under the ground where all 1st world countries have it.

>>14977782
I'm a trans-japanese pre-transition trans-girl

>>14968938
There are some by this guy, sometimes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbDdDxGm8Fs

>>14978425
Japan is developed not because it earns shit-tons of money, but mostly because they don't spend what they earn where it's not necessary. Unlike western countries that make absurd profits and spend it on making life comfortable, they earn just enough to keep the system in balance and put the rest towards business.

That's why their websites look like shit, houses are small and whatnot.

Which is pretty contradictory if you think about how much they spend by unnecessarily traveling around the world. You'd think with all that money they could at least afford to have living rooms or something.

>>14978464
>Japan is developed not because it earns shit-tons of money, but mostly because they don't spend what they earn where it's not necessary. Unlike western countries that make absurd profits and spend it on making life comfortable, they earn just enough to keep the system in balance and put the rest towards business.
>Earn just enough"

They work 12 hours a day then blow it on alcohol, pachinko and hostesses

>>14887585
Are you white? If so, do you experience any racism in Hokkaido at all?

>>14887585
Does Hokkaido have a shit ton of bugs? Have you felt any big earthquakes while staying there? What do you do for fun there?