Youre right about them not REALLY being in the future. However, they are way ahead of america in a lot of ways. Healthcare and transportation (trains) being BIG ones
Well healthcare is affordable but definitely not ahead in technology especially in cancer treatment. Japanese sometimes go to America for certain cancers. Trains yeah. America might as well have theirs pulled by horse and wagon in comparison
Like other comments said in SOME things Japan is in the future like Shinkansen, trains and healthcare. In the United States I have to deal with only a few crappy trains and absolutely abyssmal healthcare. Yeah as far as robots go, that is just a big myth. I find the old school paper and pen stuff cute in sane ways like a blast in the past. If I had to stay in Japan or the US. I would always choose to live in Japan 100% of the time for the transportation, healthcare and general public safety and respect you get in public.
I live in New Jersey and I've been watching this channel for years. There's an old documentary about life in Japan, from the 70's, that went viral on TH-cam years ago. I think the reason it went viral is because the thumbnail is a guy taking a bath with his son in a weird green bathtub where the water goes all the way up to their chest. It was about a day in the life of an average middleclass Japanese family back then. It was really interesting, and it made me wonder what changed in the country since then, and what didn't, compared to the U.S, with regard to the fact that people think that the country is so technologically advanced, when it's really not. That weird bathtub in the thumbnail is what caught most viewers' attention, and it got mine as well. Do a lot of people in Japan still have bathtubs like that? Were they ever really that common? What type of hot water heater do they have that can handle such a large amount of water? I'd link the video, but I find that whenever I try to do that, my comments end up being removed because the system thinks I'm a spam bot. But if you look up Japan in the 70's, it'll pop right up. You'll know what video I'm talking about because it's the one with the father and son in the weird, deep bathtub. You should do a video about it.
@@Melissa0774 lol no no your good I’ll check it out. It sounds halarious I mean baths are a big deal in Japan but they just work on water heaters like ours do. At most the water heater will tell you when the water is ready
@@unrested Let me know if you find it or not. If you don't, then I'll try posting the link and hopefully it won't get automatically deleted. I think it would make a great video topic for you. Also, if you could, I'd love to see you do a video talking about if you've been to any Japanese grocery stores or restaurants in the U.S, though I wouldn't imagine there'd be many specifically Japanese grocery stores in Florida, right? I guess I'm spoiled, because where I live, in NJ, there are two specifically Japanese, (not Asian or Chinese, or anything else, but just Japanese,) convenience stores within two blocks of each other in Princeton, near the university. They're owned and run by people from Japan and they carry all items imported from there, even household and cleaning items and stuff like that. I also have a bunch of different large Asian supermarkets by my house and they're opening yet another one, next month. Do you have any Asian stores near you? You should do a video on what Japanese foods you miss eating when you're not there, and what products you like to buy from, or meals you prepare with ingredients from, Asian grocery stores in Florida, if you're lucky enough to have any down there.
@@Naturenerd1000 well I mean sometimes they have it broke and don’t fix it like when a ward office burns down and they are like uh oh we wrote everything on paper lol. But hahah yeah I get what you mean. Hope to see you on the stream sometime this week :)
@@unrested don't they have like copies at a different location? I mean, same happens with computers, if you have all your info in just the one drive you're gambling; most don't think of that because they don't keep the copies themselves but "in the cloud" but it's the same principle.
I agree, but I think that Japan is ahead of many countries in ways of efficiency (though antiquated in several departments), public transportation... and imo, one of the greatest inventions of mankind... plumbing (their western-style toilet). In BC, Canada, public toilets are increasingly difficult to come by and often filthy in the cities, few and far between elsewhere, mostly porta pottys and locked. It is a cesspool in certain areas as a result. I was so delighted to pretty much always come across toilets everywhere at all hours in Japan, even in remote countryside with abandoned buildings and no one around. Sure, some were the squat ones, but there would often be the coveted Western toilet as the handicap stall. 😊
I'm a BCer living in Japan. I agree, public toilets in Canada are gross. In Japan, even your local conveniant store or highway rest stop toilet is cleaner than the one at your own home. When I get off the airplane at Haneda or Narita, I can't wait to use the clean toilet at the airport, but when I get off the plane at YVR, I either can't find one, its closed, or its dirty with toilet paper all over the floor. I don't understand why they can't keep a toilet clean at YVR.
Bro japan is great your just in that teachers game its a meme amongst the foreigners that you go to Japan to weld to live a semi normal life. Japan is pretty foward thinking in the city's but I'm down for that paper paycheck
I read the title of this video and was like "yeah I bet I know what he's gonna say" and then you said it, Japan is not some Jetsons type shit, have been hearing that lie for AGES
The hoarder thing! I was embarrassed to invite people over when my apartment a little cluttered or messy. So, after I clean up spick and span I do I have people. I thought it was nice, no catalogue though and still embarrassed about the old broken parts I couldn't fix or clean. Then I saw some of my friend's places and I was worried for nothing. I probably made them feel like they were in an abandoned apartment complex! I almost never buy tchotchkes and small souvenirs for this reason.
I lived in Japan for a while as a kid and I always found it funny how some places feel like they're in the future while others feel like they're still in the Edo era. The best example for this is the toilets. One restaurant could have just a basic squat toilet, but then you go into a McDonald's and it's got one with a control panel with heated seats and a built in bidet.
I could only go to Japan in summer, and I didn't think it was that bad, but I did have to buy a designer towel to wipe my sweat, but where I live in summer it gets to be 110-122F, I also went out into the countryside while I was there, I was in Tokyo about 4 days of my whole trip of 2 weeks, went to Nagoya, Kyoto ect.❤
The only other thing that might make people believe Japan is "futuristic" is just the asthetics. Clean, vibrant, full of new (not really) buildings, sleek designs, and heavy use of television billboards in major cities. If you compare that to a city full of intact brick buildings from the 1800's (or earlier) just with a moderate amount of modern stuff slapped around it, it would look dated in comparison. But both cities have the same stuff more or less. But if anyone is from a small town, any major city could seem ahead of its time and full of things that they may not know exists.
02:22 still very popular in Black Africa regions which don't have good enough cellular networks. Some older companies in their local markets in Europe may ask you to send fax (crazy).
Japan seems to be very sophisticated in some niche area's, like trains, and in others it's sometimes suprisingly behind. The government abolished the use of 3.5' discs only this year. There might be several reasons: holding on to traditions, but also the fact that new things cost money and can't afford it. The country often gives the impression to be stuck in the 1970's, when Japan was doing great. Maybe except traditon, there could also be an element of nostalgia.
@@unrested that's why I held on to a box of them, if some buggers refuse to believe me they can see for themselves. Actually I was saving them for a recycling art project that never came to be and they just stuck with me I guess...
Documents done with pen & ink is pretty common among Asian nations, not just Japan. What's up with people thinking this is like some sort of "old" thing ?
When the technology of digital preservation exists and hearing the news of a local ward office burning down and losing multiple back records due to only having them on paper is what is considered archaic. Traditions are understood, stubbornly refusing to properly preserve gov info is not.
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Agreed. My first visit to Japan in 2005 destroyed any ideas I had of it being decades into the future. At that time it was still stuck in the 80's which kind of upset me. Then I realised I loved the 80's and I never looked back. I never saw a Dot matrix printer though?! My god....
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Japan was futuristic in the 1960's to the 1980's.
Been there seven times myself...I'd say they're both in the future and the past at the same time.
Youre right about them not REALLY being in the future. However, they are way ahead of america in a lot of ways. Healthcare and transportation (trains) being BIG ones
Well healthcare is affordable but definitely not ahead in technology especially in cancer treatment. Japanese sometimes go to America for certain cancers. Trains yeah. America might as well have theirs pulled by horse and wagon in comparison
Those things aren't possible in multicultural societies.
@ …does skin color and religious beliefs really make it impossible? Don’t be ridiculous.
@@OnionArcade the mixmatch of it, yes.
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Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong
Like other comments said in SOME things Japan is in the future like Shinkansen, trains and healthcare. In the United States I have to deal with only a few crappy trains and absolutely abyssmal healthcare. Yeah as far as robots go, that is just a big myth. I find the old school paper and pen stuff cute in sane ways like a blast in the past. If I had to stay in Japan or the US. I would always choose to live in Japan 100% of the time for the transportation, healthcare and general public safety and respect you get in public.
I live in New Jersey and I've been watching this channel for years. There's an old documentary about life in Japan, from the 70's, that went viral on TH-cam years ago. I think the reason it went viral is because the thumbnail is a guy taking a bath with his son in a weird green bathtub where the water goes all the way up to their chest. It was about a day in the life of an average middleclass Japanese family back then. It was really interesting, and it made me wonder what changed in the country since then, and what didn't, compared to the U.S, with regard to the fact that people think that the country is so technologically advanced, when it's really not. That weird bathtub in the thumbnail is what caught most viewers' attention, and it got mine as well. Do a lot of people in Japan still have bathtubs like that? Were they ever really that common? What type of hot water heater do they have that can handle such a large amount of water? I'd link the video, but I find that whenever I try to do that, my comments end up being removed because the system thinks I'm a spam bot. But if you look up Japan in the 70's, it'll pop right up. You'll know what video I'm talking about because it's the one with the father and son in the weird, deep bathtub. You should do a video about it.
@@Melissa0774 lol no no your good I’ll check it out. It sounds halarious I mean baths are a big deal in Japan but they just work on water heaters like ours do. At most the water heater will tell you when the water is ready
@@unrested Let me know if you find it or not. If you don't, then I'll try posting the link and hopefully it won't get automatically deleted. I think it would make a great video topic for you. Also, if you could, I'd love to see you do a video talking about if you've been to any Japanese grocery stores or restaurants in the U.S, though I wouldn't imagine there'd be many specifically Japanese grocery stores in Florida, right? I guess I'm spoiled, because where I live, in NJ, there are two specifically Japanese, (not Asian or Chinese, or anything else, but just Japanese,) convenience stores within two blocks of each other in Princeton, near the university. They're owned and run by people from Japan and they carry all items imported from there, even household and cleaning items and stuff like that. I also have a bunch of different large Asian supermarkets by my house and they're opening yet another one, next month. Do you have any Asian stores near you? You should do a video on what Japanese foods you miss eating when you're not there, and what products you like to buy from, or meals you prepare with ingredients from, Asian grocery stores in Florida, if you're lucky enough to have any down there.
Japan has the mentality of if it ain't broke don't fix it. Wish more countries were like that.
@@Naturenerd1000 well I mean sometimes they have it broke and don’t fix it like when a ward office burns down and they are like uh oh we wrote everything on paper lol. But hahah yeah I get what you mean. Hope to see you on the stream sometime this week :)
@@unrested don't they have like copies at a different location? I mean, same happens with computers, if you have all your info in just the one drive you're gambling; most don't think of that because they don't keep the copies themselves but "in the cloud" but it's the same principle.
I agree, but I think that Japan is ahead of many countries in ways of efficiency (though antiquated in several departments), public transportation... and imo, one of the greatest inventions of mankind... plumbing (their western-style toilet). In BC, Canada, public toilets are increasingly difficult to come by and often filthy in the cities, few and far between elsewhere, mostly porta pottys and locked. It is a cesspool in certain areas as a result. I was so delighted to pretty much always come across toilets everywhere at all hours in Japan, even in remote countryside with abandoned buildings and no one around. Sure, some were the squat ones, but there would often be the coveted Western toilet as the handicap stall. 😊
I'm a BCer living in Japan. I agree, public toilets in Canada are gross. In Japan, even your local conveniant store or highway rest stop toilet is cleaner than the one at your own home. When I get off the airplane at Haneda or Narita, I can't wait to use the clean toilet at the airport, but when I get off the plane at YVR, I either can't find one, its closed, or its dirty with toilet paper all over the floor. I don't understand why they can't keep a toilet clean at YVR.
Bro japan is great your just in that teachers game its a meme amongst the foreigners that you go to Japan to weld to live a semi normal life. Japan is pretty foward thinking in the city's but I'm down for that paper paycheck
I read the title of this video and was like "yeah I bet I know what he's gonna say" and then you said it, Japan is not some Jetsons type shit, have been hearing that lie for AGES
The hoarder thing! I was embarrassed to invite people over when my apartment a little cluttered or messy. So, after I clean up spick and span I do I have people. I thought it was nice, no catalogue though and still embarrassed about the old broken parts I couldn't fix or clean. Then I saw some of my friend's places and I was worried for nothing. I probably made them feel like they were in an abandoned apartment complex! I almost never buy tchotchkes and small souvenirs for this reason.
I lived in Japan for a while as a kid and I always found it funny how some places feel like they're in the future while others feel like they're still in the Edo era.
The best example for this is the toilets. One restaurant could have just a basic squat toilet, but then you go into a McDonald's and it's got one with a control panel with heated seats and a built in bidet.
I think that control panel left the three shells behind long ago...
I could only go to Japan in summer, and I didn't think it was that bad, but I did have to buy a designer towel to wipe my sweat, but where I live in summer it gets to be 110-122F, I also went out into the countryside while I was there, I was in Tokyo about 4 days of my whole trip of 2 weeks, went to Nagoya, Kyoto ect.❤
The only other thing that might make people believe Japan is "futuristic" is just the asthetics. Clean, vibrant, full of new (not really) buildings, sleek designs, and heavy use of television billboards in major cities.
If you compare that to a city full of intact brick buildings from the 1800's (or earlier) just with a moderate amount of modern stuff slapped around it, it would look dated in comparison. But both cities have the same stuff more or less.
But if anyone is from a small town, any major city could seem ahead of its time and full of things that they may not know exists.
I actually like that the past and the present preside together in Japan and are not looked down upon!
You are an amazingly talented artist!
@@Nyctophora thank you :)
02:22 still very popular in Black Africa regions which don't have good enough cellular networks. Some older companies in their local markets in Europe may ask you to send fax (crazy).
Japan seems to be very sophisticated in some niche area's, like trains, and in others it's sometimes suprisingly behind. The government abolished the use of 3.5' discs only this year. There might be several reasons: holding on to traditions, but also the fact that new things cost money and can't afford it. The country often gives the impression to be stuck in the 1970's, when Japan was doing great. Maybe except traditon, there could also be an element of nostalgia.
lol I tried explaining 3.5 disks to my 7th graders they thought I was joking or making it up
@@unrested that's why I held on to a box of them, if some buggers refuse to believe me they can see for themselves.
Actually I was saving them for a recycling art project that never came to be and they just stuck with me I guess...
It would be encouraging to say the USA is living in the future. The US is 20 to 30 years ahead of the rest of Europe and 50 to 60 years ahead of Asia.
Besides NK, there's also much of the German Gov. and many other legal offices that rely heavily on fax machines too, to this day.
Some rail companies in US also still uses fax machine. Never really quite get why people thought only Japan still uses fax.
Been there 3 times... the only futuristic thing about Japan is how they overcharge for everything.
Documents done with pen & ink is pretty common among Asian nations, not just Japan.
What's up with people thinking this is like some sort of "old" thing ?
When the technology of digital preservation exists and hearing the news of a local ward office burning down and losing multiple back records due to only having them on paper is what is considered archaic. Traditions are understood, stubbornly refusing to properly preserve gov info is not.
Fax Machines >Email
🤣Way under rated technology.
Is there gonna be a stream today?
Yeah for sure probably around 6-630
Major facts
Dude, dont look at yourself, look at the camera/us lol
No must look at meee! Tooo vain!!!
@@unrested 🤣Fair enough 😂
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Agreed. My first visit to Japan in 2005 destroyed any ideas I had of it being decades into the future. At that time it was still stuck in the 80's which kind of upset me. Then I realised I loved the 80's and I never looked back. I never saw a Dot matrix printer though?! My god....