Lived in Japan for 2 years (research fellowship) and while I largely agree with you in terms of things like public infrastructure, have to balk a bit at the concept of "people don't get left behind" in Japan. A *lot* of people in Japan get left behind. A lot of it is unfortunately not immediately apparent unless you've lived there, and is also disproportionately concentrated on certain groups. One of the reasons I opted to not stay on was largely due to the amount of barriers you face if you are a woman in the majority of professional careers being borderline insurmountable (and in many cases, baked directly into institutional practices and the legal system), with the situation far worse for people who are LGBTQ+, dealing with disabilities, or who belong to any of the other groups that are still largely seen as socially unacceptable. Resources and support for mental health that you touched on at 8:50 is honestly far worse than in the US (where it is absolutely not great) and also stigmatized to a far greater degree. Work culture in general is also by far the most toxic of any place I've lived in, where the expectation for most is to be forced to overwork well past the point of exhaustion, and into the range where it creates actual health issues. It's also not great how little legal protections there are, where even r**e and SA were effectively impossible to prosecute until very recently (as their legal definition did not include lack of consent until very hard fought changes were passed about 18 months ago). Hope this doesn't come across as being excessively negative since I really did enjoy my time there, and there are many things I love about the country. But there are very real social issues that are almost terrifying to deal with if you're even incidentally affected by them, and that an incredible amount of money and effort is invested into deliberately hiding rather than addressing.
Yeah, and touching the point about SA, i'd just like to add that there's a culture there that if an abuser gives money as an apology it's like he "paid his debt" and the police won't do anything. Even in cases involving minors... there's much more to say, you condensed it nicely, i hope people in the FGC get a more realistic perpective of japan, we can still be weeabos and appreciate the things we like from there but there's absolutely more than meets the eye, specially when you're just being a tourist enjoying your vacation
pfft. the homeless rate in Japan is nothing compared to somewhere like America. It's all relative. Somehow some people always find ways to fall through the cracks of the welfare net.
Mental health does seem to have more of a stigma, but work culture depends on the company. I am part of a software development community, and virtually nobody does overtime. I am not sure when you were here, but this is a very old stereotype that is less and less true as time goes on. The SA comment is still very relevant though, but thankfully it seems to be changing little by little.
@@moarminerals I think it varies a lot by industry and position. I worked in a senior-ish-lvl position in the JPN finance sector in the late 2010s and while my own exp was mostly okay, what I saw lower positions have to deal with/how they were treated def made me extremely uncomfortable and still havent seen anywhere else. And this is coming from someone who is ex-Bain&Co. Industries with less overt corporate hierarchy/traditional structuring like SWE + places that aggressively recruit overseas talent or are multinational for sure have more readily embraced change and provide much better work environments. But the floor in many industries is still real bad relative to many other countries. I think the criticism is valid even if progress is hearteningly moving forward slowly everywhere and important for things to continue to improve. The stuff about being a woman or LGBT or disabled trying to pursue a professional career there also needs to be underlined like 5 times.
Something I would like to point out regarding the areas where you can just go to chill, is that people often take a small mat with them and relax in the bigger parks. It is free. But yes, you have to take your garbage with you. You do not really have to spend money, but it is true that the way things are laid out does seem to heavily push you towards consumption. At least in the bigger train stations.
To answer your question: they have benches in Osaka, at least in Moriguchi! I think in Hiroshima I saw a few benches too. Tokyo is totally benchless for sure.
"Japan is greatest city in the world" , well known Japan-city, and then describes a dystopian hellhole where you don't have a fucking bench in a park and need to eat your own trash.
Everything is too far apart in the US to have anything like the infrastructure Japan has between cities. From the northernmost point of Hokkaido down to the southernmost point of Kyushu barely gets you to Georgia if you start in Maine. It's just not feasible, and forget going east to west. Sure, within cities it could be much better, but then most cities south of Maryland have been designed for cars since most were only significantly developed after the proliferation of them. So unless you want to just knock down entire cities and rebuild them, that isn't feasible either. People just don't realize how massive the US is. It plays by different rules because of this.
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Brian out here building the FGC’s working class consciousness and international solidarity with Hollow Bastion in the bg. Love to see it
Lived in Japan for 2 years (research fellowship) and while I largely agree with you in terms of things like public infrastructure, have to balk a bit at the concept of "people don't get left behind" in Japan.
A *lot* of people in Japan get left behind. A lot of it is unfortunately not immediately apparent unless you've lived there, and is also disproportionately concentrated on certain groups. One of the reasons I opted to not stay on was largely due to the amount of barriers you face if you are a woman in the majority of professional careers being borderline insurmountable (and in many cases, baked directly into institutional practices and the legal system), with the situation far worse for people who are LGBTQ+, dealing with disabilities, or who belong to any of the other groups that are still largely seen as socially unacceptable. Resources and support for mental health that you touched on at 8:50 is honestly far worse than in the US (where it is absolutely not great) and also stigmatized to a far greater degree. Work culture in general is also by far the most toxic of any place I've lived in, where the expectation for most is to be forced to overwork well past the point of exhaustion, and into the range where it creates actual health issues. It's also not great how little legal protections there are, where even r**e and SA were effectively impossible to prosecute until very recently (as their legal definition did not include lack of consent until very hard fought changes were passed about 18 months ago).
Hope this doesn't come across as being excessively negative since I really did enjoy my time there, and there are many things I love about the country. But there are very real social issues that are almost terrifying to deal with if you're even incidentally affected by them, and that an incredible amount of money and effort is invested into deliberately hiding rather than addressing.
Yeah, and touching the point about SA, i'd just like to add that there's a culture there that if an abuser gives money as an apology it's like he "paid his debt" and the police won't do anything. Even in cases involving minors... there's much more to say, you condensed it nicely, i hope people in the FGC get a more realistic perpective of japan, we can still be weeabos and appreciate the things we like from there but there's absolutely more than meets the eye, specially when you're just being a tourist enjoying your vacation
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pfft. the homeless rate in Japan is nothing compared to somewhere like America. It's all relative. Somehow some people always find ways to fall through the cracks of the welfare net.
Mental health does seem to have more of a stigma, but work culture depends on the company. I am part of a software development community, and virtually nobody does overtime. I am not sure when you were here, but this is a very old stereotype that is less and less true as time goes on.
The SA comment is still very relevant though, but thankfully it seems to be changing little by little.
@@moarminerals I think it varies a lot by industry and position. I worked in a senior-ish-lvl position in the JPN finance sector in the late 2010s and while my own exp was mostly okay, what I saw lower positions have to deal with/how they were treated def made me extremely uncomfortable and still havent seen anywhere else. And this is coming from someone who is ex-Bain&Co. Industries with less overt corporate hierarchy/traditional structuring like SWE + places that aggressively recruit overseas talent or are multinational for sure have more readily embraced change and provide much better work environments. But the floor in many industries is still real bad relative to many other countries. I think the criticism is valid even if progress is hearteningly moving forward slowly everywhere and important for things to continue to improve. The stuff about being a woman or LGBT or disabled trying to pursue a professional career there also needs to be underlined like 5 times.
A german acquaintance once said: "USA is like the best 3rd world country I've visited"
IIRC the no trash cans in public in japan was due to some terrorism regarding gas bombs being put in public trash cans so they removed them all.
Something I would like to point out regarding the areas where you can just go to chill, is that people often take a small mat with them and relax in the bigger parks. It is free. But yes, you have to take your garbage with you. You do not really have to spend money, but it is true that the way things are laid out does seem to heavily push you towards consumption. At least in the bigger train stations.
5:10 This is an unwritten rule in Japan: no eat and walk. People look at you weird, I heard.
To answer your question: they have benches in Osaka, at least in Moriguchi! I think in Hiroshima I saw a few benches too. Tokyo is totally benchless for sure.
anyone know who brian mains in ssbu?
I remember seeing him play Luigi in an old clip
the chaikaface brian got me real good lmao
"Japan is greatest city in the world" , well known Japan-city, and then describes a dystopian hellhole where you don't have a fucking bench in a park and need to eat your own trash.
animegao brian is too much
America is the worst fr
And yeah, car culture is terrible
Everything is too far apart in the US to have anything like the infrastructure Japan has between cities. From the northernmost point of Hokkaido down to the southernmost point of Kyushu barely gets you to Georgia if you start in Maine. It's just not feasible, and forget going east to west. Sure, within cities it could be much better, but then most cities south of Maryland have been designed for cars since most were only significantly developed after the proliferation of them. So unless you want to just knock down entire cities and rebuild them, that isn't feasible either.
People just don't realize how massive the US is. It plays by different rules because of this.
Beta brian f: play some ranked sets between time with family and friends
Sigma Tyler 1: travel to another country to play league of legends, absorb 0 culture while there