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I want to know what Japan is like from people who actually live in Japan especially after seeing some misleading posts online from people who don't live in Japan & people misunderstanding something resulting in people being misleadingly negative about Japan

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Many parts of Japan are stunningly beatiful. The largest cities are some of the most overwhelming places I've ever been, but everything works much better than you might expect.

The people are generally respectful and kind if you are the same. I found people to be generally tolerant of unintended rudeness from a foreigner, especially if you apologize. Jokes and humility go a long way.

There's a TON of Japanese people there. Like, they're freaking EVERYWHERE.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

To this point, the Tokyo skytree may be the most entertaining place I've ever been. You can see so much life happening all around, you can see how far Tokyo sprawls, you can see how large the breadth of humanity can be. If you intensely focus on one small spot of the city, you see a myopic little section, but then you raise up, and see the entirety of "Civilization". It's super impressive. I expected that it would be fun to see, and maybe spend 20 minutes up there looking around. I spent almost 3 hours just examining life.

I'm sure places like this exist elsewhere, Tokyo seems like the perfect place for it though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Highly recommend sitting in a cafe in Montmartre Paris. Especially one looking down those spindly small roads. Excellent place to watch humanity on a micro scale.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 7 months ago (2 children)

レミーは英語圏のサイトを圧倒しているし、日本人の大半は英語ができないから、このサイトを利用しない。だから、実際の日本人からの回答は得られない。

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I only understood a some words in that scentence because I haven't yet learned enough Japanese to read that fully

I haven't learned that big of a wordset yet as I'm primarily focusing on learning grammer at the moment before continuing to learn vocabulary

[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago (3 children)

[Lemmy] dominates English-speaking sites, and most Japanese people don't use this site because they can't speak English. Therefore, we cannot get answers from actual Japanese people.

translation by Google

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I can verify that google translate got some things right but I don't know all the kana & kanji in that scentence yet to be able to read it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Don't use Google translate because it will get Japanese / 日本語 wrong

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

How I feel browsing mastodon and it's not anywhere near as bad as the inverse for other countries.

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