live in Japan for some time, I have developed an opinion about this country and its inhabitants. Many contradictory or correct information that can be read on different websites, even more distorted picture of the country. I wonder is what drives people invented writing stories about what they saw here, or habits that prevail here. Such examples are so numerous that it takes perhaps a week to write in paragraphs nonsense and lies that people write.
Maybe this is just to sustain the myth of the "weird Japan"? Maybe that's the way all the time fosters an atmosphere of mysticism and exoticism of Japan? The only question is, why?
History of Japan, its art and culture are so wonderful and attractive, it does not need to write in bullshit and lies to attract the reader.
example - somewhere on some site devoted to Japan, I read once that when the police arrest a person suspected of an offense, to be sure, he asks her what looked like Mount Fuji (or was clouds, etc.) This gave insight that the person was just in that place.
problem is that Fuji San is very far from Tokyo, and the building of the city is rather hard to see anything farther than 2 km. I think that we lead the Tokyo Tower or any tall building in a good spot.
more mundane example is coffee. Regular coffee drinking, which can not be here (apparently) to buy because the Japanese drink only tea. Going to Japan very much afraid of that, I'm not a foodie, but I really enjoy your morning cup of coffee. Meanwhile, the purchase of coffee does not have any problem here. Not only that, they are Special parzelnie coffee here where you can buy yourself some of the best types of coffee in the world. On the street vending stand, where you can buy a hot coffee!
often met with the opinion that in Japan you can not do this or that. Well, if someone has a lack of good manners that should never leave the house, let alone go to a country with such a different culture as Japan. Here you really need to behave like a normal civilized man, and follow the rules of good behavior. Even as it happens a little "slip" is one of the head not clothing. I guess everyone has heard that Japan should not be smarkać in a handkerchief, because it is very badly received. It is true, but the same with my own eyes a few times I saw in the subway as the Japanese snot in a handkerchief until it was sad to look at it and listen. Wagon full of people and nobody paid attention to it, what they thought I do not know. However, the most feared of the myth about eating. I will not say I like fish, but I thought that I eat it every day and it's not raw, filled me with optimism. Meanwhile, Japan is a paradise for gourmets, you can buy everything here. Eating out is tasty and cheap (in terms of cuisine Japan) after the hamburger I was not feeling well.
Probably the biggest "myth" of Japan is its own image presented in films. Each one, at the thought of this country in my mind is images from films such as Shogun and The Last Samurai. However, as the film was shown in Japan has changed, young men far different from the image of a warrior, young women do not look like the movies.
Everything is different, everything except that the aliens will always be a stranger. Our friend lives in this country 17 years, has a Japanese wife and lovely daughter. As he says, always environment will be the "other" Nothing can change that, they're always going to treat us like accidental tourists. Sooner or later you come back to yourself, your path will lead you back where you belong. Do not say this directly, they never say what they really think. But there is another side of the coin, the lonely and lost in his own life. The vast majority of the population of Japan, the Japanese have been born, to grow up in a country so technologically advanced and have it all away in the ... After coming here I was surprised that the cutting edge of technology are not a barrier for people, even a fair age. But you do not have much time to spend among them, to understand that "possession" does not mean "understand" buy a nice HDTV for approximately 500,000 Yen and do not know how to operate it (change the level of voice channels and a peak capacity) I am not talking here about a Grandpa just a young man's success. The development of our civilization we owe our innate curiosity ... what if ...? "Or," how it works ", however, is probably not applicable to this country, but how is it possible that it is They are the fastest "mode" in technology? This is yet another mystery of this country. Many times I have met with the opinion that "they" are like little else "
(calling softly) ... I just turn the TV to find that out. In fact, their repertoire of TV programs is different, but I assure you that if they change the voice one into English on the Iberian Peninsula would not have even realized that watching television than any other English.
These are the people very friendly and willing to help, we felt it many times, the stairs begin, if you must go to the "system" Then do not count on help, then you're not an ordinary tourist. Even buying a regular phone card (taktmtw etc.) is not possible for someone outside the "system" As we go into it then as dominoes arranged everything together under the title "We know everything about you," Sometimes I think that Japan is a very good organized system of security, the huge shopping center did not want to sell me a camera without showing any ID document! Once I showed, it automatically became a "regular customer", as if nothing. Someone, however, shed light on me a little bit different picture of an innocent situation. Giving my document was added to some of the database, I got a loyalty card, and I always used to show the next purchase (and I am out?) Fees are points that I can then be exchanged for any commodity from the shop.
sounds like conspiracy theory, but here anytime and anywhere you go in the system.
If anyone ever rented a flat by the agency is familiar with the procedure: we ask, they show us the apartment, then fill in securities unless of course we want to sign an agreement with them. In Japan it looks like this. We go to the office, and before we ask the first question we need to fill in something like a personal questionnaire, which is full of data, where it is currently live, etc. Everything happens for a reason, the integrity of these people are one and the monitoring points on the street and the police are only part of the huge system to ensure safety. It works like hell, I've never felt more secure. On my own eyes how it is run guest accommodation in one of the largest hotels in Tokyo. I do not want to use the term "State police", but somehow the same pressure on the tongue. Does this bother anyone? Probably not, if it makes you feel secure that it is a small price for such comfort.
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