Guide: The Real Secret Behind Japan's Appeal

[astuarlen]

Forget games, gadgets, Pocky, I have discovered the True Reason the gaijin go gaga over the land of the rising sun.

Can I get a drumroll please?


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http://www.japanvisitor.com/images/content_images/toyohashi-manhole.jpg
http://www.japanvisitor.com/images/content_images/nishinoshima.jpg
http://www.japanvisitor.com/images/content_images/kuwana-manhole2.jpg

If only we had that kind of inspirational public art here in America. Instead, we get the likes of Picasso
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http://www.chicagoclout.com/weblog/archives/Chicago%20Picasso.jpg
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Serra (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/cultureshock/flashpoints/visualarts/tiltedarc_a.html)
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http://plaidnet.greenwichacademy.org/arthistoryslides/slideidgal/MODERNISM/LATE20THCENTURY/late20th38.jpg
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and Oldenburg
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http://www.oldenburgvanbruggen.com/clothespin.jpg
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See more proof of Japanese genius via this drainspotting link (http://www.japanvisitor.com/index.php?cID=359&pID=986).
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Removed one item as someone didn't understand this topic wasn't about discussing that item. Damn. So close.

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[Nitro Vordex]

You forgot food. ;o

Anyway, those look really cool.

[Weeaboolits]

http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/1999354/2/istockphoto_1999354_slotted_manhole_cover.jpg

A masterpiece!

[Shadowpawn]

[spoiler-box][spoiler]You got spoiler boxes in your spoiler boxes. The hell were you thinking man!?[/spoiler-box][/spoiler-box]

[astuarlen]

On 2008-03-02 18:00, Nitro_Vordex wrote:
You forgot food.


On 2008-03-02 17:54, astuarlen wrote:
Pocky
It's basically their all-purpose edible over there. You've obviously never been to Japan.

Shadowpawn
My mistake. I forgot that a 2 (or more) click post requires a warning label. In my defense, I was pretty doped up at the time.

[amtalx]

...AND DA WIMMINS!!

[Scejntjynahl]

The real reason to go to Japan is to get stomped on by Gojira. :3

[Wyndham]

Godzilla and Adult video games.

[Shadowpawn]

On 2008-03-03 08:57, Scejntjynahl wrote:
The real reason to go to Japan is to get stomped on by Gojira. :3



OSHI-, rare Scejnt sighting! GET!

[Retniwreven]

FKLBall go! *Whips a square, spiky, pokeball-esque thing at Shadowpawn's head*

[pikachief]

yea i just wanna go to japan cuz it looks cool.

[ShinMaruku]

You don't want to go to Japan...

[Retniwreven]

On 2008-03-03 11:31, ShinMaruku wrote:
You don't want to go to Japan...
I do.
I want some damned Takoyaki.

[ShinMaruku]

On 2008-03-03 11:42, Retniwreven wrote:

On 2008-03-03 11:31, ShinMaruku wrote:
You don't want to go to Japan...
I do.
I want some damned Takoyaki.


You cna do that where you are.
Disillusionment is dangerous

[Retniwreven]

On 2008-03-03 11:47, ShinMaruku wrote:
You cna do that where you are.
Disillusionment is dangerous
No I can't. I've yet to see a single place serving it, or even selling the pans to make it.

[raikomaru40]

google it

[Retniwreven]

On 2008-03-03 11:52, raikomaru40 wrote:
google it
*Points to your sig*
My response to anyone using 'Google it' as a response.

[Blitzkommando]

The real reason people want to go to Japan is that they mistakenly think Burning Hearts plays 24/7 over PA systems all over the country. In reality it plays only 12 hours of the day and only in Usa.

[Anduril]

I want to go to Japan, but really just for the sake of leaving the Country. I would be happy going anywhere. ANYWHERE! But I've not the income nor the time to be able to go on a vacation, nor have I ever had enough of those my whole life....

[PhotonDrop]

I would rather go to a country where the locals don't secretly hate my guts simply for being American gaijin baka.

[Anduril]

On 2008-03-03 12:46, PhotonDrop wrote:
I would rather go to a country where the locals don't secretly hate my guts simply for being American gaijin baka.

And what country would that be? http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_lol.gif

[PhotonDrop]

None. http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wacko.gif

Though I have family somewhere in Italy.

[Retniwreven]

I'm Canadian, so I don't think they would call me American Gaijin Baka, and if they did I'd show them my beret. >_>

(The hat. >_>)

[Sord]

i want to go to iceland

[Alizarin]

I'll go back to visit relatives, but other than that most of the stores around where I live sell pretty much the merchandise and food I need out of Japan. Plus, the standard of living there is much higher than I'd be comfortable with.

[Weeaboolits]

I wouldn't be able to read the street signs, it could prove most inconvenient. http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_frown.gif

Oh, that symbol looks neat, I wonder what it means... *turns onto a one-way against traffic*

[Retniwreven]

Walking and trains for me. =X

[Nitro Vordex]

On 2008-03-03 12:43, Anduril wrote:
I want to go to Japan, but really just for the sake of leaving the Country. I would be happy going anywhere. ANYWHERE! But I've not the income nor the time to be able to go on a vacation, nor have I ever had enough of those my whole life....


All true for me too.

@Ronin: I thought you spoke Japanese? Can't you read it too?

@PD: Gajin baka? What's that mean?

@Norkveh: http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_lol.gif

[Weeaboolits]

On 2008-03-03 14:15, Nitro_Vordex wrote:
@Ronin: I thought you spoke Japanese? Can't you read it too?I have a basic understanding of the grammar, can read katakana (but not hiragana), and know about 10 kanji. Keep in mind that the number of kanji you need to memorize to qualify as literate is in the tens of thousands, and katakana is primarily used for foreign words, also I haven't quite mastered verb conjugation and I've forgotten what half the particles mean. ._.;

Spanish is the only language, aside from English I can speak coherently, although I'm quite rusty. .-.

[Retniwreven]

I can understand if someone speaking to me in French is angry or pleased, but that's about it. I can catch maybe one word in sixty of German, and know maybe... twenty words of Japanese?

English is tricky enough with all of its inane literary rules. http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wacko.gif

[Nitro Vordex]

I'm currently trying to learn Japanese, I can read a little Kanji, but I still haven't learned the symbols.

Tens of thousands?! o.o

[Weeaboolits]

Yeah, it's the kanji that made me pretty much give up on it, the language has rather unique grammar rules, it's interesting, also I like the overall sound of the words.

@Ret: English doesn't so much have rules as it does general guidelines of what probably should be a good idea to do most of the time.

[ShinMaruku]

On 2008-03-03 11:51, Retniwreven wrote:

On 2008-03-03 11:47, ShinMaruku wrote:
You cna do that where you are.
Disillusionment is dangerous
No I can't. I've yet to see a single place serving it, or even selling the pans to make it.


Yo, where you live sucks, or they have it and you art lazy.
And going to japan for that shit is not good either. :E
Unless you want to see something else don't go there with that Anime outlook.
It's a two faced country to the extreme. This guy was reading manga laughing and when his business buddies got on the train he flung it away and pointed at it saying some loser was reading manga.
Eff China too my great Grand father left there because it sucked. XD

[Retniwreven]

On 2008-03-03 14:36, ShinMaruku wrote:
Unless you want to see something else don't go there with that Anime outlook.
Who says I have the anime outlook? http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wacko.gif

[ShinMaruku]

You wanna go there for squid...

[Retniwreven]

On 2008-03-03 14:38, ShinMaruku wrote:
You wanna go there for squid...

Well, first, it's octopus.
And I happen to like octopus.
Anime is far from the only reason I would want to visit Japan... and people are two-faced EVERYWHERE. I'm sure that everyone with an MP3 player has at least one or two tracks on it they love but would never let their friends know they listen to it... and that's just a minor example.

[HAYABUSA-FMW-]

On 2008-03-02 18:03, Ronin_Cooper wrote:
http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/1999354/2/istockphoto_1999354_slotted_manhole_cover.jpg

A masterpiece!


Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

[Retniwreven]

Turtles like pizza, man.