My experience in Japan

I lived there for 2 years.

Negatives:

Very strict and retarded rules, combined with autistically rule-abiding citizens.

No spontaneity, everyone has agendas and plans.

Work and consumer habits are people's identity. The consumerist NPC drone worker stereotype is real.

Tatemae/Honne. People won't tell you if they dislike something about you, they'll just treat you worse and talk behind your back. This is especially true as a foreigner.

Japanese people are hard to befriend, especially as a foreigner.

Positives:

Politics are very private. Japanese people generally seem indifferent to it. Barely any demonstrations or protests.

Japanese people are very well-behaved. Even the poorest Japanese carry themselves with a level of dignity and discipline that's all but vanished from the Western lower class.

Beautiful cities. Tokyo truly feels alive compared to European capitals. Also, nice countryside and nature.

Things work, streets are clean, food/restaurants are nice and cheap.

Overall it's a nice country, much better than Europe in many aspects, but it can be difficult as a foreigner.

beautiful cities

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Looks fun

You copied the switzerland thread

that pic is more beautiful and sovlful than anything in germany

Very strict and retarded rules, combined with autistically rule-abiding citizens.

feel like the more you wind the clock back on europe the more you find stuff like this tbqh

the main disadvantage about Japan is the worklife. thats when the fun and magic disappear and the grim reality sets in. thats why its a great country to visit, but mediocre to live in

every single one of those building contains small family owned businesses and establishments for eating and having fun and apartments where people from all stratas of society live without the need for a car because everything is within walking distance unlike europoor and amerimutt cities where all of this would be owned by Blackrock™ and every habitable space is rented to either a bank, an unprofitable IT startup, starbucks and everything else is a short-term rental using AirBnB

but mediocre to live in

not if you're a rich neet
but yea i don't think i would ever work for a japanese company

this post feels familiar

How did you find a job there.
I am sick of my shithole walloon village

Everyone that goes there takes the same 5 photos kek. This & those bridges in osaka

Very strict and retarded rules, combined with autistically rule-abiding citizens.

No spontaneity, everyone has agendas and plans.

Work and consumer habits are people's identity. The consumerist NPC drone worker stereotype is real.

Tatemae/Honne. People won't tell you if they dislike something about you, they'll just treat you worse and talk behind your back. This is especially true as a foreigner.

Japanese people are hard to befriend, especially as a foreigner.

I don't get it, these are all positives?

The second and fourth point are bad things though

Yes. Tokyo is far and away the best city in the world, even mid level cities like Fukuoka have a higher quality of life than almost anywhere

Tatemae/Honne. People won't tell you if they dislike something about you, they'll just treat you worse and talk behind your back. This is especially true as a foreigner.

This is true for the Midwest and South in America as well, people won't be openly rude to you but there's a lot of gossip behind the scenes. People are probably more direct in Tokyo/Osaka

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go work there or watch some vlogs about their work culture if you don't believe it

if you like living in a 4x4 sqm closet and commuting for an hour

I get the hustle and bustle is cool, but eh, its not for everyone

where can i find a place to stay in/ close enough to tokyo for like $700 or 800 for 4 weeks?

if you like living in a 4x4 sqm closet and commuting for an hour

Fine if you're single and I'd rather commute for an hour on a train and be able to read a book or something than be stuck in traffic on the highway for an hour

I hate foreigners but foreigners should welcome and befriend me when I live in their country

Why are white people like this.

>beautiful cities

posts a picture of a beautiful urban environment

Perceived job quality above France, Ireland, UK, Spain, Belgium: >The questions were “Do you enjoy the work you do in your job every day, or not?”, “Do you think the work you do in your job significantly improves the lives of other people outside of your own household, or not?”, and “Do you, personally, have many choices in regard to the type of work you can do in your life?”.

When in Japan I remember something like this: "they welcome guest, but as a guest you can't overstay", or something like that.

People won't tell you if they dislike something about you, they'll just treat you worse and talk behind your back

This shit happens literally anywhere you go dumbass, it's basic social politics.
JFC people will go out of their way to find reasons to hate Japanese people.

Tajikistan and Bangladesh have the highest job quality?

come on, niggu

Did you have sex?

Why not? Because it doesn't fit in your stereotypes?

Bangladesh is known for its sweatshops and nothing else

were these questions answered by native japanese or foreigners?
because the former has a very different view on "job quality" compared to the average european or brazilian for example
again go watch some few vlogs and opinions about people who legit went to work there

You think most Bangladeshians work in sweatshops?

half of them still work in medieval-lite agriculture, with textile sweatshops being almost the sole industry.

either way, a metric that has Bangladesh at the top is meaningless

In 2022, 36.86 percent of the employees in Bangladesh were active in the agricultural sector, 21.88 percent in industry and 41.26 percent in the service sector.

okay, so it was 37% rather than half

Nothing prevents you from enjoying working in agriculture

SOVL

Japanese people are very well-behaved

Beautiful cities

clean

no litter

yep it's kino

yes, its self-reported, thats why its a meaningless metric to see how good the jobs are from a westerners' perspective. we value short working hours, high pay, interesting intellectual tasks. farming obviously has none of that.

japan need white migration

>Very strict and retarded rules

Such as not being a dumb nigger or what?

Indians are aryan saaaar

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Were you working as an ITbro or an English teacher? I used to live there 7 years ago and by far the best way to make friends was going to the local izakaya or bar at least weekly and either do a hobby that requires you to be outside most of the time (mountain climbing in Nagano is big thanks to the Yomiuri Shindo trail, which is what I did when the weather was good) or volunteer helping elderly people and making food for kindergarteners. Most of the time, if you show up to a place consistently, you'll get to know people almost by osmosis, bypassing the Uchi-Soto thing entirely. I'm not a Native English speaker and the population of Spanish-speaking people outside of big cities is ridiculously small, even Brazilians are more common; I didn't have the luxury of a "foreigner bubble" like other people do (Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, and of course English speakers).
Personally, I found making friends in Germany and Denmark to be more difficult somehow. It's like the moment they graduate university, they close off to everyone that isn't an established friend from years ago or a family member.

I don't get it. Do westies just say if they dislike something about someone? Why would you even say it unless the person is your close friend or family member?

its a meaningless metric to see how good the jobs are from a westerners' perspective

Ok, that's a valid point of view but I personally think your perception shouldn't be considered a country's "main disadvantage" as you put it. To me we should judge countries based on how their actual citizens live and not how we would like to live there, maybe because my perspective was always that of a distant evaluator and never as someone considering to move overseas. Anyway, you are not wrong for measuring things like that, it's just a different way of seeing things