Why Not Much Changes in Japan
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- Опубліковано 17 вер 2024
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When I worked for a while in video game QA in Tokyo, I used to do my work using my own process, which was much more efficient than what the Japanese staff were using. When we explained what we were doing to achieve the same results in half the time, we were met with bewilderment and blank stares as it wasn't the way they had learned.
To me at an agricultural development, there seemed to be a lot of break taking and waiting for someone qualified to do it , farmers just get it done, don't muck around, have a go. I thought long hours were expected but not necessary if they just got into it.
Efficiency isnt valued as much as it is in the west, I believe it's important but its lower on the hierarchy to many japanese companies and people than quality and precision as you know. Many things are exceptionally inefficient but have low failure rates for example (ie like the Japanese propensity to do everything on paper).
Never ever admit that there is a better way. It's called losing face, which in Japanese culture is a shameful thing. They are many great things about Japanese culture, but plenty instances of weird stuff as well. In 17 years I have experienced both. I like your way of analysing things without being disrespectful.
'Splendid isolation' comes to mind.
My dad used to work for a German company that got bought out by the Japanese in the 90s. When they realized that the Germans were getting a lot more work done in a much shorter timeframe, they asked some of them to come over so they could learn from them. They assumed they were basically just doing what their Japanese workers were doing, but that they had found a way to to make people work faster or longer.
Once they realized that the entire process was completely different and that they'd have to make significant changes to the way they were doing things they immediately lost interest. In particular, they just couldn't wrap their heads around the idea that even lower-ranking employees (i.e. the ones doing most of the actual work) actually got to have a say in how things were done.
It doesnt translate culturally. Japanese like to listen to the boss sit back collect paycheck and let them take the flak. Thats the order here its not very creative but it, leads to different outcomes order snd precision that things come out as planned. This is a major consideration in factories too.
Japanese factories must run almost perfectly. British ones that culture just ruins the damn thing, used to work in one. Brits love "muddling through" which is basically ganbare keep going but with countless problems occuring botching things and half solutions to get through. Brits also love changing things to make it easier and not consulting anyone in meetings all sorts of cultural quirks that make the factories run terrible. Not the best for a factory lol. My old factory actually tried using japanese methods of production because its so effective and seen as gold standard.
Mental health in the world is at epidemic proportions since COVID ! Great video H ! Itsumo Arigato
A Japanese friend saw me use the Google Swipe keyboard and said it was so fast. I showed him how to get it on his phone and he looked really happy. The next time I saw him, he had it set back to the Japanese romaji keyboard. It looks so frustratingly slow
the japanese mindset id say is the japanese way is the best way and only way.
thats what i understood after living here awhile
Pride goes before the fall. It's sad my friend 😢
Most widespread centrally planned educational systems are going to have the overarching goal of preparing its student body to enter the workforce in a way that has them the most prepared but still the least costly to the industry(s) that dominate workforce makeup. With that in mind, they will all have some pretty extreme blindspots based on that understanding, regardless if its Japan or US or anywhere else there is a central planning at work of the education systems.
So it's no surprise certain cultural modes of thinking take root to reflect such things.
School's main purpose is to keep watch of the kids while the parents are working. While they are at the facilities they may as well be entertained and educated. Secondary purpose is to sort people, whom are adept for which level of further education. Third, instill cultural values of democracy and learn the kids to fit into society.
It seems the society is very stratified, possibly a lack of initiative since they think they can only do what they are told. 🤔
"Its the American way"... but we lost our way roughly 20 years ago 😢
Terrified of change
this was a very interesting insight
Only barely on-topic but since you mentioned petrol mowers, I can strongly recommend the battery-powered electric mowers. We’ve had one for probably more than a decade and the thing’s still going. Much lighter than a petrol mower and no need to go and get cans of petrol. Even though we also have a petrol mower, the battery one sees a lot more use as it’s much easier to get around small/medium areas.
I like my robotic automower. So grateful for it, keeps the lawn very tidy and I don't need to get allergic attacks mowing.
Like a lot of Japan discussion, these comments are gold for 20% and a lot of stereotypes and incorrect information/strong opinion for 80%. But the videos are always worth watching!
Snakes must love that property.
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I think in general asians dont like change at all but I might just be generalizing a bit too much.
What about feeding pigs/ poultry/cattle?
Why would you change something that works?
Surprise and do something nice for him to show him maybe, he’ll likely honor your kindness because aren’t they embarrassed if they try doing anything and it’s not 100% perfect?
No Japanese English student will dare join a higher unless they are at least 2 levels higher than necessary… just help the guy.
So sorry to hear about their mental health situation… they are so lovely and wish the best to them ❤
They don't like change. It makes thier pants fall down😅
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Lol, I'm the one that said his tall grass looks nice.
Not accident but a incident. Sad 😢
I don't recall ever seeing a lawn in a house garden in my trips to Japan. Very few maintained gardens.
Very little evidence of the rainbow nonsense.
Japanese often do such long hours gardening is not on the list.
Dude next door is retired.
@TheJapanChannelDcom yeah but I meant his families lack of attention, in my experience there's a lot of bad blood with old patriarchs , so busyness is an excuse for avoiding someone they can't stand . Shame is old people can soften up a lot but it's hard to get past the memories. I think he's secretly jealous of your mower BTW.
Why doesn't Japan change? Because change is not always the right thing to do. For example, Western immigration policies have been a complete failure, even though liberals refuse to admit it.
Even in Germany, the far-right party, AfD is now gaining support, and the anti-immigration movement has begun in Europe as a whole. The reason why Japan has not been screwed up by immigration like Europe is because it has not changed. Japan is just calmly observing the situation.
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Its more beautiful when its old and imperfect. Its called Wabi-sabi. In traditional Japanese aesthetics, wabi-sabi (侘び寂び) is a world view centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection. The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of appreciating beauty that is "imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete" in nature.
Perhaps too many Japanese people see Foreigners' influence as being potentially corrupting.
Japan was so closed off from foreign tourism for so long, so maybe that country is still getting accustomed to our presences. Shame that their negative attitudes about foreigners so voluntarily persist.
Living here for years now, I find that the society is not getting accustomed to people that look or sound different. Westerners are given the blanket English-speaker/tourist treatment, even more so with more tourists (which many of us aren't, but that doesn't seem to matter) and people from other Asian countries are seen as cheap labour. I've talked to people who were willing to examine and challenge their attitudes or were welcoming to begin with, but a near absence of public discourse on these issues means that the society in general is not going in the direction of acceptance at all if the exceptionalism and ethnocentrism so prevalent here go unchallenged.
The attitudes don't necessarily have to be negative, in my experience. It's just that everything you do tends to be seen through the lense of being non-Japanese, not even whatever your country of origin is, but in a binary world-view of us and them. You like that person's style? That's what foreigners like then. You like this dish? It must be popular with foreigners. I don't know about others, but the inability to treat people who are different as thinking individuals can get really frustrating.
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1) Just curious: Do you speak Japanese?
If so, how well?
How long have you lived in Japan?
2) One thing (amoungst MANY other good things!) that this channel has taught me is how much this American would NOT like living in Japan.
That country has existed in remarkable isolation for a very long time and still seems not to have come to grips with the fact that how foreigners do stuff might just be THE BEST WAY to do stuff or at least better (more practical, more compassionate) than how the Japanese do stuff.
It is the seeming Japanese xenophobia, arising from true paranoia about outsiders, that I find ever intriguing. 🤔
@@SuiGenerisAbbie 1) My level of Japanese allows me to work as a translator and function in daily life as well as professional settings using only the language.
2) Honestly, I don't think Japan has been that isolated for more than a century. I mean, a hundred years ago, people other than the super-wealthy, soldiers and colonisers from most of the world couldn't travel and explore other cultures. In the meantime, Japan spent decades brutally colonising other parts of Asia and the Pacific and, for generations, Japanese tourists could be seen everywhere. What's more, Japanese corporations commonly send their employees and their employees abroad for years at a time (as sometimes mentioned on this channel).
I see the root of these common views in Nihonjinron, the doctrine that Japanese people are culturally and even physiologically unique. It doesn't necessarily lead to xenophobia, but it does lead to a common belief that ethnicity is the determining factor in pretty much everything. For example every spring, I run into educated, open-minded people genuinely surprised I, a foreigner, get hay fever. It's probably not xenophobic, but is a reflection of a deeply rooted "us and them" thinking.
Its like an overreaction to rejecting foreign ideas. They are correct to reject 80% of western ideas. Coming here i can see they are clearly flawed back home in many ways but the 20% of western ideas that might work and not be too bad here get rejected too as an overeaction to the fact the majority of things we do are terrible and negative behaviour lack attention to detail etc etc.
Speaking of your having mentioned the word "ganbare":
In learning about this reprehensible incident ( en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Junko_Furuta ) I was struck by the fact that the victim kept uttering "ganbare" to herself, as what was done to her got worse and worse, as though the fault was hers for being ... too weak, as though the burden was on her, to withstand being so egregiously tortured!
The lack of empathy and compassion really stuns me about the Japanese. It is almost as though victims are blamed and the weak are shunned, until they "grow a backbone" as we say here in America.
Frankly, if I am being honest, I would be interested in hearing the owner of this channel discuss how the Japanese and Japan really feel about crimes such as the one mentioned above, against Ms. Furuta, and the Yakuza in general because the male perpetrators had gang connections.