Why do the Japanese refuse regular sex? The Six Creepiest and Strangest Features of Japanese Culture

No matter how much we write about the alluring country of Japan, it continues to surprise and amaze. Sometimes it seems that the people living on the island and their culture are actually from some other planet. We found several more amazing oddities that can only be found in the Land of the Rising Sun.

The Japanese still use fax

Yes, in the land of robots and the latest technology, the Japanese still use faxes at work. Used every day, in some cases it is even preferable.

Stamp instead of signature

In documents, the Japanese prefer to put not a signature, but a red seal with their last name. They are sold in almost any store.

Pizza in Japanese

If you suddenly want to try pizza in Japan, you will quickly realize that it is different here too. Potatoes, shrimp, rice cereal, corn and mayonnaise are just a few of the topping options.

They really love the combination of mayonnaise and corn.

Packaging fans

For example, if you buy a package of cookies, each one will be packaged separately. Everything is in plastic.

The skins of grapes are always peeled off.
If you decide to eat grapes with the skin, you will greatly surprise the Japanese.

There are no trash cans on the streets

Even if you need to throw something away on the street, you won’t find where. Because there are simply no trash cans. Although the streets are mysteriously clean. Maybe the Japanese carry trash with them?

ATMs have closing times

In Japan, ATMs have opening hours. So you are unlikely to be able to withdraw cash for a taxi at two in the morning when you really need it.

Everyone parks backwards

In Japan, it is almost impossible to see a car parked in front of you. And even if you meet one, it will most likely be a foreigner’s car. Here, parking backwards is considered safer.

Air conditioners always run warm

Japan is very hot and humid in the summer. However, the temperature on the air conditioners is always set to 28 degrees Celsius.

In restaurants you have to shout to get the waiter to come to you

Japan has a completely different service culture. There, waiters will not come up to you every five minutes and ask how you liked the dish. Japanese waiters will not come until you call, and they will not respond to a raised hand or a modest “girl” - you will have to shout, and loudly.

There is a mandatory break in city pools

Every hour, lifeguards blow their whistles and ask everyone to leave the pool for 10 minutes. During this time, everyone should rest.

If you're sick, wear a mask

If someone gets sick in Japan, they always wear a mask so as not to cough on others and infect them. Many Japanese women wear a mask if they are too lazy to put on makeup.

Sleeping at work

In Japan, you can sleep peacefully at work if you don’t have the strength to keep your eyes open. It is even considered a sign of hard work.

Cars with megaphones drive through the streets in the morning

During election season, candidates drive around in cars and make speeches through megaphones from the early hours of the morning. You will definitely wake up from this.

Snacks sold only for men

Whatever that means. In the photo: dark chocolate for men.

Fruits are incredibly expensive

Buying fruit from the supermarket is considered almost splurging and bragging in Japan because they are so expensive. For example, strawberries sell for $100.

Sun protection

Japanese women try to avoid sunbathing at all costs - in the hot summer they wear long sleeves, hats and cover their faces.

All the oddities of Japan that make your hair stand on end -

In Japan, girls show affection and give gifts on Valentine's Day. I won’t tell you what this tradition is connected with, but today it performs an important social function: it allows girls to say “yes” without waiting for a Japanese man to have the courage to approach her.

In Japan, fish and meat are cheap, but fruits are very expensive. One apple costs two dollars, a bunch of bananas costs five. The most expensive fruit, melon, a variety like our “torpedo”, will cost two hundred dollars in Tokyo.

In Japan, pornography is sold absolutely everywhere. In every konbini (grocery store), there is always a separate shelf with hentai on the press counter. In small bookstores, hentai makes up a third of the total assortment; in large bookstores, 2-3 floors are devoted to pornography.

Hentai is allowed to be freely sold to minors.

The two most popular subgenres of hentai are violence and underage sex.

Wrapped in a cover, hentai can be easily read on the subway.

The Japan Subway and JR have women-only cars. They are added in the mornings so that during rush hour no one harasses the girls. The Japanese are voyeurs, and groping girls on crowded trains is something of a national sport.

At the same time, Japan has one of the lowest rape rates in the world. Five times less than in Russia. It seemed important to me to note this, after everything I said above.

Most Japanese characters are 2-4 syllables long, but there are some surprising exceptions. For example, the character 砉 is read as “hanetokawatogahanareruoto”, that’s thirteen syllables! Describes the sound made when flesh is separated from bone.

The issue of honor still plays a central role in Japan, even in politics. The last Prime Minister, Yukio Hatoyama, resigned after failing to fulfill his campaign promise (sic!). Two of his predecessors too.

Japan is a small country, but there are many big things here. It is home to the world's most expensive amusement park, Disney Sea, and four of the ten tallest roller coasters. Tokyo has the most developed subway system in the world, the largest railway hub and the largest mixed pedestrian intersection.

In Japan, it is customary to make snowmen strictly from two balls, and not three, as in the rest of the world. And then the Japanese distinguished themselves.

Colonel Sanders is one of the main symbols of Christmas in Japan, like Coca-Cola in the USA. On Christmas Eve, the Japanese like to go to KFC with the whole family and eat a large portion of chicken wings.

In Japan, 30% of weddings still take place as a result of matchmaking and viewing parties (お見合い) (omiai) organized by parents.

In all northern cities of Japan, where snow falls in winter, sidewalks and streets are heated. There is no ice, and there is no need to remove snow. Very comfortably!

However, in Japan there is no central heating. Everyone heats the apartment as best they can.

The Japanese word 過労死 (Karoshi) means “death from overwork.” On average, ten thousand people die every year with this diagnosis. Studio Ghibli director Yoshifumi Kondo, the author of my favorite The Whisper of the Heart, died with this diagnosis.

Japan has one of the most liberal tobacco laws. Smoking is allowed everywhere except on railway platforms and airports.

Japan is the last country in the world to formally retain the title of Empire.

The Japanese imperial dynasty was never interrupted. The current Emperor Akihito is a direct descendant of the first Emperor Jimmu, who founded Japan in 711 BC.

Japan turned 2671 this year.

The Japanese talk about food all the time, and when they eat, they discuss how they like the food. Having dinner without saying “oishii” (delicious) several times is very impolite.

In general, the Japanese love repetition. When girls do this, it is considered kawaii.

The Japanese language uses three types of writing simultaneously: Hiragana (a syllabary system for writing Japanese words), Katakana (a syllabary system for writing borrowed words) and Kanji (hieroglyphic writing). It's crazy, yes.

There are no guest workers in Japan. This is achieved by a simple law: the minimum salary at which it is allowed to hire a foreign worker in Japan exceeds the average salary of a Japanese worker. Thus, the path to the country remains open for highly paid specialists, and unskilled migrant labor does not dump the wages of local residents. Solomon's solution.

More than half of the railways in Japan are private. Non-state carriers are responsible for 68% of the country's total rail traffic.

Hirohito was never removed from power; after the war, he led the reformation and ruled until 1989. Hirohito's birthday is a national holiday and is celebrated every April 29th.

Mount Fuji is privately owned. In the Shinta shrine Hongyu Sengen, a deed of 1609 has been preserved, with which the Shogun transferred the mountain into the possession of the temple. In 1974, the authenticity of the deed of gift was confirmed by the Supreme Court of Japan, after which there was no other choice but to transfer the ownership of the mountain to the temple. Because property rights in Japan are inviolable.

The Japanese language has several levels of politeness: colloquial, respectful, polite, and very polite. Women almost always speak a respectful form of the language, men a colloquial one.

Seven percent of Japan's male population is Hikkikomori. Seven!!!

In Japanese, months do not have names; instead, they are designated by serial numbers. For example, September is 九月 (kugatsu), which means “ninth month.”

Before Japan opened up to the West, the only word to describe romantic attraction was 恋 (koi), literally meaning “an irresistible attraction to something unattainable.”

Japan is a mono-ethnic country, 98.4% of the total population are ethnic Japanese.

In Japan, prisoners do not have the right to vote in elections.

In Japan they eat dolphins. They are used to make soup, cook kushiyaki (Japanese kebab), and even eat them raw. Dolphin has quite tasty meat, with a distinct taste and is completely different from fish.

There are practically no personal pronouns in Japanese, and those words that are sometimes used as pronouns have at least one other meaning. In Russian, for example, the pronoun “ya” means nothing other than “I”, and in Japanese 私 (watashi, ya) also means “private, personal”; 貴方 (anata, you) - “my master.” It is polite to use “anat” only when meeting for the first time; then it is customary to address the interlocutor by name or position.

Tokyo is the safest metropolis in the world. Tokyo is so safe that children as young as six can use public transport on their own. This is fantastic indeed.

The Japanese consider the outside world very dangerous and are afraid to travel. So a Japanese friend once asked me whether it would be too dangerous for her to stay alone in the Kensington Gardens area of London. They consider the United States to be the most dangerous country.

The ninth article of the Japanese constitution prohibits the country from having its own army and participating in wars.

In Japan, the school year begins on the first of April and is divided into trimesters. Schoolchildren study from April to July, then September to December and from January to March.

There are no trash cans in Japan because all garbage is recycled. Waste is divided into four types: glass, incinerable, recyclable and non-incinerable waste. Each type of waste is removed on a certain day and can be thrown away only on strictly designated dates. For violating the procedure there is a large fine, in my house it is one hundred thousand yen (about a thousand dollars).

There are also no garbage bins on the streets, only special bins for collecting bottles. A good example of what is clean where people don’t shit.

Japan has very low pensions. The maximum social benefit for poor old people is 30,000 yen, which is about three hundred dollars. There is also no compulsory pension insurance; it is assumed that every Japanese person must take care of his own old age.

Godzilla (Gojira in Japanese) is not an accidental name. This is a portmonteau of the words “Gorilla” and “Kujira” (whale). One can only guess how they crossed so that they got a reptile.

Transport in Japan is very expensive; the cheapest metro ticket costs 140 yen (50 rubles).

In Japan, men are always served first. In a restaurant, the man is the first to place an order, and the drink is brought to him first. In stores they always greet the man first.

The Japanese drive big cars. It is impossible to find city cars even in cramped Tokyo, but there are a lot of jeeps.

In all my time in Japan, I have not seen a single toilet without a heated toilet seat and with fewer than 10 buttons. And recently I discovered that the toilet in my house can make the sound of running water in order to hide, um, its own sounds.

In Japan, everyone knows that Hello Kitty comes from England.

Tipping is strictly not accepted in Japan. It is believed that as long as the client pays the prescribed price for the service, he remains on an equal footing with the seller. If the buyer tries to leave extra money, he thereby depreciates the service/product provided to him, reducing equal exchange to a handout.

During the year of living in Japan, I never encountered any manifestations of racism against me. I think this is very cool.

Japan is the best country in the world.

On Japanese MTV there is a popular series Usavich, a cartoon about two birds with one stone, Putin and Kiriyenko, trying to survive in a police state.

The age of consent in Japan is 13 years old.

Japan is three times the size of England. The area of Japan is 374,744 km², England is 130,410 km².

Japan is often cited as an example of an overpopulated country. In fact, Japan's population density is only 360 people per square kilometer. This is less than in England, where there are 383 people per square kilometer.

In Japanese, the words “irregular” and “different” are represented by the same word 違う (chigau).

In Japan, things have taken root that twenty years ago seemed like the future, but today leave a strange retro-futuristic impression. Automatic doors in taxis, vending machines that sell everything from fruit, to soups, to used underpants. Fantastic shaped trains and funny fashion. This is all very cool.

The Japanese word 御来光 (goraiko) describes the sunrise seen from Mount Fuji. Japanese has a lot of meaningful words.

Hitler admired the integrity of the Japanese nation and called them “honorary Aryans.” In apartheid-era South Africa, the Japanese were the only ones who were not disenfranchised, as they were considered “honorary whites.”

Japanese phones have a built-in national emergency notification system. When some kind of cataclysm occurs, a loud beep sounds on all phones (even if the sound was turned off) and a message appears explaining what happened and how to behave.

There is no looting in Japan. If you type “looting in japan” into Google, you will only find tens of thousands of surprised foreigners who cannot understand why empty houses are not looted in Japan.

The Japanese speak almost no English, but use a fantastic number of Anglicisms. Alex Case tried to make a list, counted over 5,000 words and got tired of continuing (Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) However, the Japanese pronunciation of them is so distorted that you can not hope to understand them, or that they will understand you if you pronounce the word with an original accent.

Few people know that the words “cotton wool”, “pollock” and “ivashi” are borrowed from Japanese. I think everyone knows about “tsunami” and “typhoon”.

Japanese also has borrowings from Russian. The words イクラ “ikura; caviar” and ノルマ “noruma; norm". There is also a funny expression “ヴ・ナロード” “wu people; to the people,” it was inherited from Alexander II.

Japan has the death penalty. Last year, eight criminals were executed in Japan. The last two executions were attended by the Japanese Minister of Justice.

Japan has the lowest murder rate and the lowest violent crime rate per 100 thousand population of all countries analyzed. It has the highest average life expectancy in the world.

Tokyo is home to one of the largest gay districts in the world, Shinjuku-Ni-Chome. It has the largest concentration of gay bars in the world.

Japanese and Chinese characters are one and the same. There are regional differences: in Chinese there are more characters and in simplified form they are written differently. But knowing Japanese, you can understand the general meaning of Chinese signs.

Instead of a signature, in Japan they put a special personalized hanko stamp. Every Japanese has such a seal and it is used many, many times a day. You can also buy it at any store.

Japan is the only country in the world where the criterion for a train being late is the minute mark.

In Japan, it is considered impolite to open a gift in the presence of the giver. They thank him for it, and then put it aside to open it in private.

The Japanese believe that a person should be able to hide suffering behind a smile. There is even a saying 顔で笑って心で泣く (Kao de waratte kokoro de naku; smile while you suffer inside).

The Japanese are a nation of very passionate people. If they do something, they strive for complete authenticity. Thus, in all French bakeries, Japanese inscriptions are duplicated in French. An Italian gelateria will have ice cream labeled in Italian, and a Spanish restaurant will have a menu in Spanish. However, there will be nothing in English. Sometimes it seems that for them it is just “another European language.” Interesting posts

In Japan, property rights are strictly observed, so there are dozens of companies with a history of more than a thousand years. For example, the Hoshi Ryokan Hotel has been continuously operating since 718. It has been run by the same family for 46 generations (sic!).

Tanuki are wayward Japanese werewolf animals that bring happiness and prosperity. Their eggs are a traditional symbol of good luck. For the canonical happiest tanuki, the area of the eggs should be 8 tatami, which is 12 meters. In case of trouble, they take retribution with them. Studio Ghibli has a wonderful cartoon about them, Pom Poko, check it out.

Two-thirds of Japan is covered in forests. Japan prohibits commercial logging of its own forests, but it consumes 40% of all the wood that is mined in tropical forests.

For 10 years, from 1992 to 2002, Japan was the largest donor of international aid in the world. This is a word for everyone who is now gloating over the Japanese disaster.

When the conductor enters the next carriage of a high-speed train, he must take off his headdress and bow, and only then begins to check tickets.

In Japan, the third way has been successful, which we have been looking for for a long time and cannot find. There is a unique organization of society here: on the one hand, a completely Western legal state, on the other, an original culture that lives not only by traditions, but is constantly evolving.

I don’t understand why no one in Russia studies the Japanese experience.

January 27th, 2015

There are many oddities and inexplicable things in the traditions of every nation. How we have a tradition of getting completely drunk to celebrate the health of, for example, the birthday boy. But still, the number one nation in terms of strange traditions is the Japanese. To list and describe in detail all the strange Japanese traditions, you will need more than one book.

1. New Year's morning!

The Japanese do not celebrate New Year as we understand it. On New Year's Eve they go to bed peacefully, but wake up early in the morning and all go together to celebrate the dawn of the New Year. Of course, some of us also celebrate the New Year’s dawn, but in a completely different state.

2. Never say never

Residents of Japan try to never say the word NO, simply replacing it with a polite departure from the topic, or with an agreement that does not oblige anyone at all and, in the end, leads to nothing.

3. Humor

The Japanese have practically no jokes. It's hard to imagine, but it's true. But they have a very funny and interesting sense of humor.

The Japanese don't have jokes, but they have a very unique sense of humor.

4. Business cards

In Japan it is considered completely indecent if you do not have a business card with you!!! That’s why the Japanese carry special waterproof small bags for business cards even when going to the pool. In addition, it is better to present the business card itself so that it can be read immediately!

5. Politeness

Politeness still goes to extremes in Japan. Instead of shaking hands, the Japanese use bows, and you need to bow as many times as they did before you. Situations reach the point of absurdity. For example, if a Japanese person decides to order sushi home, and if he encounters a very polite courier delivering sushi home, then such courtesy can take a lot of time! Guests will gather, and the courier will arrive very polite: then it may take more than one minute to say goodbye! There's nothing you can do about it - you'll have to “follow the protocol.” Politeness is a distinctive feature of the Japanese, of which they are rightfully proud.

6. Transport

In the Japanese subway, there are specially trained pushers who push and compact people onto the train. To be objective, it must be said that such a “profession” of stuffing exists in many eastern metros, for example, in Singapore, etc.

Many Japanese people like to ride scooters to work.

7. these strange Japanese schoolchildren.

Japanese girls are absolutely NOT allowed to interact or talk with boys until they reach a certain age.

Recently, Japanese schoolgirls have been wearing sailor suits and pigtails, and many Japanese boys now often wear school uniforms for girls, since they are much brighter and prettier than school uniforms for boys. A Japanese schoolboy, in general, is no less strange than an adult Japanese. For example, if a girl offers her food to a boy during a school break, then this will almost mean love until death. That's why girls and boys can't eat together without blushing.

But an even stranger Japanese school tradition is this: children are not allowed to go to school alone, without girlfriends or friends, this is considered strange and immoral. Therefore, the larger the crowd, the better it is considered.

Kancho or Kancho is a strange Japanese game, mega-popular among Japanese elementary school students. Players fold their palms and extend their index fingers forward, which they try to thrust into the anus of another player at any time, especially when the possible victim is busy with something or is distracted. There were cases when even school teachers were caught playing the game, which was severely suppressed by Japanese school principals, but not all. And some teachers were accused of pedophilia. In the well-known international list of the most dangerous extreme gambling games with addictive effects, “Kancho” is listed at number 27.

Kancho Festival

8. Addresses

Most streets in Japanese cities do not have names. In these cases, houses are indicated descriptively (“the second house from the corner after the store”) or by numbering within the block. In addition, houses are numbered in the order in which they were built, which adds to the confusion.

9. Fear of Gemini

In the old days in Japan it was believed that one of the born twins was conceived by a demon. And just in case, they got rid of both twins, without figuring out who was who, and at the same time from the mother. For example, in the Japanese anime “When Cicadas Cry” and “Shuffle” it is shown that one of the twins must be killed!

10. Family finances

All finances of the Japanese family are managed by the wife, and the husband has no right to question, much less challenge, his wife’s purchasing decisions. Moreover, the Japanese cannot be called ascetic and tight-fisted at all, it’s just that Japanese women are not spenders by nature.

11. Kofuns are Japan's mysterious closed parks.

Japan is one of the most densely populated countries in the world. Every meter of land is important here, but even in Japan there are closed and almost untouched areas of land. Moreover, not a single person has set foot on them for several centuries. We are talking about kofuns - ancient burial places of local emperors. Translated from Japanese, “kofun” means “mound”. Most often, kofuns are made in the form of a keyhole and are surrounded by a deep moat filled to the brim with water.

Visiting kofuns, the imperial burial grounds, is not customary among the Japanese; moreover, it is under the strictest prohibition. Therefore, do not even dream of getting there with a tour or on your own.

12.There is a rockabilly renaissance in Japan.

This is an old Japanese tradition, but a new youth hobby. Some youth subcultures often experience revivals. This is exactly what happened with rockabilly and rock and roll, which were revived again in Tokyo, the capital of Japan. In Tokyo there is Yoyogi Park, where all the local fans of this cultural tradition gather and hang out.

These Japanese dress extremely unusually - they wear flashy biker jackets, vertically flowing bangs, long-forgotten updo hairstyles with a roller. Well, of course, they only listen to rock and roll. They have friends who are still living in the 60s, lady greasers. They dress in bright multi-colored dresses and worn, rolled-up jeans, as was fashionable 50 years ago. On the other hand, this newfangled Japanese tradition and youth subculture prove that rock and roll is alive!

13. Gyaru is another newfangled Japanese tradition for young women.

Gyaru is a youth subculture of teenage girls. Those who remember the movie “Wasabi” will understand what we are talking about. Teenage girls strive with all their might to achieve some strange and flashy ideal of beauty. Adherents of this youth Japanese tradition go to extreme lengths to achieve their (in their understanding) ideal of beauty.

Interestingly, this movement does not wither, and has existed for several decades. It is believed that gyaru girls must adhere to a certain style in fashion, hairstyle and makeup. And here fashion and trends change periodically, but some characteristics still remain unchanged.

Gyaru means very high heels, very short skirts and very large and expressive eyes. As in other movements, there are their own, smaller directions. The strangest and most unusual movement in gyaru is yamamba, a subspecies of ganguro. The name of this small subculture literally translates as "black face". These young Japanese women rub as much sunblock into their faces as possible, bleach their hair white, and then apply even larger circles of white eye shadow around their eyes. The must-have look is complemented by flashy neon bright clothes or bright hair extensions. True, in recent years this tradition has become less and less popular among girls. The traditional Gyaru movement is being revived. True, now Japanese girls are trying to have fair skin and make their eyes multi-colored with the help of contact lenses. As a result, regardless of the fashion that is present in Japan, the Gyaru tradition is very exotic even for this unusual country.

14. TO araoke!

Today, karaoke has already conquered the whole world; it is difficult to find a country in which there are no lovers of this art and entertainment. There are even world karaoke championships! Meanwhile, karaoke traditions vary greatly in different countries.

In Japan, as well as throughout East Asia, the most popular karaoke format is a small room equipped with karaoke equipment, which is rented by a small company on an hourly basis. That is, Asians prefer to sing for their own, and listen to their own (how can one not recall “Lost in Translation”).

Among the high-tech Japanese, karaoke applications for mobile devices are becoming increasingly popular - as they say, “a song that is always with you.”

There are various strange traditions of brightly decorating cars, buses and trucks. The website turupupu.ru already described this when writing about Sri Lanka. But the captivating Japanese surpassed many here too. In Japan, there is a separate group of fans of trucks and more, who easily overshadow all the exploits of other modifiers.

The name Decotor translates as trucks decorated with lighting. Skillful Japanese turn ordinary long-distance trucks into real works of art. Everything is used, including dazzling neon lighting and special car paint. This is how a relatively new tradition appeared in Japan - “super-pumped” trucks, which sometimes resemble famous transformers.

And the reason for the emergence of this strange Japanese tradition was the cult TV series of the 1970s “Trucker”. An interesting fact is that for several decades this tradition developed extremely slowly and suddenly began to develop rapidly in the last few years.

So now driving along the expressways of Japan is absolutely not boring - there is something to see!

Ignorance is no excuse from responsibility. Let's comment.

8. Most of What is considered violence in our country is the norm in Japan, which is why the percentage of rapes is officially low. Once you watch enough hentai, you will begin to consider violence as the norm.
11. It is not known what a “developed metro system” is, but more convenient and more modern metro systems are located in Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong. In Shanghai it is also the largest in the world.
31. This one was taken from the Chinese, along with the hieroglyphs, by the way.
37. Large Chinese cities (especially Shanghai) are safer than Tokyo. In China there is much less violence than in Japan, and no one looks at girls as objects of groping. Children in China are sacred. Everyone around them is watching over them.
38. But here I agree with the Japs. The USA is an extremely dangerous country.
42. Yeah, when walking down the street, we put trash in our pocket. Idiocy!
43. Therefore, Japanese retired professionals, if possible, go to China and continue to work there quietly, rather than begging for a measly pension in Japan.
51. There is no racism towards non-Asians everywhere in Asia, not just in Japan. Japan is not original here. Although the Japs are the only Nazis in Asia who fiercely hate other nations, especially the Chinese and Koreans. Asian Germans in every sense, including in the sense of Nazism.
52. Bggg. Where is she the best?)))
59. This property of the Japanese language was borrowed from Chinese many years ago.
64. “Taifeng” is an original Chinese word that the Japanese borrowed and remade into “typhoon.” So the typhoon is borrowed from Chinese, not from Japanese.
65. "Norma" is not a Russian word
69. Not many Japs can understand Chinese signs. On the contrary, Taiwanese and Hong Kongers (speakers of traditional Chinese writing) understand much more Japanese signs than Chinese Japs.
70. This one was borrowed from the Chinese.
71. In China, trains are not late at all. Otherwise - collapse. So Japan is not the only one in this case.
72. Also borrowing from China.
80. In Japan, there is a rigid hierarchical system, including differences in languages when addressing women to men, men to women, subordinates to superiors, superiors to subordinates, etc. Japan's "evolution" was heavily dependent on Western money. Now there is no money, and development has slowed down a lot. Their entire originality is some kind of monstrous archaic stupidity, which offends all foreigners, even Koreans. Their “legal” society is heavily fueled by American bases throughout the islands. There will be no bases, and they will immediately remember their own rights. And, by the way, they will be right, since the “Western legal society” is rushing headlong towards its ideal “whoever is stronger (option is richer) is right.” But in Asia this is not the case.

Sometimes it seems that the people living on the island and their culture are actually from some other planet. We found a few more amazing oddities that can only be found in the land of the rising sun.

1. The Japanese still use fax.

Yes, in the land of robots and the latest technology, the Japanese still use faxes at work. Used every day, in some cases it is even preferable.

2. seal instead of signature.

In documents, the Japanese prefer to put not a signature, but a red seal with their last name. They are sold in almost any store.

3. Japanese pizza.

Only if you suddenly want to try pizza in Japan, you will quickly realize that it is different here too. Potatoes, shrimp, rice cereal, corn and mayonnaise are just a few of the topping options.

4. They really love the combination of mayonnaise and corn.

5. packaging fans.

For example, if you buy a package of cookies, each one will be packaged separately. Everything is in plastic.

6. The skins of grapes are always peeled off.

Only if you decide to eat grapes with the skin, you will greatly surprise the Japanese.

7. There are no trash cans on the streets.

Even if you need to throw something away on the street, you won’t find where. Because there are simply no trash cans. Although the streets are mysteriously clean. Maybe the Japanese carry trash with them?

8. ATMs have closing times.

In Japan, ATMs have opening hours. So you are unlikely to be able to withdraw cash for a taxi at two in the morning when you really need it.

9. Everyone parks backwards.

In Japan, it is almost impossible to see a car parked in front of you. And even if you meet one, it will most likely be a foreigner’s car. Here, rear parking is considered safer.

10. Air conditioners always run on heat.

Japan is very hot and humid in the summer. However, the temperature on the air conditioners is always set to 28 degrees Celsius.

11. In restaurants you have to shout so that the waiter will come to you.

12. There is a mandatory break in city swimming pools.

Every hour, lifeguards blow their whistles and ask everyone to leave the pool for 10 minutes. During this time, everyone should rest.

13. If you are sick, wear a mask.

If someone gets sick in Japan, they must wear a mask so as not to cough on others and infect them. Many Japanese women wear a mask if they are too lazy to put on makeup.

14. sleeping at work.

In Japan, you can sleep peacefully at work if you don’t have the strength to keep your eyes open. It is even considered a sign of hard work. 15. In the morning, cars with megaphones drive through the streets.

During election season, candidates drive around in cars and make speeches through megaphones from the early hours of the morning. You will definitely wake up from this.

16. Fruits are incredibly expensive.

Buying fruit from the supermarket is considered almost splurging and bragging in Japan because they are so expensive. For example, strawberries sell for $100.

17. sun protection.

Japanese women try to avoid sunbathing at all costs - in the hot summer they wear long sleeves, hats and cover their faces.