things in Japan you think should be done in the US

I think we should have some of those mini cars and vans that you see a lot on Japanese streets. Something about that compact size looks so cool!

@Retro8bit Funny enough those Japanese Kei trucks have been getting imported a lot here in the US with the 25 year rule that "any vehicle with a manufacturing date of 25 years or older can legally be imported into the US under federal law".

https://realtruck.com/blog/what-is-a-kei-truck/

I don't know about "done" and I hate to be that one south park episode but I think the Japanese style toilet should be implemeneted worldwide. Never has my bum felt so clean.

Strict firearm laws first came to my mind.

Sailor uniforms in high schools
Love hotels
Maid cafes
Legalize drinking in public and bring back going to happy hour with coworkers
Bring back arcades and have entire city blocks dedicated to nerd/gamer/otaku culture
Bring back old tech that Japan still occasionally uses like flip-phones and Windows XP
Celebrate Japanese holidays like White Day and Tanabata
Greater presence of Buddhism/Confucianism/Shinto (or at least a pagan revival if people think Confucianism and Shinto are too "Eastern") in America/the West, Judeo-Christianity and secularism both get tiring.


That would only work if it were engrained starting in preschool/kindergarten with making kids clean up after themselves. I vaguely remember doing so back then.

They wouldn't be practical on the interstate, but giving them a similar status as mopeds/scooters or using them as farm vehicles would be doable I think.

Again, the US is a massive country. This wouldn't be practical outside of a few major cities.

FUCK NO! If anything Japan should have looser gun laws. They'd have less problems with women being groped on trains if said women were allowed to carry/defend themselves, and the Japanese countryside has problems with wild animals because of how hard getting a hunting license is in Japan.

I don't know enough about squat toilets to comment on that one.

@Toadfan64

Really? That's interesting, I wasn't aware that was going on. I guess because I don't see many of them over in my area where I live. Is there a certain area in the United States that they're known to be imported more at?

@Zarutaku
That's somewhere where the US is doing better though.

Sure, it's much better to live in a country with lots of paranoid civilians carrying guns in public. Japan's high public safety is totally overrated *kappa*

@Zarutaku It more of a mental health problem. Look at what all school shooters have in common. It's not like their thoughts of harming other people would go away if they were holding a knife instead. Gun owners just like to go to the shooting range and have them for self defense. If anything it sounds like your the one who is paranoid.

I think we should have some of those mini cars and vans that you see a lot on Japanese streets. Something about that compact size looks so cool!

@Zarutaku It more of a mental health problem. Look at what all school shooters have in common. It's not like their thoughts of harming other people would go away if they were holding a knife instead. Gun owners just like to go to the shooting range and have them for self defense. If anything it sounds like your the one who is paranoid.

Sure, it's much better to live in a country with lots of paranoid civilians carrying guns in public. Japan's high public safety is totally overrated *kappa*

@Zarutaku
How much safer does it need to make society in order to justify gun laws?

Safe enough that civilians don't feel the need to have guns in public.

@Zarutaku
What % of civilians need to feel safe in public for it to be justified?

Enough that political parties don't need to pander to the remaining % anymore.

@Zarutaku
So you standard is just popularity of the policy?