Things you've learned about Japan from anime.

Anime taught me that the Japanese catch a cold every time they get a little wet in the rain.

I learned that Japanese like baseball a lot, they are very polite and use honorifics all the time, nobunaga is always the main historical villain for some reason, the country is high tech and forward thinking but also very traditional and conservative, they eat a lot of rice and fish and noodles and pork, they are a mix of buddhist and shintoist with other smaller religions, they have an extreme work and school ethic. They value social uniformity, duty, honor, loyalty & family.

Ah, a lot of things I suppose?

• Teenagers almost always live by themselves.
• The ecchi wind can strike anywhere, even indoors.
• Boys are born with a six pack apparently, or gain all their mass from just lifting a few everyday objects once or twice.
• Panties are edible.
• School kids run to School with bread in their mouths.

Which anime did you learn that from?

absolutely nothing......literally.

I learned about the dish okinomiyaki. It's technically fast food in Japan but it's pretty unique for being called that. Probably one of my favorite dishes to make from that territory.

@joemaamah What made hentai handy?

@ItachiDeltaForce what a disappointment I expected a 5000 words essay on what you learned with a book deal to publish it.

@Otakupervert890 well if anyhing ...i learned the Japanese are human just like the rest of the world....they get up. brush their teeth, go to work, earn money, pay bills ...its not some kind of disney fantasy that some naive noobs & the media make it out to be

@ItachiDeltaForce I hope your wife and kids are able to get you when a joke fly over your heads. I pity your golf buddies game must be long as hell.

I learned that Japanese like baseball a lot, they are very polite and use honorifics all the time, nobunaga is always the main historical villain for some reason, the country is high tech and forward thinking but also very traditional and conservative, they eat a lot of rice and fish and noodles and pork, they are a mix of buddhist and shintoist with other smaller religions, they have an extreme work and school ethic. They value social uniformity, duty, honor, loyalty & family.

@tchitchouan Youll be surprised at just how little of that is true.

Baseball is the most popular sport. Honourifics are used most of the time, but polite is a bit... of a misunderstanding.

Nobunaga as a villain isn't really true, but he was heavily villainised by the guy that usurped him (surprise surprise).

It isn't high tech - some companies produce "new" tech (not necessarily high tech) but most of Japan is actually backward compared to the West. "Ohh fancy toilets!" yet everyone still uses fax machines, endless unnecessarily paper documents are the norm, cashless is still spotty and other technologically backward aspects are mostly forwarded by the ageing population and the fact that most companies and government officials are elderly men with no desire to change. It's not traditionalism that holds Japan back - it's "old person hates change".

Rice, fish, noodles, pork - that's about half the food groups right there. They also eat lots of chicken and veg. The only thing missing, really, is beef. Which is still common here, just less so due to expense more than anything else.

Most Japanese people are atheist, not buddhist. Basically nobody is shintoist. You'll find more Christians than either, really. Many atheists will identify as Buddhist in censuses, but even that's got its own reasons.

The work ethic isn't a work ethic - it's "fear of being shamed". They don't work hard because they want to overwork themselves. It's because not doing so will look bad for them.

This ties into social uniformity - people do it out of fear of ostracisation, but most people wish they could be more individual. Honour isn't really a concept here, nor loyalty and family. In fact, cheating is ridiculously common here - and it's mostly the women doing it.

How much of that is because the husband is too busy working to spend time with his wife?

Someone has been reading too much hentai and took it as an accurate representation of Japan

@Lucifrost too busy working overtime so he can provide for his wife and kids and so that she can work part time or not work at all. :D

Trust me, they aren't overworking out of desire.

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@LifelineByNature
You said they work to avoid being shamed. I will never understand Japan if cheating is considered less shameful.