Japan is a place where you can leave your phone on the table at a Cafe while you go to the bathroom and still expect it to be there when you come back, but God help you if you left your nice umbrella in the communal umbrella holder on a rainy day.
7-11 umbrellas all look the same
I think there are lot more than 7 to 11 umbrellas that look the same out there 🥸
Touché
The crime rate and especially the murder rate compared the the US is shockingly different.
Ever watch NPB? It’s such a different vibe at those games.
It’s a mass-produced ball. Hit by by a guy who hits nummerous balls daily.
The Japanese people are disciplined people.
One of the highlights of my life was having a chance to live with a family in the Tokyo suburbs - in Akitsu Higashimurayama. Miss them so much. お母さん に 会いたい な～
That’s a genuine culture shock (compared to America at least). Is it true, is there a good source on this story?
These types of “Japan so polite” stories are 50-50 real or absolute bullshit fabrication.
I question if it ever really happened just based on the logistics of passing anything around a huge crowd in an uncoordinated manner and having it end up at its origin point.
The culture shock is someone thinking this wouldn’t happen in the vast majority of societies lol
Americans and Brits would only do it if they knew in advance that it’d be televised, tbh. And they’d all be smiling like they’re in on something
The weird thing to me is I can understand wanting the baseball as a collectors item, but why would you want to look at it for 5 seconds when there’s an actual game going on? You could see the ball in the air and in your hand, it’s going to look just like an other baseball. It’s not even signed yet (if she even managed to get it signed)
That’s a good question.
https://nextshark.com/japanese-fans-world-baseball-classic-shohei-ohtani-home-run-ball
Dunno how good the source is (never heard of that site), but it aöso contains a video from fox sports
Who knows about the source but I was looking to see any indication of where this was. I actually got a chance to see a baseball game at the Tokyo Dome or maybe it was a sumo event - it was so long ago. From my own experience and shallow understanding of the culture it’s probably true. One of the huge motivations is the fear of bringing shame to your family which can be good and bad…it’s just such a different culture and an outsider like me really can’t fully appreciate or really understand because even if you spend your life there you will probably always be considered a bit of an outsider. And the Tom Selleck movie Mr. Baseball is actually pretty good.
From the video, it looks like stadium security was involved.
People taking pictures of a normal baseball 🤦♂️
it’s like they’ve never seen such a ball lol
It’s like Japan is a different culture or something 🤔
you think the Japanese don’t play baseball?
The difference is it’s an Ohtani homer, that’s cause enough imo
Wow they must have stayed for hours after the actual game if everyone in the stadium got a look.
Germany, but in Asia.
Yea…not quite. I lived in Germany and my bike got stolen twice.
Sorry, got to understand the new Germans that have arrived 😅
Nope. Can’t play that card with me homeboy coz the police actually caught one who stole my bike and surprise surprise , it was one of your Germans living in Germany from past 48 years.
germans are all selfish af. they just like to call everyone else an asshole while acting like a selfish fuck themself. thats why some people believe that they are saints because they act like they are so much better and some people believe it
I think all humans are selfish af, different cultures just have different ways of expressing that selfishness
100% this.
I disagree
Bike theft is one of the most common crimes in Japan.
But you will find your bike back at the nearest store or in the general area, not on craiglist or marketplace.
Nah germany may seem organized and disciplined from outside but except for all the paperwork and the laws and norms that go into every detail it’s just as every other country (obviously some cultural difference is to be expected)
Those countries should team up. They’d probably take over the world
. . … wait…
There’s a good YouTube video (this one, I think) that discusses how Germany and Japan were pretty much only allies on paper and they did very little to support each other’s war efforts.
Certainly two of the countries of all time.
I don’t exactly understand what is remarkable here. But maybe that is because I’m not from the USA.
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As an American I’m surprised it found it’s way back to her
itt: Americans angry they will never experience this level of empathy
Some things I hear about Japan makes me feel like we should be more like the Japanese. But then I remember what their work culture is like.
Yeah, it’s ruff there is the crazy work hours and then often the “mandatory” drinking parties after work. It really can put your own culture in perspective.
Imo it’s okay to take pieces of other cultures to improve your own. I know there are people who are against that, but if someone else is doing something better than you, I really don’t see why it’d be an issue to take the pieces that make it work and incorporate it into your own culture.
Hopefully nobody’s gonna say that being less entitled is cultural appropriation!
And their justice system
Our work culture is worse. They have some worker protections, and healthcare isn’t tied to employment.
https://20somethingfinance.com/american-hours-worked-productivity-vacation/
We do though. I’ve experienced it. Some kid sitting in front of me caught a foul ball from Julio Rodriguez and ran over to the dugout between innings and got him to sign it. I asked him if I could see it, then several other people wanted to see it. It got passed around a few rows of seats before making its way back to me and then the kid. Baseball fans are good fans.
I think it would only happen because a kid caught the ball
“Basedball” is a very fitting typo for this particular story 😁
It’s likely a side-effect of it being translated as Gairaigo then back to English. It’s so common there are lots of interesting and funny examples all over the Japan and is referred to as “jinglish”.
I love it 😂! See also engrish.com, containing such classics as a clothing retailer named Store My Ducks and a sign proclaiming that you are for sale at the ticket counter 😁
plot twist: was not the same ball
if someone took it they wozld have been shamed by everone around i think that would happen in most cultures hinestly
in most cultures the ball wouldn’t be passed around at all
Where 99.8% of trials result in conviction 😅 I’d be making damn sure that ball made it back too.
That of course is because of the high shame/snitch culture and the fact that the police can hold you indefinitely and force confessions. Conviction rates that high often have many false positives too.
https://thediplomat.com/2019/01/japans-hostage-justice-system/
https://www.vox.com/world/2015/12/13/9989250/japan-crime-conviction-rate
It may be a nice police state but imo I wouldn’t want to live under those rules. Maybe a visit if I ever have money but yeah.
Iirc part of the reason the conviction rate is so high is because either A) it’s a relatively minor infraction and person apologizes, claims it was a misunderstanding, accident, cultural differences, ignorance, etc and is then released, or B) they don’t think there’s enough evidence to convict, so they don’t even bother taking it to court.
