50 Facts That Prove Japan Is Unlike Any Other Country (New Pics)

I think what is even more important, is that it gives people as a sense of purpose. Rather than let them sit in one place, vegetating for the rest of their lives, they are able to be contributing members of society and not feel like a burden.

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That's quite capacitist of you. In Spain they're politicians instead of waiters. Look for Iñigo Errejón, for example.

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If they cared, they wouldn’t have robots taking people’s jobs.

They are not forced to do it, it's by choice. Most of them are bored and can't do a lot, and this way they feel needed and get social contacts through the robot.

These are people paralyzed from the neck down, they can't do anything else really and are certainly not forced into doing this.

Nope , the paralyzed folks are required to do 12 hour shifts daily, They are forced to do that 🙄

I don't exactly agree with that last part. If you became paralyzed after, say, crashing a motorbike while offroading, that decision is your own. It isn't the government's job to atone for that.

Why would ANYONE force them?

Exactly

they would in america, just to offset the cost of medical care

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That's true but even not for income is a great motivation to not feel that your life is ruined completely...psychology is so important

Exactly! Most strikes affect the public and not the ones the strike is intended to.

So how would teachers go on strike? Let kids play video games all day?

Yes. I remember in NYC when they went on stirke and they did 2 weeks before christmas. The only people who lost out were all the small business, the MTA did not give in, and the public became upset at the union for not waiting till january to strike, and the union came out looking like the bad guys and got a worse deal than the last one the city offered before the strike. Had they been like Japan, things would have been better

As frenchies we are more into "held the bosses hostage"(happens a lot), "threaten to blow up the factory" (happened several times in a decade), it's very efficient!

I know of at least two instances this was done in The Netherlands. But it's quite complicated, because not doing your job is one thing, wearing and tearing equipment and using gas or electricity is another. Also the idea is, since public transport usually relies heavily on people block funding besides the money they make, to demonstrate to that public how essential that role is. To so many things in society.

Sure. As long you take the money from customers direclty.

it's even more effective because it's actually making the bus company lose money, instead of just not gaining money

Nurses in Denmark just went on strike, but the only way we really CAN do that, is to cancel all non-urgent appts, as care is paid for through taxes, so we can't just..... operate but not charge, as a way to punish our employer. But by cancelling all non-urgent patients, THEY end up paying the price instead, just not sure how else we can make our employer (the state) realize we're not satisfied with the ridiculous pay 😬

A great lesson !!!

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But by continuing to use company resources including gasoline, can’t they legally fire them and charge the employees with theft? Disclosure, I in a republican state, aka business centered, not consumer.

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Take notes, that is how you get fired, because the bus and the petrol is owned by the bus company, so using it without payment is considered theft.

Once you, as a company, lose enough money in the form of no income, then it cannot be ignored.

NOPE, we will stick to holding bosses hostage and threaten to blow up factories! That is really efficient and part of our culture, we will let you use the soft ways of "asking gently" to capitalism to be decent with human beings but we will stick with our common ways of negotiating.

Same in the UK where some councils have cut down trees with no real reason.

In the US, two guys named Bubba and Earl would have tied a rope around the tree and the other end to the back of their truck...and then Earl would say, 'hold my beer' while he proceeded to rip the back end of his truck off.

i think every other country would cut them down..

Worst, in India they kill the tree first then burn it.

Same we’re in from 😞

Believe me, they cut plenty of trees down in Japan. This is very much an exception.

In Japan they would, too. This must be a tree with a special sigificance, part of a shrine maybe. Or the locals petitioned for it.

Here they would have cut down the entire forest that isn't even on the road for no reason

I have seen trees being in the middle of the paved road in Greece. So not always true.

In Belgium they would have cut the tree down, and then have a lenghty discussion about why the road can't come there. In the end there will be no road and no trees.

In Japan the number of old large trees in the mountains is in danger so it is illegal to cut them down, but when a road is being built through the mountain, often it takes some strange seemingly unnecessary path. I am told by a wood worker who deals in large tree auctions that the strange path is because often there is a very nice old growth tree of value, and if the road is planned in a way that the tree obstructs construction of the road, it is now fair game. Point is, don't get the wrong idea. This is most likely a tree of special significance. They do not relocate all trees, in fact muh of Japan's indigenous deciduous trees have been cut down for Japanese cedar (sugi) plantations destroying many an ecosystem.

Not only in Greece... :(

in american too ><

In Iceland they might move the road, especially if they thought there might be trolls lying in it!

Singapore would cut it down too.

correction: in any other country they would have cut the tree down

well in my country ('merica) we dont need trees cut em down (this is a joke and when i get older i am moving to japan :)

Same in Spain

same in spain

They do that in Japan too. Do you think they move all trees like this?

There are many, cities including mine, when the many trees are gone, then what idiots ???

In France they would happily cut down the whole forest around, and sell the wood low cost to China so that they can make expensive furniture with it to sell us back.

Sadly, here in the UK too 😟

in Ancient Greece it was a crime to cut down an olive tree.