“Never Change, Japan!”: 40 Interesting And Wholesome Things About Japan That Prove It’s Unlike Anywhere Else In The World
InterviewWith its deeply rooted culture of politeness and quirky sense of humor recalling the funniest moments of our favorite anime, it's not surprising to learn why so many people are enchanted by Japan, the Land of the Rising Sun.
From ubiquitous vending machines and bizarre game shows to maid cafes, to us westerners, Japan is like a distant parallel universe with its own set of rules and customs. So to celebrate this culture, which has been showering us with its meme-like charm unlike any other, Bored Panda has compiled some of its weirdest cultural practices to show why the internet can't get enough of it.
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When People Matter
Old People In Japan Clean Up Radiation So The Younger Generation Won't Have To Expose Themselves To It
Mr. And Mrs. Kuroki Of Japan
This Is 95 Hirane From Japan. I Accidently Entered His Shop To Ask For Directions. So How We Got Talking And Became Good Friends. And Now He Dedicates 2 Hours Everyday To Teaching Me Japanese
Good job again, Japan! People can accidentally go to a wrong location and make friends, not have bullets sprayed at them.
Japan, Just Japan
Cafe In Japan Gives An Oportunity To Paralyzed People To Feel Fulfilled
It's Japan As Always
After Their Shocking Win Against Germany, Japan Fans Stayed After The Match To Clean Up The Stadium. Respect
If you don't clean up your trash in the first place, you are the problem. Everyone should be responsible for the trash they generate.
No Cap
There’s A Park In Japan That Lets You Shake Hands With Otters
I MUST GO! Otters are my favorites. I don't think I'd move and no one else would get a turn! (I'd move... just would go straight back to HOLDING HANDS WITH AN OTTER!) SWOON!
In Nara, Deers Have Learned To Open The Doors Of Food Establishments And Bow To Ask For Food
In Nara you can also buy special deer cookies and the deer ask for them by bowing
A Tree In Japan Being Removed (With Roots Being Painstakingly Protected) And Being Saved And Moved (Instead Of Being Cleared For Road Widening)
When Pope Francis Visted Japan Last Year, He Was Gifted A Custom Anime Robe, Which He Wore
Francis isn't like other Popes. He literally loves everyone not just Catholics. He is a good example of what a religious leader should be. Unbiased and understanding to all faiths.
This Latte Art Made Me Chuckle
Go Go Godzilla
Im Crying Over This Old Man In Japan Who Patiently Walks His Giant Tortoise Everyday
Grandpa In Japan Makes Totoro So People Wouldn't Be Lonely At The Bus Stop
Why Is Japan Just So Great
My Wife Was Visiting Me In Japan When She Suddenly Fell Ill On Her Birthday, When The Nurse Found Out That She Had To Celebrate Her Birthday Alone, She Gifted Her This!
Small kindnesses shown to someone alone and sick are greatly magnified in the heart of the recipient.
Kindergarten School Buses In Japan
Taking Historic Architecture Into Account When Adding Vending Machines
A Japanese Diver Has Been Entrusted To Oversee One Of Japan’s Shinto Shrines, Which Is Located Beneath The Surface Of Japan’s Tateyama Bay. Over The Decades, He Became Best Friends With One Of The Marine Creatures Who Live Around The Shrine, An Asian Sheepshead Wrasse Named Yoriko
If You Have A Cup Noodle In Japan, You’ll Get Cats On The Inside Of The Lids. However, At A 6% Chance, You’ll Get A Tibetan Fox (Middle Right)
Do You Keep The Plushie?
Japan’s Dedication To Return This Toy Is Adorably Commendable
Japan And Its Erasers
Where Do I Sign Up?
In Japan A Cat Named Coco-Chan Alerts People To Elderly Man Who Fell Into Ditch. Humans Make Him Police Chief For A Day. Coco-Chan's Thoughts: "Hooooomans Are Weirdos"
A Japan Fan At The World Cup
This Restaurant Being Wholesome
The Giant Straw Sculptures Of The Wara Art Festival In Japan
I need a giant straw mammoth, just got to convince my better half.
This Train Station In Japan
I usually don't like buildings that look like things... but this is not that bad (I still don't like it, but I could live with that).
I Bought Some Collectibles From Japan. Found This Message On The Parcel
They're really superb nice when you order stuff from there. I've gotten several thank you notes and folded paper cranes that I still have
‘Please Turn Down Your Volume’ Seibu Railway Etiquette Poster
This should be standard practice around the world. Nobody really cares what you did last weekend or that you still have a yeast infection. The image can also be easily adapted to different cultures. You are so embarrassing that even your ancestors facepalm because of your behavior.
Good For You Japan
In Hong Kong And Japan, Mcdonald’s Has A “Doors Are Always Open” Policy. People Who Have Nowhere To Stay Take Advantage Of This And “Live” In Mcdonald’s, Often Referred To As Mcrefugees
Japanese Twitter Helps Anon
*wheeze*
A Man Walked 70km In 3 Days From Kota Kinabalu Airport To Get To His Hometown Kota Marudu To Avoid Spreading Covid-19 After Returning From Japan. His Name Is Alixson Mangundok. He Also Adopted A Dog He Met During The Journey
Solving The Problem Of Eating A Burger With Dignity
A Retro Game Group In Japan Donated 100 Super Nintendos To Families With Kids Sheltered In Place
Im only 14, but the SNES was my first gaming system. I remember when I was about 3 or 4, my dad got out his old system. I spent hours playing mario world with him.
Japanese Manhole Covers
Study Buddy
Meet The Samurai Litter Pickers Of Japan
On My Way Home, Someone Tied A Lost Jacket To A Pole To Keep It From Getting Dirty On The Street. Love Japan
Thanks, I Hate Spider-Lamps
Japan Manager Hajime Moriyasu Bowed In Appreciation To The Fans Who Traveled All The Way To Support Their Team
Fujisawa Satsuki's (Olympic Curler) Motivational Message To Herself
A Package Arrived From Japan, And Upon Opening The Package I Found This Little Origami With A Thank You Note. It May Not Be Much, But It Sure Made My Day
Yukako Fukushima, Who Makes Prosthetic Small Fingers For Reformed Japanese Gangsters, At Her Workshop In Osaka, Japan
Why do japanese gangsters miss their fingers in the first place? Like, honestly, do their enemies cut them off?
A Coffee Shop In Japan That Allows You To Pick Any Image For Your Coffee
Chachamaru, A Green Tea Rabbit Mascot In Ikeda, Helping To Pick Tea Leaves
Imagine how hot that would be to pick tea leaves under the blazing sun in a giant mascot costume
I Teach English In Japan, One Of My Kids Gave Me This Today
Outside My Bank In Japan, Carers Had Brought A Disabled Child Out On The School Route So He Could High Five All The School Children On Their Way Home. They All Stopped To Do It
It Wokrs!
They’re really expensive tho (understandable for something that complex)
Traveling Alone In Japan, Wasn't Having The Best Day And And Was Sitting Alone At The Lounge Area Of Where I Stay… The Barista Walked Over And Passed Me This
Oh how I wish I knew Japanese so I could visit japan like the little weeb I am.
Japanese Grandma Manually Runs A Vending Machine With A Kappa Puppet
Spotted At A Japan Rail Station
If you drop something on the rail track, a station employee will help you retrieve it.
Traffic Officer Protects Mother Duck And Her Ducklings Crossing The Road In Tokyo
So I Lost My Wallet In Japan Where I Live, But Luckily It Was Found (With Almost Everything Inside!), And On The Notice I Got Via Mail Someone Wrote A Greeting In Polish, My Native Language!
Love Hotel In Shibuya
Japanese Hotel Apologies For One Minute Internet Stoppage At 4am
Memories of standing at a train platform in some tiny mountain town and my boyfriend laughing as he listened to an announcement. When I asked him why he was laughing he said they were apologizing *profusely* that the train was going to be 2 minutes late. And sure enough, it was precisely two minutes late.
Japan’s Uncle Fist Loses Money Every Week Selling Takoyaki To Kids For Just 10 Yen, Doesn’t Care
Walking In Japan, Dark, Freezing Cold, And Snowing. We Got Lost And Asked A Car Traveling Past Us How To Get Back To The Main Road. Sure Enough, He Offered Us A Ride Back To Our Hotel, Saving Us From The Menacing Conditions Outside. Thank You, Adam!
Blessing A Toyota Previa
I Am An International Student Studying In Japan. Our University Gave Free Thermometers To Everyone Living In The Dorm! 324 Is My Room No :)
My college brain would think they were monitoring the temp. My adult brain thinks that a little, too.
I Want It
Japan is beautiful, easily accessible once on island, and polite....during the daytime. I have been over 5 times for 2 week to month long stays and have family that live in Japan. Japanese culture is very racist. People of other races are looked down on and good luck integrating into a family. They are very vocal (per their culture) to criticize or insult those they see as ugly, fat, or different. Otaku is thrown around a lot in anime/manga circles as a badge of honor but honestly in culture they are considered the creeps and cringe. Japan is so institutionalized racist that my Hispanic friends who moved for work were advised and eventually relented to just allow their Japanese realtor go to showings for an apartment bc they were being denied over and over. These things I state aren't new or small instances, read forums that show the image of Japan behind the mask and many many people share these same experiences. I also didn't bring up how they treat mixed citizens.
I call the way Japanese treat foreigners polite hostility. The racism, hive mind/voluntary communism and not open but still very apparent superiority complex makes me uncomfortable there. Some admirable traits like cleaning up after themselves and low criminality are not going to overwrite that.
Load More Replies...What about the fact that they need to have separate subway cars for women so that they aren't groped? No country is perfect.
Are you sure this isn't just a problem that exists everywhere and Japan being one of the few to take active steps to stop it?
Load More Replies...Why the heck are you getting downvoted for stating a fact? Japan still practices whaling despite the fact that many people are against it.
Load More Replies...Japan is beautiful, easily accessible once on island, and polite....during the daytime. I have been over 5 times for 2 week to month long stays and have family that live in Japan. Japanese culture is very racist. People of other races are looked down on and good luck integrating into a family. They are very vocal (per their culture) to criticize or insult those they see as ugly, fat, or different. Otaku is thrown around a lot in anime/manga circles as a badge of honor but honestly in culture they are considered the creeps and cringe. Japan is so institutionalized racist that my Hispanic friends who moved for work were advised and eventually relented to just allow their Japanese realtor go to showings for an apartment bc they were being denied over and over. These things I state aren't new or small instances, read forums that show the image of Japan behind the mask and many many people share these same experiences. I also didn't bring up how they treat mixed citizens.
I call the way Japanese treat foreigners polite hostility. The racism, hive mind/voluntary communism and not open but still very apparent superiority complex makes me uncomfortable there. Some admirable traits like cleaning up after themselves and low criminality are not going to overwrite that.
Load More Replies...What about the fact that they need to have separate subway cars for women so that they aren't groped? No country is perfect.
Are you sure this isn't just a problem that exists everywhere and Japan being one of the few to take active steps to stop it?
Load More Replies...Why the heck are you getting downvoted for stating a fact? Japan still practices whaling despite the fact that many people are against it.
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