Guy Shows Why Japan Is Already Living In The Future, Goes Viral (15 Pics)

Go break a leg (get the pun?)!

The point is literally to give disabled people a chance at a fulfilling life, not for abled people to go "hey, i could do that" :/

Oh, me too! :D

🙀It's even creepier to me when they make them look human🤖

Thanks for explaining. I'm now looking down the list again to see how many inmates are also bored 🐼

That kid isn't running errands on his own. Surely it's better to get toddlers involved in helping rather than letting them run around causing carnage

Because they are not wrapped in bubble wrap until they are 21.

They tend to be very small errands at that age - running to a shop downstairs to buy a small item, or running an older sibling's lunch into school if they forgot it (in which case the parent would be waiting outside.) Japanese kids are encouraged to be more independant at a young age.

not having kids help out with stuff leads to having a kid in middle School that can't tie their own shoes

Probably because it is safe for them to do so. A 4-year-old can walk to a store and buy a loaf of bread if they didn't risk getting shot, kidnapped, etc. I'm 54 and we used to go to the store when we were small without our parents.

Not really at this age, I think it's just more like getting them used to shopping on their own so that when they do have to run errands, maybe around 12, they arent confused as heck

Unlike the U.S. kids are trained very young to do errands. Also unlike U.S. kids the very young can catch trains by themselves to go to school. Less pedophiles, low crime. I've walked at midnight in the city with no one around and there is no fear of rape, muggings, etc. The mind set is 180 of U.S.'s society

When I was 4 my mom always sent me shopping, not a big deal if you don't live too far away and can communicate sufficiently, and are taught Stranger-Danger. I couldn't calculate the change though so I always gave the cashier the biggest bill I had and asked them to help me :)

It’s a custom, a rite of passage. 3 to 4 year olds go out to the market on their own to get grocery. It’s a little thing but a huge part of their journey towards self dependence.

I was going to the corner shop, which was two blocks away, by the age of five. I walked alone to and from school, which was about 12 blocks away. (Going to school meant crossing one very busy road.) Australia in the 1970s was much safer and people expected children to be both more helpful and more self-reliant. Coming home from school, my mother only got concerned if I was 2 or 3 hours late (because I forgot the time). Japan is a very safe country.

Partially because a lot of kids end up riding the train to school by themselves in first grade.

because they live in the future

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Don’t downvote Vorknkx. If they wouldn’t let their kids run errands, it’s their choice. And it’s definitely not a good idea in dangerous places.

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Teaches discipline, I suppose... though I wouldn't do it if, it were my child.

Exactly. How do those little children get in stores? How can they be unsupervised??? I hope that they are accompanied by a parent.

So by the time he's 12 he can run a billion dollar company

I was about 4 when I started running errands. Granted, the store was right next to where we lived, with no road crossings. :D

We don't know that they are. "Very young" is relative. We don't know how old the boy in the photo is or if he's completely by himself.

When I was growing up kids would do this a lot, granted it was a small town and there was a grocery store in every neighborhood, and it was 60-70 years ago. Kids would even be allowed to get a can of beer or a pack of cigarettes for the parents, it would be added to the parents account and my dad would often give them a piece of penny candy for their efforts!

Oh c’mon, you haven’t had a 4-yr old fetch you a beer?

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Yeah, that speaks more to "industrial revolution before child labor laws" than the future imho.

Denmark has them too

If I remember correctly it is power that makes the glass transparant.

The glass is clear when electrified and opaque when not. So yup no electricity needed for privacy

Solar

Shigeru Ban! He's surely creative, innovative and inventive. He's well known here in Christchurch (NZ) too.

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I do Peek-a-boo!(or should I say butt)