Japanese countryside

>>14886904
Is that Hinamizawa?

>>14887230
It is indeed, anon.

Went to see countryside from one of my fav. eroges. Or rather, the small town and the countryside around.

I want to go see Shirakawa-gou too, probably soon.

I wonder if you could find youkai in those forests.

>>14887368
What eroge, what town?

>>14886904
I live in rural Hokkaido (population less than 5000). Ask me anything.

>>14887585
Can you use chopsticks?

>>14887466
Monobeno

Kami, Kouchi prefecture on Shikoku.

>>14887585
Dounan? Doutou?

>>14888014
Doutei?

>>14887653
Yes.

>>14888140
道東

>>14886904
The people are always so kind. I can't count the number of times that complete strangers have offered up some freshly-harvested home-grown vegetables on my way home.

It's basically just Pennsylvania.

No I'm serious. The houses are of a different design and everyone's asian instead of white rednecks, but the landscape of the region is pretty much the same. I spent money seeing the countryside in Japan and it's the same shit I have at home, even some of the same genus of trees.

>>14886904
Northern part of Japan looks so cozy.

>>14892690
That's hardly the north dude, it's just a few km north-west of Takayama, which itself is nort of Nagoya, central japan....

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>>14886904
That big house in the middle (Wada-ke) is pretty cool.

It's been made into a museum for old farm things and some other general information about the village.

I can't remember a whole lot from that house since it's been a while since I went there (2010), but I remember these silkworms really well.

Used to be stationed in Japan.

Loved riding my motorcycle up in the mountains and away from the cities of the Kanto plain. Cooler weather, no traffic, nicer people.

Get to see bears, deer, and monkeys in the forest.

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I stayed for a week in Yokkaichi.

Live in rural Ibaraki and have been shitposting on /jp/ since 2009. Follow your dreams.

>>14899218
How's the internet?
How big are the bugs?
Is it inconvenient to travel on those tiny ass roads?

It seems selfish to me to visit those isolated towns. I think they should be preserved and free from outsiders.

>>14899371
Eh as long as you don't move there or something you'll just be another face come and gone before they have a chance to even care. I got looked at more in fucking Kyoto than I did in shirakawa go, they've seen your type before and they'll see your type again.

>>14896358
How was Yokkaichi?
Was thinking about passing by it on the way to Ise.

>>14899371
You'll be fine as long as you mind your manners and say hello.

>>14899371
The world isn't a bubble anymore, bro.

>>14899371
It's fine, just treat it like a nature reserve
Take photos, leave footprints

They're ordinary people, not endangered tigers or something.

>>14899354
Japan's internet is lightning fast.
Bugs depend on the region.
Not if you use public transportation! (Japan's public transportation is heavenly. Use it as much a possible.)

>>14899371
By going and touring Japan, you're contributing to its dying economy/society. If you want to "preserve" Japan, go there, and bring your money. Lots of it.

>>14901298
And even better, knock up some of their girls before you leave.

>>14901751
You think fatherless mixed race children are a good thing?

>>14901870
Yeah, they need anything they can get to pay the pensions for their aging population at this point. Half Japanese kids are better that complete foreigners.

How common are dogs in Japan?
They're pretty uncommon in the japanese animes I watch, and when they do show up it's often stray/wild dogs.

>>14902086
No. The Japanese men need to stand the fuck up and create some families.

>>14902154
Yeah, if japanese men just decided to fuck more and make some children, japan's aging population problem wouldn't be this bad.

But it doens't look like it's changing anytime soon.

>>14902154
But they don't so it's good if we give them a little help with their birthrate problem.

>>14902171
All western societies have terrible reproductive rates when you exclude immigrants

I think literally less attractive people are getting rapidly weeded out of the gene pool by not marrying due to mutually impossibly high standards. I still wonder if I should have tried harder and aimed for a gravure idol wife...

Also when you think about it the average Japanese woman doesn't look very fertile

Skinny, small butt/hips, small breasts, etc.

>>14902272
Older women are less fertile, not younger one

>>14902142
I think many people have dogs in Japan.
Unlike animes, wild dogs are hardly seen but I often see wild cats.

>>14886904
>Isn't there something really relaxing about the
>Japanese countryside?

Nope, nothing particular is relaxing about it. It is same as any Western / European rural countryside. You're just fetishizing the Japanese one because you're a weaboo. If anything, Japanese countryside is worse.

The bugs are huge and super loud, like it kills you inside having to listen to that shit all the time and the country Japanese people eat waspmaggots as "dessert".

>>14902500
damn

>>14893050
What the fuck is in those boxes?

>>14902086
>>14902171
>muh aging population
This is retarded. It is no problem unless you think the western system of eternal growth is sustainable, which it isn't.

>>14902500
Nah there's no way people who aren't old as hell still eat that shit. I remember I saw fried crickets being sold, which are comparatively tame, and the only people buying them were super old.

>>14902558
Silk worms. Shirakawa's signature roof style developed so they could store silk worms in the attic.
Also it wouldn't be as much of a problem if there wasn't currently a huge push to let your country be flooded with darkies going on. Euope seems to have largely fallen for it, but Japan seems to be doing well fending them off. We'll see how long that lasts.

>>14902615
The "old people" still force the young kids to eat it (whether they like it or not) because of muh tradition. Countryside Japan is scary!

>>14902500
Never had wasp maggots, but did have boiled silkworm in Korea. Actually weren't so bad once you got over the fact that you were eating literal grub.

>>14902619
Well since I actually do know what you're talking about I can't really deny that you could be right.
How do you know though?

>>14902624
Yes but those are Korean dogs. They are soulless uncivilized pig who should have been forever servants of great Nippon empire.

>>14902626
That guy from MK, who has blades growing out of his forearms and sharp teeth, who makes a living doing documentaries about Japan nowadays, told me.

>>14902635
I talked to the same guy, and he told me over a bowl of boiled wasp larva that he just lied to you about it cause he thought it'd be funny. Sorry.

>>14902646
Nice try, but he wouldn't have let me put it on video and lie to the whole world if it was so.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pio3v2FndOU

>>14902615
>Japan seems to be doing well fending them off. We'll see how long that lasts.

they'll be ok, since they don't have to follow the Kalergi Plan

>>14902654
I guess I'll be back in half an hour. I'd better be in for 30 minutes of japs gargling wasp spawn.

>>14902657
I looked up that plan. That shit is eerily accurate even if it is just a conspiracy theory.

>>14902654
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4jdkf0Ql6o
What kind of insanely boring person watches this stuff?

>>14902678
>Not enjoying unique takes on life however micro they may be
Go back to your flashy-trashy anime, you little runt

>>14902690
I don't watch flashy-trashy anime. I only watch Umaru.

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Seems pretty scary.

One of my friends was suicidal after returning from Japan, he couldn't bear with western civilization anymore. He wasn't even a weeb.

>>14902500
Tried fried spiders in Cambodia. They got those in Japan?
The legs are great, crispy like chips

>>14903151
That's a pretty big difference, fool. Spiders are almost the same thing as lobsters and shrimps (more closer related than either of those are to insects).

>>14902500
Insects have been part of the human diet for millenniums. Insects are nutritious ,and well cooked can be tasty

I used to live in backwoods Alabama, and the few Asians that live here always told me "it reminds them of home".

They were Japanese working for Honda, so I don't think there is any particular allure to the Japanese countryside that you can't find any where else.

>>14900466
It's a plain ol' city. If you're used to suburbia, then it's not too different. 15 minutes out of town though, and you'll run into rice fields and crap.

>>14903576
>and the few Asians that live here always told me "it reminds them of home".
Probably because of the racism.

>>14886904
Screw the dam, that pavement cutting right through the village is disgusting.

It's very sad that a lot of villages are disappearing due to the population getting older and people moving to the big cities.

>>14886904
Idiots keep saying that the countryside in Japan is so similar to their whitebread countries when all they have going for is how they're on the same latitude and superficially glancing at the flora.

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>>14902766
Returning from Japan is a serious matter, anon. I returned from a two month backpacking trip in Japan to southern Indiana in the U.S. and I felt like I'd entered a different universe. Like I'd entered an inescapable fog.

Let me just navigate to my Japan folder and pick a picture at random.

>>14905672
I don't even fucking remember where I took this. Might as well have been a dream.

>>14905672
You mean you escaped an inescapable fog (Silent Hill is in Japan).

Countryside or not it's just another place As long as I have good internet and good shops then that's all I need.

>>14906482
So the countryside is not for you then.

>>14905672
How was backpacking trough japan? What part did you visit?

If I lived in one of these places the only thing I'd wanna do is smoke weed all day and listen to the cicadas and birds.

>>14906794
Drugs are far more taboo in Japan than in America, you'd probably be reported and deported in short order.

Do these backwater places still use squat toilets and have public bathhouses instead of individual baths? They looks nice to visit, but seem like they'd lack anything good about modern life.

>>14903576
>backwoods Alabama
Maybe they were trying to be polite

you guys will love this video comfy as fuck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-oitkmfkXI

>>14887585
Do you ever take trips to Tokyo or any other big cites? How long does it take by train? Assuming you're an English teacher?
>>14887653
Don't say that! Don't you know that is racist to the gaijin.

>>14899218
>>14899354
Fuck! It's the bugs that hold me from living in rural Japan. Do get indoors a lot or is it more of an outside thing?

>>14907299
>squat toilets
If I had the money I'd install a squat toilet in my house.

I already have hemorrhoids and don't want them to get worse. Plus, have you ever actually squat to take a shit? It's fucking awesome dude, when I had to do it once it was like a valve in my ass was released and all my shit just flowed straight out of my ass with almost no resistance. I read somewhere that humans are actually built to squat while shitting and from my own experiences I believe it. Only reason I'm not shitting in the woods is because I'd eventually get seen and then for the rest of my life I'd be the guy who shits in the woods.

Anyone who is living in one of these backwaters. Does it feel good when you go to a big city at the week-ends once or twice a month?

>>14908188
There are stools on the market that fit around the toilet and allow you to stand on the stool while your ass hovers over the toilet.

>>14902500
>Nope, nothing particular is relaxing about it. It is same as any Western / European rural countryside.

I live in the Canadian countryside and it's relaxing as fuck.

>>14908188
I'd never be able to use a squat toilet. Defecating is difficult for me, I wouldn't be able to focus enough to squat and defecate without falling over or something.

>>14906771
It wasn't easy but it was great. Started in Osaka and Kobe, then Kyoto, Tokyo, Kawaguchiko, through Kofu, Matsumoto and Takayama, stopped in Shirakawago, Kanazawa, as far north as Niigata, stopped at Aizu-Wakamatsu, Iwaki, Ito, Yokohama, back to Osaka, over to Hiroshima, Onomichi through Okayama, and back to Osaka again

>>14908238
>Defecating is difficult for me
That's because you sit straight. Educate yourself. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYcv6odWfTM

>>14908239
Hitchhiking?

>>14908425
Only once actually (in the middle of fucking nowhere). I used trains and buses to get from city to city and I'd sometimes use a bike to get around.

>>14908518
I bet it was great, I hope i can do it at least once in my life. Was it hard to find cheap places to sleep and buy food? Did you go in a small group or in a large one?

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>>14908564
It's not hard in Japan. There are hostels in every major city and internet cafes around the train station in others. There's a Lawson on every corner so cheap food is easy to find. I did it alone

Hinamizawa has been mentioned in this thread so I'll dump part of my Shirakawago folder

rural japan is cool i traveled on bicycle for many months

i slept on the streets, on bus stop benches, in temples/shrines, or abandoned houses. so that part of the trip was free, but it cost $1000 for a roundtrip flight to osaka and back to usa

i bought a bicycle and the lady registered it for me all for under $50. it had a front-light, a back-rack, bike lock, a front basket to store things. these sorts of bicycles are called mamacharis, mama bikes, they are nice city bikes. i used that for all my transportation on land. it usually costs $28/hour to use a ferry to cross between the big islands, like from kyushu to shikoku. you can bring your bicycle for the ferries that allow cars

i ate well with food, i spent about $20 a day on food. so it was like $2k for 3 months of food. you can buy potato chips/bread for calories, peanuts are good also. $2 of TRIAL supermarket bread can feed you for an entire day. i foraged for edible greens, ate cattails, chestnuts. there are always abandoned orchards and farms where you can find things like … persimmons, tiny oranges, figs, onions, squash

i think the amount i spent on food, junk food, alcohol, cigarettes, etc was enormous. i gained 20 lbs of weight during my stay in japan, and that was even when i was riding my citybike over the hilly mountains and horrible roads for 10 hours every day. you could probably live well off $10 a day if you didn't buy tobacco or alcohol

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Irie clinic

This thread is making me want to rewatch Higurashi.

>>14908645
How did you get the money? Saved up?

>>14908656
I knew higurashi was based off real locations, but I didn't know this place actually existed. o_o

>>14909131
At the end of an episode (the last one from kai iirc) it actually shows a bunch of photos of irl hinamizawa

>>14908645
How didn't you get lost? Where did you keep your valuables/money?
I understand that crime rate is low, but still it's hard to understand how you can just sleep anywhere and or not get mugged randomly.
Where did you wash/shower, etc?
Did you have some kind of access to internet like phone/laptop or at least camera?
What about bad weather? rain and such?

>>14908689
This thread is making me want Non Non Biyori.

>>14909441
it sounds like bullshit tbqh

>>14908153
If you live above the ground floor in a newer apartment and keep your windows closed, they don't get in much. It's the older, draftier places that really get invaded.

>>14908189
No. I always can't wait to get back home to the peace and quiet of the countryside.

>>14909441
People are very helpful and you can usually find your way by using various maps and asking around. Mugging really doesn't happen in Japan, especially in the country. There are public baths that cost one or two hundred yen to use. It's not hard to get around.

>>14909505
What did writing "tbqh" contribute to your post?

>>14908249
>>14908204
I have something that would allow me to do something similar.

However, I'd honestly prefer the squat toilet since squatting just feels very comfortable and natural to me. (I'm irish, not slavic)

>>14909779
Ugh! Just thinking about the bugs makes my skin crawl. But at least there is some solution to it. Not guarantee that you will be in a new apartment and not on the first floor.
>>14909783
Don't know if bullshit or not. I know there are people like this but on 4chan the chances are small.

>>14910664
Sometimes I want to move to the countryside and work from home but for now I'm saving up money to start a game company or just take it easier later in Tokyo

>>14910664
I too prefer the quiet and calm of the countryside. Might be because I grew up in a village, I'm not sure.
The only thing I like about living in a big city is the convenience of having shops/stores open at almost any given time.
Well, that, and exploring them during the night is nice.

>>14908188
I'm living in Singapore right now and every so often you find a squat toilet (like in old malls). I find it hard to use them since my legs start to hurt pretty quickly so I usually avoid them. They're also really dirty here because a lot of people just use them as one would a urinal, but maybe that wouldn't be a problem in Japan.

>>14910998
>I'm living in Singapore right now

You have my condolences

>>14910664
Not sure why it's hard to believe. I prefer solitude and greenery to crowds and gray concrete.

>>14910664
>on 4chan the chances are small
So you've never heard of /k/, /out/ or /trv/.

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>>14905672
I went to Japan last summer for a few weeks and for the past month or so I've really missed it and I desperately want to go back.

Pic related is from the trip

>>14908645
What a remarkably alpha experience. I tip my fedora to you. I couldn't deal with foraging around for food and sleeping on the streets. I like hotels and continental breakfasts.

>>14909505
You know people do these bike travels all the fucking time throughout even more dangerous countries than Japan, right? And muggling definitively happens sometimes:
http://www.chinasmack.com/2012/stories/japanese-man-cycling-globe-has-bike-stolen-in-wuhan-china.html

>>14902500
>The bugs are huge and super loud, like it kills you inside having to listen to that shit all the time

you should try coming to australia, the bugs will literally kill you

>>14910998
You must be the faggot who got banned on /jp/ using the 3G in my area

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Is this Japan?

>>14913715
Nah, too big

>>14913715
Japan belongs to a mild and humid climate zone so doesn’t have such bare hills.

>>14913715
Isn't that tacoland?

>>14913715
Looks like the Texas/mexico border region

>>14909844
It's not a post worth reading unless it includes a meme, you dip.

>>14918052
Wow man that's actually beautiful. Would almost make me want to live there if it wasn't for all the insects and the racism that would put southern US states to shame from the Japanese country people who will apparently literally look (stare) at you as if you were some weird monster with their mouth open.

>>14918052
This picture wasn't taken by someone from /jp/ right? It's too good looking to be.

>>14886904
me on the left

>>14912122
We'll go back someday, anon. Nice picture.

>>14922460
True. Japanese people tend ruin the experience a lot. If they'd just shut up and mind their own business, this country would be 400% better.

>>14923427
t. Ryan Boundless

>>14923442
Ryan hates Japan just to hate Japan. I don't hate Japan. I'm irritated by stupid people. If you weren't such a weeaboo you'd get that.

>>14913715
Could be South Dakota Badlands or tacoland.

>>14923644
rude

>>14923644
>I'm irritated by stupid people
The only way to get away from that on this Earth is by offing yourself. Go on, no need to thank me.

>>14910664

>Don't know if bullshit or not. I know there are people like this but on 4chan the chances are small.

Really? Given the choice I would much rather live in a small town where I have to deal with substantially less people and have more pleasant things around me like trees. I don't think that's an uncommon preference at all.

>>14886904
As a foreigner I would not want to be lynched so I would never invade their country. You should try Sweden which is very tolerant of outsiders.

This whole "all Japanese people hate foreigners with a burning passion" meme needs to end.

t. foreigner living a comfortable life in the Japanese countryside

Americans complaining about ethnocentrism and xenophobia
in the more homogeneous parts of Asia no less, where people have grown up without having Africans for mailmen, Middle Easterners for shopkeepers and Slavs for repairmen.
How comically typical.

It's like teens entering the adult world and finding out it isn't as rosy and things don't go their way like in the middle class bubble they've been raised in.

>>14924988
Yes but we're talking about people who live in Japanese countryside in real life, not through anime dating sim / visual novels like you.

>>14925124
I've never played either of those things, but I had the impression that they usually take place in Tokyo, not the countryside.

>>14925124
This.

>>14925209
A bit of the opposite.

People in Tokyo are a little more used to having foreigners or visitors around, where as people who have lived in the countryside all their life may keep staring at you from a distance.

To be fair to them, the only real source of their xenophobia is that foreigners might not follow their rules or be a nuisance in the community, as an extension of their response to an outsider.

Once you get to know them and make a conscious effort to keep in line, most aside from the really secluded ones tend to open up and be more hospitable than the urbanites.

There are also places which are simply friendly in general, like in Shikoku.

>>14925276
>There are also places which are simply friendly in general, like in Shikoku.
They're not really friendlier, they're just more desperate for attention because of being the number [last] for tourism of all Japanese islands. Not even the Japanese like Shikoku.

>>14925276
I get that foreigners are stared at - we're an oddity, it's understandable. But the notion that Japanese folk in the boonies outright hate anyone who isn't Japanese is just utter bullshit.

>>14925288
Have you ever been?
If so, you're completely disregarding the concept of お接待

Japan is a horrible country, come to China instead! So many friendly people here and much more beautiful nature and countryside!

>>14925968
No, I'll visit all the east Asian countries, including Vietnam and Mongolia.

>>14926046
racist gwailo pig

soon the great chinese dragon will invade america and conquer the world

>>14926054
>didn't realise by saying "visit all the east Asian countries" that included China too

>>14908122
Sapporo is about 5 or 6 hours by car. Train would take a really long time to Tokyo, flying is between 2 and 3 hours.

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>>14886904

The scenery is very beautiful and I'd like to visit again some time, maybe stay longer to meet the people too.

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>>14886904
my spouse's family lives in the countryside of western japan. i thought it would be lame as heck before i went but it was actually wonderful (although a bitch to get to)

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>>14926455
i'm going back in april and i'm so excited for the fresh air and sunrise over the mountains.

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>>14887585
do you miss big city life?
sure there is sapporo, but thats really no match for tokyo or osaka?

are there otakus in hokkaido?

>>14926455
>my spouse's family
Including your spouse, am I right.

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>>14886904
Oh absolutely.Though I live in the countryside myself.
It's a lot cleaner than my country's countryside and has more conveniences but that easy-going, nostalgic ambient is still there.
And the great food too.

>>14926222
Is that what I think it is?

>>14886904

Ok so i guess im a weeb, not really native to /jp/ but fuck cities, i wanna go to the japanese countryside so badly.

I love their architecture, and so want to see houses and temples made of wood. Fuck i guess i better start working on my japanese skills, because as i have heard the japanese non city folk have no clue about english. And to be fair, even the city folk know average english, even compared to my european 2nd language english.

>>14925276

Is that not how pretty much any society reacts to foreigners? Even here in slavlands, if you are someone who really stands out, you are going to need to show the people that you can integrate and follow the rules, and once they see that, they are going to be pretty damn friendly with you. Especially anywhere near the sea.

But then again, we slavs are much more buddy buddy with people but can be increadibly hot headed or "temperamental".

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>>14926568

It most certainly is!

>>14926568
Nope, that's where the local RR ("rural roricon" in case you don't know) keeps his trophies.

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I have some more photos, I'm sure everyone's seen these places before though.

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>>14926922

nerds

>>14926931
How do the shrine owners react to this?

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>>14925276
>friendly in general, like in Shikoku
this! shikoku people were super kind
some old ji-chan gave me a big bag of mikans

>>14926968
円円円円円円円円円円円円円円

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>>14886904

>>14926968
They didn't go full blast with welcoming otakus but are tolerating them, interestingly enough.
The rationale was that since Shirakara-go is now a pretty famous int'l tourist destination, they didn't want to invest in something that might not stick in a couple decades.

>>14886904
This shit looks too crowd for me.

>>14909441
yeah, it sounds mostly like bullshit.

Even in Murrica though, I've been traveling by rail for two years. Haven't been mugged yet. Most of it comes down to how streetwise you are... Then again, without speaking japanese, I don't you can be considered streetwise in Japan

>>14928135
Translation:


Chen Parachutes into Japan!
>"Someone nuke this shithole!"
>"Payback for Pearl Harbor ya gooks!"
>"Make America Great Again!"

No need to thank me.

>>14891625
I want to move right now ;_;

>>14929808
don't post emojis on /jp/

>>14891625
What do you do in jap land?

>>14926804
> And to be fair, even the city folk know average english

And with "average" you mean "absolutely abysmal" unless they are absolutely required to know English for their job.

The average European high school student speaks much better English than the Japanese city folk.

>>14930070
The typical English teaching deal. It's a nice gig, and I enjoy it.

>>14886904
It's probably the arrangement of the town.

>>14930077
>>14930080
It's Ryan again I see. Look how good the Japanese are actually at English.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-Z83LjbBxs

>>14930396
How hard is it to find a job like that in the first place? Are you a native speaker? I know there are options other than JET, but are they any good?

>>14931065
You don't have to be a native speaker if you're white and preferably blonde haired and preferably handsome. If you're blonde + white + handsome, you could probably teach English in Japan even if you're Ivan. Meanwhile, brown skinned native English speakers (say quintessentially English people who been living in the UK for three generations but are originally from Pakistan, like me) have it the hardest, especially when they're ugly (like me).

Being a JET is mainly about being social and attractive. Especially in rural areas where they know that English is literally worthless to them, you're mainly there to be the dancing monkey / entertainment / token gaijin. Something to stare at with your mouth wide open when they see you on the street and whom not to allow into all the bars that all the cool 50+ year olds (since no one else lives in rural areas) visit.

>>14931060
>good
I'm from a yurop country where English isn't the native language, and you'd be hard pressed to find people whose English is worse than the average Japanese city dweller's. The Japanese are somewhat okay at English TESTS, but they're not good at actually using the language at all. It's a fun video but it has nothing to do with what that anon said about communicating.
Being a Ryan has nothing to do with true statistics. The Japanese are worse at English than developed countries:
http://www.ef.nl/epi/
Keep in mind, this study is done with English tests, which the Japanese as I said are good at compared to their actual speaking and listening abilities.

Personally though, I'm glad. Traveling is more fun when you can't just depend on languages you're familiar with. I enjoy being able to practice my Japanese while I'm in Japan.

>>14931082
>>14931082
Well, fuck.
I am brown too, not ugly though, and not a native speaker although my English is good. Moreover, the JET isn't an option in my country (hasn't been for around 7-8 years now), so I was actually going to look for alternative options.
Am I doomed, senpai? Or are there still options?

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>>14912278
>muggling

>>14923427
>Japanese people tend ruin the experience a lot
Japan is what it is because of the Japanese. How retarded do you have to be believe this.
>If they'd shut up and mind...
Yea so it can become USA 2.0

>>14924875
>uncommon preference at all.
Yes that's why cities are more populated. How retarded do you have to be.

>>14931065
It's not too hard. The requirements (native speaker, prior experience, etc.) vary a bit depending on the organization, but in general you don't need to be a native speaker IF you can prove your English abilities via certification or something similar.

JET is widely considered to be the best option because of the salary and weight the name carries, but other options can be okay as well. I'm not with JET but a private company, and while there are a few things that I'm not completely satisfied with, it's not enough to turn me off of this incredibly rewarding job. Just do your research - see what the major complaints of each company are (there will undoubtedly be some regardless of how good the company actually is) and decide from there.

>>14931561
They're more populated because that's where the work is, dumbass. It often has nothing to do with the environs. Also it seems that you don't have any idea how the "not + (negative)" construction works.

Rural Japan has TWO threads!

>>14933563
Really? I had no idea there was one more. I hope you don't mean this >>14931964 since this is a dead thread compared to this.

I really hope Japan never learns english.
This way, stupid people from the outside would never be able to turn it into their multicultural shithole.

>>14934549
Sorry, /pol/ racist, but Japan is already multicultural and young Japanese people love Western culture and foreigners much more than their own culture and own people. Deal with it.

>>14934549
>I really hope Japan never becomes multicultural so I can move there with all my white weeb friends.

>>14934602
Anon said "never learns English" though. As much as they like the West and its ways they can't speak English very well, so he has a point.

>>14934782
Decades of U.S. occupation has kind of rendered that point moot. As >>14934602 has said, enough outside culture has been imported through the Japan-U.S. relationship to make Japanese society (particularly urban society) fairly multicultural, in the sense that Japan is thoroughly westernized.

>>14934535
If this thread is dead then the sachikp threads must be shambling undead

>>14935147
>If this thread is dead then the sachikp threads must be shambling undead
Wow, thanks for telling me, I thought the sachikp thread died already.

>>14896358
Shit son, I lived there for almost 2 years. Great location, close to all my favorite places and no where near Tokyo. I didn't like Tokyo.

>>14935276
>Great location
doesn't look so great from his photos

>>14935147
>fairly multicultural, in the sense that Japan is thoroughly westernized.
In that sense yes. You can' really say it's only westernised. It's a mixture of other cultures as well. Like Chinese, Korean, European (western). Even without the Japan-U.S. relationship, cultures are bound to mix. You can't stop globalization and especially with the internet it gets tough.
>inb4 China firewall
I just like it that Japan hasn't embraced full multiculturalism which comes with a mixing pot. I just see it as:
>Come enjoy our country and culture
>But please leave us alone.
Which I'am totally fine and support.

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>>14935401
>I just like it that Japan hasn't embraced full multiculturalism

Then why they aren't closing down JapanCupid and the like?

>>14935556
Because they aren't a dictatorship. Because it's an open market. And what you said has nothing to do with what I said.

Phew, posted it in the wrong tab.

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Brazilian here. I have lived both in big cities and in the countryside.
One of the things I most enjoy is wandering around at night, when everything is calm and silent. Sitting on a park bench, talking with a random old person.

But in Brazil I don't dare stepping out of home needlessly because violence is off the charts. Specially being white, my muggability is boosted enormously. Actually, even at home you're in danger of being robbed and all that shithole yadda yadda you're used to.

The countryside is (statistically) a bit more peaceful, sure, but don't you dare to walk alone anywhere past daytime. Daytime means scalding summertime, 365 days a year.

That's why I have romanticized Japan as the place I want to live in. Not because waifus or glorious matsuri. Not for the kanpais nor for the youkais.

I just want to live with no fear for my life and enjoy the outside world if I feel like it.
Even if I can find some place here and there in the Western world, it's generally just a shrine amidst burning chaos.
Japan is surrounded by water and has peace culturally ingrained in its society.

My mind is set. I will either spend the rest of my days inside this barbwire-fenced apartment or in Japan.
In the countryside, if I'm lucky. Wish me luck, jay.

>>14937486
>Brazilian here.
That was enough for me.

How do the Japanese countryside rednecks think about all the shinnichi gaijin living in their towns? Do they make fun of them trying to wear kimonos and kendo?

Anybody here gone WWOOFing? What's it like?

>>14935401
>But please leave us alone.
This attitude will fade to a pale shadow of itself once everyone who can remember the Showa era dies

>>14937486
Most of rural Canada is about as violent as Japan. Even urban centres like Ottawa are relatively safe as long as you stay out of the ghettos.

Japan is not unique in providing safety.

>>14938563
Canada's a lot colder than Japan, maybe he's factoring that in too

>>14901298

That's not how it works. Japan runs on a centralized clientialism-based economy. The countryside gets money no matter what.

Japan's nature is honestly pretty boring. It's not an ugly country, but you can see everything that Japan has to offer in terms of nature (or something extremely similar) in the US, and quite a lot more.

Except for maybe their stinky mountain. It wouldn't surprise me if we had a few sites like Mount Fuji in the US, but nobody is going to really travel to go visit it when they could head over to Zion or Yosemite instead.

If you visit Japan, you're going there for the culture.

/jp/ - sociology

>>14940125
rude

>>14938553
Hard to tell.

>>14937486
>Live in a free state
>It's pretty peaceful all around
>I can go out at day, or even at 2 AM and nobody bats an eye provided you're not being a fucking weirdo. I just walk my dog.
>get to enjoy the tranquil sounds of the night at parks and never have to fear being in any danger
>even if I were, I can pack heat and defend myself if need be

I only really wanted to live in Japan because I needed to for my career. Otherwise, I'm heading back home after I've spent the amount of time I need to stay here.

>>14940737
Is that guy right in making those assumptions?

>>14925288
>being the number [last] for tourism
Discounting the "Japanese Islands" part, I am pretty sure they do much better for tourism than, say, Western Tohoku.

>>14938631
I suppose. The first reason I don't go out at night at 2AM is because of the shitty weather.

(Bears are reason number two)

(FUCK bears. The most I'd have to deal with in Nihon is those murder hornets)

>>14911148
But isn't it supposed to be all developed and multiracial and shit?

>>14941091
>supposed to be all developed and multiracial
Having squat toilets doesn't make the country backwards.
>Typical American. Thinks the world revolves around them.
I guess the meme about American travellers is real.

>>14940737
What state? The fact you didn't name it makes me wonder.

>>14941619
Seeing how he said a free state, it's probably not California, Texas, NY, or Illinois

>>14925288
>They're not really friendlier, they're just more desperate for attention because of being the number [last] for tourism of all Japanese islands. Not even the Japanese like Shikoku.

Hey now, I want to do the Shikoku Pilgrimage someday.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shikoku_Pilgrimage

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>>14945214
I've been to some of those. It's nice. Shikoku is so great

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I live in the Japanese countryside. It's nice.

Here's a pic from a local soba restaurant up the road I just went to. It's a phone pic so apologies about the lights, but still. Comfy enough for you?

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Suppose I manage to break into the anime industry - will I necessarily have to live in the big city?
I would love to live in the countryside.

>>14948899
You can't, dirty gaijin. Go away

>>14948795
Looks nice. What did you order?

>>14948899
Why the fuck would you want to get into anime industry you damn weeaboo?

>>14949043
>>14949127
That is not the point, just suppose I managed to.

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>>14949099

Nishin soba. It's simple yet oh so good.

>>14949146
Man, I can almost taste it. Maybe I'll go out for some soba next weekend...
Enjoy the holiday tomorrow!

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>>14922937
It was taken by myself, thanks.

>>14949415
Doesn't prove anything, you could have just beaten up a poor jaypee and stolen his laptop. Or it's your laptop but your mom was the one who took the picture.

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>>14908645
It's always been my dream to go to japan and live like kintaro

>>14949415
Mind uploading it all for us (or me)? You can leave out the ones with you in it if you want.

>>14951115
勉強 勉強 勉強 勉強 勉強 勉強 勉強 勉強 勉強

>>14949415
>>14951734
Yes, please, anon. Upload them for us?

>>14953865
Rooster Island, you mean.

>>14951734
>>14954064
No problem. It's few GB in size so it will take a while to upload on my potato connection.
In the meantime, you can find few more here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ihniwimd

>>14931082
It's okay anon, you sound very cute. if I was a cute Japanese high schooler I'd let you tutor me on english after school and let our relationship quickly develop into nightly sex sessions where you plow your sweaty raw gaijin dick in my rice field and fill me up every night with your seed.

When I was in rural Japan, everyone thought I was Atsu-Giri-Jason-desu and wanted me to say his catchphrase.

>>14955440
THANKS!

>>14955534
They want all foreigners to say it regardless of nationality or race or sex.

>>14955440
I liked them, John Doe.

>>14932559
>They're more populated because that's where the work is
No. It's because countryside have no life. Nobody wants to have trees as friends. City folk often say they want peace and quiet, but that's only talk. In reality they want just a break like going to the countryside for holidays. Actually live there? No way in hell.

>>14957647
More than one week of 'peace and solitude' and they'll beg to return to the city.

I'd try JET but the thought of singing shit like "head shoulders knees and toes", "I'm a little teapot" etc. to grade schoolers sounds like a fate worse than death.

Guess I'll go for Big Eikaiwa.

>>14957863
What on earth makes you think you'll be doing anything different?

>>14957677
Dude, I've been living in "peace and solitude" in the countryside for the past 6 years and I love it. I hate going into the city.

I find myself more interesting in the trees than the people and buildings in these pictures.

>>14918052
>>14912122
Truly beautiful foliage. American trees seem so dull compared to these.

>>14957863
Weird, I'd thought that an average jaypee would love interacting with grade schoolers.

>>14958442
'Twas bait.

>>14958450
Where are you living, senpai? Since you've been there that long I assume the country folk are nice.

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>>14957585
>>14955440
As requested:
https://mega.nz/#!r9dgUSaD!21DgA9M-yV2Z2hQwKQdleFKR4Sh4qrt3iqwtUbTh7GQ
https://mega.nz/#!zpFXyApb!e22gBpfzCOqa7C78TXkBY5_75LYpiQx04bi9ReOTAo0
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https://mega.nz/#!ul12EZ4a!x9Jyq7tYYxfeZrtrqKrb1xcMZprSAgvK7x-lQhooPGU
https://mega.nz/#!a5l1yLAR!eglK1YlDCUPUvBlqbe1ko_XsBNHfd6DgwSXaoLYhS9c

All photos have geotags if you are wondering about exact location where a photo was taken

>>14959886
thanks fami

>>14948899
There was that one Euro animator/designer who worked on Space Dandy. Story I heard was he worked digitally from his home country.

Working from the Japanese countryside probably wouldn't be a problem as long as you're good, have recognition, doing something you can do from home, and have good Internet.

>>14939077
Guess you don't know about and have never been to the Nagano mountain ranges
Damn good snow slopes during the winter, pretty nice hiker-uppers in the summer

>>14960081
Oh, that's a nice way of thinking.

Also I wouldn't mind gaining some in-house credit first, moving to the country when it's more convenient.

>>14959830
Southern Japan. They're incredibly friendly and I live watching the scenery change with the seasons.

>>14959886
Thanks you.

>>14908645
>slept on the streets, on bus stop benches, in temples/shrines, or abandoned houses
I know this sort of thing has been done, but still can't bring myself to believe it.

>>14961111
How are you sustaining yourself?

>>14959886
Thanks a lot!

>>14964168
Zen Mastery.

>>14964168
Teaching English (typical, I know). But I enjoy it, and I've been somewhat interested in ESL for a while.

>>14965729
Last time I've been to Japan, no one spoke English.
You suck at your job.

>>14965740
Did you speak with a lot of junior high school and/or high school students?

>>14965729
>and I've been somewhat interested in ESL for a while
Can ESLs get this kind of job? I speak two other languages (but nippongo as a fourth is still on the way).

>>14965853
Depends on the company, but usually you can be hired if you have some sort of certification of your English ability.

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that feel when my rich friend is going to nihon and I can't afford it

>>14959886
second download link not working

Is there any walking in Japan comutryside video?

>>14908645
Man you are brave

>>14966071
>>>/r9k/

>>14965685
That elicited a chuckle

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>>14968238
works on my machine

>>14969167
tried again today, and its working now. :)

>>14970387
>:)

SCUM

TOKYO — A zebra that was on the loose on a Japanese golf course for hours has died after it was chased around by a dozen men including police officers, likely drowning after being shot by tranquilizer dart and plunging into a lake.

Police say the 2-year-old male zebra escaped late Tuesday from a horseback riding club. It had belonged to a farm in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan.

By Wednesday morning, it had wandered onto a nearby golf course in Gifu Prefecture, with TV news footage showing it zipping from hole to hole.

People were chasing the animal around the golf course, some holding lassos, trying to capture it, but with little luck. The animal would let them get close, then would dash off when they tried to rein it in.

It was shot with a tranquilizer dart, but then ran into a lake.

It was rescued within minutes, but its heart had stopped, and attempts to resuscitate it failed, said Takahiro Taniguchi of Tajimi police in Gifu.

Although the cause of death was unclear, it likely drowned, Taniguchi said. A veterinarian on scene said the zebra appeared to have drowned, he said.

“We pulled it out, but its heart had stopped,” he said.

>>14972234
Poor puppy.

>>14972234
those wacky japs LOL!

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>>14972234
Huh. I saw pic related from the twitter linked in >>14960563 that day and wondered what the deal was.

one day I will win the lottery and move to a comfy town in Hokkaido and open up a little bicycle shop

>>14973299
That's the dream, brother.

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>>14973714
the alternate version of that dream is to find a lonely Japanese christmas cake that will support me financially in exchange for companionship

somehow they both seem equally unlikely

>>14973786
Gaijin scum leave. After you impregnate she will kick you out. Only think you gaijin are good for is inseminating women, nothing more.

>>14973795
It's good that you recognize the superiority of the European genome, but don't worry, I'd assimilate much better into Japanese society than a Chinese or Korean immigrant.

>>14973803
are you kidding me? YOU'RE FUCKING A WHITE MALE

>>14975063
I identify myself as trans-japanese

Man, Japan is one backwards as fuck country.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LEW7vu8IHQ

Look at that shit. Outside of big cities like Tokyo, they literally have the electric cables OUTSIDE instead of under the ground where all 1st world countries have it.

>>14977782
I'm a trans-japanese pre-transition trans-girl

>>14968938
There are some by this guy, sometimes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbDdDxGm8Fs

>>14978425
Japan is developed not because it earns shit-tons of money, but mostly because they don't spend what they earn where it's not necessary. Unlike western countries that make absurd profits and spend it on making life comfortable, they earn just enough to keep the system in balance and put the rest towards business.

That's why their websites look like shit, houses are small and whatnot.

Which is pretty contradictory if you think about how much they spend by unnecessarily traveling around the world. You'd think with all that money they could at least afford to have living rooms or something.

>>14978464
>Japan is developed not because it earns shit-tons of money, but mostly because they don't spend what they earn where it's not necessary. Unlike western countries that make absurd profits and spend it on making life comfortable, they earn just enough to keep the system in balance and put the rest towards business.
>Earn just enough"

They work 12 hours a day then blow it on alcohol, pachinko and hostesses

>>14887585
Are you white? If so, do you experience any racism in Hokkaido at all?

>>14887585
Does Hokkaido have a shit ton of bugs? Have you felt any big earthquakes while staying there? What do you do for fun there?

>>14896358
Those houses look really western. Almost like downtown San Fran

>>14978638
All the time. Japanese are the most racist people on Earth, towards white people. No matter how long you lived in Japan, you always get the same questions that make you feel left out of Japanese society, that remind you that you don't belong - where are you from, what are you doing here, how long will you be staying here, etc.

Japanese really need some sensitivity training for this before the Olympics, or it's gonna be a huge fiasco. Japan needs to change its culture to be more Westernized or it will fade away.

>>14972234
Asians treat all animals like shit

>>14978543
That is not making life comfortable, it's making it less painful. It's like taking painkillers. It's a matter of survival (of the mind).

And I'm not speaking only about citizens, but companies and government as well. Everything is put towards achieving monthly goals.

>>14978660
Just like they treat foreigners. Fuckers need some PC training.

>>14978648
>>14978660
>>14978704
Please, no oversensitive vegetarians here.

>>14978648
>be me
>born in poland
>moved to UK at age of 10
>somehow failed to acquire accent (long story, but it's my fault)
>1st question people always ask is where you from
You just learn to live with it. You can't expect strangers to assume you have been living here since forever.

Didn't know Ryan browsed these threads

>>14978648
How innocent you are, thinking this is exclusive to Japanese people.

>>14978728
He's got a lot of free time now that he works only 3 hours a day and makes ends meet by living in a sharehouse helped to pay for with pateronbux.

>>14978734
Well ,the question was about Japanese people. It wouldnt make sense if he talked about racism in another country when it had nothing to do with the question.

>>14978739
He said they are the most racist people on earth. And constantly being reminded of your race and never being able to feel apart from it is a literally hundred years old concept. Google "double consciousness".

>>14978743
Yes, he didn't say that they were the only racist people on earth or that racism towards foreigners was exclusive to them

>>14978746
Thinking they're the best at it is a pretty ignorant remark.

>>14978464
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbDdDxGm8Fs

Thanks !

>>14978753
When you are all alone in another country and people treat you like that, I guess its understable to think otherwise.
Cheers...

>>14978758
Is it really worse than being an invisible nobody in your own country?

>>14978798
Not him but I'd argue yes because when you're invisible you don't worry about things beyond your control such as how others perceive you because of your race.

>>14978804
I think you have to be pretty beta to feel insecure about being white here

If anything it's the Japanese that are insecure when they see westerners

Anyway I was always a weirdo outsider in my own country so I can take anything

All that matters is I get paid well at the end of the month

>>14978648
But that other guy on this thread said they're nice.

>>14979214
he's just a weaboo, I'm giving you a taste of the reality dick here, BITCHES

>>14979214
What is your purpose in coming to Japan?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prNYOW0_kms

>>14978818
Personally, it's not so much insecurity as being in the public eye 24/7. I can't tell you the number of times I've had people whom I've never seen before talk to me and tell me that they know which stations I use, what days I go shopping, what time I come home, etc. Word travels fast enough in small towns; being non-Asian just makes you a much more public figure so your presence is known to just about everyone.

>>14979214
They are very sweet. They can also be ignorant as to how their comments can come across. They mean no harm whatsoever, they just genuinely don't know how to react to foreigners a lot of the time. It's almost as if their brains can't function normally when they see you.

Japanese countryside is the worst.

>>14980820
Care to expand?

We have now officially moved from "Japanese countryside is the best" to "Japanese countryside is the worst".

>>14980765
Spooky

>>14982091
Nah, it's still pretty great.

>>14926222
Why are dirt roads so damn comfy? I think it's because I grew up in a tiny American town in Vermont, and now I'm living in a small city with only paved roads.

I wanna hear the rocks and dirt crunch under my shoes so badly. Maybe even walk barefoot in the grass.

>>14983547
Enjoy having glass in your feet.

>>14984496
Shuddered

>>14979379
To try to figure my life out. I could do that anywhere, but Japan seems like the place to try doing it right now. I want to try living someplace where not everything is about the individual.

>>14984496
Eh, walk barefooted enough and you won't even notice. It won't look pretty of course.

last post for Ryan is the best, Japanese countryside is the worst

>>14986248
no

>>14986262
damn weyboo

>>14987468
Whose head is that?

>>14988758
I dunno. Some guy was sitting down there.