Would you live in Japan?
>>25090290
I'd live in your hand
>>25090290
it's not actually like muh animes though
I have a sinking feeling that I'd be unhappy no matter where I lived really
If you took the flag of my country and made a cone with it, it would look like the flag of Japan.
>>25090290
No; I would feel out of place and unwelcome.
From what I know about it, it seems near dystopian.
Go to the most depressing, suicide inducing nation on earth? No thanks.
i really don't like asians, i don't like their cultures, i don't like their food, and i don't enjoy their media
so no, i'd probably hate living in japan.
>>25090290
I have for almost ten years now.
Great place.
>>25090290
to become a gaijin giggolo and whore off my white cock to all the lonely nihonjin office ladies?
>>25090449
Any stories?
im an insufferable weeaboo fag and want to but luckily im too lazy to ever make it happen
Probably not. I visited and it was alright but I don't think I'd want to live there.
>>25090467
The 3/11 quake was the worst thing ever, but people are orderly, so I still had my fair share of food and water.
Learn Japanese, be polite and kind, and you'll probably do well. Got married this year too.
>>25090290
Jesus fuck what's with you fags idolizing Japan?
It's just another fucking country and it's definetely NOT like your japanese animes.
>>25090443
Where would you rather live?
>>25090290
My delusions say yes. The rest of me says fuck no it'd be worse than here
>>25090525
but they have cute girls who do cute things
>>25090449
How do I learn Japanese? I know Hiragana and Katakana now but I am stuck on Kanji. I don't know how to look up what they mean. I need some kind of japanese-english dictionary that says the definition in both japanese and english. But how do you look up kanji character in a dictionary? what kind of logical order is used?
>>25090538
a tropical island with no one on it
>>25090290
If it was like an anime then yeah. In real life I don't like their culture. Not in an offensive way. That's just not my lifestyle.
Before you faggot weebs get all uppity, yes I actually have been there.
>>25090290
Only if I were independently wealthy. But then if I were independently wealthy there are a lot of places I would be happy to live.
The xenophobia would be a real problem. Considering that even westerners that have been living there 30 years and speak with true fluency are still not accepted as true members of society... I'd be happy to visit and live there for extended periods, but no more than that.
>>25090589
usually they're organized by radicals and stroke count/order
the only way to learn it is to beat them into your head with brute-force repetition. you gotta spend hours with flash cards and write each character a few hundred times
>>25090625
These radicals, they are different small elements or strokes that make up the kanji character right? Do those give some clue as to the pronunciation of the kanji character?
I do live in Japan.
It's okay, I guess. People overrate it.
But OP,I live in Japan.
I also have a qt jp gf.
one word:
SEXBOTS
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X
B
O
T
S
>>25090669
Meaning, yes, pronunciation, occasionally but not really, if I remember right
>>25090624
Are you an accepted member of society in your own country? If you post here, probably not. Japanese xenophobia is usually kept on a private level these days. You don't experience it much unless you go to an area full of foreigners who do crime and ignore social customs. I.E. Tokyo.
>>25090290
No because I don't speak a lick of Japanese.
>>25090392
You're thinking of Finland.
>>25090625
Chinese is obviously very similar. For those looking to learn either language, I guess you can take comfort in the fact that even native speakers had to spend a huge amount of time and effort learning to write.
It was funny, we asked my Chinese coworkers in the office if they could remember how to write the character for 'sneeze' and no one could remember of the top of their heads.
Only if i didnt need to work there.
>>25090705
True. What bothers me isn't dumbass foreigners not respecting local customs who get what they deserve in scorn, it's the quiet distance of perfectly good and polite people who deep down would never accept you. This isn't unique to Japan, but in Japan's case it's certainly stronger than most. The thought, not how they express it.
>>25090709
Kanji IS Chinese, dummy. It's characters borrowed from China when the Buddhists came.
Japanese use about 4,000 kanji while the Chinese use something like 9,000. Japanese mix in Hiragana and Katakana, which I believe is derived from Kanji as well.
>>25090749
Thus the 'obviously'. Please try not to assume everyone online is disagreeing with you.
>>25090749
You can get by just fine with 2,000 kanji while Chinese needs 4,000. But I read somewhere that Chinese is easier to read because characters are only ever read one way and only ever mean one thing.
>>25090745
I live in Japan (as a student) and despite always being known as "the Foreigner" the people have been very kind, polite, and even friendly. Old folk say hello to me in the street and bow their heads. Tons of young people love talking to me. As long as you're not a G.I. or an English teacher you will have a good reception with communities. This is outside of Tokyo, btw. My area has few other foreigners.
>>25090592
Why haven't you worked towards it?
>>25090589
There's no way around effort, you need to put the time in and push yourself. I found it got easier around 500 kanji or so.
Also, don't just socalize with just other foreigners, and do mundane chores yourself.
>>25090766
I'm not that guy who you responded to, bruh.
>>25090784
Japanese Kanji sometimes has one, or sometimes has more meanings. A lot of it has to do with combinations.
>>25090784
Nope. One character can have more than one meaning.
>>25090589
You can look up kanji by drawing them on jisho.org among other web sites.
I'm just learning myself so just sharing my limited experience/sense of it (big grain of salt etc) but the most commonly suggested routes I've seen are Heisig's Remembering the Kanji which basically teaches you how to recognize all ~2000 joyo kanji via mnemonic tricks. Though it doesn't provide you readings and full definitions (just "keywords" which basically amount to a single "memorable" definition) the argument is that the full information for every kanji is way too much to study and memorize and you're better off learning to recognize them so you can then more easily figure out how they work in real-world use cases
Alternatively, it's really tiring to just memorize character after character without actually learning how the language works, lots of people want a more integrated approach or burn out on this and I was one of the latter. I'm working through the Genki books which introduce relevant kanji lesson-by-lesson along with grammar etc.
It may well be the case that none of this is new or helpful information, just rambling haha
>>25090290
No. I'm socially incompetent and devoid of willpower and drive.
I can tell you right now, that moving to a foreign country period, even some shitty Balkan middle of nowhere country, requires that you are at least human with average neuro-chemical makeup. That is to say, not a jaded piece of shit, in order to integrate into society in at least the minimum capacity needed to survive, learn the language etc.
People are not confrontational where i am, and on average couldn't give less of a fuck about me. Now imagine being this sort of person, which is probably the average r9k poster, and seeing your survival tier needs more than doubled, and on top living among very confrontational and hard to get along with people.
Your chances at not getting stigmatized and catching shit every time you go out for a walk are nil, much less having basic amicable social contact.
The question should be:
Would you like to be japanese?
>>25090513
Go home gaijin
>>25090290
Live? No.
Vacation for 1 - 2 months? Yes.
I'd be a little nervous about people reading my minds all the time everywhere I go. Either that, or completely get used to it.
>>25090589
if you find them in text you can copy-paste them into google translate
>>25090290
bad relationship between foreigner and resident. I would visit but would not live there just for the culture shock thing and for some exploration. but since I am going to be a foreigner forever there and treated like a stranger no matter how I try to blend in. I wouldn't live on this country but, being forever stuck in french Canada still suck balls when you're not completely white.
>no longer considered a manlet
>no longer considered to have small dick
>no interest in anime makes me manlier than 90% of male population
Seems like a good deal
>>25090330
what country
try and mute me moot
>>25090290
I look asian so i would fit right in, also dont have to wait for translations for less known series so of course ill go.
>>25090392
If suicide rates, Japan doesn't match to N. and S. Korea.
>literally the only country besides burgerland that isn't kukked trash at this point
Of course
>>25090290
Of course. For travel, culture, food, chinks, a good hot bath and fax machines.
>>25091570
it's obviously poland or indonesia, stupid
>>25090692
>THIS
4th gen onaholes
Let's see...
>manlet
>nonwhite spic
>don't speak Japanese
So in other words, I can't communicate, and don't get the halo effect that tall white foreigners do
So
NO
>>25090749
What a fucktarded system.
>>25090791
You know they are lying through their teeth to you right? You're a circus sideshow to them.
>>25091904
Is there a twist and it IS his neighbor?
yeah, anime and vidya aside, I really enjoy the culture
>everyone will treat you like a freak
they already do here, I'd just have an excuse, plus it'd be neat to get used to another culture. I know it won't be a magical dreamland but it'd be an adventure
Sure but I'm poor and ugly despite being white so I don't think it would help with women.
>>25090392
That's the US though
>>25090290
To be honest, I'd be up for moving to another country.
I've been saving a little for the past few years actually to do just that. Do an Irish goodbye, seeing as nobody cares for me. What's a good place to go in this day and age?
>>25090290
If jap companies would pay me higher, yes.
>>25090290
Their economy is just as bad as ours.
>>25093094
>Is there a twist and it IS his neighbor?
No twist, she's a sexbot.
Another sexbot manga.
>>25093156
Japan has almost double the suicide rate that the US has
19.4 per 100,000 vs. 10.1
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/suiciderate.html
Also their job hours are off the charts
I want to die in a forest somewhere in japan
It's hard to say unless I actually lived there, a lot of weebs seem to get disillusioned after a while but I think its because they don't expect it. I've heard a lot of stuff that suggests I'd like it for a visit maybe stay for a few years but then things would get on my nerves such as always been seen as "Gaijin", the language barrier and the 'everybody is happy, no complaints' would grate on me after a while.
>>25091904
Source on this?
24231412
>>25090290
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2FGgYp6mdk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uC4AUyju7k
reminder that the nips hate you and they want all filthy gaijins out of there country
>>25090525
>being on 4chan
>not being a weeb
Kinda weird man
eh, I like the country, and not just because I'm an insufferable weeaboo faggot. Hokkaido is basically my ideal climate, rarely too hot, not obscenely cold, and I fucking love snow.
Lots of other reasons too.
But >>25093455 would also concern me, plus the job hours, among other things
It doesn't matter though, I'm way too fucking lazy to learn japanese, even with most of the media I consume now being in that shit language
>>25090290
Why are people so insistent that Japan is nothing like anime?
I've been a bunch of times and it always feels bizarrely familiar because, obviously, anime is set in Japan. It feels like you've seen everything before even when you haven't, so many aspects of the place are very recognizable. People don't act like over the top, exaggerated characters of course, but if you watch more realistic series and read manga it isn't so jarring.
And honestly, it's a pretty great place to be if you're into that sort of thing. You'll always run into anime merch (gatchapon at the very least), there's a lot of cute characters advertising things, manga is huge, etc. The novelty might wear off but people are too quick to dismiss the idea of enjoying Japan because you enjoy anime.
>>25093835
Fortunately I live in NZ and we have a good climate and we're isolated like them but we don't have an interesting culture. I don't think you need to know Japanese there and I'm learning more or less because video game localization is fucking terrible.
as long as I could live alone in a place like this
>>25094023
yeah, NZ sounds like a pretty neat place to live. But desu I'd probably prefer some place in europe like norway or somewhere in the alps region.
>I've done research on all sorts of places I'd love to live but I'm a faggot robot who will never put work into anything and will be living in my parent's basement for the rest of my life
fuck me desu senpai
>>25093545
http://g.e-hentai.org/g/575311/a96eba1e37/
yes, instantly.
yes of course
i plan on moving there after college
I want to live in a cross between Japan and America where you have both the comfiness of Japan and the personal freedoms of America
I got a job offer in Japan about a year ago. I turned it down because my relationship wouldn't work if I had have went (8 years relationship, mind).
I sometimes wonder if I made the right decision
>>25095874
Thissounds like a dream.
>>25095943
what was the job?
also are you still with that girl?
>>25095874
hawaii my friend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uC4AUyju7k
>>25090290
>>25090313
This. Japan is actually a shithole. No matter where you go, things will never get better and may even get worse.
>>25097309
incorrect opinion
Been there often, fluent speaker and freelance translator. Keep in mind, I'm an anime fan.
I would not. There are too many logistical factors at play that cripple your experience there as a foreigner. I love the country to death; I just booked tickets for another visit but, I wouldn't be at all happy with living there.
>>25093631
Fucking kek.
Trust me the people on here are way too delusional because of Anime to ever realize that
Just let them have their fantasy. It would be great if they actually move to Japan and then simply suicide after confronting reality.
>>25090290
Already doing it, teaching English near Osaka.
Already banged two girls :)
>>25098140
>teaching English
>>25098200
>Shaping the future of Japan,
>motivating young Japanese qts to learn English
>one day robots will have Japanese waifus who can speak english because of my efforts
you should be thanking me
>>25099744
Literally a trash tier job for failures
>"teaching" English
>no actual teaching credential
>>25100178
>Getting paid stupid amounts of money to tell kids how to say apple
>24/7 vacation on top of that
>Learn a new language yourself
>oh hey, you know how to speak gook? Let me hire you for our foreign relations team
Wooooowwwwww
>>25100178
Actually I do have credentials.Why so spiteful?
>>25090290
I'd love to live in Japan if I had a really nice job there. Tokyo would be preferred but I'd settle for Osaka or a smaller place.
I'd like to visit and go shopping there as a holiday treat. I don't know if I'd want to live there, though. It would probably be very lonely andI'm blackso I wouldn't feel comfortable being stared at all the time. I've also heard that some Japanese people tend to touch our hair without permission because it's so unusual to them. I know I wouldn't like that either even if they were being friendly.
It'd be a good way to brush up on my language skills though. I'd love to learn another language like Japanese but it seems quite complicated.
>>25090449
HWHITE PIGGU GO HOEM
>>25096437
Teaching English, and yes
>>25097420
"logistical factors"?
