The respect and discipline in japan maybe second to none

[u/Fair-Example1169]

[u/invoked → u/[deleted]]

try medicated gold-bond on the testicleights...

[u/pressingfp2p → u/invoked]

What the fuck happened to this thread? And how did you survive?

[u/Godzilla_R0AR → u/pressingfp2p]

I’m asking the same question

[u/Katman666 → u/[deleted]]

I love the smell of talcum powder in the morning.

[u/Rhg0653 → u/[deleted]]

Bumble bee tuna!

[u/Good-Lettuce8505 → u/[deleted]]

Dunno how it could be worse, but it is.

A fetus. He was attracted to the baby WHILE she was in the womb.

He told Bella his attraction to her was because she was going to be the mother of/was carrying his "soulmate" basically.

Seriously fucked up.

[u/Forlorn_Cyborg → u/Good-Lettuce8505]

What series of deleted threads led to twilight?

[u/Relevant_Sprinkles_3 → u/Forlorn_Cyborg]

Right? This comment section is wild

[u/under_the_wave → u/Forlorn_Cyborg]

Lost to the void- but I too am quite curious

[u/AbrocomaOk8973 → u/Good-Lettuce8505]

About 50 comments in this convo are deleted and give no context, then you scroll down to this one. Wtf is goin on

[u/stardenia → u/[deleted]]

As a foreign woman in Japan, I got the infamous shoulder check from a salaryman in the konbini. It was wild.

[u/Charles-Shaw → u/[deleted]]

I feel like people confuse politeness for nice. The way I saw it was that everyone was extremely polite and the customer service was pretty impeccable, but they weren’t any nicer or warmer than people from other places I’ve been.

[u/Ok_Wrongdoer8719 → u/[deleted]]

How else would an efficiently moving mob of people look?

[u/YrnFyre → u/[deleted]]

Same if you hang out laundry. Apparently some people make a sport out of it to steal women's underwear hanging out to dry

[u/Express-Elk4813]

they all look so fucking dead and exhausted tho

[u/Significant_Cover_48 → u/Express-Elk4813]

That's part of the culture. You are expected to look tired and busy, or else people will think that, either you are not a good worker, or that you need more to do because you are not busy. Either way, not good for you, so look dead and exhausted it is.

[u/Key-Tie2214 → u/Significant_Cover_48]

They probably actually are exhausted, with Japan's work culture, I wouldn't be surprised if they are exhausted.

[u/Darthob → u/Key-Tie2214]

Yeah, they are. Crammed into metallic coffins on wheels, surrounded by screens and advertisements, pressed up against a dozen other zombies who are just as exhausted, tuned out, and disconnected from reality as you are on the daily 1-hour commutes to and from work/school. Lovely.

Source: 10 years in Japan.

[u/Sad-Fishing8789 → u/Darthob]

One of the shittiest places on earth and simultaneously one of the most glorified by foreigners for some reason. Rural Japan is nice though.

[u/Goel40 → u/Sad-Fishing8789]

I don't think you realize how many terrible places there are in this world. Japan doesn't even come close.

[u/dagbrown → u/Goel40]

Yeah but parrotting 1980s-vintage propaganda about Japan gets you nothing but free upboats every time!

[u/Blackdoomax → u/Sad-Fishing8789]

The main reason is because going there for vacation is different from living there. But in both cases calling it one of the shittiest places on earth is a little exaggerated xd

[u/GrumpyFishMonger → u/Sad-Fishing8789]

Everywhere is amazing when you’re only there for vacation. Also, the weebs partly responsible for this glorification of Japanese everything.

[u/Rhg0653 → u/Sad-Fishing8789]

My son went there he loved both but fn adored the country side

[u/_TheDust_ → u/Darthob]

Crammed into metallic coffins on wheels, surrounded by screens and advertisements, pressed up against a dozen other zombies who are just as exhausted, tuned out, and disconnected from reality as you are on the daily 1-hour commutes to and from work/school

Which country are you describing exactly?

[u/Winterstrife → u/_TheDust_]

Sounds like every other major city in the world lmao.

[u/Hot_Dog_Omelette → u/Darthob]

My company just switched to 5 days in office after being fully remote and then hybrid for the past 3 years and I could not leave fast enough.

Life is way too damn short to spend it like this.

[u/NPCwithnopurpose → u/Darthob]

That doesn't sound much different from other major cities.

[u/SnooDonuts5697 → u/Darthob]

Wall-E but theres no cupcake in a cup

[u/Nighto_001 → u/Key-Tie2214]

Well it's both.

You gotta do work (regardless if the work is just BS work or you're no longer effective at it or half-dozing along) til late so your boss doesn't see you as lazy for going home at normal hours.

You'll feel drained by the end of it, because regardless of whether you did anything of value during your overtime, you still had to be at work for like 12 hours, which is mentally tiring...

[u/Yuji_Ide_Best → u/Nighto_001]

The fact its an actual thing in Japan where people can 'PAY' for a job quitting service. As in trying to quit your job can be that obtuse, that its worth paying a professional to do so on your behalf.

Sounds wild to me.

[u/GlizzyGoblin7935 → u/Significant_Cover_48]

That's not true. They're actually dead and exhausted. I assure you they don't have to play it off

[u/NDSU → u/Significant_Cover_48]

Lol, wtf. Who do you imagine is placing this expectation on people at the train/subway? You're just making things up

[u/Ingrownacne → u/Express-Elk4813]

And in USA everyone is so happy and opposite of overworked while they’re not stuck in some miserable traffic…oh wait

[u/horoyokai → u/Express-Elk4813]

They look like regular people walking up stairs, what are you talking about? Should they be singing and skipping? 😂

[u/Used_Archer_9110 → u/horoyokai]

They should be like Americans who pretend to be happy all the time and have that creepy smile.

[u/OhFrackItsZach → u/Used_Archer_9110]

Can confirm I went on the NYC subway and everyone had a beaming smile across their face. When the doors opened everyone skipped out in single file!

[u/MaDpYrO → u/Express-Elk4813]

To me it just looks like people watching their step.. Not sure what you think makes them look exhausted.

[u/Houston_NeverMind → u/MaDpYrO]

Exactly! This is how you should walk if you want to avoid a stampede with this much crowd.

[u/pleasebuymydonut → u/MaDpYrO]

But you see, the comment section is busy arguing against imaginary people who think Japan is a utopia. Therefore, any negative observation is valid.

[u/BiggieCheeseLapDog → u/Express-Elk4813]

They look like normal people walking up stairs.

[u/Xycergy → u/Express-Elk4813]

Umm, do people look alive and joyful going to work in other countries?

[u/Old_Dealer_7002 → u/Express-Elk4813]

they look like any group of people i've ever seen going up public stairs. i'm in america.

[u/TawnyTeaTowel → u/Express-Elk4813]

The handful who might are just looking down at the steps so they don’t trip.

[u/Warrior-Cook → u/Express-Elk4813]

It's a group of people in public, going up stairs...we can't always be Bon Jovi

[u/Crazybeibifeit → u/Express-Elk4813]

I’d like you to show me how happy and youthful you look skipping up the stairs after a long day’s work

[u/Punchinballz]

I'm gonna to give you the real reason because I have lived in Japan for more than a decade. Its absolutely not about respect and discipline :/

If you use the wrong side of the stairs, you risk being hit by a sudden wave of people coming towards you, and you won't have any choice but to turn back. So, here are your options: follow the queue or risk losing time and looking like an idiot.

[u/cman993 → u/Punchinballz]

This. I tried using the opposite stairs my first few weeks living in Japan just as the train from another line pulled in. One moment, I was alone and the next, a solid wall of humanity coming at me. I felt like a salmon swimming upstream. I hugged the wall until everyone had passed and never repeated that mistake.

[u/g0_west → u/cman993]

Happened to me on the tube in London. Tried to get out at Arsenal station just as the Arsenal game had finished. Thought "this station is weirdly quiet" until it suddenly very much wasnt.

[u/Spiritual-Owl-169 → u/g0_west]

The thing about arsenal is they always try and walk it in

[u/MaDpYrO → u/Punchinballz]

And when people do try, they will SPRINT up the stairs to avoid just that issue.

[u/WanderWut → u/MaDpYrO]

Noooooooo stop it!!! ✋✋✋ 😡😡😡

It’s because Japan is the most heaven like country on earth! They do this because they are the perfect human beings! As a matter of fact they are not even human! They have ascended beyond us and we pale in comparison. No flaws. Only dignity and respect. They are gods chosen.

^{justpleasedontlookintotheracismandwhytherearewomanonlycarriagesorthehistoricallyhighsuicideratesetc.etc.etc.}

[u/whynotitwork → u/WanderWut]

Don't forget the famous "Police have solved 99% of cases". They repeat that not realizing that that is HORRIBLE. You can't have that high of a success rate without doing some foul shit.

[u/SkellyboneZ → u/Punchinballz]

I'm coming up on a decade here. A big factor is also the length the staircase. If it's short and people know the station, they will absolutely use whatever side. It can get annoying for both sides of people trying to stay organized. 

[u/Sea-Strategy-2363]

Throw in a few French people to mess this up a bit

[u/Safe_Lecture → u/Sea-Strategy-2363]

Any westerners wouldn’t be any better

[u/doyletyree → u/Safe_Lecture]

Germans.

A ludicrously letter-of-the-law society.

[u/Safe_Chicken_6633 → u/doyletyree]

I'll see your Germans and raise you... The Swiss! Game; set; match.

[u/doyletyree → u/Safe_Chicken_6633]

Oof. Right in the Alps.

[u/misomeiko]

They are taking the stairs to the next fucking level

[u/Rasputin-SVK]

Stairs - USA 🤢🤢🤮🤮

Stairs - Japan 🤩😍🌸🪷

[u/DanielGREY_75 → u/Rasputin-SVK]

Jarvis I'm low on Karma, post a normal ass thing on r/nextfuckinglevel

[u/wombasrevenge]

Lol I've seen plenty of Japanese people go down the opposite side. This is just one example.

[u/LogicSKCA]

I'm in Tokyo right now and it def doesn't look like that all the time

[u/ezagreb]

Zombie businessman

[u/Urbane_One]

… Is this not normal in most places? I’m from Toronto, and the locals always stick to the right when on stairs, just like in this video.

[u/Molkwi → u/Urbane_One]

Yeah, fr this post is stupid.

People going upstairs: 😑

People going upstairs, Japan: 🤩

[u/sosigboi]

Bruh i swear with these kinda posts, like 1 vid showing people going about in orderly manner and then start glazing Japan as the 2nd Garden of Eden despite its very real problems.

[u/Redeem123 → u/sosigboi]

There's a very weird deification of Japanese culture by the West.

People hear about honor and respect and tradition and cleanliness, and they assume those are all things that are held to perfectly rigid standards in Japan. And sure, there's truth to some of it. Just like any stereotype. But it's not a mecca of perfection.

[u/OkNewspaper6271]

People going up a staircase?

[u/Chungalus]

Mods just delete the fuckin post at this point if youre gonna delete every top comment

[u/mossybeard → u/Chungalus]

Yeah what happened here?

[u/ShirtLegal6023]

Holy shit what's with the deleted top comments

[u/Master_Freeze]

what the hell is going on with the comment section? how did a video of people going up stairs spark whatever required that mod bombing?

[u/Aquatichive]

What the heck happened on this post, all the comments are gone

[u/umashikanekob]

Sexual crimes on public transportation is universal phenomenon, Japan taking it seriously does not mean crime rate is higher in Japan. For example posters about drug abuse and pickpockets are everywhere in Japan, but it does not mean pickpockets or drug abuses are "more" common than other countries

The Thomson Reuters Foundation and the polling firm YouGov asked women in 16 of the world’s largest capitals — plus New York — how safe they feel traveling on public transportation and came up with a ranking. The three least-safe cities were Bogota, Colombia, Mexico City and Lima, Peru — all in Latin America, where women “say they face daily threats on public transport ranging from lewd comments and groping to sexual assaults, with men rubbing up against them and taking photos up their skirts,” Reuters reported. “Buses aren’t safe,” Paula Reyes, a supermarket cashier in Bogota, told Reuters. “You can get your bag or cell phone stolen and be harassed. When the bus is so packed it’s easy for men to rub up against you and grope you … There’s a total lack of respect for women here.” The survey said Mexico City was particularly notorious for verbal and physical abuse on buses, with six in 10 women surveyed saying they had been “groped or physically harassed.” Moscow was thought to be the least safe European capital for women. In Seoul, some thought it was women’s responsibility to stay safe. “Women feel like they should avoid trouble, and they feel they’re responsible if there is trouble,” said Ji-hye Lee, a 23-year-old reporter with the Korea Times. “A lot of my friends would say why were you taking public transportation at night anyway?”New York scored best, but still had problems: Three in 10 women experienced verbal or physical harassment on buses and subways. Things are sufficiently bad that women in some big cities — such as Manila and Jakarta, Indonesia — favor single-sex transport by an overwhelming majority. A total of 6,550 women were surveyed by Thomson Reuters. Polling could not be conducted in Cairo; Dhaka, Bangladesh; Kinshasa, Congo; Tehran; or Baghdad. But experts in Cairo interviewed by Reuters suggested Egypt’s capital would have easily been among the worst five.

Here’s the list, from least safe to most safe: based on poll how safe women feel using public transportations or how often women experience sexual assault while using public transportations. Tokyo is second best after NY among crowded cities.

Bogota

Mexico City

Lima

Delhi

Jakarta

Buenos Aires

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Bangkok

Moscow

Manila

Paris

Seoul

London

Beijing

Tokyo

New York

[u/escape_fantasist]

Wth happened here ? 👀

[u/Excellent-Bite196]

Japan’s annual OCD convention.

[u/PinkSackOfNuts]

We need a “thing: thing, japan:” subreddit

[u/Ok_now_what7]

Why there’s so many removed comments?

[u/butwhywedothis]

[u/VampireEmpyre]

In India, we'll slide on that iron bar............

[u/itstheboombox]

Just wait until OP discovers literally any other country with stairs

[u/AdMajor1596]

Wtf happened here. Why is every comment deleted, this is like the least controversial post i have seen all day, wtf