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I am very interested in japan and Japanese culture. I've always wondered what life was like in japan.... I want to meet a few jpop stars as well. To visit Glorious Nippon is a life-long dream for me.
Any ways am I the only person here that feels this way. Any one else want to move to Glorious Nippon
 
Finally something new.

Yes, I want to go there, specially during Spring to see all the pink beautiful cherry trees blossoming. I also want to know Seich-No-Ie's headquarters and Nintendo (and ̶C̶r̶a̶p̶c̶o̶m̶ Capcom, just to destroy that place :grin:).

The japanese guys I want to know are from the JAM Project. I don't really need to go there to see them, since they travel the whole world, specially Hironobu Kageyama.

I also want to know the actors Junichi Haruta and Hikaru Kurosaki.
 
I always wanted to go to japan... but probably for very different reasons than you guys. They have a style of tattooing there in which they use a pointed stick made of bamboo, and gently hammer it into your skin to create the image. I forget what style its called but all I know is that it takes a very long time, and its very painful...
 
i think i'm one of the few people on the internet who doesn't have a fascination with japan and japanese culture. i just don't see the attraction at all, it just strikes me as being weird for the sake of being weird, and i've already seen enough of david lynch to last me a lifetime.
 
I would like to go because I think the culture would be completely different to the culture in Australia, it would be interesting to see, but it's definitely not one of my top places to go. There are tonnes of other places I'd rather go before I even considered Japan but if I'd won a trip there or something I'd be more than happy with that haha.
 
The most I would do is go for a visit. Like any regular holiday abroad. I wouldn't want to live there for a variety of sensible reasons:

1) I don't actually know the language. This is Japan, not Singapore, where your English would serve you well there. It's kind of hard to live somewhere where you have virtually no clue of the language, you know. Not that I've tried, but this is usually the case. Random, decontextualised words or phrases I've plucked from games and anime aren't going to save my hide, you know.

2) I'm not too keen yet on totally leaving everyone I know behind to go to a foreign country where I will likely be totally lost and confused in.

3) I am sane enough to rein in what enthusiasm and interest I have for Japanese culture. And I'm able to realise that realistically, your idealistic and picturesque dream of being in the middle of all that wonderful otaku culture and techie goodness nearly every day of the week won't happen. It's just a geek's wet dream at an anime convention.

4) And on that note, there are elements of Japanese culture that frighten me. And there are elements that are still very deeply-rooted in sexism. And they still like to do some whaling in the Pacific, which clearly I have issues with.

5) I don't want to live in a place that is right on a fault zone that is very susceptible to earthquakes. I don't like my natural disasters that much.

6) Bugger if I know what I can do in Japan for a living. Unless I'm ever lucky enough to land a place in a multinational corporation that has an arm in Japan. Otherwise, how many domestic businesses would consider an outsider who doesn't know the language?

7) I don't know where I would want to live. Most would picture Tokyo, but the crowds, the claustrophobia and the carnage of traffic turn me off. Plus I can't imagine the standard of living being cheap. At all.

8) Not too sold on the food.
 
I used to really want to visit Tokyo. The culture and how different things were there were what really made me want to go there. How bright the city was and how the culture seemed so busy yet laid back at the same time :ohoho:

That was until the thing at the nuclear power plant...it completely killed the idea of it for me. I couldn't ever have a vacation without worrying about the risk of radiation. I'm not entirely sure how safe it would be just being in the city itself (Tokyo that is) but they are really questioning the food and water there now: http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/10/world/asia/japan-tokyo-radiation-food/index.html so to me its just really not worth it :lew:

I hope it's worth it for you for the chance to meet Gackt-sama :wacky:

 
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i think i'm one of the few people on the internet who doesn't have a fascination with japan and japanese culture. i just don't see the attraction at all, it just strikes me as being weird for the sake of being weird, and i've already seen enough of david lynch to last me a lifetime.
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The weird for the sake of being weird thing reminds me of a video I saw recently.


Apparently this is an up and coming trend in Japan. I can't see any valid reason for someone doing this besides just wanting to be weird and different. It looks ridiculous.

I went through a phase when I was younger when I was really interested in Samurai culture. That's about as far as my interest went. I wouldn't really want to live there. I would entertain the idea of visiting if I had a lot of money but at this point, there are quite a few places I'd visit before Japan.

I do have a set of Samurai swords but that's just because I like swords and collect them.
 
I wouldn't mind visiting rural Japan to see fields and blossom trees and the simpler side to Japanese culture, but Tokyo doesn't interest me. I find Birmingham and London hectic enough; I cannot imagine enjoying a huge, busy city filled with glaring lights.

My reasons for not wanting to visit are kinda similar to the reasons Fleur gave for not wanting to live there:
  1. I don't want to visit an area which experiences a lot of natural disasters. I would be absolutely terrified of getting caught in one. :/
  2. I don't trust the food. :ahmed: If I can stay with a family who know the food well and will make me vegetarian dishes, cool, but that's not likely to happen. :lew:
  3. It's incredibly expensive, both to travel there and to stay there, and I'd rather visit New Zealand and Australia (where I have close friends) first. I would also rather tour Europe and see all of the cultures in Europe! :grin: And visit Africa to teach in a school, to do something important for the global community.
  4. Lastly (and this is one of my own), I'm not an environmentalist, but I do believe the glaring lights - and others like them in the world - are incredibly wasteful. =( I have heard men and women call them as beautiful as the landscape, a sign of man's power and man's achievements, but to me they are a sign of all the energy we waste. :/ They eat up power and we don't need them to be on as often as they are. >.<

I believe the weird side to Japan is only a small part of Japan - there is more to the country and culture, and few people are actually that far out - but like others, I'm not interested in seeing that part of Japanese culture. :wacky:

When it comes to moving to another country in general... Well, I would consider it if I met someone from a country which was safe/nice to live in. My closest friend has moved to Germany, and she loves it there. Furthermore, there are so many beautiful countries in the world and I would love to get immersed in another culture! British culture isn't fabulous to the point I'd miss it - I don't even know what British culture is other than tea, scones and crumpets. :lew: And Shakespeare-

Actually, scrap that. Teaching wouldn't be the same! I could teach English Literature and English Langauge and I absolutely love it! It's what I want/need to do with my life. :lew: Furthermore, one concern with moving abroad would be my parents when they reach old age. :/ I'm an only child, so I really would like to be here for them when they can't take care of themselves anymore. It's a way off, but it's still worth thinking about.
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I do not want to live in Japan. I wouldn’t mind visiting Japan, and I do have a casual interest in Japanese culture, but I do not know much about it yet. I’m interested in all cultures across the whole world, so that would include Japan, but I do not have a special interest in Japan. I may not be hip enough to join in with the new-age interest in anime that has swept into the West (I know more anime / manga fans nowadays than I do Marvel and DC fans, for example, and I believe that this is starting to be reflected these days in comic book / merchandise stores).

But I would like to see the Japanese cherry blossom, and to see some of the historical landmarks in Japan. I’m not interested in the anime or manga culture at all, but that's just a personal preference. I like Final Fantasy, and have liked Dragonball and Pokemon in the past too, but it ends there for me. I’d not even heard of manga or anime whilst I enjoyed these things, and I still don’t think of Final Fantasy as really being of that style, although I am an outsider to that style and thus am not really fit to judge there.

I wouldn’t mind visiting Tokyo, and I’ve heard plenty of tales of strange gadgets, etc, that there are in Japan that I wouldn’t mind investigating (some must surely be online jokes, especially some of the vending machine ones). I wouldn’t want to stay in Tokyo for long though. Cities would not interest me much unless there are lots of sites to see, and I never like the hectic hustle and bustle of a city. Seeing it would be interesting, and a true experience, but I do not hold a personal interest in the manga side of things.
 
I will go to Japan someday because:

1.) I want to meet new people while learning the language.

2.) I want to experience the history. People never give this as a reason for wanting to visit, but I do. Japan has a long, tumultuous history that is very hard to ignore if you are set on travelling around any of the islands. I want to see shrines, temples, castles, houses, and monuments.

3.) Food. I'm not a big fan of seafood but I would at least like to try the many different kinds of sushi as well as other dishes there.

4.) Architecture. I'm an architecture nerd and Japanese architects have continually produced very elegant, simple buildings out of any material you can imagine. I especially want to see works by Tadao Ando, including his Church of the Light.

5.) Travel. I want to ride the shinkansen and go from place to place. If anything, have a nice drive through Honshu, or skiing in Hokkaido, or walking through Aokigahara forest at the foot of Mount Fuji would be amazing. Then of course there's the urban life, but I'd be more focused on travelling outside the major cities.

EDIT: I take it back, I forgot that Dan (Gingerbread Man) up here also likes the history. Good. :griin:
 
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