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[–] [email protected] 172 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] DulyNoted 92 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Yeah, this kinda shit is fucking hilarious but people don't realize it. There's this corporate training BS called Kaizen where they take a lot of normal Japanese words like 無理 (muri) and associate weird Eastern mystic significance to them.

Literally just means "impossible" and is frequently used in slang to be like "no no no I couldn't possibly [talk to that hot guy]". Having it put up on a slide and presented by some white dudes in suits who were nodding solely and talking about the secret Japanese knowledge was just too much to bear.

[–] Ceedoestrees 42 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I fucking hate Kaizen. I had to go through it as part of a job placement program and was convinced it was a cult. Like no, I am not going to call "Leaving a reminder for myself" a Gemba. I'm calling it a note because the japanese didn't fucking invent the idea of writing things down for later.

[–] Usernamemonopoly 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It’s all the same bullshit as six sigma with their black belts and shit. Or if you are devops the utter trash called “Agile”.

[–] c0mbatbag3l 7 points 1 year ago

Sprints away

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[–] Aceticon 8 points 1 year ago

Shame on you!

You're taking food out of the mouths of the children of Management Consultants with your reckless disregards for the latest corporate management fad!

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They didn't invent the idea of comic books either, so why do we call them "manga" if they come from Japan?

[–] Syrc 18 points 1 year ago

Because it’s a way to distinguish them. In Italy, we also call American comics “comics” (instead of the Italian word for comics) for example.

[–] orphiebaby 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Manga are a kind of comic, they're just pretty specific about their format and choices. Anime is a kind of animated cartoon, it's just specific about its choices. Even "coming from Japan" isn't a requirement as long as it follows those traditionally(-ish) Japanese choices.

[–] Syrc 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Eh, there’s different schools of thought. Artists like Junji Ito or Kabi Nagata make stuff very different from the usual manga, but they’re still called “manga”. In the same way, Radiant isn’t considered a manga by many even though it’s so close to the actual ones it even got an anime.

[–] orphiebaby 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

I mean yeah. Most people define genres or categories using association, and they can become a gooey mess at worst. I've been arguing for structured definitions for years, but it's a lost cause. I still believe I am the only person who has a completely sane definition for "role-playing game". But I digress, fam. ^^

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because they come from Japan...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Also probably because the reading direction is flipped

[–] elscallr 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

God damn I just tried to read the Wikipedia page on Kaizen and I have never seen so many words used to describe nothing.

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[–] notatoad 12 points 1 year ago

I bet they get really mad if you call them business weebs

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Is it the corporate equivalent of getting a tattoo that just says "eggs and ham" in Chinese or something?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Basically the Japanese equivalent of shit like "synergy" then?

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Assassinating people is frowned upon? Shiiiiiit, son, next you'll tell me these barbarians get pissed when their shit is stolen!

[–] orphiebaby 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] ThisGuysNeverSerious 2 points 1 year ago

Wait until you meet the minister that is a Prime. He looks like a holy Transformer just crushing sinners. He transforms into the pope mobile.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

What a strange and beautiful land

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Interesting cultural paradigm for a people that spent centuries genociding others.

[–] _danny 47 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I love Japanese architecture and Japanese food. And I've watched my fair share of anime and read my fair share of manga.

Anyone who doesn't know how terrible Japanese culture is to outsiders needs to educate themselves, there's a reason they sided with Hitler. That culture never really went away like it did for Germany. Talk to an actual Japanese person, who went to school in Japan and see how much they know about their war crimes, and then talk to a German.

[–] SneakyWeasel 24 points 1 year ago

Hell correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't one of the most infamous examples of this that the government refuses to admit the unit 731 existed?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

When I was in uni, a Japanese friend told me Korean comfort women are cash grabbers and Japan has done enough even though it is "in the past".

[–] Syrc 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don’t think it’s that worse than other countries tbh. It’s amplified by the fact that it’s an island so foreigners are scarce and a lot of them are there for weeb tourism and may not be the best to interact with, but racism is a constant in most countries all around the world.

They do need to acknowledge their war crimes though, sure. I agree Nationalism is definitely a bigger issue in Japan than in most other countries.

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[–] DashboTreeFrog 3 points 1 year ago

So, I knew a girl who went to a Japanese international school in my South East Asian home country where the Japanese did some utterly horrendous things during WWII. She told me the school took them to a war museum kinda place on a field trip and basically shouted at them like "LOOK AT WHAT YOUR PEOPLE DID!" until the whole room of grade school kids were crying about how sorry they were. So at least outside of Japan there seems to be some (perhaps over the top) education about the atrocities committed by the Japanese government to Japanese students, but I agree, most of the Japan educated Japanese people I've spoken to are just vaguely aware that they did some bad stuff before they got nuked.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Pregnenolone 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The reply is obviously satire, but the original seems like typical weeb hyperfixation

[–] pm_boobs_send_nudes 19 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure it's satire. A country that made Ninja assassin's surely can't have such concepts.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've seen so many times this images and still not understand if the reply is serious or trolling OP

[–] Selmafudd 13 points 1 year ago

Not knowing if it's satire or serious is the pinnacle of sarcastic humour

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

stopped after WWII

That's what they and the Western governments legitimizing hyper-nationalist holocaust-deniers like Abe for geopolitical reasons want you to think, but in reality there's still a lot of fuckery going on, to use the technical term.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you point to something I can read on this? I don't want this to sound like "I doubt what you're saying", I just know little about Japan after WWII and didn't think full scale genocides were going on. Of course, even after the wars, Japan does not have the best record regarding, uh, being nice to other ethnic groups.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not the op, but since you seem serious, I think a better way of wording it would be, "spent centuries at war and attempted to genocide a few cultures". So, aside from the fact that most of the history of Japan is just waring states and almost never ending infighting, you can look into the Imjin War for Japan's first attempt at conquering the mainland in the 1500s. It would also be worth looking into their conquest and/or eradication of the Ainu, Emishi, Ryūkyū Kingdom.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hey, thanks for the recommendations. I wasn't aware of the Emishi. I'll definitely look into it.

[–] limpid_luster 7 points 1 year ago

MIND BLOWING 🤯

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Well the 12th century and the Sengoku period were probably worse than the early Meiji period in terms of violence.

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