First thoughts upon hearing "Japan".
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I thought of how they're presently perceived in Asia and the burden of the Japanese government to give its nation the respect that Germany has despite problems of which Japan similarly has had.
Edit: So not to annoy anyone or appear hateful, presently I live in China (I am actually Welsh) and I have a particular Korean friend with whom one day I got talking about Unit 731 (I am very into History). He later sent me some images on Skype which were photographs of the experiments that were preformed on the Chinese, Koreans, Russians and some Allied POWs during WWII. Those responsible were never put on trial after the war and the topic has gone mostly forgotten - America even tried to dismiss the Russian trials of some of the 731 members as propaganda. I quickly began to understand why we feel as we do in Europe about the Holocaust and why more attention is similarly being garnered for the Russian Gulag system - victims need care, compensation and politicians need to stop denying it and maybe it should be taken as far that "731 denial" should be illegal.
Edit: So not to annoy anyone or appear hateful, presently I live in China (I am actually Welsh) and I have a particular Korean friend with whom one day I got talking about Unit 731 (I am very into History). He later sent me some images on Skype which were photographs of the experiments that were preformed on the Chinese, Koreans, Russians and some Allied POWs during WWII. Those responsible were never put on trial after the war and the topic has gone mostly forgotten - America even tried to dismiss the Russian trials of some of the 731 members as propaganda. I quickly began to understand why we feel as we do in Europe about the Holocaust and why more attention is similarly being garnered for the Russian Gulag system - victims need care, compensation and politicians need to stop denying it and maybe it should be taken as far that "731 denial" should be illegal.
I think the difference between a Weeaboo and an Otaku is that a (Western) Weeaboo is generally interested in Japanese things only due to Anime/Manga and thinks that they know pretty much everything about it, despite they are looking through at it from a western person's point of view; characters and cultural aspects might look cool or bad for the right or wrong reasons compared to how the Japanese sees their own characters on their pieces of media.Vault101 said:
Whereas an Otaku is pretty much someone who's into their niche to such an extent that it's a part of who they are; Sort of like Cosplay Otaku, Railway Otaku, Bugcatching Otaku...to the potentially obscure and unheard of types such as British Itaku (not a British "Otaku", but rather someone who's in japan who's heavily interested in british things) and Magician Otaku.
As for Japan itself, i guess its one of the few places that still embraces it's cultural heritege, though the people is extremely foreign to our customs, like there would be heavy emphasis on cuteness, and less restraint on Japanese men touching up women on a monorail, however they're pretty restrained, polite and potentially chivalrous, which is different from what we normally see for things as game shows like Mummification and 20 squarewide fetishes as contests....i guess the most latter might have been due to a "accent the negatives" sort of situation, but humor could translate over as weirdness here.