y’all think japan is this paradise of soft kawaii anime boys and girls who are soft spoken and innocent. i’m japanese living in japan, and i think it’s important to let people be aware (especially those wanting to move to 🌸😍 JAPAN 😍🌸) of some important issues 👀 *A THREAD*
1. There’s a famous Japanese saying “Being a man is difficult.” Why? “Men have long working hours” “Men need to make the moves to get women” “Men have more difficult jobs than women” SURPRISE, men made the rules and now they’re victimizing themselves. uWu 🥺👉🏻👈🏻 LMAO BORING 🥱
5. (cont.) It’s such a big problem that there are “women only” cars in trains and camera shutter sounds of phones bought in Japan cannot be turned off even in silent mode. Why? Because rape and harrassment are so prevalent here.
6. If you study Japanese history with history books from other Asian countries, they are portrayed as villians who colonized and stole their lands. If you study Japanese history in Japan, they portray themselves as
3. (cont.) Long story short: The girl’s a pro-wrestler. The man washed her allegedly really expensive costume in the laundry. The costume got ruined. She was mad and upset.
Japanese people: *bullies her death*
🧐🧐🤔🤔 Make it make sense
2. Japanese people will have the biggest fattest nerves to throw the most derogatory words at you THROUGH THE INTERNET. Classic keyboard warriors. “lol femboy” “you’re a shemale” But irl? LMAO 🥺👉🏻👈🏻 🥺👉🏻👈🏻 🥺👉🏻👈🏻 They will bow the fuck out of their heads at you
5. (cont.) A woman was touched in the train, so she dragged the man out the train. She called the police and when they arrived, the woman was also charged for laying a finger on the man.
OKAY WHAT THE FUCK IS SHE GONNA DO IF HE STICKS HIS COCK UP HER VAGINA? 🤔🤔🤔🤔
3. (adding to the above) Some of u might know the show Terrace House. Basically like a Japanese version of Big Brother. They bullied this girl TO DEATH on the internet. No, LITERALLY TO DEATH. She killed herself. Why did she get bullied? Literally this scene 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
5. There’s NUMEROUS stories about rape and harrassment. If you’re a girl moving to japan, honestly just prepare to get sexually assaulted by middle aged men. Stalked to your station and even your front door.
4. If you talk about lgbtq+ or feminism issues, they will always try to divert it to something about them.
“Don’t say shemale” 👉🏻 “Then don’t say straight”
“Women need jobs” 👉🏻 “but men do it better”
11. My personal favorite. If u raise awareness about ANY ISSUE, a lot of them will say “Why are u acting so righteous, high, and mighty?” 🤦🏻♂️ That’s why there are little activists in Japan. These bitches will see ALL FORMS OF ACTIVISM AS PERFORMATIVE and will ignore the real issue
ok we’ve made it to # 15, I might keep going but REMINDER: I don’t HATE Japan. In fact, I really like living here. Every country has their bs. But I just want to educate people (again, especially the ones wanting to move to japan) that Japan isn’t the ALL-PERFECT COUNTRY U KNOW
7. Oh, you think white supremacists in America are bad with their “SPEAK ENGLISH IN AMERICA!!!!!!11!1!1!” bs?? LMAO, I’ve been told to “SPEAK JAPANESE BC WE’RE IN JAPAN” when i was speaking English with my friend on the train. 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
13. Any negative trait will be compared to “being a woman.” If you work slow? “Why do you work like a woman?” If you’re emotional “Why are you crying like a girl?” If someone’s sensitive, “lol he’s like a woman” And it’s SO normal here. It’s not okay.
8. Oh, it ain’t just the old people. No ma’am. When I was eating out with my friends, a group of Japanese uni students thought we didn’t speak Japanese, so they were talking shit about us and said “I wanna hit their heads like SMACK SMACK SMACK” ... luv what?
15. JAPAN IS SOOO SCARED OF CHANGE. WITH ANYTHING. On my “don’t say shemale” video, people are saying “It’s Japanese culture to say shemale. Don’t change our culture just because you’re offended” bitch if i tell u i went BATSHIT CRAZY
16. In Japanese “mental health” is shortened to “men-hera” and it literally means “crazy” instead of... mental health. It’s been twisted throughout history bc it’s a shame to have ANY sort of mental illness. It is said that it’s better to kill yourself than be mentally ill.
12. You wanna talk government? Here’s some tea about the governor of Tokyo, Koike. YES, you read that right. “ULTRANATIONALIST RIGHT-WING” cr: @/ko_archives on ig
Since KFC fired me today, the 11 herbs and spices are salt, pepper, basil, parsley, chili powder, lemon pepper, thyme, sage, onion powder, and garlic powder.
14. Good luck at drinking parties with your “superiors” at work. They will force feed you alcohol until you black out. I’ve seen women get forced drunk and get taken advantage of.
17. (Adding to the above) you CAN’T get a visa to Japan (student visa, working visa, etc) if you state that you have a mental illness. If you talk about depression, anxiety, etc. on your visa application essay, you are likely to get denied.
10. Hmmm, this one might just be a cultural thing and not necessarilly a bad thing, but there’s a word called “tatemae” in japanese which is basically a “fake self” they present to people.
18. (cont.) so if a pedophile takes sexual pictures of children, IT. IS. NOT. PUNISHABLE. BY. LAW.
make. that. make. sense.
“Child porn is BANNED RIGHT?”
... only if it shows the child’s genitalia. Otherwise, it’s permissible...
yes, it’s easy to find child porn in japan
10. (cont.) but good luck trying to guess what people really want to say bc they will always agree with you to your face and will always beat around the bush but behind your back, they’ll be like
18. OH HOW COULD I FORGET. THIS ONE’S A GOOD ONE. So under the law, “sex with a minor is illegal” BUT “minor” in Japan is defined as children under 12 years old 😳🤔 (legal age is 20 years old) and the ONLY sexual act outlawed is INTERCOURSE.
while I’m here, if u guys have any questions, u can dm me on my ig
@worldofxtra
. I also have a tiktok with the same @ ❤️ I’m a drag performer and artist from Tokyo! ❤️🏳️🌈
19. There’s a VERY common Japanese saying “shou ga nai” used by women here. It means “It can not be helped” or “We can’t do anything about it” Women are raised to believe they are inferior at ALL situations. Women get raped, abused, harrased, but all they can say is “shou ga nai”
21. This is very true. If you’re Japanese mixed with Asian blood, you’re just another “gaijin,” translates to “outsider.” If you’re white, you’re GOD😍! Additional points for blue eyes. Plus 3 points for green eyes! Plus 10 points if you’re blonde. (
@joey2dchan
)
It’s so funny to me when someone who’s never been to Japan or has never talked to a Japanese person disagree with me. Bitch just bc u illegally watched “Your Name” three times on 123movies . com and took one japanese class in high school doesn’t make u educated about japan. Bye.
someone REALLY just replied with “yeah but can we talk about your lips 😍😍”
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I got this picture sent to me at least 15 times today 😭😭😂 This isn’t me besties 😂😂 I’d love to recreate it tho 😂 (for non-Filipinos, the sign behind says “NOT ALLOWED: LESBIANS AND GAYS” 💀💀)
i LIVE in japan. i’m JAPANESE. i STUDY in japan. i WORK in japan. i’m GAY. i’m a DRAG QUEEN IN JAPAN. i was a fucking judge for MR. GAY JAPAN.
how is your dumb white weeb ass going to tell me i know nothing about the LGBTQ+ community in japan just because u read YAOI??????
Breaks my heart when someone speaks perfect English and ends it with “Sorry, my English is so bad.” 😭 it’s bc some dumb whores that ONLY speak English has the audacity make these multilingual people insecure 🙄🙄🙄
A train conductor in (Osaka) Japan recently said “There are many foreigners riding the train today. We are sorry for the inconvenience” through the train announcement... um...?????????
My little brother (16 years old), came crying to me saying “I’m so so so sad thinking about what Black people go through.” He was bullied in school for being half. They were saying he’s too dark to be Japanese and his curly hair looked like grass.
I got hate-crimed for the first time in Japan. I was just standing at the corner of the train, the train stops, and right before the doors closed, this old Japanese man just ran to me, scratched my face and pulled my ear, shouted “HA-GE!” (bald man!) and ran out.
The hashtag
#blackjoy
is a very important hashtag used to amplify Black voices. Japanese people are using it to tweet their selfies instead bc the effect you get from liking a tweet with the hashtag is “cute”.
tw: sexual assault
THIS SHOULD BE COMMON KNOWLEDGE. JUST LIKE HOW WE KNOW NOT TO TOUCH FIRE. JUST LIKE HOW WE KNOW NOT TO EAT RAT POISON. WE SHOULD KNOW NOT TO BLAME THE VICTIM. It really isn’t that hard.
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(I’m sure a lot of you use my threads as reference, so I’m pinning this on my profile so you can always come back and check!)
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Psychology shows that rape victims tend to blame themselves for sometimes “liking it at that moment.” But, it is still rape if a person did not consent to it. It’s a human body reaction to experience arousal. Either way, no consent = RAPE.
ummm is the J*panese g*vernment okay.... what the fuck....... they really said FUCK the virus, making money is more important. So they’re starting a 1.7 BILLION YEN campaign to encourage people to travel domestically. They’re paying for a portion of everyone’s domestic travels.
Idk who needs to hear this but pls be proud of yourself. We all have different capabilities and capacities. Don’t undermine ur efforts just bc u see other ppl being successful. You’re moving at your own pace. You are strong. I am proud of you.
I really fucking hate the mentality of some Japanese people segregating their own country from the world saying “racism against Black ppl don’t exist in our country.” Not the fucking point. The point it, racism exist on EARTH and that’s why we should ALL be pressed.
hold the fuck up... HUH???? some of u are so fucking backwards. I hate you fake woke people SO much. I wear what I want. I can’t help that i look like this. I’m not on any sort of weightloss diet. I do not facetune my body. Please DEACTIVATE. Don’t fucking project on me.
i don’t understand...?????? like the last time i got kicked in the balls was when i was 9 or whatever. the last time a woman got her period was probably last week so shut the fuck up
Not getting the vaccine because you “don’t know what’s in it” ??? Okay, tell me what’s in your shampoo. Tell me what’s in McDonald’s chicken nuggets. WHAT TF ARE IN SAUSAGES AND HOTDOGS? WHAT’S IN MAYO? MUSTARD? 🤨😐😐
Americans' obsession with judging someone's food online based on the looks 👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻 Like I will upload a picture of Filipino food and these people say "That's disgusting." ??? Disrespectful af. KUNG HINDI PA KAYO NAKA TIKIM NG MONGGO WITH TUYO, WAG KAYONG MADALDAL JAN TANGINA NYO.