Why does Japan seem so unbelievably comfy?

>awesome architecture
>humble wooden houses
user those houses are comfy but there are casual European streets covered in literal master works. stop being a weeb, embarrassing.

>japan ranked 40th in male suicides behind the USA, Sweden, Iceland and Belgium

You are a retard who fell for memes

This.

Would our country be that comfy too if we didn't have blacks? The mind wonders.

>Shitty work conditions and low pay

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besides what other user said their justice system is massively fucked.
Like a cruel imitation of what we have in the west

Based, mass murderers in Norway get a freed apartment with Xbox while dope dealers in Japan get the rope. They have it right over there

This. People praising the western judicial system are retarded, in east Asia the criminal is still the perpetrator not the victim

Yeah, that actually sounds pretty based. I don't give a shit about criminals, as long as they don't happen to be falsely accused.

The American justice system is fucked. Plea deals are some of the most retarded things ever, letting hardcore criminals get off with less than they deserve, while at the same time fucking over innocent people because it's easier to accept getting your name tarnished than it is to actually fight the retarded system.

I've been to Japan. You should go too.
I took a 3000-km biking trip a couple of years ago, camping in hammocks with my cousin.
The people are incredibly kind. Most are quiet and keep to themselves but those who are friendly are so outgoing they make up for all the rest and then some.
I would especially recommend going to the island of Iki off of Kyushu and staying at the Lighthouse Guesthouse with Seiji Okamoto.
He speaks English well and really enjoys having foreign tourists come so he can show them a good time and work on his language skills. He even gave us an extra free night at his place just to show us around.
The memes aren't all true but it's nice in other ways.
You have to go to the 'inaka' countryside if you want to see the 'real' Japan.
You will understand the connections between traditional Confucian values, Buddhism, Shintoism, respect for the natural world, and the Japanese way of thinking more by going there than you will by reading anything here.
ALSO I would recommend the diary of Matome Ugaki if you want to read a first-hand Japanese account of WWII. Also Joshua Blakeney's "Japan Bites Back" is good as a compendium of Documents from the Tokyo Diet Library.
This dude is spewing misinformation.
Yes, 'Karoshi' work-related suicide is a problem in Japan, and Japan has many social issues like anywhere else but all things considered the society has many things to admire about it.
The suicide rate is higher in Korea, as a matter of fact.
This guy is probably either a Korean, or a Jew.
(inb4 what's the difference?)
Anyways if you want more info on Japan or want advice on planning a trip hit me up on Telegram:
IkkiKita
I will be happy to help you (I'm probably trying to go back sometime soon myself as well).

Do you speak a decent amount of Japanese? I wanna learn some before I visit (which is probably fine since i'm currently in no state to plan expensive vacations).

I mean it's comfy and shit because they have a strict building code that promotes preserving their culture through specific building designs. They are also obsessed with cleanliness.

It's a nice place to visit, but I don't think I would want to live there long term.
>absolutely cancer work culture
>people are polite but very xenophobic, you will never be truly accepted
>dogshit conflict resolution because everyone is too timid to say what they mean
>insanely crowded/overpriced cities, even by western standards
>really hard to own property as an outsider
>language is more difficult to learn that most, especially the writing

Just visit.

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I want to visit the mountains and paint some landscape paintings if I ever the the opportunity to visit.

Honestly I almost don't want to visit in case I like it too much.

Why do all these weeb faggots who have never been to Japan fetishise it?

It dirty as hell, completely disorganised, the food and drink is just as good as you'd find in any other country.

Niiiice
I've been there 4 times, I want to go on a little cycle tour in the next year or two around the inland sea and to Iya valley! Did you get your bike there or have it shipped?

>Dirty
From what I've heard, it's the complete opposite. Also, I'm not a weeb, I just think Japan seems very comfy. I don't even like anime.

peak weeb fried brain yellowphile faggotry right here
youtu.be/L343dzWizmk

I lived there a few months.
I enjoyed it a lot, but there were some negatives too.
I constantly felt like I was being judged while I was there. I was aware of every little thing I did and how I was perceived by the people around me. It did feel good to come back to America and just not have to give a shit how I looked.
Of course that could have just been my problem.

Another negative is the food. Even if you like Japanese food, overall their selection is a lot less diverse than America's, at least in grocery stores.
I love pasta so it was hard getting by with just noodles and rice.

But to be honest, the architecture really is unique and is what stuck out to me most during my visit.
I went to shrines, hot springs, small towns, urban neighborhoods, and even a high school culture festival and everywhere really was comfy and just felt so different in a nice way.

What did you do while living there? English teacher?
Also what city?

I was studying abroad at Temple University, but I also had an internship with a company that made anime-themed mobile games.

I technically lived in Kanagawa I think, but most of the stuff I did was in Tokyo proper.

Not him but learning japanese by yourself is very much possible and fulfilling in its own right. My biggest piece of advice is to never visit the japanese language general on /jp/, all it will do is discourage you. I got banned from Zig Forums for 2 months and in that time I learned enough japanese by myself that now I can read yotsubato with just consulting a dictionary for vocab. You really can do it user

Ah cool. Do you speak Japanese? If so, did you speak it before going or did you learn while there?

Can you recommend a good site for it? Or did you do a lot of YouTube and other random parts of the internet?

I spoke some. I took a semester of Japanese before going and was planning on taking a semester while I was there, but I ended up chickening out and switching to something else when I saw how fast the class was going the first day.
I dont really regret doing that since just adjusting to living there was hard enough, I know a few people that couldn't take it and ended up not going to any of their classes.

Honestly, I really only needed basic Japanese to get by day-to-day. Just saying "this please" at stores or pointing to the stuff I wanted on menus.
If I intended to live there longer I definitely would have learned more, but I got by fine with what I had.
That might be more unique to Tokyo too, since I know it's pretty used to forgeiners.

I'll tell you what I did. I'd recommend sticking to the parts I emphasize, but feel free to do what you want (or do what I did) for everything else.
>master katakana and hiragana before you start
You can google tons of resources for doing this. It just avoids headaches for the next step
>read the entire tae kim grammar guide guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar guide and took handwritten notes on everything
Taking handwritten notes is important because you'll hardly retain anything if you just read it. It probably seems like a lot and it sort of is, but this difficult step will make you improve by miles. If you read and take notes on one section a day, you should be done in a little over a month because I think there's 40 sections
>started reading yotsubato in japanese after about halfway through the previous step
Halfway through means after finishing the "essential grammar" section. Use a dictionary like jisho.org when reading. Oh also install a japanese keyboard on your computer. Reading will be difficult at first because you don't yet know all the grammar and you'll have to look up a lot of vocab, but it will get easier. Also the grammar in yotsubato is intentionally simple, which is why this is a good starting point for reading. I hope that all gives you a clear place to start, user