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The quirks of Japan. Japanese oddities that will surprise you (17 photos)

The quirks of Japan. Japanese oddities that will surprise you (17 photos)

18.02.2019

Japan is a very amazing country, unlike any other. Do you want to know some facts about her that will shock you? Read!

Valentine's Day in this country is a great way for a girl to tell a guy she likes about her long-standing feelings. In Japan, it is the girls who give valentine cards and make surprises for the guys. Very convenient: no need to wait for a man to dare and come up first.
Japan has very high fruit prices. For example, buying an apple will cost $2, and a few bananas will cost $5. Fish and meat products, on the contrary, are cheap.
Pornography in Japan can be purchased anywhere, even in a regular grocery store. There is always a shelf with the press, where a separate place is allocated to hentai. In a bookstore, hentai is about a third of all products. If it's a big bookstore, then hentai takes up several floors.
Hentai - anime with elements of eroticism and pornography - is sold to persons under the age of majority, absolutely legally.
The highest sales of hentai about violence and sex with persons under the age of majority.
The Japanese do not hesitate to read hentai even in public transport, just by putting the cover on the book.
Subways in Japan have separate women's carriages. They are launched during the busiest hours to keep the men from touching the women in the crowd. And they love to do it.
Despite the above shocking facts, Japan occupies one of the most last places in the world in terms of the number of rapes. This figure, for example, in Russia is 5 times higher.
Main part Japanese characters contains two to four syllables. However, it can be much more complicated: the hieroglyph 砉 contains 13 syllables and is pronounced like “hanetokawatogahanareruoto”.
The Japanese even modern world very scrupulous in matters of honor. This applies to all areas of life and even politics. Several prime ministers have resigned after failing to deliver on their campaign promises to voters.
Japan has a lot of the very best. For example, the most expensive amusement park is located here. It's called Disney Sea. 4 of the highest roller coasters you will also find here. The capital of Japan, Tokyo, has the most developed subway, the largest railway interchange and the largest mixed pedestrian crossing.
The Japanese snowman is made exclusively from two snowballs, and not from three, as in the rest of the world.
At Christmas, the Japanese like to go to a KFC restaurant for a portion of fried chicken. The founder of the institution - Colonel Sanders - is considered one of the symbols of this holiday.
One-third of all Japanese weddings to this day take place after matchmaking and bridegrooms, which are arranged at the initiative of the parents of the young.
In Japan, there are northern cities with a lot of snow. Residents of these cities are incredibly lucky - the streets and pedestrian areas are automatically heated. The snow melts by itself. No need to clean it up and sprinkle the paths.
But even in the northern cities there is no central heating. The Japanese are warming themselves in their homes as best they can.
In Japan, at the official level, such a cause of death as overwork (Karoshi) is recognized. Every year, about 10 thousand people die for this reason.
In Japan, there is practically no ban on smoking in in public places. The only exceptions are airports and railway stations.
Japan still retains the title of Empire. Of course, formally. Today, there is only one such country in the world.
Japan for all centuries of history The country is ruled by one dynasty. The current emperor Akihito is a direct descendant of the first emperor, who was the founder of the state.
Japan is 2671 today.
The Japanese favorite topic of conversation is food. Even when they eat, all the talk is about taste preferences. It is considered bad manners not to say “delicious” once during dinner.
The Japanese love to repeat themselves. For young people, this is considered kawaii - that is, cute, charming.
Not only are characters difficult to understand, but Japanese writing is divided into three types: Hiragana (a syllabary system for writing Japanese words), Katakana (a syllable system for writing borrowed words) and Kanji (writing with characters).
There are no immigrant workers in the country. The problem of cheap work force solved very simply: the most minimum wage, which can be paid to a foreigner, is higher than the salary of a Japanese. This means that only qualified specialists can come to work. Our country would also benefit from such a decision.
Most of railways in Japan is privately owned.
Emperor Hirohito was never removed from power, after the war he led the reformation and ruled until 1989. His birthday is considered a national holiday and is celebrated on April 29th.
The most famous mountain Japan, Fuji, is the private property of Hongyu Sengen Temple. The mountain was given to the temple in 1609. Court of Japan in the 80s. XX century confirmed the legitimacy of the donation of the mountain. No one can encroach on private property in Japan. This is severely punished.
The Japanese language is divided into several types depending on the degree of politeness: colloquial, respectful, polite, and very polite. Women use a respectful look, men use a colloquial one.
In Japan, there is such a word as "Hikkikomori". They call them people who voluntarily isolated themselves from society, asocialized. They often do not work, live off relatives, and may not leave the house or even their room for years. 7% of the male population of Japan is Hikkikomori.
Months in Japan do not have names like we do. Therefore, their January is the first, February is the second, etc.
Until Western influences penetrated Japan, the Japanese knew only one expression that meant sympathy, feelings: "koi", translated: "an irresistible attraction to something unattainable."
The population of Japan is predominantly ethnic Japanese - more than 98 percent. This is a rarity in modern countries.
Prisoners are not allowed to vote in elections in the country.
The Japanese eat dolphins. They cook soup from them, make barbecue, eat them raw. According to them, the dolphin does not taste like fish, it has tender meat.
Japanese has one unique feature: there are almost no personal pronouns in it, and those few pronouns also have other meanings. So, the pronoun "I" means directly "I" and plus "private", "personal".
Tokyo is such a safe city that small children of five or six years old without adults can ride the subway and buses. Perhaps this is the safest city in the world.
The Japanese have a fear of travel as they are afraid of everything outside of their country. most dangerous country, according to the Japanese, are the United States of America.
The Japanese constitution does not allow its state to have an army and participate in wars.
study in Japanese schools starts on April 1 and has 3 trimesters. Pupils go to school from April to July, then rest until September, then study until December and from January to March.
All the garbage collected in the country is sent for recycling. In this regard, waste tanks simply do not exist. Garbage is divided into glass, the one that can be burned can be recycled and cannot be burned. Each species is exported on a specific day of the week. If a Japanese violates these rules, he faces a fine of $1,000.
You will not find urns in the city either, only bins where you can throw bottles. And it's clean on the streets. That's how it would be for us.
It is believed that every Japanese must earn a comfortable old age in his life, so pensions in the country are very small - no more than three hundred dollars. This is given the relatively high prices for food and transport. Pension insurance is also not provided for by the legislation of the country.
Godzilla was called Godzilla for a reason. In Japanese, it sounds like Gojira - a mixture of the words Gorilla and Kujira (whale). It was not easy to come up with this, I guess.
Public transport in the country is not cheap - you can ride the metro for at least 50 rubles in terms of our money.
Men in Japan always come first. In any institution, shop, restaurant, they will say hello and take an order first from males.
The Japanese love jeeps, despite the high traffic density. Even in densely populated cities where there are traffic jams, there are very few sedans on the road.
All toilets in Japan have a variety of functions, from heating a toilet seat to simulating the sounds of running water (in case you need to mask unpleasant sounds). Japanese toilet - whole spaceship with lots of buttons.
Every Japanese knows that the cute cartoon kitty Hello Kitty is from England.
In no case should you leave a tip in Japanese establishments. They are tantamount to giving. As long as you pay the price set initially, you remain on an equal footing with the seller.
What is racism in Japan do not know. You will never see its manifestation on the street. And isn't that great.
One of the popular channels in Japan shows a series about 2 birds with one stone, Putin and Kiriyenko. In the story, they are trying to survive in a police state.
The age of consent in Japan, that is, the age at which a person can give permission to enter into an intimate relationship with himself, is thirteen years.
Japan is three times the size of England in area. The area of Japan is 374,744 km², and that of England is 130,410 km².
Japan is often referred to as an overpopulated state. This is an incorrect statement, since its density per 1 sq. km - 360 people. In England, for example, per 1 sq. km accounts for 383 people.
The terms "wrong" and "different" in Japanese are denoted by the same word 違う (chigau).
For several years now, there have been things in the country that we used to see only in science fiction films. These are vending machines with all kinds of products, futuristic trains, strange fashion. All this gives Japan a unique flavor.
There are a lot of voluminous deep words in Japanese. For example, the word 御来光 (goraiko) means sunrise as seen from Mount Fuji.
The Japanese have often been considered the superior race in history. So, Hitler himself, admiring, called them "honorary Aryans." IN South Africa during apartheid, only the Japanese were not infringed on their rights, as they were called "honorary whites."
If an emergency occurs in the country, every Japanese's phone starts beeping loudly, even if it was on silent mode. Plus, a message arrives with information about what happened, as well as further evacuation plans.
The Japanese don't know what looting is. Empty houses will remain untouched. No one will ever plunder them. This causes genuine surprise among all foreigners.
It is not easy to find a Japanese speaking English. At the same time, they often use anglicisms in their speech. But even these words will be difficult to make out, since the Japanese have their own original pronunciation.
In Russian, there are words borrowed from Japanese, for example: “cotton wool”, “pollock”, “ivashi”, as well as the well-known “tsunami” and “typhoon”.
The Japanese, in turn, also borrowed some words from the Russians: “ikura; caviar” and “noruma; norm”, as well as the phrase: “woo people; to the people”, which came into use after Alexander II.
In Japan, there is still such a punishment for a crime as the death penalty. So, recently for a year this type of punishment was applied to 8 criminals.
Apparently, the previous fact allows Japan to remain the country with the lowest percentage of murders and violent crimes. In addition, the Japanese are a long-lived nation. They are absolute champions in average life expectancy.
In the heart of Japan, Tokyo, is the huge gay district of Shinjuku-Ni-Chome. Here is the most a large number of concentration of gay bars around the world.
Hieroglyphs in China and Japan are almost the same. There are some differences, however, knowing Japanese, you can read simple Chinese texts, such as signs on the streets.
The Japanese do not sign documents. Each of them has a special seal, which they affix instead of a signature daily. You can buy a print in a regular store.
If the train is delayed even for a minute, this is already considered late. Have you seen this in any other country?
If you were presented with a gift in Japan, do not rush to open it. This is considered bad manners. You just need to say “thank you”, and you can open it only at home alone.
In Japan, it is customary to smile, even if you are in a lot of pain. A smile should hide all inner feelings.
If the Japanese have caught fire with some idea, then be sure that they will bring the work they have begun to the end and will do it flawlessly and with taste. For example, in French restaurants in Japan, you can be served menus for French, in Italian - in Italian. Signage and decoration will also be appropriate for the country. That's just English text in that case, don't look there.
The Japanese take the institution of property very seriously. It is in this country that you can find establishments that are several hundred years old. At the same time, the owners from generation to generation are the same family. So, the Hoshi Ryokan Inn has been operating since 718 and has the same dynasty of owners.
Tanuki are headstrong Japanese werewolves that bring happiness and good fortune. Their eggs are a traditional symbol of prosperity. The mythical happiest tanuki has an egg area of 8 tatami, which is 12 m. If misfortune comes, they pay with them.
The territory of Japan is more than half covered with forests. The cutting of trees for commercial purposes is strictly prohibited. The country uses wood, which is mined in tropical forests.
From 1992 to 2002, the country helped other states the most in the world. It's about on international humanitarian assistance.
The ticket clerk on the train, before looking at tickets and travel cards, bows and takes off his hat in front of the passengers. You can learn politeness from the Japanese.
The secret that makes Japan unique, unlike other countries, is simple: centuries-old traditions and modern Western trends are harmoniously combined here. The Japanese honor their culture and cherish the past, but at the same time keep up with the present.
Well, the last, almost indisputable fact remains: Japan is the best country in the world!

Many facts may seem shocking to us. Be that as it may, Japan is a rapidly developing country, with a minimum crime rate and a fairly high level and life expectancy. Most countries, including ours, have a lot to learn from the Land of the Rising Sun.

They sleep in meetings, call the interlocutor in the third person and put on special slippers when they go to the toilet. How else do Japanese customs differ from ours?

They use the barker

It is better not to go out on the shopping streets of Japan without earplugs. The owners of local shops and cafes are still very actively using cheap advertising power - barkers. Pretty girls and boys, standing at the entrance to the establishment, shout loudly and almost continuously: “Irrashyaimashe! Gorankudasaimaseeee!" which can be translated as "Welcome! Come visit us!" Unaccustomed to endure it is quite difficult, and foreigners, on the contrary, often scare away.

They don't understand what sin is

There is a culture of shame in Japan, but in religions (both in Shinto, the traditional Japanese religion, and in Buddhism), as such, the concept of sin does not exist. Of course, bad deeds are condemned, but only because of the fear of losing face, of being dishonored. In particular, foreigners from Christian countries are extremely surprised by the attitude of the Japanese towards suicide as a way of salvation, and not as a fall into sin, which is customary in Orthodoxy or Catholicism. By the way, Japan has the highest suicide rate among developed countries.

They use special toilet slippers

In hotels and homes, the Japanese use separate plastic or rubber slippers for the toilet and bath. They usually stand at the entrance to the bathroom. When you go out, flip-flops should be removed and left in the same place. This strange tradition two purposes: firstly, the Japanese believe that it is more hygienic, and secondly, it is immediately clear that the toilet is occupied. This rule often confuses foreigners, who, of course, always forget to change their shoes.

By the way, visiting outdoor toilets is also often surprising. They look unusual in appearance, and inside they are equipped according to the first word of technology. For example, here you can turn on the music so that others certainly can’t hear what you are doing there. There is also a special button to call the security service in case the client becomes ill.

They sleep at work

Falling asleep during a meeting with colleagues or right at your workplace will not be considered embarrassing. Some Japanese practice inemuri, which can literally be translated as "to be present during sleep." The descendants of the samurai understand that for effective work a person needs sleep, and therefore they are not ashamed to devote half an hour or an hour of working time to a nap. At the same time, considering several important rules: you need to sleep directly at the table, head down on your hands or table top; if you fell asleep during the meeting, but you were addressed, you should wake up and answer; if you are new to the company and you are expected to be actively involved in the work process, then inemuri will be perceived as bad form.

They refer to each other in the third person

Don't be surprised if a Japanese asks you, "How's Vasily-san's family?" It is not customary to pronounce personal pronouns here, although in the local language there are 15 variants of the word “I” alone. Residents of the Land of the Rising Sun are used to addressing each other in the third person: by last name (in official communication) with the addition of politeness suffixes (-san, -sama) or by name (among friends) also with suffixes (-kun, -chan).

They consider tipping an insult

In Japan, tips are seen as an insult, a sign that the waiter is not doing his job and therefore needs a monetary incentive.

They decorate trucks

On the roads of Japan, you can see extravagant-looking trucks that look like Philip Kirkorov on the stage of the Kremlin Palace. They are always bright, often chrome-plated, with neon lighting and bright patterns throughout the body. Such trucks are called "decotor", they appeared after the release of the cult Japanese TV series "Trucker" in the 1970s. Drivers of such trucks organize meetings and exhibitions of their multi-ton friends.

An Epson employee says

There is a stereotype that it is good to work in Japan. This stereotype comes from our compatriots who work by invitation in foreign companies, where the Japanese try to adapt to the level and style of foreigners. Meanwhile, in the country itself rising sun the traditional working system is very peculiar, and it is quite difficult to exist in it. That is why there are not so many foreigners building a career in classic Japanese companies. Epson's Marina Matsumoto talks about what it's like to be the average office worker in Japan.

Dress code

Of course, the conditions depend on the specific company, but in principle the dress code in Japan is much stricter than in Russia. Failure to comply with its rules has serious consequences for the employee, up to instant dismissal.

In a traditional Japanese company, a mandatory black suit is worn regardless of the weather, even if it is +40 outside. The Japanese endure both heat and cold calmly, as they go through a very harsh school of hardening the body in childhood. Recently Released new law allowing you to wear short-sleeve shirts to work. This is due to the forced energy savings, in which even in extreme heat, air conditioners are not always used in offices.

In some companies, women are not allowed to wear fitted suits - they must be absolutely straight. The skirt must cover the knees.

Women's accessories are also prohibited. I have a big serious company, it is known internationally. But I work where mostly Japanese people work. At the workplace, I was allowed to wear only a cross - under my clothes so that it was not visible - and a wedding ring.

Makeup should be invisible. Japanese women love to make up brightly, blush their cheeks strongly, almost all of them have false eyelashes. But at work, a woman should be as less attractive to men as possible.

In some places, women are only required to wear short hair not covering the ears. Hair color is always black. If by nature you, for example, are blonde, you will have to dye your hair.

Men, in addition to long hair, cannot wear a beard and mustache. It's an unspoken rule that everyone knows. The stable image of the Yakuza (this is a traditional form of organized crime in Japan) interferes.

Subordination

When I got a job, I signed a bunch of documents, where I assured that I would not discuss anything with clients and colleagues other than work: neither the weather, nor nature. I don't have the right to share my "personal data" at work - who is my husband, how I'm doing... At home, I don't have the right to talk about my work. I do not have a secret job, but it is accepted and specified in my contract.

Only work at work

On workplace they take only what is needed for work: for me, these are documents and a pen. I can’t take my bag, wallet and phone, it remains at the checkpoint.

There is a favorite proverb in Russia: if you've done your job, walk boldly. In the workplace in Russia, the main thing is that you fulfill the plan for today. In Japan, "plans for today" are of no interest to anyone. You came to work and you have to work on it.

How the Japanese slow down the workflow

In Russia we all know that wage depends on the results of your work. If you work hard, you get nothing. You work well - you get bonuses and promotions. Everything is done - you can leave early or ask additional task to earn more.

In Japan, they pay by the clock. Almost all Japanese take overtime. But often this results in the fact that they stretch one task that can be done in two hours - for a week. The deadlines set by the company also do not always correspond to the level of complexity of the work. The Japanese will poke around for hours, we think they work like sleepy flies, and they think they do the job "thoroughly". They incredibly slow down the workflow, so it’s hard for us to work with them.

And this, by the way, is one of the main reasons why their economy was not in best condition. With this system of payment by the hour, they have trapped themselves. Indeed, in fact, the work is not designed for quality, but for the number of hours spent in the office.

Long lengthy conversations

We all know that brevity is the sister of talent, but in Japan, brevity is the narrow-mindedness of the mind. The Japanese cannot speak briefly and to the point. They launch into long and lengthy explanations that are aimed at making even a narrow-minded person understand what they are talking about. Meetings can last an incredible number of hours. The Japanese believe that if they talk about the same thing for a long time and in excessive detail, then they respect the interlocutor.

Society stratification

It takes a lot of work and organization to grow rice. Therefore, historically, Japan has developed a system with a very narrow specialization of labor and a rigid stratification of society. Everyone has their own duties and their place in the life and production process.

Japanese communities have always been well organized. For example, a samurai never cooked his own food, he could easily die of hunger if the peasantry had not rescued him.

Due to this mentality, it is very difficult for any Japanese to accept independent solution, which is not inherent in his status. They cannot take on an elementary responsibility, at least somehow beyond the scope of their ordinary, habitual affairs. To put a comma or not to put it is a problem for half a day. The preparation of elementary documents is a series of endless, very slow consultations. Moreover, the necessity of such consultations is striking. If an employee nevertheless takes the liberty of making a decision not based on status, then everyone in the hierarchical chain associated with him will receive a reprimand. This is Eastern despotism in action: "I - small man, I am a simple peasant, and I have to do only the work assigned to me.

Again, everything is understandable: Japan is a small country with a large overpopulation, it needs rigid frameworks and rules. To survive in Japan, you need to clearly know: my border is here, and this is the border of another person, I must respect it. Nobody goes beyond their limits. If a Japanese man marries them, then literally get lost.

Russia has a huge territory, expanse, open spaces. We are not bound. We are free. A Russian person can do anything. And the Swiss, and the reaper, and the igretz on the pipe - this is primarily about us, Russians!

Same as everyone

Interestingly, in Japan you don't have to show your difference or superiority in mind. You can't show your uniqueness, specialness. This is not welcome. All must be the same. Since childhood, uniqueness has been burned out with a red-hot iron, so Japan will not give the world either Einstein or Mendeleev.

The famous Japanese technology is a myth. As a rule, these are ideas that are not created by the Japanese. What they are good at is deftly picking up and improving in time. And we, on the contrary, can ingeniously create and forget ...

To survive in Japanese society, you must be like everyone else. In Russia, the opposite is true: if you are the same as everyone else, you will get lost. New ideas are constantly needed to master and fill a large space.

Career

It takes a long time to build a career in a classic Japanese company. Career growth depends on age, not merit. A young specialist, even a very talented one, will occupy an insignificant position, work hard and for low wages, because he has just arrived. Because of this organization of the workflow, it is increasingly difficult for Japanese companies to compete in the international market. Yes, there is the concept of "Japanese quality", but this no longer saves them, because business is conducted in too Japanese a way.

Salary

The official salary in Japan is high. But with the deduction of all taxes, which amount to almost 30%, they receive an average of a thousand dollars in their hands. Young people get even less. At 60, the salary is already a very decent amount.

Vacation and weekends

There are no holidays in Japan. Weekends are Saturday or Sunday. And, depending on the company, you are entitled to a few extra days off per year. Let's say it's 10 days, but you can't take them all at once, but you need to break them up. It happens that you need to take one day off a week and go somewhere on business. In my company, I have to give a month's notice of this so that everyone can cooperate and replace me. In some companies, these terms are even longer. It is problematic to leave work for an unexpected incident.

If you get sick on Monday and think not to go to work, then you will not be understood. Everyone goes to work with a temperature.

Outlets can be holidays, Day of Remembrance of the Dead - Obon, in mid-August. But young specialist there is no such possibility, it will work for the first two years without extra days off.

1-3 days are given for the New Year. If they fall on Saturday-Sunday, then no one, as in Russia, will transfer them to Monday-Tuesday.

There is also a "golden week" in May, when there are several state and religious holidays in a row. My husband worked all days, I had 3 days off.

Working day

Standard working day from 9 am to 7 pm. But the main thing you should keep in mind: if it is indicated that the working day is from nine, then you cannot come right to this time. Even if you arrive at 8:45 - it is considered that you are late. You need to come to work at least half an hour in advance, some come in an hour. It is believed that a person needs time to tune in to the working mood, to prepare for work.

The end of the official working day does not mean that you can go home. It is not customary to leave before your boss. If he is late at the office for two hours, then you are late, and this will not be considered overtime. Your personal circumstances are your personal problems, which, as I already mentioned, according to the contract I signed, are not discussed with colleagues.

Informal communication

In Japan, there is the concept of "nomikai" - "to drink together", reminiscent of a Russian corporate party. Somewhere "nomikai" takes place every day, in my company - twice a week. Of course, you can refuse, but they will look askance at you. Why drink? Because Japan has a positive attitude towards alcohol. Shinto involves offerings to certain gods in the form of alcohol. Japanese doctors believe that drinking alcohol daily is beneficial. Nobody talks about doses.

The Japanese do not know how to drink and, as a rule, get very drunk. The booze itself will cost you nothing, either the boss or the company always pays for it.

Now, to further encourage going to bars with colleagues, workers are even being paid for nomikai. It's part of Japanese culture to work together and drink together. It turns out that almost 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, you spend only with your work colleagues.

In addition to "nomikai", you need to drink with customers, with partners, with officials with whom the company is associated.

Yes, in Russia there is something similar, but it is incomparable with the Japanese alcohol scale. And then, in Russia, the attitude towards alcohol is much more negative.

Now you can imagine the whole picture. The Japanese leaves the house at 7 am. At work, he exists within the rigid framework of his status. After the end of the official working day, he takes extra hours because he has to feed his family. He then goes out drinking with colleagues and returns home at 2 am, most likely drunk. He works on Saturdays. He sees his family only on Sundays. And until the evening, he can either sleep or drink all day off, because he is under terrible stress from such a cruel regime.

In Japan, there is a special concept: "death by processing." This is a very common case when people die at their desks or, unable to withstand the load, commit suicide. For Japan, this is par for the course, an event to which there is little to no response. People will even resent if someone's suicide interfered with their work. Everyone thinks: "Why didn't you do it in a quiet, inconspicuous place, because of you I won't come to work on time!"

It must be understood that the Japanese did not sit and come up with these rules for themselves. Everything has evolved over the centuries due to the geographical and historical uniqueness of Japan. Probably everyone will agree that they had good reasons for such a mobilization of society, a constant readiness for something. A small territory, a lot of people, wars, earthquakes, tsunamis - at any moment everything can collapse. Therefore, the Japanese from childhood learn to work in a group, learn to survive on their piece of land. In essence, all Japanese education is not based on teaching a person something, developing him, but teaching him to be a real Japanese, to be competitive precisely in Japanese society. Not everyone can bear such a life, because it is really hard.

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They sleep in meetings, call the interlocutor in the third person and put on special slippers when they go to the toilet. How else do Japanese customs differ from ours?

They use the barker

They don't understand what sin is

They use special toilet slippers

In hotels and homes, the Japanese use separate plastic or rubber slippers for the toilet and bath. They usually stand at the entrance to the bathroom. When you go out, flip-flops should be removed and left in the same place. This strange tradition has two purposes: firstly, the Japanese believe that it is more hygienic, and secondly, it is immediately clear that the toilet is occupied. This rule often confuses foreigners, who, of course, always forget to change their shoes.

By the way, visiting street toilets is also often surprising. They look unusual in appearance, and inside they are equipped according to the first word of technology. For example, here you can turn on the music so that others certainly can’t hear what you are doing there. There is also a special button to call the security service in case the client becomes ill.

They sleep at work

Falling asleep during a meeting with colleagues or right at your workplace will not be considered embarrassing. Some Japanese practice inemuri, which can literally be translated as "to be present during sleep." The descendants of the samurai understand that a person needs sleep to work effectively, and therefore they are not ashamed to devote half an hour to an hour of working time to a nap. At the same time, taking into account several important rules: you need to sleep directly at the table, resting your head on your hands or tabletop; if you fell asleep during the meeting, but you were addressed, you should wake up and answer; if you are new to the company and you are expected to be actively involved in the work process, then inemuri will be perceived as bad form.

They refer to each other in the third person

They consider tipping an insult

In Japan, tips are seen as an insult, a sign that the waiter is not doing his job and therefore needs a monetary incentive.

They decorate trucks

An Epson employee says

There is a stereotype that it is good to work in Japan. This stereotype comes from our compatriots who work by invitation in foreign companies, where the Japanese try to adapt to the level and style of foreigners. Meanwhile, in the Land of the Rising Sun itself, the traditional working system is arranged in a very peculiar way, and it is rather difficult to exist in it. That is why there are not so many foreigners building a career in classic Japanese companies. Epson's Marina Matsumoto talks about what it's like to be the average office worker in Japan.

Dress code

In a traditional Japanese company, a mandatory black suit is worn regardless of the weather, even if it is +40 outside. The Japanese endure both heat and cold calmly, as they go through a very harsh school of hardening the body in childhood. Recently, a new law has been passed that allows short-sleeve shirts to be worn to work. This is due to the forced energy savings, in which even in extreme heat, air conditioners are not always used in offices.

In some companies, women are not allowed to wear fitted suits - they must be absolutely straight. The skirt must cover the knees.

In some places, women are required to wear only short hair that does not cover their ears. Hair color is always black. If by nature you, for example, are blonde, you will have to dye your hair.

Subordination

Only work at work

They take to the workplace only what is needed for work: for me, these are documents and a pen. I can’t take my bag, wallet and phone, it remains at the checkpoint.

How the Japanese slow down the workflow

In Russia, we all know that wages depend on the results of your work. If you work hard, you get nothing. You work well - you get bonuses and promotions. You've done everything - you can leave early or ask for an additional task to earn more.

And this, by the way, is one of the main reasons why their economy was not in the best condition. With this system of payment by the hour, they have trapped themselves. Indeed, in fact, the work is not designed for quality, but for the number of hours spent in the office.

Long lengthy conversations

Society stratification

Japanese communities have always been well organized. For example, a samurai never cooked his own food, he could easily die of hunger if the peasantry had not rescued him.

Due to this mentality, it is very difficult for any Japanese to make an independent decision that is not inherent in his status. They cannot take on an elementary responsibility, at least somehow beyond the scope of their ordinary, habitual affairs. To put a comma or not to put it is a problem for half a day. The preparation of elementary documents is a series of endless, very slow consultations. Moreover, the necessity of such consultations is striking. If an employee nevertheless takes the liberty of making a decision not based on status, then everyone in the hierarchical chain associated with him will receive a reprimand. This is Eastern despotism in action: "I am a small man, I am a simple peasant, and I must do only the work that is assigned to me."

Same as everyone

Career

Salary

Vacation and weekends

If you get sick on Monday and think not to go to work, then you will not be understood. Everyone goes to work with a temperature.

Holidays can become days off, the day of remembrance of the dead - Obon, in mid-August. But a young specialist does not have such an opportunity, he will work for the first two years without extra days off.

1-3 days are given for the New Year. If they fall on Saturday-Sunday, then no one, as in Russia, will transfer them to Monday-Tuesday.

There is also a "golden week" in May, when there are several state and religious holidays in a row. My husband worked all days, I had 3 days off.

Working day

Informal communication

The Japanese do not know how to drink and, as a rule, get very drunk. The booze itself will cost you nothing, either the boss or the company always pays for it.

In addition to "nomikai", you need to drink with customers, with partners, with officials with whom the company is associated.

Yes, in Russia there is something similar, but it is incomparable with the Japanese alcohol scale. And then, in Russia, the attitude towards alcohol is much more negative.

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1. Japanese phones have a built-in nationwide emergency alert system. When some kind of cataclysm occurs, a loud beep sounds on all phones (even if the sound was turned off) and a message appears explaining what happened and how to behave.

1. In Japan, on Valentine's Day, they show sympathy and give gifts to girls. I won’t tell you what this tradition is connected with, but today it performs an important social function: allows girls to say "yes" without waiting for a Japanese man to work up the courage to approach her.

2. In Japan, fish and meat are cheap, but fruits are very expensive. One apple costs two dollars, a bunch of bananas five. The most expensive fruit is melon, a variety like our "torpedo" will cost two hundred dollars in Tokyo.

3. In Japan, pornography is sold absolutely everywhere. In every combi (grocery store), on the counter with the press, there is always a separate shelf with hentai. In small bookstores, hentai makes up a third of the entire range, in large bookstores, 2-3 floors are allocated for printography.

4. Hentai is allowed to be sold freely to minors.

5. The two most popular sub-genres of hentai are violence and sex with minors.

6. Wrapped in a cover, hentai is calmly read on the subway.

7. The Japan Subway and JR have women-only carriages. They are attached in the morning so that no one harasses the girls during rush hour. The Japanese are voyeurs, and groping girls in crowded trains is something of a national sport.

8. At the same time, Japan has one of the lowest percentages of rapes in the world. Five times less than in Russia. It seemed to me important to note this, after all that I have said above.

9. Most Japanese characters are 2-4 syllables long, but there are surprising exceptions. For example, the character 砉 reads like “hanetokawatogahanareruoto”, these are thirteen syllables! Describes the sound made when flesh is separated from bone.

10. The issue of honor still plays a central role in Japan, even in politics. Last prime minister Minister Yukio Hatoyama resigned after failing to deliver on a campaign promise (sic!). Two of his predecessors too.

11. Japan is a small country, but there are a lot of big things here. Here is the most expensive amusement park in the world, Disney Sea, four of the ten highest roller coasters. Tokyo has the most developed subway system in the world, the largest railway hub and the largest mixed pedestrian crossing.

12. In Japan, it is customary to sculpt snowmen strictly from two balls, and not three, as in the rest of the world. And then the Japanese excelled.

13. Colonel Sanders is one of the main symbols of Christmas in Japan, like Coca-Cola in the USA. On Christmas Eve, the Japanese like to go to KFC with the whole family and eat a large portion of chicken wings.

14. In Japan, 30% of weddings still occur as a result of matchmaking and お見合い (omiai) arranged by parents.

15. In all the northern cities of Japan, where snow falls in winter, sidewalks and streets are heated. There is no ice, and the snow does not need to be removed. Very comfortably!

16. However, there is no central heating in Japan. Everyone heats the apartment as best they can.

17. The Japanese word 過労死 (Karoshi) means "death by overwork." On average, 10,000 people die each year with this diagnosis. Studio Ghibli director Yoshifumi Kondo, author of my favorite the whisper of the heart died with this diagnosis.

18. Japan has one of the most liberal tobacco laws. You can smoke everywhere except railway platforms and airports.

19. Japan - last country in the world, formally retaining the title of the Empire.

20. The Japanese imperial dynasty has never been interrupted. The reigning Emperor Akihito is a direct descendant of the first Emperor Jimmu, who founded Japan in 711 BC.

21. Japan turns 2671 this year.

22. The Japanese are constantly talking about food, and when they eat, they discuss how they like the treat. Having dinner without saying “oishii” (delicious) a few times is very impolite.

23. In general, the Japanese love repetition. When girls do it, it's considered kawaii.

24. The Japanese language uses three types of writing at the same time: Hiragana (a syllabary system for writing Japanese words), Katakana (a syllabary system for writing borrowed words) and Kanji (hieroglyphic writing). Crazy, yes.

25. There are no guest workers in Japan. This is achieved by a simple law: the minimum wage for which a foreign worker is allowed to be employed in Japan is higher than the average wage for a Japanese worker. Thus, the way to the country remains open for highly paid specialists, and unskilled visiting labor does not dump wages. local residents. Solomon's solution.

26. More than half of the railways in Japan are private. Non-state carriers are responsible for 68% of the country's total rail traffic.

27. Hirohito was never removed from power, after the war he led the reformation and ruled until 1989. Hirohito's birthday is a national holiday and is celebrated every April 29th.

28. Mount Fuji is privately owned. In the Shintaist temple of Hongyu Sengen, a donation from 1609 was preserved, with which the Shogun transferred the mountain into the possession of the temple. In 1974, the authenticity of the donation was confirmed by the Supreme Court of Japan, after which he had no other choice but to transfer the mountain to the property of the temple. Because property rights in Japan are inviolable.

29. The Japanese language consists of several levels of politeness: colloquial, respectful, polite, and very polite. Women almost always speak in a respectful form of the language, men in colloquial.

30. Seven percent of the male population of Japan is Hikkikomori. Seven!!!

31. In Japanese, months do not have names, instead they are indicated serial numbers. For example, September is 九月 (kugatsu), which means "ninth month".

32. Before Japan opened up to the west, the only word to describe romantic sympathy was 恋 (koi), literally meaning "irresistible attraction to something unattainable."

33. Japan is a mono-ethnic country, 98.4% of the total population are ethnic Japanese.

35. Dolphins are eaten in Japan. They make soup, cook kushiyaki (Japanese kebab), and even eat it raw. The dolphin has rather tasty meat, with a pronounced taste and completely unlike fish.

36. There are practically no personal pronouns in the Japanese language, and those words that are sometimes used as pronouns have at least one more meaning. In Russian, for example, the pronoun "I" does not mean anything but "I", and in Japanese 私 (vatashi, I) also means "private, personal"; 貴方 (anata, you) - "my master". It is polite to use “anata” only at the first meeting, then it is customary to address the interlocutor by name or position.

37. Tokyo is the safest metropolis in the world. Tokyo is so safe that six-year-olds take public transportation on their own. This is fantasy actually.

38. The Japanese consider the outside world very dangerous and are afraid to travel. So a Japanese woman friend once asked me if it would be too dangerous for her to stay alone in the Kensington Gardens area of London. They consider the United States the most dangerous country.

39. The ninth article of the Japanese constitution forbids the country to have its own army and participate in wars.

40. In Japan academic year begins on the first of April and is divided into trimesters. Schoolchildren study from April to July, then September to December and from January to March.

41. There are no garbage cans in Japan, as all garbage is recycled. Waste is divided into four types: glass, incinerable, recyclable and non-incinerable garbage. Each type of waste is taken out on a specific day and it can be thrown away only on strictly allotted dates. There is a large fine for violating the procedure, in my house it is a hundred thousand yen (about a thousand dollars).

42. There are also no trash cans on the streets at all, only special bins for collecting bottles. An illustrative example of what is clean where they do not crap.

43. Japan has very low pensions. The maximum social allowance for distressed old people is 30,000 yen, which is about three hundred dollars. There is also no compulsory pension insurance, it is assumed that every Japanese must take care of his old age himself.

44. Godzilla (Japanese for Gojira) is not an accidental name. This is a portmanteau of the words "Gorilla" and "Kujira" (whale). One can only guess how they interbred so that a reptile turned out.

45. Transport in Japan is very expensive, the cheapest subway ticket will cost 140 yen (50 rubles).

46. In Japan, men are always served first. In a restaurant, a man is the first to place an order, and the drink is brought to him first. In stores, they always greet the man first.

47. The Japanese drive big cars. City cars are impossible to meet even in close Tokyo, but there are a lot of jeeps.

48. For all the time in Japan, I have not seen a single toilet without heating the toilet seat and with less than 10 buttons. And recently I discovered that in my house the toilet can make the sound of running water to hide, uh, its own sounds.

49. Everyone in Japan knows that Hello Kitty comes from England.

50. Tipping is strictly not accepted in Japan. It is believed that as long as the client pays the appointed price for the service, he remains on an equal footing with the seller. If the buyer tries to leave extra money, he thereby devalues the service / product provided to him, reducing the equal exchange to handouts.

51. During the year of my life in Japan, I have never encountered manifestations of racism against myself. I think it's very cool.

52. Japan is the best country in the world.

53. Japanese MTV is running the popular series Usavich, a cartoon about two birds with one stone, Putin and Kiriyenko, trying to survive in a police state.

54. The age of consent in Japan is 13.

55. Japan is three times the size of England. The area of Japan is 374,744 km², England 130,410 km².

56. Japan is often cited as an example of an overpopulated country. In fact, Japan's population density is only 360 people per square kilometer. This is less than in England, where there are 383 people per square kilometer.

57. In Japanese, the words "wrong" and "different" are denoted by the same word 違う (chigau).

58. Things have taken root in Japan that seemed to be the future twenty years ago, and today leave a strange retro-futuristic impression. Automatic doors in taxis, vending machines selling everything from fruit to soups to used underpants. Fantastically shaped trains and funny fashion. All this is very cool.

59. The Japanese word 御来光 (goraiko) describes the sunrise seen from Mount Fuji. There are many capacious words in Japanese.

60. Hitler admired the integrity of the Japanese nation and called them "honorary Aryans". In apartheid South Africa, the Japanese were the only ones who weren't disenfranchised because they were considered "honorary whites".

61. In Japan, on Valentine's Day, girls show sympathy and give gifts. I won’t tell you what this tradition is connected with, but today it performs an important social function: it allows girls to say “yes” without waiting until a Japanese man has the courage to approach her.

62. There is no looting in Japan. If you type “looting in japan” into Google, you will only find tens of thousands of surprised foreigners who cannot understand why empty houses are not robbed in Japan.

63. The Japanese hardly speak English, but they use a fantastic amount of anglicisms. Alex Case tried to make a list, counted over 5000 words and got tired of continuing (Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) At the same time, their Japanese pronunciation distorts them so much that you can not hope to understand them, or that they will understand you if you pronounce the word with the original accent.

64. Few people know that the words “wata”, “pollock” and “washi” are borrowed from Japanese. About the "tsunami" and "typhoon", I think everyone knows.

65. Japanese also has borrowings from Russian. The words イクラ "ikura; caviar” and ノルマ “noruma; norm". There is also funny expression“ヴ・ナロード” “woo people; to the people”, it was inherited from Alexander II.

66. Japan has the death penalty. Eight criminals were executed in Japan last year. The last two executions were attended by the Minister of Justice of Japan.

67. In Japan, the most low level homicides and the lowest rate of violent crimes per 100,000 population among all analyzed countries. It has the highest average life expectancy in the world.

68. Tokyo has one of the largest gay areas in the world, Shinjuku-Ni-Chome. It has the largest concentration of gay bars in the world.

69. Japanese and Chinese characters are the same. There are regional differences in Chinese characters more and in a simplified form they are written differently. But knowing Japanese, you can understand common sense Chinese signage.

70. Instead of a signature in Japan, they put a special nominal seal of hanko. Every Japanese has such a seal and it is used many, many times a day. You can also buy it at any store.

71. Japan is the only country in the world where the criterion for a train being late is a minute mark.

72. In Japan, it is considered impolite to open a gift in front of the giver. They thank him for it, after which they set aside to open it in private.

73. The Japanese believe that a person should be able to hide suffering behind a smile. There is even a saying 顔で笑って心で泣く (kao de waratte kokoro de naku; smile while you suffer inside).

74. The Japanese are a nation of very passionate people. If they do something, they strive for complete authenticity. So, in all French bakeries, Japanese inscriptions are duplicated in French. In the Italian gelateria, the ice cream will be signed in Italian, and in the Spanish restaurant, the menu will be in Spanish. In English, however, there will be nothing. Sometimes it seems that for them it is just “another European language”.

75. In Japan, property rights are strictly observed, so there are dozens of companies with more than a thousand years of history. For example, the Hoshi Ryokan Inn has been in continuous operation since 718. It has been run by the same family for 46 generations (sic!).

76. Tanuki - wayward Japanese werewolf animals that bring happiness and prosperity. Their eggs are a traditional symbol of good luck. The canonical happiest tanuki has an egg area of 8 tatami, which is 12 meters. In case of trouble, they bear retribution with them. Studio Ghibli has a wonderful Pom Poko cartoon about them, check it out.

77. Two-thirds of Japan is covered with forests. Japan bans commercial logging of its own forests, but it consumes 40% of all timber that comes from the rainforest.

78. For 10 years, from 1992 to 2002, Japan was the largest donor of international aid in the world. This is by the way to everyone who is now gloating over the Japanese misfortune.

79. When the conductor enters the next car high-speed train, he always takes off his hat and bows, and only then begins to check the tickets.

80. In Japan, the third way was successful, which we have been looking for for a long time and will never find. Here is a unique organization of society: on the one hand, a completely Western legal state, on the other, a distinctive culture that lives not only by traditions, but is constantly evolving. I don't understand why no one in Russia studies the Japanese experience.

And in general, a strange people, these Japanese. Although damn hardworking and talented. But now it's not about that, but about sexual f** in Japan, which is less and less. She is supplanted by rukosuystvo and other sadism.

A couple of months ago, the European public was shocked by the news that young people in Japan are massively refusing sex - that is, in general. It shocked, however, not for long: they shook their heads at the phenomenon, like at hentai, and forgot. Meanwhile, in the collapse of Japanese-made online porn, there are more and more videos with scenes of violence against women. What's even worse is that they don't always imitate it. We look into why sexual aggression is on the rise in one of the most advanced and well-mannered societies in the world, as well as how modern media and centuries-old traditions are to blame.

On January 8 of this year, the entire police army of Japan caught Yuta Sugimoto, a 20-year-old suspect in the gang rape and robbery of a woman on Kawasaki Street. According to the police, Sugimoto escaped during interrogation, taking advantage of the negligence of the officer looking after him. “It scares us terribly that he is still on the run,” worried mothers said. "I'm going to lock the doors tight today," the father of two elementary schoolers echoed in an interview with a local channel that, like all other media, covered the chase around the clock. A case that should not have been made public, like most rape cases in Japan, this time attracted the attention of the entire press and the police themselves: 4,000 police officers, 850 service cars, helicopters and dogs were looking for one escaped criminal, and the next day they found. According to official statistics, Japan has one of the lowest levels of sexual crimes, and it seems that the mass interest in the escaped rapist should confirm this. But it's not.

In the culture of any country, sex crimes are defined in terms of what is outside the norm. So what is considered normal sex in Japan, a country of victorious pornography and unbridled prostitution, which is still not legalized, but not nearly as condemned as in other civilized countries?

“You know, I don't think it's normal to write an article about sex in other countries. I understand that many readers will be interested in this, but I think that each individual has his own path and that this is a very personal story, ”says a friend from Japan, who takes me out of Facebook friends after a few minutes. About the same answer I get from three more acquaintances who had previously consistently laughed at all the sexist jokes and daily discussed the most obscene hentai. Seeming at first glance as hypocrisy, this behavior is normal for the Japanese. Japanese women are a little more open, especially those who left the country about ten years ago. Satoko Asahi has lived in the US since 2004 and says that “statistically, not all young people are interested in real sex, but it's not just technology's fault. I believe that it is controlled by the media and society. Our Japanese media even have a new word "neutral" for feminine men, as well as "herbivorous men" ( herbivore men ). Such definitions, of course, change the usual idea of man and woman, as well as sex, and therefore lead to these oddities in love.

"Oddities in love", as well as a noticeable decline in youth interest in sex, were recorded in the newspaper The Guardian . An article titled "Why did the youth of Japan stop having sex?" made a lot of noise, because in it a former professional dominatrix, who turned into a sex consultant, told about Japanese celibacy. Reasons cited included financial (children are expensive to support), career (women finally have a career and want to secure their position), and technological (availability and prevalence of online pornography, sex toys, and hentai). The article, however, barely mentions the high level of violence in Japanese media production, which supposedly turns women away from sex, and gives men the opportunity to fantasize about the dark around the clock and, as a result, deprives them of the desire to have sex in real life. According to the data Associated Press , of the total amount of available pornography, approximately 20% contain rape themes, and these numbers are growing every year. Pornography seems so normal that it's quite common for Japanese men to read porn manga on trains, sitting next to women.

In pornographic manga, sex (even by mutual agreement of the parties) is usually an act towards a woman, rather than an act of all participants in the process. When female characters manifest sexual desires on their own, they are often "rewarded" by losing interest or showing anger from the male characters. Moreover, women in manga often enjoy pain and humiliation. A similar message to readers is that women should not express their sexual independence, but should enjoy the role of objects of aggressive male desire. Simply put, the pleasure of sex is received primarily by a man. By directly participating in the creation of society's ideas about sexuality, pornography and the prevalence of the sex industry broadcast the idea of \u200b\u200b"natural" male aggressiveness. As the Japanese proverb says, "A man's character is not to be judged below the navel."

In an annual report White Paper on Crime , which is freely available on the Internet, there are statistics for Japan. According to the report, the number of reported cases of rape increased until 2003, but steadily declined after. According to alternative statistics from the research group of the Japanese Ministry of Justice, approximately 11% of women in Japan simply do not write statements due to the traditional Japanese society, in which the victim always provokes the rapist with her "loli" look. The reason lies in the Japanese legal system itself, in which there is a tacit acceptance of one true story among all the stories about what happened.

“Individually, Japanese detectives are charming, dedicated, hardworking, sincere and very decent people, but as an institution, the Japanese police are arrogant and often incompetent,” says Richard Perry, a British correspondent who has lived in Japan since 1995. Quite often, court decisions are made not on the basis of facts, but on the basis of the stories of the participants according to their own interpretation of events. When a subjective opinion is consistent with the prevailing ideology and beliefs, it is most often seen as an objective truth. Stories that go against the conventions of society make storytellers outcasts. Therefore, there is more faith in the one who was the rapist than in the victim: she most likely enjoyed it.

It's hard to believe, but there is one nasty story to confirm the prevailing mores in Japan (there were no such precedents anywhere in the world). Shinichiro Wada, a student at Tokyo's prestigious Waseda University, created a club Super Free , one of the conditions for joining which was participation in gang rapes. He allegedly raped about 500 women after drugging them with alcohol. Wada studied political economy and turned gang rape into profitable business. He organized drunken parties in various clubs, attracting up to 2,000 participants, each of whom had to buy a ticket. After party around 100 attractive girls transported to another club where they soldered. Then five or six drunk girls were selected: they were brought to the headquarters Super Free and raped, taking pictures on the camera and forcing them to smile at the camera. One of the detained rapists, Junichiro Kobayashi, advised the boyfriend of one of the victims to "look at these photos" and make sure that "everything happened by mutual agreement." Similar "parties" spread to seven cities in Japan and included students from Keio, Meiji and Hosei universities. Despite Wada's father deploring his son's actions and advising him to "pluck up the courage to kill himself," Japanese officials initially made strange statements.

Yasuo Fukuda, then chief cabinet secretary and minister for gender equality, said "the problem is that many women dress provocatively" and are partly to blame for the rape. Subsequently, Fukuda stated that his words were taken out of context and he “meant something completely different,” but did not specify what exactly. Waseda University reacted in an interesting way: Super Free was dissolved, and a notice was posted for students - “Any sex without consent is rape, and this is a serious crime. Don't be fooled by stereotypical violence in dramas, comics and videos!"

History with the club Super Free shook up Japanese society and slightly increased the rate of rape claims. For the first time in a hundred years, Japanese law, which has not been revised since 1907, included punishment for participating in mass rapes. Japan, the leader of the world of technology and the aggregate of the world's main madness, is hopelessly behind the rest of the world in matters of gender equality. Violent comics have become a guide to the real world: A 17-year-old student who raped 31 women told police he was trying to recreate scenes he saw in pornographic magazines. Japanese youth en masse refuse to have sex. It seems that this is the first community in the world that just needs to read and watch less, and then, perhaps, sex will return to the country, in which no one is humiliated, and good pink ponies rule the world. “Still, the blame for the lack of interest in sex lies entirely with the media. For example, can you explain why young Japanese women like to watch two gay men have sex? Satoko asks. - I can't, but the media spread it like new trend, and the whole society, as a rule, unambiguously accepts it. It turns out that we just watch and fantasize too much instead of just living.”

Note that the ferocity of character is not alien to the Japanese, this can be told by the descendants of the Chinese who survived the massacre in Nanjing. At the same time, the drug that causes aggression, with which ISIS militants are pumped up, did not yet exist at that time, so everything came from within. But, apparently, after the aggression directed to the outside world was forbidden to them, having previously healed from violent militaristic insanity with napalm, uranium and plutonium, they transferred it to the sphere of sexual life, and instead of caressing the one they are naturalizing ( in the norm, it is pleasant not only to receive affection, but also to caress), they clobber her.