no one has ever said that, visiting Japan is nice not living there though. The only “weebs” who wish they were born in Japan are the delusional ones who have a distorted view of the country.
@@bluetoothxray Good if you’re in a job that ur happy about. My Japanese friend chose to go to construction because he loves it. He had a talent for basketball and he passed a test for uni but, he chose construction and the teachers scolded him severely.
The Japanese government is freaking out about this kinda stuff too, they're literally paying people to go back to simple farming lifestyles instead of being stuck in 9-5 office jobs.
@@paulinabugaj6897 It seems to be 10 to 10 or even 10 to 2 and after 2 you go drinking with your boss so he can break the news to you that the last four were unpaid. Learning that lawyers start out making less than a Mcdonalds employee here in America really cemented a new perspective of Japan in my mind.
Well, to be honest, most of that is actually not because of this, it's because since Japan has a big problem with declining population, coupled with the fact that young people generally prefer to move to the cities anyway, almost all their farming is currently being done by old people who are not going to be around too much longer, and there is a real risk that their farming infrastructure will just collapse if they don't get more young people interested in taking over for them...
With the typical pile of paperwork. The way they zone everything and everything is bureaucracy. You buy a house there, they require ALL neighbours to attend with a government official to agree to the property boundaries before it goes thru.
@@foogod4237the place is ran by the old people their way and the birth rates are suffering due to a multitude of issues not limited to overwork and crazy expectations of partners.
Failure is a natural part of life and empathize with those who feel ashamed when failure occurs. It's such a suffocating feeling. I just recently looked at failure as 'this did not work out or I didn't complete this task. I use to look at failure as if it was my identity. I totally empathize.
100% Failure isn't the end of anything. It is the beginning of finding out what not to do. Imagine if Thomas Edison stopped "failing" to find the lightbulb after he had tried thousands of other things, our world would be dramatically different.
I'm struggling with failure too, but life doesn't come with instructions, so I'll just take it as an experience to learn. I used to think it was the end of everything.
And the declining population I'll admit japan has some very big positives like their hospitality cleanliness and technological innovation but they have alot of problems people just gloss over
Because they dont experience this, because they are youtubers. If you live in a country where you have a fun job and have good money people dont see the bad sides of their country. I was born and raised in Western Europe, my country is seen as an amazing country with many social benefits. Yet people in mental health care facilities and group homes are being abused and neglected. Many people don't knkw this. Because they don't live this life, they don't meet people like this and thus don't know and don't care about it. Just like how rich people in America don't care about beggars on the street. CZcamsrs don't have an ordinary job. The don't know about the ins and outs of the Japanese work culture, because they don't live this kind of life. Most of their friends have similair jobs so they dont meet people who commit Johatsu. They litteraly almlst live in a diffrent reality
@@Cyhcg5uhgb a lot of our elderly in america get abused and neglected in nursing homes, its more common than you'd think, the same with mental health facilities, they let trans men (a woman who thinks she is a man for you easterners) be in the same area as the men and it has led to rapes, violence, you get the idea
Japan is glorified way too much on the internet. It's like the golden child with a secret life doing drugs cause they can't handle parent's expectations.
Bushido, more like bullshit. This outdated concept is not gonna work in the future. Imagine committing suicide because of failure or rumours. A true man looks at his challenges dead in the eye and spits on its face.
Japan goes extreme with this agreed but in general all Asian groups are like this. Respect and honor are very important and asian families WILL disown you. It breaks some and makes some. Asian shame culture is real, and most people are not ready for the smoke given by family and peers 😂💯
@@LprogressivesANDliberalsMost people aren’t strong enough to do it on their own. A lot of people will get jealous when you see you succeeding alone. True bonds may be strong, but mud is always thicker than blood.
Imagine there's a short katana under their desk that provided by the company they work. Then forced to commit Seppuku if any sales rating compony drops
@@VictheChickdoesnt matter if they can never get out of work to actually get a chance at making a familly. or that their economy is slowly crumbling as a result of said lack of birth. No birth controll are needed when theres no birth
Unfortunately yes. Japanese culture and values of honor or shame are so deeply rooted that it affects everything about their daily and personal lives. From toxic workplaces, harsh social standings, to problematic personal life (if you even have any). It is very worrying, me and my friends are great fans of japanese art and manga, I even aspire to be a mangaka (writer and illustrator), but the situation in japan is so steep that I can never work there without bringing harm to myself and my mental health.
I used to work for a Japanese boss, he is cool very westernised. He said if he feel like a failure, he would remember his grandfather who was a soldier in WW2 who felt so ashamed that Japan lost the war, but decades later so proud that he and the country was able to bounce back up.
@@archermadsen7744 I don't think Japan can even compare to China 's military prowess anymore and plus the Chinese people do hate the Japanese quite deeply, I wouldn't blame them tho
@@tachyonX370considering the corruption and internal strife I’m hearing from the PLA as well as CZcamsrs such as Task & Purpose, other history CZcamsrs and news articles, Japan might not be too outclassed. JSDF is smaller though albeit probably way higher in quality. Shrug, war is bad anyway
I interpret this comment as saying, "sometimes you fail, and sometimes it was meant to be because the thing you were doing was definitely not a good thing. Like he was ashamed he lost the war but, if he had won, it would have made the world a worse place. Not many of us are "side with corrupt german officials" bad. But, sometimes, you fail that interview because the interviewer knows you can't handle the stress or that you're too honest of a person. Sometimes your partner breaks up with you because you develop self respect and boundaries. Sometimes your friends leave you because you develop a moral compass. Sometimes what looks like rejection and failure is simply a door that you should not have gone through. Other times, it is your fault and you did lose out on something great. I recommend reflecting more often. I recently got into Christianity and the way I see it is that God has a unique plan for us with hills and valleys. An article titled, "Near Death Experiences - Division of Perceptual Studies" by the University of Virginia suggests that "life reviews" are common in near death experiences. Why wait until a near death experience? Review your life now and work to make yourself happy when you look over your life. Do community service work, donate to charity, maybe research belief systems and work on making your moral compass strong because you never know how much time you have. God bless you all.
Well Atombombs tend to destroy even culture. At least they behave. Americans have a hobby playing world police and starting war for piecefull archivements while all its about is oil. (Example)
They're messed up? In the U.S we literally have 40+ years of non stop senseless wars. We have open borders. Boys dominating girls sports. Gays cheering for palestine. But they're the messed up ones? What does that make us? Lol
As a Japanese, I'm ashamed of such a culture 🤦♂️ Jokes aside, my country is a good place and good people live indeed, but it seems like our educational system (including influences from other people around when you're young) doesn't nurture individual's self confidence and identity very well. People recognize themselves by what they accomplished in the past and what their surroundings are now, and when something won't hold anymore, then the whole self kind of collapses all together. It's true and pretty sad. So if you have a Japanese friend nearby, try complementing and acknowledging them not for what they've done but for who they are. I bet they'll get confused or become uncomfortable at first, but eventually it will move their heart, stronger than people from other cultures. It helped me a lot :)
No, it really does not "go on everywhere" in the same way and on the same scale that it does in Japan. In Japan, doing this is often almost seen as correct and responsible behavior by those who do it (as a way to not inconvenience others, etc), and there is even a whole industry around it of people who will help people do this for money, etc. And unlike in most other places, these people are not doing it because they think they can have a better life somewhere else. They know that they will likely have a much worse life, but they still do it anyway. And despite Japan being a much smaller country, the number of people who are estimated to deliberately disappear every year is actually much larger than in the US or most other countries, too, so this sort of thing actually affects a much larger portion of their populace.
It's extremely rare in the US. Anyone who would disappear merely because they failed an exam or lost a job would be considered mentally ill or a coward. In the US, we're expected to be _resilient_ , to be able to pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and keep trying until we succeed. They drill that into you at school, and if you're lucky, at home too.
Agreed. It's more prevalent in Japan though. Too bad Americans don't Johatsu themselves more often... a lot of them SHOULD have a little shame for their behavior.
In a book called "Japan Today," there was an example of such. A banker had authorized a loan to a friend who failed to repay it. The banker felt disgraced. He left his job and wife and became homeless. He lived in a refrigerator box. Interesting enough, in the US, if you have no defaulting loans the bank may assume you are turning away too many profitable loans.
Damn… tbh shouldn’t the friend be more disgraced tho?? Like I’m not advocating for this but I mean it’s not his fault for this failure technically other than vouching for the wrong friend. Like it’s indirect failure at best and doesn’t cause any large financial problems to himself or the household right? Def not worth leaving the family? Idk maybe I’m not understanding it well but logically if anyone should be feeling the shame it shouldn’t be the banker right😭
I think nowadays especially, people forget how valuable the lessons of failures are. Boomers used to say go experience everything life has to offer including success and failure because it's through failure we learn how to pick ourselves up. But with the rise of social media and you see these glam lifestyles, it kind of gave off a false sense to young generations, that you can't possibly fail in life and I think that does more harm than good. Namely if they do fail and feel trapped because of failure they wouldn't know how to move on from that. So my advice to a situation like that is if you do ever experience hopelessness, just remember at the end of the day pick yourself up. You may think you can't, you may think it's too hard, but do it. Don't stand in one spot because it'll get you nowhere in life and everything around you won't stop and wait for you to be ready. Keep moving, find something to do, have some direction, any direction in life, and you just might find something unexpected at the end of the road.
In Japan, if you're a 9/17 office man, literally all your wife and kids care for is if you're bringing money and keeping family in good reputation They actually rarely see you, because it's 9/17 but practically Japanese people stay at work until late in the evening because they won't dare to leave until their god- I mean boss is done with his work too Sometimes these extra but practically mandatory evening shift extend into extra but practically mandatory beer outings with the boss, to meet rich clients They don't raise their kids, they don't have hobbies and friendships outside of the office, their wives gradually forget they ever loved them over the years Japan has a PLAGUE of divorces around age of 60, because wives don't tolerate their husbands not disappearing for a whole day anymore, and God forbid, wanting to have something to say in HER household Maybe leaving relatives behind isn't as bad as you painted it
Japan has many cultures that are lovely. But to make a person feel a failure and not encourage them to try something else is a sad thing. I pray that they find peace in their hearts 🙏❤️
@@iloveblackC Japanese army and government during Meiji period was advised and mentored by Prussian/German experts and warhawks. the west was also colonising and strongarming their neighbours left and right and if Japan didnt show up to the game they would be on the chopping block too.
@@Castrate- Yes and No, Japan had a samurai culture long before all of that, which condemned failure as shameful, and dishonor was the worst thing that could happen for a Japanese person. Maybe they learned a few things from the cultures around them, but most of their tactics were THEIR tactics. Sedoku bombers, was their strategy, honor killings existed in Japan centuries before that, and believe it or not, Japanese soldiers in WW2 were some of the most gun ho soldiers in the war. Ever heard of the soviet soldiers that were practically zombies, that was Japanese soldiers the entire time. And just like today, then, and way before then, they had a culture which is surrounded by the idea of honor, which was not brought by western cultures to them.
That’s so heartbreaking. It makes me wonder how many people were kidnapped/murdered but their family didn’t report the missing out of fear that they committed Johatsu.
I get wat you say so figuur out a solution this law is important and i can se this having alot of upside and downside buy overall its a + to me you can even get rid of al the childhood torment or overprotective parents or stalkers or violent relationship
Another part of the reason why this is often unreported to police is that Japanese privacy laws and customs make it so that if somebody does not want to be found, the police basically aren't allowed to try to look for them either, so unless there is actually reason to suspect foul play, their hands are sorta tied, and there's nothing they can do anyway... (Japan does not even have any official database of missing persons, or anything.)
There's actual apartment complexs specifically for those people in a lot of their cities. Or thats how the majority of small rural villages regain some population, there was an article/news story in 2013 or 2016 about it, basically they disappear off into the countryside
@darthnosam3313 yes? Does that change how they are literally ashamed of one of their family members for going missing??? Does it change how it is (imo) ACTUALLY shameful of being ashamed of your son or daughter for failing one test or going missing? No it doesn't and honestly my culture doesn't have anything to do with that I think it's just common decency to allow someone a second chance or something or acknowledge their family members disappearance or maybe its just its just in my culture
Japan is so developed that its creating its own problems Based on what I've read/seen about their educational system, it's really brutal yet a lot of people seem to frame that as a good thing when the whole purpose of education is... to learn, not to pass an exam or graduate - to learn, and yet normally the most fun thing about school is graduation because education has lost its substance parents are also complicit in this because a lot of them seem to really be passionate about grades, which is stupid because a single number can't evaluate a person's abilities and skills
"Japan is so developed it creates it's own problem" ah yes the quote I've seen a lot being used towards the us,let us guess,you intentionally reused quote on Japan as a respond because you hate the quote being used on the us? You feel satisfied you can used said quotes on another country? Guess what buddy you won't get your passive aggressive satisfaction today because im exposing you,
@@alderayie9187 I'm sure he thought about some quote which can be used for pretty much every modern country and got so offended by it that he needed to write a response about a totally unrelated country's social problems.
They need to ditch this closed, introverted sheep mentality and embrace bold, energetic mentality to survive this century and luckily live to see the next century.
I’m glad I live in the US since I failed at my career pretty much and went crazy. I still have people who love me and I got help. I have a pretty good life now.
This is wild. I would never want my children to go off and “disappear” because of shame! If something doesn’t work out, then you try again, or go on to something different, but never disappear! How could sooo many people just agree that this is okay? It’s truly sad.
It is not so much a lack of love from parents, or parents want them to disappear. It is just that when you fail, you fail really hard. They just feel extreme shame for failing, and there is nothing that can fix that.
@@frodej6640 I understand that, but I think there could be SOMETHING that someone could do to make it better. Unless they are an actual bad person, but besides that they shouldn’t be shamed. It’s sad, the pressure of being successful literally takes lives.
@@coliedeekenzo I too think there should be a change, but ... the japanese culture is one of the most stubborn there is. I have pondered a great deal over this, and I do not know the answer. Japanese that are exposed to the west, see our life and system, do seem to want our way of living to a certain extent. Idk.
@@coliedeekenzobi sorie but if you are in a volonte marriage wat this in moost of the world thats atleast 3 jears you are stuk with that person and if you are unlucky he or she wil stalk you afterwards and alot of time that results in death and if you get a restraining order that wil stop them ??????? No if you are lucky you can dodge them til th kops get them and you get a bit of Time after that its open seizoen agen the trile wil start from 0 yoy file for restraining order and then prove its at witch point you are 1/2 jears on and th n you get it an the stakker stil shows up then tha battel to get him arested starts then you a nother 1/2 jears on and he gows to prison for 2/3 jears befor it starts al over agen so yes i can se a 1000% Juse in this law even if it only in this aspect
I know a Japanese who just ignore the existence of this culture. Despite being a failure, he continues his life as normally and forget the past. Aside from that i know this guy very well, even though he has no shame he often has existence crisis almost every day.
There are companies that specialize in helping disappear. One of my sisters worked in one. She told me they help people move from one place to another and start a new life.
@@Isjshdkskskajsj "corporate job", also known as a good and safe job with better perks. The other jobs aren't that great, and it is a short way to homelessness. It is not that difficult to find stories from the lost generation that explain this.
@@frodej6640 do you realize theres only 3k homeless in Japan? Yeah Japanese blue collar jobs might be horrible and low paying but still most Japanese can afford to live without ending up in the street like in U.S with homeless population of 2M, France with 300k, UK with 380k. For me, and many of you I believe Japan looks much better don't you see?
experience something like this for 1year it really made me realize how little I matter to some people blood relation or not its not shame its the lack of care from people that should have been there
I did this. 8 months ago after i bring shamed in my. Construction company in Sapporo. I do the "jo hatsu" cut every connection with my co worker and family, reeset my phone and and never looking back, now i lived in little town somewhere in toyama perfecture. I understand that it wasn't great idea to do so. But i find inner comfort living a new life.
Thank you for sharing. Could you please tell me what disgrace you brought to your past job? I want to understand what kind of situations make you push the reset button 🙏 really appreciate your reply and wish you the best
Suck it up, man! Any coward can run away from his/her responsibilities and the consequences of his/her actions. A person of honor, courage and integrity stays and faces the ups and downs of life. What are you? A small, timid child who cries at the sound of thunder? Be an adult. Call your family. Return home, and take care of your responsibilities. Whatever you did at work was not a crime, or you would be in prison instead of hiding in the countryside. Grow a backbone.
"For as little as failing an exam" You didn't just call an exam in Asia "Little". Exams like from India, China, Korea and even Japan literally is crucial to every student and it's also the reason they're one of the hardest exams
Asian parenting will break a lot of people. Proud to be a great contributor to society. Proud to have a huge family with multi generational men and women and generational wealth! 🇺🇸
Sorry but completely collapsing at the first sign of failure is a great weakness. I don't know much about Japanese values but true strength comes from over coming your failures, not from buckling under it.
take a moment to reflect on your life, that’s just a damn cliche, and you sure as hell know it. which is why you say it, to deny your own feelings and avoid the same feelings.
@@RagingInsomniacYes and no, at the same time. To fail greatly at something is crushing, and to use this excuse that you can “learn” from this failure without actually doing so, is simply denial and escapism. To actually take your failures in and learn from them though, genuinely doing so to become better, is where true strength, wisdom, and knowledge come from. Extra: If you genuinely don’t learn from your mistakes, you will simply fall to them, feel crushed at every moment , and only repeat the same things which have hurt you. But, if you take the time to slowly learn, and take action to do better, then you will be better. Better than any man who cannot accept and learn from their mistakes. Accept your feelings of crushing defeat without any guilt, worry, or stress, they’re only human emotions which will help you to further yourself. Learn from them to be better.
@RagingInsomniac Failed O Chem twice over. The third time I took it I learned from my mistakes and passed with a solid B. If I had been raised Japanese I would have quit after the first failed exam nevermind failing the class. The problem is that people expect perfection. That isn't stupid. That is outright insanity. There's a reason why perfectionism is considered a mental illness in extreme cases.
Once you fail, there are no do-overs. Family is a lie, friendship is Communist propaganda, and death comes for us all. 💀 Let this be the start of our villain arcs. Who needs to grow up now, Mom? 💀
It isn't always because of shame Sometimes the person is just fed up with their life and they want out ,but the only way they can leave is to cut off all family and social ties. So they evaporate, go to a nearly empty small town, move into one of the abandoned houses (that may have legally bought before they evaporated ) and find work doing odd jobs. There is so much pressure to conform that the only way to start a new life is to vanish so your family , coworkers and friends can't find you.
@@CommentGuard717no if you give up on life is a failure you left school not give up not same either way its the mentality you have for me everyone who can forgive himself and not try to suicide is a courageous person so you are courageous
It's truly ironic how much people wish to avoid shame and yet bring it upon themselves. What a shame so many people lost without the opportunity to learn and grow.
Hopefully soon enough Japan will realize that failure is a part of growth. If you condemn failure so harshly that people go on to become homeless or completely detached from their family then you should probably change your outlook on it.
This is unfortunately something done in Taiwan as well and it broke my heart to find out they end up on the streets homeless and forgotten ,refusing to contact their families or friends .. besides the fact that I had to tore my own heart out and divorce my ex wife ..I heard the number as I was leaving the country.. in the year 2022 55.000 Taiwanese people committed suicide and took their lives ..
Hey, fellow Asian here. To put it in context, that’s why you rarely see exciting tech startups in Asia because of this culture at large in Asian society. It is all about the face and put on a good show to outsiders
Succeed by stubborn persistence. Dont give up. You're worth it. Even if it's not the exact thing that you dreamt of, a good life is worth it. Sometimes, making a living and enjoying life when you can is the best situation.
Japan is proof that everywhere has its flaws even if it seems perfect. It’s almost like a opposite to America where everyone talks about the negatives of living here, but you never hear about the positives.
This reminds me of the Japanese survivor of the Titanic who was literally dragged in Japnese papers for not "going down with the ship", I can't remember if he was part of the crew or not, but he was part of the survivors who got to return home. Either way he was considered shameful for returning alive, instead of returning in a coffin. It's wild this sentiment still prevails to this day and these counties they wonder why their population is shrinking. Who'd want to bring a child into a country that would immediately label them a "failure" and force them into hiding, simply because they failed a test?
Another side of this that I think is interesting is people who end up doing Johatsu is that there are actual agencies that will at your request evaporate you, typically a service used by woman who are in abusive relationships they "Evaporate" into the dead of the night either alone or with their children.
I wish I could take some of them and tell em it will be okay. We learn and recover from mistakes, and that's how we will grow. It is more shameful to run so run away from giving into defeat instead.
Makes no sense, if you leave your family and become homeless that is a much bigger fail than saying ill do better next time because you failed an exam.
Old cultures rarely make sense in our modern minds, ironic how Japan looks the most technologically advanced yet stagnant in their archaic traditions that is incompatible with the 21st century Remembering past cultures is good but following it when it now only does damage is foolish, heck this was always foolish any time a Japanese military commander would lose a battle he would commit seppuku. Do you think famous military leaders like Napoleon, Julius Caesar, Alexander the great etc would be famous if they did seppuku after one failure
Badas lol, where or when i ask. Japan before modern times exist pretty much only as country that cut themselves of or as lame war criminals. Yes forcing your people ls to kill themselves for failing is so badas(sarcasm). I personaly see myself as fan of Japanese media but, this country is shithole plauged by obsession of misplaced honor. (don't even mentioning one of the worst education systems in high tech country, that is poisoning minds and train people to rat race)
Weebs: I wish I was born in Japan 😭
Literally Japan:
90 hour work weeks and the world's highest suicide rate
300million people crammed into a country the size of california
Better than get shoot while study at school
no one has ever said that, visiting Japan is nice not living there though. The only “weebs” who wish they were born in Japan are the delusional ones who have a distorted view of the country.
Um japan is good?????????????????????¿
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So many racist people, is it cuz you hate us forgiving u for the bombs???
@@bluetoothxray
Good if you’re in a job that ur happy about.
My Japanese friend chose to go to construction because he loves it.
He had a talent for basketball and he passed a test for uni but, he chose construction and the teachers scolded him severely.
Japan has a lovely culture at a surface level.
That’s not saying much
Every culture is lovely at the surface level lol but that doesn't count for anything stop making excuses
@angryvaultguy not really, and who is making excuses about what?
😅
I read that as sacrifice level and agreed
The Japanese government is freaking out about this kinda stuff too, they're literally paying people to go back to simple farming lifestyles instead of being stuck in 9-5 office jobs.
It's never 9 to 5
@@paulinabugaj6897 It seems to be 10 to 10 or even 10 to 2 and after 2 you go drinking with your boss so he can break the news to you that the last four were unpaid.
Learning that lawyers start out making less than a Mcdonalds employee here in America really cemented a new perspective of Japan in my mind.
Well, to be honest, most of that is actually not because of this, it's because since Japan has a big problem with declining population, coupled with the fact that young people generally prefer to move to the cities anyway, almost all their farming is currently being done by old people who are not going to be around too much longer, and there is a real risk that their farming infrastructure will just collapse if they don't get more young people interested in taking over for them...
With the typical pile of paperwork. The way they zone everything and everything is bureaucracy. You buy a house there, they require ALL neighbours to attend with a government official to agree to the property boundaries before it goes thru.
@@foogod4237the place is ran by the old people their way and the birth rates are suffering due to a multitude of issues not limited to overwork and crazy expectations of partners.
“Bu- but, Japan is so respectful and skilled and kawaii anime, perfect country!”
nope.Not even Isekai prots wanna go back to Japan
Wait till they find out about the war crimes
@@ProfessionalintrovertI mean that's just every powerful country tbh.
@@ServentOfTheProtector depends on the war crimes and severity though
@@Professionalintrovert Yeah but other countries like America and Russia have committed similar things, don't think I'm defending Japan though.
Failure is a natural part of life and empathize with those who feel ashamed when failure occurs. It's such a suffocating feeling. I just recently looked at failure as 'this did not work out or I didn't complete this task. I use to look at failure as if it was my identity. I totally empathize.
100% Failure isn't the end of anything. It is the beginning of finding out what not to do.
Imagine if Thomas Edison stopped "failing" to find the lightbulb after he had tried thousands of other things, our world would be dramatically different.
how japanese people always been back in the day if you failed you commit sepuku😂
Realizing I’m not even Japanese but I still tried this
You will fail way more than you succeed in life it’s called learning get used to the feeling it’s not shame it’s experience
I'm struggling with failure too, but life doesn't come with instructions, so I'll just take it as an experience to learn. I used to think it was the end of everything.
Strange how all of the CZcamsrs who glorify living in Japan never mention this.
And the declining population I'll admit japan has some very big positives like their hospitality cleanliness and technological innovation but they have alot of problems people just gloss over
Because they dont experience this, because they are youtubers. If you live in a country where you have a fun job and have good money people dont see the bad sides of their country.
I was born and raised in Western Europe, my country is seen as an amazing country with many social benefits. Yet people in mental health care facilities and group homes are being abused and neglected. Many people don't knkw this. Because they don't live this life, they don't meet people like this and thus don't know and don't care about it. Just like how rich people in America don't care about beggars on the street.
CZcamsrs don't have an ordinary job. The don't know about the ins and outs of the Japanese work culture, because they don't live this kind of life. Most of their friends have similair jobs so they dont meet people who commit Johatsu. They litteraly almlst live in a diffrent reality
@@Cyhcg5uhgb a lot of our elderly in america get abused and neglected in nursing homes, its more common than you'd think, the same with mental health facilities, they let trans men (a woman who thinks she is a man for you easterners) be in the same area as the men and it has led to rapes, violence, you get the idea
Because they are not local...
Japan is glorified way too much on the internet. It's like the golden child with a secret life doing drugs cause they can't handle parent's expectations.
Kid gets lost in a shopping complex
Japan : your family feels shameful that you're lost
No, that is not what he's talking about.
We're talking about full-grown adults here *choosing* to cut off all ties with their family and disappear.
@@foogod4237 the video pointed out the even the ones who fail exams do this
@@foogod4237r/woooosh
“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life.”
Jean Luc Picard.
❤ this
My favorite captain.
Imagine applying Samurai culture to a 9-5 office worker lmao.
Bushido, more like bullshit. This outdated concept is not gonna work in the future. Imagine committing suicide because of failure or rumours. A true man looks at his challenges dead in the eye and spits on its face.
Japan goes extreme with this agreed but in general all Asian groups are like this. Respect and honor are very important and asian families WILL disown you. It breaks some and makes some. Asian shame culture is real, and most people are not ready for the smoke given by family and peers 😂💯
@@LprogressivesANDliberalsMost people aren’t strong enough to do it on their own. A lot of people will get jealous when you see you succeeding alone. True bonds may be strong, but mud is always thicker than blood.
Imagine there's a short katana under their desk that provided by the company they work. Then forced to commit Seppuku if any sales rating compony drops
Shame is a potent deterrent from a normal life.
Well that explains Pokémon’s lack of dads
Except for Gen 3 surprisingly.
Damn.
@@eddiew.4650 well he’s a gym leader bro didn’t fail
@@dittmar104what about when he failed against his kid ? Though I guess it could be seen as a win because he raised em right
Bro never came out of the gym after that@@Josades
Baby: doesnt come out of the womb with a 6 digit job, a house, wife and kids
Family: evaporates
Adult in Japan: understands how birth control works. Not bogged down by the religiosity of the West.
@@VictheChickdoesnt matter if they can never get out of work to actually get a chance at making a familly. or that their economy is slowly crumbling as a result of said lack of birth.
No birth controll are needed when theres no birth
Having kids is extremely unfair to the kids and stupid, not having kids is a success
Mental health should definitely be addressed in Japan and be an important concern for spreading awareness
Agreed
That is unbelievably stupid. Sounds like one of many reasons why Japan is dying.
It is.
Japan is dying because of feminism.
Yeah their population pyramid and birth rates are very alarming to say the least
Unfortunately yes. Japanese culture and values of honor or shame are so deeply rooted that it affects everything about their daily and personal lives. From toxic workplaces, harsh social standings, to problematic personal life (if you even have any). It is very worrying, me and my friends are great fans of japanese art and manga, I even aspire to be a mangaka (writer and illustrator), but the situation in japan is so steep that I can never work there without bringing harm to myself and my mental health.
It's sad. They will never give you another chance if you fail.
The glory is not in never failing, but in rising everytime you fall. - Chinese proverb.
It is from sun Tzu
@@MorgothDarkLord83 (it isn't)
@@theaviationbee perhaps there is a thing called sarcasm?
@MorgothDarkLord83 when he hears any kind of quote
dont think the japanese think too highly of china
explains a lot
It’s crazy because most people see failure as a steppin stone to be better
Well, most people in the USA, yes.
Mostly the western world.
*Failing an Important Exam in Asia is not a small thing, Society labels you as failure for not passing or cracking an exam in first try💀🗿*
Yes. Somehow in many asian countries, being bad in academics automatically makes you as bad as a person as a murderer.
I used to work for a Japanese boss, he is cool very westernised. He said if he feel like a failure, he would remember his grandfather who was a soldier in WW2 who felt so ashamed that Japan lost the war, but decades later so proud that he and the country was able to bounce back up.
BANZAI
Perhaps Japan will be on the warpath again?
@@Castrate- I fucking hope not, mainly for the sake of Chinese and Korean civilians.
@@archermadsen7744 I don't think Japan can even compare to China 's military prowess anymore and plus the Chinese people do hate the Japanese quite deeply, I wouldn't blame them tho
@@tachyonX370considering the corruption and internal strife I’m hearing from the PLA as well as CZcamsrs such as Task & Purpose, other history CZcamsrs and news articles, Japan might not be too outclassed. JSDF is smaller though albeit probably way higher in quality.
Shrug, war is bad anyway
I interpret this comment as saying, "sometimes you fail, and sometimes it was meant to be because the thing you were doing was definitely not a good thing. Like he was ashamed he lost the war but, if he had won, it would have made the world a worse place.
Not many of us are "side with corrupt german officials" bad. But, sometimes, you fail that interview because the interviewer knows you can't handle the stress or that you're too honest of a person. Sometimes your partner breaks up with you because you develop self respect and boundaries. Sometimes your friends leave you because you develop a moral compass. Sometimes what looks like rejection and failure is simply a door that you should not have gone through. Other times, it is your fault and you did lose out on something great.
I recommend reflecting more often. I recently got into Christianity and the way I see it is that God has a unique plan for us with hills and valleys. An article titled, "Near Death Experiences - Division of Perceptual Studies" by the University of Virginia suggests that "life reviews" are common in near death experiences. Why wait until a near death experience? Review your life now and work to make yourself happy when you look over your life. Do community service work, donate to charity, maybe research belief systems and work on making your moral compass strong because you never know how much time you have. God bless you all.
Japan is such a beautiful country but the people there are soo messed up it's actually scary
Well Atombombs tend to destroy even culture. At least they behave. Americans have a hobby playing world police and starting war for piecefull archivements while all its about is oil. (Example)
"man I wonder why Japanese songs are so depressing"
meanwhile what the average Japanese citizen goes through:
They're messed up?
In the U.S we literally have 40+ years of non stop senseless wars.
We have open borders.
Boys dominating girls sports.
Gays cheering for palestine.
But they're the messed up ones?
What does that make us? Lol
@@squasherdown 😂😂 true true
As a Japanese, I'm ashamed of such a culture 🤦♂️
Jokes aside, my country is a good place and good people live indeed, but it seems like our educational system (including influences from other people around when you're young) doesn't nurture individual's self confidence and identity very well. People recognize themselves by what they accomplished in the past and what their surroundings are now, and when something won't hold anymore, then the whole self kind of collapses all together. It's true and pretty sad.
So if you have a Japanese friend nearby, try complementing and acknowledging them not for what they've done but for who they are. I bet they'll get confused or become uncomfortable at first, but eventually it will move their heart, stronger than people from other cultures. It helped me a lot :)
Such a beautiful comment, thank you for sharing!
Sure
@@YosefmulualemAmbachewhuh? Are you being xenophobic?
This goes on everywhere.
Japan just gave it a name .
No, it really does not "go on everywhere" in the same way and on the same scale that it does in Japan.
In Japan, doing this is often almost seen as correct and responsible behavior by those who do it (as a way to not inconvenience others, etc), and there is even a whole industry around it of people who will help people do this for money, etc.
And unlike in most other places, these people are not doing it because they think they can have a better life somewhere else. They know that they will likely have a much worse life, but they still do it anyway.
And despite Japan being a much smaller country, the number of people who are estimated to deliberately disappear every year is actually much larger than in the US or most other countries, too, so this sort of thing actually affects a much larger portion of their populace.
no it doesn't
It's extremely rare in the US. Anyone who would disappear merely because they failed an exam or lost a job would be considered mentally ill or a coward. In the US, we're expected to be _resilient_ , to be able to pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and keep trying until we succeed. They drill that into you at school, and if you're lucky, at home too.
Agreed. It's more prevalent in Japan though. Too bad Americans don't Johatsu themselves more often... a lot of them SHOULD have a little shame for their behavior.
In a book called "Japan Today," there was an example of such. A banker had authorized a loan to a friend who failed to repay it. The banker felt disgraced. He left his job and wife and became homeless. He lived in a refrigerator box. Interesting enough, in the US, if you have no defaulting loans the bank may assume you are turning away too many profitable loans.
Damn… tbh shouldn’t the friend be more disgraced tho?? Like I’m not advocating for this but I mean it’s not his fault for this failure technically other than vouching for the wrong friend. Like it’s indirect failure at best and doesn’t cause any large financial problems to himself or the household right? Def not worth leaving the family? Idk maybe I’m not understanding it well but logically if anyone should be feeling the shame it shouldn’t be the banker right😭
@@hohocho8961 lmao. Maybe the friend become homeless too and they hangout at that box
@@hohocho8961yeah but its japan bruh they shamed a japanese titanic survivor for surviving the sinking and eventually the shame drove him to suicide
@DisPater-xs2pu yessir search it up its disappointing
@DisPater-xs2pu Indeed
Explains how dads in anime tend to completely dissapear
😂
They’ve gone home to someone else?😅🤣
Hey!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂l
Japanese parent: "You got a 99/100 on your test? You are not my child!"
The child in question: "bet"
I think nowadays especially, people forget how valuable the lessons of failures are. Boomers used to say go experience everything life has to offer including success and failure because it's through failure we learn how to pick ourselves up. But with the rise of social media and you see these glam lifestyles, it kind of gave off a false sense to young generations, that you can't possibly fail in life and I think that does more harm than good. Namely if they do fail and feel trapped because of failure they wouldn't know how to move on from that. So my advice to a situation like that is if you do ever experience hopelessness, just remember at the end of the day pick yourself up. You may think you can't, you may think it's too hard, but do it. Don't stand in one spot because it'll get you nowhere in life and everything around you won't stop and wait for you to be ready. Keep moving, find something to do, have some direction, any direction in life, and you just might find something unexpected at the end of the road.
Great comment!
What really is a failure is not caring for your relatives.
Wholly agree. But, we can't pretend that it doesn't happen elsewhere.
In Japan, if you're a 9/17 office man, literally all your wife and kids care for is if you're bringing money and keeping family in good reputation
They actually rarely see you, because it's 9/17 but practically Japanese people stay at work until late in the evening because they won't dare to leave until their god- I mean boss is done with his work too
Sometimes these extra but practically mandatory evening shift extend into extra but practically mandatory beer outings with the boss, to meet rich clients
They don't raise their kids, they don't have hobbies and friendships outside of the office, their wives gradually forget they ever loved them over the years
Japan has a PLAGUE of divorces around age of 60, because wives don't tolerate their husbands not disappearing for a whole day anymore, and God forbid, wanting to have something to say in HER household
Maybe leaving relatives behind isn't as bad as you painted it
*not be Able to care for your relatives*
Because honor systems are f***ed
Those relatives probably don’t even care for the family member because they bring them shame from “failing”
Japan has many cultures that are lovely. But to make a person feel a failure and not encourage them to try something else is a sad thing. I pray that they find peace in their hearts 🙏❤️
I know it's terrible .and the way they treated there soldiers in ww2
@@Brent-qu3yklol that tradition was brought over from europe
@@iloveblackC Japanese army and government during Meiji period was advised and mentored by Prussian/German experts and warhawks. the west was also colonising and strongarming their neighbours left and right and if Japan didnt show up to the game they would be on the chopping block too.
@Castrate- I'll delete my comment because I misread what brent wrote. Sorry
@@Castrate- Yes and No, Japan had a samurai culture long before all of that, which condemned failure as shameful, and dishonor was the worst thing that could happen for a Japanese person. Maybe they learned a few things from the cultures around them, but most of their tactics were THEIR tactics. Sedoku bombers, was their strategy, honor killings existed in Japan centuries before that, and believe it or not, Japanese soldiers in WW2 were some of the most gun ho soldiers in the war. Ever heard of the soviet soldiers that were practically zombies, that was Japanese soldiers the entire time. And just like today, then, and way before then, they had a culture which is surrounded by the idea of honor, which was not brought by western cultures to them.
"You have no honour"
"And you are a slave to it"
That’s so heartbreaking. It makes me wonder how many people were kidnapped/murdered but their family didn’t report the missing out of fear that they committed Johatsu.
Yeah but japan is very safe despite that i wonder how ?
I get wat you say so figuur out a solution this law is important and i can se this having alot of upside and downside buy overall its a + to me you can even get rid of al the childhood torment or overprotective parents or stalkers or violent relationship
"Failure is not the end, it is a necessary part of the path"- Eno Cordova
Yo fallen order reference
@@PuddingPlayer. Yes, Eno Cordova is from fallen order
japan seems like an awesome place to go for about two weeks
Another part of the reason why this is often unreported to police is that Japanese privacy laws and customs make it so that if somebody does not want to be found, the police basically aren't allowed to try to look for them either, so unless there is actually reason to suspect foul play, their hands are sorta tied, and there's nothing they can do anyway...
(Japan does not even have any official database of missing persons, or anything.)
There's actual apartment complexs specifically for those people in a lot of their cities.
Or thats how the majority of small rural villages regain some population, there was an article/news story in 2013 or 2016 about it, basically they disappear off into the countryside
Asking for help isn't quitting, it's refusing to quit
If anything, being ashamed of someone like your son or daughter for failing an exam or even being ashamed of having a missing relative is shameful
In your culture
@darthnosam3313 yes? Does that change how they are literally ashamed of one of their family members for going missing??? Does it change how it is (imo) ACTUALLY shameful of being ashamed of your son or daughter for failing one test or going missing?
No it doesn't and honestly my culture doesn't have anything to do with that I think it's just common decency to allow someone a second chance or something or acknowledge their family members disappearance or maybe its just its just in my culture
Sorry for yapping
@@Adderall019 Don't apologize for talking to it.
@@Skycrusher “IT” 😂😂😂
Man: Goes missing so they dont get shamed
His family: Doesn't report them missing so they dont get shamed
**relative goes missing**
Japanese family: SHAMEFUR DISPRAY!
Japan is so developed that its creating its own problems
Based on what I've read/seen about their educational system, it's really brutal yet a lot of people seem to frame that as a good thing when the whole purpose of education is... to learn, not to pass an exam or graduate - to learn, and yet normally the most fun thing about school is graduation because education has lost its substance
parents are also complicit in this because a lot of them seem to really be passionate about grades, which is stupid because a single number can't evaluate a person's abilities and skills
Look at the American school system. Average grades are dropping. 8th graders have 5th grader reading comprehension.
"Japan is so developed it creates it's own problem" ah yes the quote I've seen a lot being used towards the us,let us guess,you intentionally reused quote on Japan as a respond because you hate the quote being used on the us? You feel satisfied you can used said quotes on another country? Guess what buddy you won't get your passive aggressive satisfaction today because im exposing you,
@@alderayie9187 I'm sure he thought about some quote which can be used for pretty much every modern country and got so offended by it that he needed to write a response about a totally unrelated country's social problems.
@alderayie9187, you ain't exposing shit bro
@@altaccount9716Im not from America but im moving there for better education, is that true?
Japan's work culture is insane. There is even a word karoshi, which means work death.
In fact, Karoshi is rare. It's not because there are a word that means it's happens often
Takes if you fail, you disappear to a whole new level 💀
And that is why even after a bomb went off they still tried to keep fighting
Japan needs a serious reform to this portion of it's culture
Johatsu isn't unique to Japan, it's just more prevalent there.
They need to ditch this closed, introverted sheep mentality and embrace bold, energetic mentality to survive this century and luckily live to see the next century.
Its impossible
@serajalhorani838 not if the older generation goes
fr, "perfectionism" is the theif of joy. Being perfect is not for us.
They've got Isekai'd by Truck-kun to another Universe.
I love this comment 😂
😂😂😂 nice one
Yeah the females become the villainesses in a romance manga and the males become dragon fighting losers lol 😂😂
“Japan is a very amazing country, nothing bad happens to its residents!”
Japan on a daily basis:
I’m glad I live in the US since I failed at my career pretty much and went crazy. I still have people who love me and I got help. I have a pretty good life now.
This is wild. I would never want my children to go off and “disappear” because of shame! If something doesn’t work out, then you try again, or go on to something different, but never disappear! How could sooo many people just agree that this is okay? It’s truly sad.
It is not so much a lack of love from parents, or parents want them to disappear. It is just that when you fail, you fail really hard. They just feel extreme shame for failing, and there is nothing that can fix that.
@@frodej6640 I understand that, but I think there could be SOMETHING that someone could do to make it better. Unless they are an actual bad person, but besides that they shouldn’t be shamed. It’s sad, the pressure of being successful literally takes lives.
@@coliedeekenzo I too think there should be a change, but ... the japanese culture is one of the most stubborn there is. I have pondered a great deal over this, and I do not know the answer. Japanese that are exposed to the west, see our life and system, do seem to want our way of living to a certain extent. Idk.
Americans just let their kid be a neet
@@coliedeekenzobi sorie but if you are in a volonte marriage wat this in moost of the world thats atleast 3 jears you are stuk with that person and if you are unlucky he or she wil stalk you afterwards and alot of time that results in death and if you get a restraining order that wil stop them ???????
No if you are lucky you can dodge them til th kops get them and you get a bit of Time after that its open seizoen agen the trile wil start from 0 yoy file for restraining order and then prove its at witch point you are 1/2 jears on and th n you get it an the stakker stil shows up then tha battel to get him arested starts then you a nother 1/2 jears on and he gows to prison for 2/3 jears befor it starts al over agen so yes i can se a 1000% Juse in this law even if it only in this aspect
when your own pride is more important than your loved ones life:
You misspelled ones. Now evaporate failure.
@@jerrywhidby. I fixed it before evaporating 😭😶🌫️
pride? you think the result of always being told failure defines what you are and that you're worthless if you mess up even slightly is pride?
Right? @@xylophone_8888
@@xylophone_8888 that's how it is in Japan
Failure is the best teacher.
Japan: perfection or death!
me: ok, good luck with that.
I feel like I've seen this before...
*flips through history books to 1945*
I know a Japanese who just ignore the existence of this culture. Despite being a failure, he continues his life as normally and forget the past. Aside from that i know this guy very well, even though he has no shame he often has existence crisis almost every day.
The more I know about Japan, the more I seem to loose interest in it. Just for failing, people are shunned. Failure is a natural part of life
You know how depressing that is like if your forced to quit your job they just give up entirely
There are companies that specialize in helping disappear. One of my sisters worked in one. She told me they help people move from one place to another and start a new life.
If you miss an exam - you will not get a corporate job, and not get a second chance. It is a brutal country.
Lol so ur saying more then 20% of Japanese who never went to university nor highschool is unemployed? Stop the cap man 😅
@@Isjshdkskskajsj he said corporate, you can still get unskilled labor job but that is also still seen as shameful esp to the parents
@@Isjshdkskskajsj "corporate job", also known as a good and safe job with better perks. The other jobs aren't that great, and it is a short way to homelessness. It is not that difficult to find stories from the lost generation that explain this.
@@frodej6640 do you realize theres only 3k homeless in Japan? Yeah Japanese blue collar jobs might be horrible and low paying but still most Japanese can afford to live without ending up in the street like in U.S with homeless population of 2M, France with 300k, UK with 380k. For me, and many of you I believe Japan looks much better don't you see?
@@frodej6640 And its better to have any kind of jobs even if its horrible rather then ending up in the streets in most of the world.
Wanting to avoid failure is good, but not being able to recover from one is catastrophic
experience something like this for 1year it really made me realize how little I matter to some people blood relation or not its not shame its the lack of care from people that should have been there
“Pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source”
Ooooh! Great quote!
It would be illuminating to hear what a Japanese person has to say about this .
They would be too shamed to comment about this
I think they'll write a letter before they disappear.
I did this. 8 months ago after i bring shamed in my. Construction company in Sapporo. I do the "jo hatsu" cut every connection with my co worker and family, reeset my phone and and never looking back, now i lived in little town somewhere in toyama perfecture. I understand that it wasn't great idea to do so. But i find inner comfort living a new life.
You need to contact your family. They love you and are worried about you.
Thank you for sharing. Could you please tell me what disgrace you brought to your past job? I want to understand what kind of situations make you push the reset button 🙏 really appreciate your reply and wish you the best
While no pressure, I am very interested in your story. If you ever feel like sharing more of it; I would be happy to listen.
@_GOD_HAND_ this is the thing i really don't like about this, they leave their families behind. It's even worse if they leave children
Suck it up, man! Any coward can run away from his/her responsibilities and the consequences of his/her actions. A person of honor, courage and integrity stays and faces the ups and downs of life. What are you? A small, timid child who cries at the sound of thunder? Be an adult. Call your family. Return home, and take care of your responsibilities. Whatever you did at work was not a crime, or you would be in prison instead of hiding in the countryside. Grow a backbone.
Every one of them is loved. It’s so sad people feel they need to do this.
"For as little as failing an exam" You didn't just call an exam in Asia "Little". Exams like from India, China, Korea and even Japan literally is crucial to every student and it's also the reason they're one of the hardest exams
Asian parenting will break a lot of people. Proud to be a great contributor to society. Proud to have a huge family with multi generational men and women and generational wealth! 🇺🇸
Sorry but completely collapsing at the first sign of failure is a great weakness. I don't know much about Japanese values but true strength comes from over coming your failures, not from buckling under it.
take a moment to reflect on your life, that’s just a damn cliche, and you sure as hell know it. which is why you say it, to deny your own feelings and avoid the same feelings.
@@RagingInsomniacYes and no, at the same time. To fail greatly at something is crushing, and to use this excuse that you can “learn” from this failure without actually doing so, is simply denial and escapism. To actually take your failures in and learn from them though, genuinely doing so to become better, is where true strength, wisdom, and knowledge come from.
Extra:
If you genuinely don’t learn from your mistakes, you will simply fall to them, feel crushed at every moment , and only repeat the same things which have hurt you.
But, if you take the time to slowly learn, and take action to do better, then you will be better. Better than any man who cannot accept and learn from their mistakes. Accept your feelings of crushing defeat without any guilt, worry, or stress, they’re only human emotions which will help you to further yourself. Learn from them to be better.
@RagingInsomniac it's not a cliche, it's literally the basis of western education, pls be edgy somewhere else
@RagingInsomniac Failed O Chem twice over. The third time I took it I learned from my mistakes and passed with a solid B. If I had been raised Japanese I would have quit after the first failed exam nevermind failing the class. The problem is that people expect perfection. That isn't stupid. That is outright insanity. There's a reason why perfectionism is considered a mental illness in extreme cases.
Once you fail, there are no do-overs. Family is a lie, friendship is Communist propaganda, and death comes for us all. 💀
Let this be the start of our villain arcs. Who needs to grow up now, Mom? 💀
That’s insane. Makes me appreciate family that much more.
man i failed an exam, better fake my death
'Johatsu' sounds very similar to the Sanskrit 'Juhotu' which means 'sacrifice' as in ritual sacrifice in a fire.
You can commit no mistake and fail… that’s life . Not a sign of weakness.
ok Picard
I'm proud of nobita for not giving up
It isn't always because of shame
Sometimes the person is just fed up with their life and they want out ,but the only way they can leave is to cut off all family and social ties.
So they evaporate, go to a nearly empty small town, move into one of the abandoned houses (that may have legally bought before they evaporated ) and find work doing odd jobs.
There is so much pressure to conform that the only way to start a new life is to vanish so your family , coworkers and friends can't find you.
That's just stupid. They need to act like adults, and accept failure.
It's a part of their culture, failing is worse than death (at least a lot of them agrees this idea is fucking stupid)
Thats why japan is the best country of the world.
Useless ppl erase themselves , west so selfish that useless ppl comment bullshit pretend to be smart
even if they accept it no one around them will
That's why only 100,000 of 125,000,000 do it.
Ironic that old people are usually considered wise yet despite being abundant in Japan failure is still frowned upon, you’d think they’d know better
This is crazy. Hurts my heart. We all fail ..it's a part of learning 😢
How Japan still has 100 million people is a miracle
In Japan you evaporate by choice, in USA you evaporate by government's choice.
Japan puts far too much emphasis on something as worthless as shame and pride
It’s only failure if you give up
Okay so?I gave Up in school. Does that mean I failed it?
@@CommentGuard717Yes
@@ZyroCZcams but I am still above an F?
@@CommentGuard717no if you give up on life is a failure you left school not give up not same either way its the mentality you have for me everyone who can forgive himself and not try to suicide is a courageous person so you are courageous
@@Ahmad-os3si I disagree. A lot of people who commit suicide are severely ill, mentally or physically. It's not up to us to judge their decision.
It's truly ironic how much people wish to avoid shame and yet bring it upon themselves.
What a shame so many people lost without the opportunity to learn and grow.
i used to hate too much motivation videos piling/showing all over my for you page, but now I've come to appreciate it big time.
Hopefully soon enough Japan will realize that failure is a part of growth. If you condemn failure so harshly that people go on to become homeless or completely detached from their family then you should probably change your outlook on it.
This is unfortunately something done in Taiwan as well and it broke my heart to find out they end up on the streets homeless and forgotten ,refusing to contact their families or friends .. besides the fact that I had to tore my own heart out and divorce my ex wife ..I heard the number as I was leaving the country.. in the year 2022 55.000 Taiwanese people committed suicide and took their lives ..
Hey, fellow Asian here. To put it in context, that’s why you rarely see exciting tech startups in Asia because of this culture at large in Asian society. It is all about the face and put on a good show to outsiders
Succeed by stubborn persistence.
Dont give up. You're worth it.
Even if it's not the exact thing that you dreamt of, a good life is worth it. Sometimes, making a living and enjoying life when you can is the best situation.
"Failure is not the end. It is a necessary part of the path."
Japan is proof that everywhere has its flaws even if it seems perfect. It’s almost like a opposite to America where everyone talks about the negatives of living here, but you never hear about the positives.
Japan sounds like a wonderful place!! To visit. 😂
Failing is still better than doing nothing.
"I want to live in Japan!"
Japanese people should go talk to Phycologists more often
This reminds me of the Japanese survivor of the Titanic who was literally dragged in Japnese papers for not "going down with the ship", I can't remember if he was part of the crew or not, but he was part of the survivors who got to return home. Either way he was considered shameful for returning alive, instead of returning in a coffin. It's wild this sentiment still prevails to this day and these counties they wonder why their population is shrinking. Who'd want to bring a child into a country that would immediately label them a "failure" and force them into hiding, simply because they failed a test?
Japan: Why can't we increase our birth rates?
Also Japan:
In 1945 About 100K~ People evaporated in an instant as what i remember.
Ppl:we love Japanese culture
Japanese culture :
Thousands of Japanese people evaporated in 1945 as well...
Without failure the is idea of achieving striving for perfection is impossible because without failure perfection is unachievable.
1945: we gave them freedom 🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸.
2024: I think they need a little bit more freedom 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
US: owned by israel
"That shit won't stop me from restoring and going beyond it's former population" 💀
Another side of this that I think is interesting is people who end up doing Johatsu is that there are actual agencies that will at your request evaporate you, typically a service used by woman who are in abusive relationships they "Evaporate" into the dead of the night either alone or with their children.
That’s tragic
I wish I could take some of them and tell em it will be okay. We learn and recover from mistakes, and that's how we will grow. It is more shameful to run so run away from giving into defeat instead.
As a Japanese I can confirm that it is true..
Meaning, the Japanese need to stop shaming people for failing and start helping each other succeed
Makes no sense, if you leave your family and become homeless that is a much bigger fail than saying ill do better next time because you failed an exam.
And if that family doesn't go look for their loved one they are massively failing to be a good family, so they might as well evaporate too.
Old cultures rarely make sense in our modern minds, ironic how Japan looks the most technologically advanced yet stagnant in their archaic traditions that is incompatible with the 21st century
Remembering past cultures is good but following it when it now only does damage is foolish, heck this was always foolish any time a Japanese military commander would lose a battle he would commit seppuku. Do you think famous military leaders like Napoleon, Julius Caesar, Alexander the great etc would be famous if they did seppuku after one failure
@@angryvaultguyI'd say honour is what brought Japan so far. Japan was the most badass country ww2 and before. Now it's been westernised.
Badas lol, where or when i ask.
Japan before modern times exist pretty much only as country that cut themselves of or as lame war criminals. Yes forcing your people ls to kill themselves for failing is so badas(sarcasm).
I personaly see myself as fan of Japanese media but, this country is shithole plauged by obsession of misplaced honor. (don't even mentioning one of the worst education systems in high tech country, that is poisoning minds and train people to rat race)
@@altaccount9716 dude you spell cruelity wrong