Japan the strange country Japan is a
small country located in East Asian the
population is around 130 million people
the total world population is 6.8
billion which means that roughly - and
every 100 people are Japanese Japan's
land area measures three hundred and
seventy eight thousand square kilometers
if the Earth's land area is 149 million
square kilometers and total area is five
hundred and ten million then Japan is no
bigger than this red dot Japan is the
most advanced country in Asia it is
second only to America in GDP and is
proud of its high standard of living and
economic wealth life expectancy for
Japanese men is seventy nine years and
eighty-six years for women which is the
longest in the world then there are
cultural practices such as kabuki Banzai
sumo saddle kimono and origami all of
which have developed into distinctly
Japanese traditions and we must have
began Japan was the first country in the
world to experience the destructive
power of not one but two atomic bombs
dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in
World War two more than 220,000 people
lost their lives
and as a result Japan abandoned its
wartime Constitution in these ways Japan
is a country with its own original
culture and history but nowadays there
are also many strange things about
modern day Japan let's take a look at
these strange things in eight different
categories
one character Japanese people tend to be
short have black hair small mouths and
small eyes this is a typical Japanese
salaryman and over here is a Japanese
school girl these days Japanese girls
have a variety of ways to make their
eyes appear bigger there is even a
function to make your eyes or figure
when you have a photo taken Japanese
technology sure is amazing another
obsession Japanese girls have with
brands but more than anything else
they're obsessed with deities
Japanese women walk about town carrying
their high quality brand bags but for
them it's the ultimate status symbol
Japanese people also have the worst
eyesight of anyone in the world with 40%
of all people using glasses or contact
lenses Japanese people are generally
pretty shy you could say that they find
it particularly difficult to express how
they really feel thanks to this Japanese
company meetings tend to drag on and
even after workers over a Japanese
person can't refuse an invitation for
drinks they also need to be careful of
workplace relationships between their
boss and co-workers don't forget to bow
on your way home again and again and
again so when do I get my vacation to
Tokyo Tokyo Japan's capital city makes
up an extremely small area but it's the
heart of Japanese politics economy
distribution and fashion a true
megalopolis Tokyo is the mecca the place
everyone wants to live and so in recent
years it's become overpopulated to the
extreme
example compared to an American who can
claim a living space of 180 square
meters see himself there are 11 Japanese
people crammed into the same space but
in Tokyo alone there are 192 people
switched into the same extremely cramped
living conditions at the famous Shibuya
scramble crossing for every green light
during peak hours around 3,000 people
will cross at the same time at a Tokyo
McDonald's it's perfectly normal to have
just 50 centimeters of bench space per
customer
Brno like being a chicken in a coop
isn't it 3 food from traditional
japanese-style food to Chinese Italian
French and American style junk food
Japan is a nation of food lovers however
the amount of food actually produced in
Japan is only around 40 percent it's
incredible to think that a nation's all
obsessed with food that's 20 3.2 million
tons of it go to waste every single year
that's actually more than four times the
5.9 million tons of food that gets sent
yearly by aid programs to assist a
starving Nations right now there are 1
billion people in the world suffering
from starvation that's equal to one in
every seven people and someone in the
world dies from starvation every 4
seconds
of those who died more than half are
children under five but despite that
Japanese people will eat as much as they
like and simply throw away the rest so
Japanese cuisine really is a big deal or
technology Japan is a technologically
advanced nation with bullet trains that
reach speeds of 300 kilometers an hour
and mobile phones that can act as a
credit card and television all-in-one
robots that walk like humans and surely
there are even restaurants that employ
robots to make your ramen for you the
toilets in Japan now their technological
marvel the seat warms your bottom the
lid automatically opens and shuts and if
you like your toilet cool even washer
but for some reason old-style
japanese squat toilets still remain
popular I can't imagine why five water
in Japan if you turn on a tap the water
that comes out of it is perfectly safe
to drink as is being an island country
Japan has water in abundance but despite
this Japan imports huge amounts of
mineral water from Europe like about 580
thousand the killer eaters every year
that amount equates to more than 1.1 6
billion 500 milliliter pet bottles by
the way more than 1.1 billion people in
the world or about eight times the
population of Japan don't have access to
clean drinking water a large portion of
those you have to drink dirty water
suffer
and other diseases six sushi what do you
think Japan do you think sushi there's
the traditional style counter sushi
restaurant
but now sushi train restaurants are also
popular you can choose from a shrimp
salmon roe eggs and any number of types
of sushi recently you can even order
pudding of Korean barbecue
we don't really know why by the way the
king of sushi in Japan is tuna with
almost 2 million tons of it fished
worldwide every year Japanese people eat
seven hundred and ten thousand tons
that's 1/3 of the world's total while
Japan consumes 80% of the world's supply
of bluefin tuna in the past 30 years the
total population of China has decreased
by 1/3 because of that the bluefin tuna
could soon be designated a threatened
species just like the giant panda blue
whale tiger and epic and elephant now
for the amount of disposable wooden
chopsticks that you use to eat that
sushi with Japanese people use 23
billion pairs of chopsticks per year and
every person will throw out 200 pairs
each and these days 90% of those
chopsticks are sourced from China did
you have any idea that Japan was using
Chinese natural forest resources to make
its disposable wooden chopsticks 7 love
have you seen those amazing buildings
that look like fairytale castles well
here in Japan of course they're love
hotels
there are around 30000 love hotels in
Japan and in a single day 1.85 million
couples will visit one that's quite a
lot but consider this while an average
Japanese couple has sex a grand a total
of 48 times a year the global average
number of times a couple has sex in one
year is 103 and then there are those six
loving Greeks who fornicate on average
138 times a year that's more than once
every three days
credible Oh for the record this is an
actual Japanese castle please don't
mistake it for a love hotel and try to
have sexier eight suicide for a country
with such a strong economy and the
luxury of throwing away unwanted food
you'd think Japan would be a happier
country but it also boasts one of the
highest rates of suicide in any
developed nation even Mount Fuji a
revered symbol of Japan is a notorious
suicide spot with around 100 bodies
discovered in the surrounding wilderness
every year it's seldom reported but
every year around 35,000 people in total
kill themselves in Japan that's 90
people every day
every 16 minutes in Japan one person
takes their own life I guess a healthy
economy does not necessarily make a
happy country does it so this is Japan
when you look at it from a global
perspective do you see what I mean when
I say Japan is a strange country does
Japan seem a bit different from what you
first imagined after all
Japan projects an image of wealth and
prosperity there's probably a lot you
can't see behind that image but take a
step back and you can see the bigger
stranger picture and who created this
strange country you did
you