During my few days in Japan, the tour guide repeatedly mentioned that "Japan is not a normal country", and I wondered why our neighbors across the sea were not a normal country.
The national interest is above all else. In Japan, the interests of the people are always greater than the sky. For the sake of its own selfish interests, this country can ignore international rules, ignore human morality, and sacrifice the interests of other countries to achieve its own goals. The Second World War, the war of aggression that was waged and brought great harm to the people of all countries in the world, is the embodiment of this thinking, and this is also the most typical symptom of this country not being a normal country. Moreover, they never reflect on the war crimes they have committed, but instead enshrine Class-A war criminals at shrines, believing that these war criminals fought for the nation and sacrificed for the interests of the people. It is not that they are ignorant of the universal values of propriety, righteousness and shame, but that they can abandon these human morals at any time for the sake of profit.
Japan's manufacturing industry is quite good, especially the electronics industry and automobile manufacturing industry, which are leading in the world. But in Japan, the best and most advanced products must be used by their own citizens before they can be exported to the citizens of other countries.
Pursue the ultimate in everything, and give up flexibility for quality assurance.
Self-discipline that borders on masochism, and pursues the ultimate in everything. A screw that can be screwed up and will not loosen for two or three hundred years is not an easy thing to do. Mopping the floor, three circles on the left, three circles on the right, and one less circle is not good. When you clean the toilet, you will always clean it until you can drink a glass of water from the toilet bowl without feeling dirty.
Today, if you take apart a camera made in Japan, it will be densely packed with electronic components, which will make people's scalp tingle. Without a rigid ingenuity, it is impossible to complete the manufacturing and ensure the quality of use.
Unusually pragmatic.
Japanese food doesn't taste very good, but it is extremely hygienic, and the natto flavor is the same as chewing wax, and they eat it every day because it has the health effect of lowering blood lipids.
That night in Osaka, we spent the afternoon on the streets of Osaka until nightfall. To my surprise, apart from the lights in front of the shops on the street, there were no landscape lights in the street buildings to create an atmosphere, and even the street lights were not so bright. At first, I thought it was to save electricity, but in the hotel and in the store, the temperature of the air conditioner is very high, and although it is winter, it makes people feel as comfortable as summer and spring. does not pay attention to the brightness of face, but attaches great importance to people's life experience.
In smaller hotels, there are one-room wall-mounted air conditioners, and there are very few air conditioners installed in our homes even in the family, and the air conditioning drip discharge pipes are complicated, and they will be carefully handled, and never let others hear the sound of your air conditioner dripping.
Almost all hotels and hotels, including the toilets in shopping malls, are all smart toilets, which are provided with toilet paper, and the paper for wiping the butt is thrown into the toilet and flushed away, and there are no trash cans for toilet paper in the toilet.
This country places a strong emphasis on loyalty and integrity qualities. It is normal in Japan to work for a company for life, or even for several generations, to work for a company. On the contrary, people who change jobs frequently are looked down upon, owners will think that you lack loyalty, and people who change jobs a lot will have a hard time finding good jobs.
Of course, companies also attach great importance to honest management, and take credibility very seriously, some companies have been in business for more than ten generations, as long as hundreds of years, and it is said that there is a builder in Japan who has been operating for more than 1,000 years and is still in business today. On a small street in Japan, I saw a small noodle restaurant that has been in business for eight generations, and there are nearly 100 people queuing up at the door.
In the developed capitalist countries, the feudal monarchy is still admired. As a highly developed capitalist country, Japan has undergone tremendous changes in its political and economic systems in modern times, with rapid changes in science and technology and continuous development of its comprehensive national strength. Curiously, the feudal monarchy was still preserved and its position was secure. In Japan, you can scold the prime minister or politicians, but the emperor has always been worshiped by the vast majority of the people, and the emperor's year name, which has been abandoned in China for more than 100 years, is still persistent in Japan. The tour guide told a story about a Japanese student who went out with his study abroad friend, and on the way the student criticized the Japanese emperor, which probably means that the whole world is a democratic republic, and the emperor should withdraw from the stage of history, which caused the Japanese student to be angry on the spot, and even did not hesitate to defend the emperor's authority by cutting off his robe.
The culture of suicide is prevalent. In this country, suicide is not a disgraceful thing, on the contrary, there will be people who study the ways and means of suicide, and will guide the suicide person to commit suicide, so that suicide has become a cultural phenomenon in this country. After the opening of the Shinkansen, some people committed suicide by causing a crash, and later the country introduced a law that not only did not have any compensation for the crash, but also caused damage to the vehicle and delayed the customer's trip, even if the suicide died, the family must bear the responsibility for compensation. Later, the suicide took his own life in the woods at the foot of Mt. Fuji. They went in with a long rope, tied the rope to the trees from the entrance, and went in step by step, and the end of the rope was the end of life. Why bring a rope? It is when the rope is exhausted and the suicide suddenly repents, this rope can help him get back to his way out of the dense forest. Once he commits suicide, the volunteer organization can follow the rope to find his body and help him deal with the aftermath.
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