Category: Japan & Japanese

Japan is proud of a peaceful state. This is because Japan abandoned the invasion to other countries after the end of the Pacific War in 1945. And Japan is not actively involved in the wars of other countries. Fortunately, Japan did not become a battleground or attacked from other countries.

However, in recent years, the SDF(Self Defense Force) has gone to conflict areas of abroad and do backwards support of allies. And there is a sign that North Korea will attack Japan.

I would like to continue peace forever.

In November, Tokyo is completely autumn.

One of the Japanese autumn traditions is the leaves of Ginkgo leaves. It is green in the summer. But it turns into a vibrant yellow in autumn.

There are many ginkgo tree lined by side of the road in Japan, it’s symbolizes autumn.

Mt. Fuji in Japan is famous worldwide, but few people know this beautiful mountain is a volcano.

Mt. Fuji has repeated eruptions at an interval of about 100 years since ancient times. But it has not erupted for about 300 years.

Therefore, next time, it will erupt with energy three times stronger than last time. However, it may not erupt forever. But conversely, it may erupt tomorrow. It is unpredictable.

In Addition, Depending on the size of the eruption and the direction of the wind, volcanic ash accumulates, making daily life difficult. There is a high possibility that the larger damage on the east side of Mt. Fuji due to the air current.

Japan is a country with many earthquakes. If we include a weak shake, earthquakes are occurring somewhere everyday. This is because Japan is on the boundary of the following four plates from a geological.

• North American Plate
• Eurasian Plate
• Pacific Plate
• Philippine Plate

However, do not worry. Many buildings in Japan are made of earthquake resistant construction. But some old buildings do not conform to the new building standards. So be careful when the strong earthquake occers. Especially wooden houses may cause fire due to earthquake.

Earthquakes are rare in the Philippines, and make people fuss. But Japanese do not panic with a walkable earthquake. we are used to it.

Because of that, when a big earthquake occur someday, Many Japanese may be sacrificed without evacuating immediately. But almost Filipinos may be evacuated immediately and saved.

By the way, it is unpredictable by current science technology when and where earthquakes occur.

When you first came to Japan, you might be surprised that the car is running on the left side of the road. This is British style. Although Japan has never been a British colony, it was strongly influenced by the UK on modernization that began about 150 years ago.

Also, the old samurai had a rule to walk on the left side of the road. Because they had a sword on the left side of the body. Therefore, it was necessary to avoid hitting each other’s sword when passing each other. Perhaps this custom was adopted for car traffic.

Many Japanese are more pessimistic than the Filipino. There are several reasons. Of course, this is just a general theory. It’s depends on the individuals.

Perfect thinking

Many Japanese are perfect thinking. Therefore, in school education, it was important to not mistake the answer to a question for a long time.

However, no one is perfect in the world. A handful of excellent people will behave without fail but others will make a mistake and regret it.

Japan makes high quality products. That is the result of working perfectly oriented of Japanese. But sometimes it works for the worse. In that case the high demands imposed on them hurt themselves.

Family unity is weak

Compared to the Filipino, the unity of Japanese families is weak.

Also In Japan, family consisting of three generations were common in the past. But now it is a minority. It is the result of economic development, population has moved to urban areas, nuclear families have increased.

Japanese tended to give priority to work rather than family in the past.

However, people who does not supported by their families is fragile in mental.

Geographical reasons

In tropical island countries, seafoods and fruits are easily obtained. And if they lost a house to live, they will not die soon. But it is different in cold areas.

Now, Japan has become rich but In the past, laziness came directly to death in the past. Even though people are diligent, if the climate worsened they faced to fear of starve to death. Therefore a careful personality or a pessimistic way of thinking was the key to survival.

I hear that many Filipino people use lots of salary without thinking afterwards. It is possible only people who live in a tropical country and have strong unity in their families.