This Gamer has Some Issues With Japan
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 03.08.10 | 1:27 PM ET
Tim Rogers’ rant at Kotaku about expat life in Japan is racking up the page views—and has stimulated quite a conversation. So far, more than 2,300 people have commented. Rogers’ dislikes about Japanese culture include:
- Anime
- Smoking
- That everything in Japan has meat in it
- Mandatory parties
- Screaming
- Japanese comedy
- Passive aggression
- The prices
- Apologies
- Pachinko
But he does like Japanese trains! (Via The Morning News)
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
Win 03.28.10 | 6:17 AM ET
Its not terribly inaccurate but its really over the top and the author comes off as a self righteous nerd who lacks even the most rudimentary capacity deal with cultural quirks or really anything that does not fit in with his worldview. Even though he is correct about some of them being quite annoying.
tokyo flights 04.20.10 | 12:28 AM ET
Maybe, most of those he mentioned are true. But, those issues are still few, compared with the other admirable and interesting culture of Japan… Nothing is perfect in this world. I still love to live in Japan someday, despite of these issues.