Comments on: Comparing America and Japan, Part 1

By: Hunter Nuttall

Hunter Nuttall — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:42:39 +0000

@ Christopher, of course there are some bad things about Japan, but we can only fit so much into one post. Part 2 is more about the pro-U.S. side. BTW, doesn’t everybody think their nation is superior to most others?

By: Christopher Marlowe

Christopher Marlowe — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:34:03 +0000

This basically reads like a guy who’s not very familiar with the realities of Japan but who loves the undeniably great first impression in conversation with a Japanese woman who holds the typical Japanese viewpoint: that Japan is superior to most other nations.

I’d encourage you to look beyond “Japanese people aren’t as fat” and “the crime rate is lower”. Japan is a pre-feminist society with a truly frightening justice system, out of control suicide rate, and a runaway construction policy that destroys the countryside. It is not all green tea and hot springs.

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By: Debito

Debito — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 07:24:59 +0000

i would like to make a point on your comment in your answer to HUNTER, “When Americans were traveling to the West in wagons, Japanese already had restaurants and cookbooks” , id like to mention that yes, these people were travelling west without gourmet restaurants or books, but the reason was to open farms and ranch homesteads on huge tracks of land , land per family sometimes bigger than all of japan. of course there were no restaurants!!
but i promise you these people came from cities with restaurants!!! They made the choice to leave the cities of the east coast and open large ranches, and many of them at the time became some of the richest people in the world…because of theyre hard work and sacrifice,,a sacrifice that others were not willing to make..and books were troublesome to travel far distances with, recipes were in memory, from whatever european backround the pioneer might have come from, france, germany, england, all places with a fine long history of gourmet food…in general your comment seems extremely mistaken…i recomend you become more globally minded and sensitive before you publish any books geared towards foreigners,,,especially if you want to really educate people and do good business…if your goverment offered you land the size or a prefecture wouldnt you sacrifice the luxuries of city life and get in that wagon? or would you hold on to your restaurants and cookbooks and stay in the same smelly city all your life???what choice would you make? and by the way, we invented the first printing press…just so you know, we didnt have to manually write our books like japan had to at the time;) if you wanna talk about history. ..and also wheels were outlawed in japan for quite a long time, all things had to be ported on mens backs for long distances,,,around the same time as our pioneers, or a bit before, in the edo period…accounts have been written in a book called “GAIJIN” speaking at how rustic and uncivilized things were for the japanese common people…life in japan was not always how you seem to percieve life in japan …there were periods in history where the entire nation had large food shortages that killled countless people, around the same time as our pioneers were travelling the “land of plenty”,,gourmet??????what good is a cookbook, where there is no food?

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I Am Problogger, Hear Me Roar | Hunter Nuttall . com — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:41:47 +0000

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Out On Business Travel | Yes to Me — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:12:23 +0000

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By: Hunter Nuttall

Hunter Nuttall — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:42:47 +0000

@ Akemi, I mean the whole obsession with cats in general. They’re all over the place! Beckoning cats, Hello Kitty, etc. I wondered what caused that much fascination with them. But I’m more of a dog person.

@ Barbara, how about eggs for eyes, a biscuit nose, and bacon smile?

@ Cath, oh, the poor bunnies!

@ Marelisa, probably any two cultures could learn from each other. I hope to see more posts like this comparing other countries, because I’m sure it would be interesting.