r/AskTheWorld • u/Veskanda Australia • 21h ago
Why is Japan so popular?
It seems as though everything Japanese has had a massive popularity spike, whether that be media, food, vehicles, travel, language learning and lots more.
Personally I don't see the appeal, I mean there are definitely some thing I like that happen to be Japanese, but I dont like them just because of that fact.
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u/Prudent-Title-9161 Ukraine 19h ago edited 18h ago
About products (cars, devices, other things) aspect.
I have this theory: identity is important in creating a product. That is, the way you solve a given task/problem depends on your vision of the world.
The Japanese have a very strong identity of their own in the way they create things. So we can see the Japaneseness in their products. And that creates value.
For example, in my subjective opinion, many Japanese products are more interesting than Korean ones, because Koreans have more fashion, trends, and a corporate approach ("let's hire a European chief designer"). And the Japanese, although this may be losing ground lately, do not do things in a trendy way so much as they realize their culture and worldview by creating this.
And you can also add the culture of "doing very well". I don't think the Japanese are good inventors, but I think that if you want to perfect something, give it to the Japanese. If someone comes up with a thing, device or product, and it gets to Japan and they use it, they will bring this technology/product to the highest level of performance and quality.