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Lack of intercultural experience

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Japanese people don't travel as much as European, Australian or Americans and there is a explanation why. Osaka Most of the individuals imagine Tokyo as typical Japanese city and illustrative for the entire culture as well but here is a trick, after you will visit Osaka you will get a different view of how contrasting Japan actually is. In Osaka is not obvious that people follow the rules and behave as many Japanese in other places in country. Here men, women and children goes on the red instead of the green light, here persons drink alcohol in the morning or in the afternoon, here is not about to look fancy or stylish, here is more to be your self, of course now we are talking of alternative Japan. Also i saw for the first time in Japan a homeless. In the beginning it was just one but then it appears to be so many of them so that I couldn't really believe in that. Seems to be more older people and quite drunken as well but not exclude some implications of drugs t...

300 Years of isolation. Japan.

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If you hear Japan the first thing you should get in mind is not Sushi, Origami or Anime it is all about the rules and honor. Plenty of things makes Japan so unique and so absurd that you don't even can't imagine. The things went very quickly in just some hundreds years. In the beginning many civil wars then 300 years of isolation from rest of the world. In this 300 hundred years Japanese core has formed. The country had no other influence, no more wars took place, the grow of the city was substantial and the wellness of country rose. After implementation of western  technologies and culture, japan participated in first world war and was devastated in second world war. All this events made Japan how we know it today. Of course you can't achieve so much without implication of USA, strong believes in nationalism, dignity, obligation and the rules everybody have to follow. Fukuoka to Japan After spending one night in Fu...