What got you into liking Japan?

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1. I like how condense with history and beauty it is yet still clean and considerate.

2. Snowboarding!

3. Romance.

4. The porn of course

5. Who said I liked it?

6. I like the low crime rate, and how cheap everything is right now.

7. Megumi’s furburger.

8. The Art scene, movies and to like 5% anime

9. My friend had this Astro Boy alarm clock her dad bought back from Japan and I always wished that was my alarm clock. Some time later I tried kakiage udon.

10. A ton of stuff.
    Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.
    Yan-Yan “tsukebo”.
    Pocky.
    Sailor Moon.
    Pokemon.

11. Trains

12. My father was manager of a Minolta/Konica Camera repair center when cameras were still big in the 80s and 90s.
    His coworkers were Japanese and he got to pop over to Japan a few times and show me his videos.
    After that I fell in love with 90s anime and took off from there.

13. I failed at German because it was too similar to Dutch (as a Limburgian) found out that a teacher of mine did a bit of Japanese and thought I’d give it a try. Turned out Japanese was way easier than German, and I ended up passing JLPT N5 a year later. It also got me into anime since it’s just great study material. Entered a Japanese student society (JCES kinjin) and arranged the first trip.
    The more I visited, the more I started liking the country itself. I now work at a Japanese company and will live there starting next month.

14. I didn’t know jack shit about Japan until I moved to a new town and made a Japanese friend in middle school. I started spending every day after school at his house building Gundam models, watching anime, reading manga, eating senbei for snacks, and sometimes staying for dinner when they were having sukiyaki or something. My mind was completely blown by everything I saw and learned about Japan, and by high school I was already learning Japanese with the intent to visit Japan someday. And now I live here. Sadly, I’m no longer in touch with that friend from middle school. I went to college and he joined the military straight out of high school and we just kind of lost contact.

15. Tokyo street fashion, Japanese cuisine, efficiency of trains, how one area can be so over populated and busy then just an hour away it looks like it did hundreds of years ago.

16. My wife.

17. Traditional music. Someone played a shakuhachi for a world music class I was taking in college and I thought, “I really want to learn how to play that!” So I did.

18. Shrines, technology and porn

19. Back in primary school, I remember briefly studying this play called The Mikado for some reason, and that indirectly led into some other stuff about Japanese culture and history.

    As a kid, it was the first time I clocked a culture markedly different from my own. When my Dad pointed out that my game console was also from Japan, my mind was blown.

    It was like being introduced to an alien planet, I found it fascinating. It just kinda snowballed from there.

    Been living here 13 years now 🙂

20. Nintendo ❤️

21. Turtles -> Ninjas -> Actually looking up what Japan was about -> Found Anime -> Sold -> lived there for a year -> completely love it

22. My parents dragged my teenage ax across the ocean and proceeded to live here for 5 years. The first year was the hardest.

    After learning a bit of the language, making friends, discovering beer machines and the total 80’s/bubble vibe I just fell in love with Japan.

    I think if I had come later I might not have grown to love Japan as much but who knows.

23. Music. It started with Babymetal but has expanded a lot since then and now B’z, Michiya Haruhata and Sakurazaka46 are the ones I listen to most.

    I had just started a new job in a new city and was also learning to live alone so I came really close to quitting guitar but then I discovered Japanese music. The awesome music and seeing everyone be so happy while performing on stage made me pick up my guitar again after months, and since then I’ve been more motivated than ever.

24. Dude Japan makes anime but it’s not an anime world you’re thinking lol we love it here because it’s Safer, more convenient, trains can get you anywhere, less traffic, good food, people dont give a fuck about about you, less polluted, quieter than everywhere else.

25. Food. I could have given a rats ass about anime.

26. I went there for work and it was really nice.