Japan admiration thread

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[Wild North]

[The Lawspeaker]

--- FLIGHT INFORMATION ---
Airline: Japan Airlines
Aircraft: Boeing 787-9
Registration: JA866J
Flight Time: 8h 45min
Seat: 55A
From: Helsinki Vantaa
To: Tokyo Narita
Date: February 2018

Airline: Japan Airlines
Aircraft: Boeing 777-200
Registration: JA771J
Seat: 47K
From: Osaka Itami
To: Tokyo Haneda
Date: September 2016

--- FLIGHT INFORMATION ---
Airline: Vanilla Air
Aircraft: Airbus A320
Registration: JA01VA
Flight Time: 2h 45min
Seat: 21A
From: Taipei Taoyuan
To: Tokyo Narita
Date: July 2018

[Kamal900]

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Genetists recently stated that the modern day Japanese are more than 90% Yayoi genetically while only 10% Jomon on average which there had been a displacement of the native peoples of Japan by the Japonic speaking peoples that had migrated most likely from the Korean peninsula.

Another genetic study (2019) estimated that modern Japanese (Yamato) share more than 90% of their genome with the Yayoi people and less than 10% with the Jomon.[26] A more recent study by Gakihari et al. 2019 estimates that modern Japanese people have on average about 92% Yayoi ancestry ancestry (with the remainder being from the Jomon) and cluster closely with other East Asians but are clearly distinct from the Ainu people.[27]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamato_people#Origin

It is estimated that Yayoi people mainly belonged to Haplogroup O-M176 (O1b2) (today ~36%), Haplogroup O-M122 (O2, formerly O3) (today ~23%) and Haplogroup O-M119 (O1) (today ~4%), which are typical for East- and Southeast-Asians.[18][19] Mitsuru Sakitani suggests that haplogroup O1b2, which is common in today Koreans, Japanese and some Manchu, and O1 are one of the carriers of Yangtze civilization. As the Yangtze civilization declined several tribes crossed westward and northerly, to the Shandong peninsula, the Korean Peninsula and the Japanese archipelago.[20] One study calls haplogroup O1b1 as a major Austroasiatic paternal lineage and the haplogroup O1b2 (of Koreans and Japanese) as a "para-Austroasiatic" paternal lineage.[21]

The modern Yamato people are predominantly descendants of the Yayoi people and closely related to other modern East Asians, particularly Koreans and Han Chinese.[22][23][24] It is estimated that the majority of Japanese people around Tokyo have about 12% Jōmon ancestry or less.[25] The general estimate for mainland Japanese is they have inherited less than 20% of the Jōmon genome.[26] A 2019 study by Takashi Gakuhari et al. suggests about 92% Yayoi ancestry on average.[27]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yayoi_people

[The Lawspeaker]

Giant Hubs Episode 3: A look behind the scenes of the world’s busiest station: Shinjuku Station! Five separate train lines, almost three thousand passengers per minute and trains arriving every second. How can the people behind the scenes of the world’s busiest station overcome a traffic load like this every day? The teams in this Giant Hub need a minute-by-minute precision, a constant control, a military discipline but at the same time always still a smile on their faces for the 3,6 million customers every day. At 4:30 in the morning: The 200 doors to the world’s busiest station start to rise and they won´t close for the next twenty- one hours. This signals the start of the morning rush hour and requires a logistics process that is perfectly in sync. Nobody knows this kind of challenge as good as Hidehiko Moriyama, he is the station master of the biggest train company of the city. His team are the eyes and ears of the entire station. Cutting-edge technology allows them to keep an eye on everything from behind the scenes. When the day is almost over for some, another team is just about to start its shift. At night, everything happens at the same time. The teams work against the clock. The window in which there are no passengers or trains on the tracks is a mere three hours long. Repairs and work on the tracks must not disrupt the traffic flow under any circumstances. This would cause too much chaos. So, before the first guest arrives back in the morning, any sign of construction work disappears completely. It’s as if nothing had happened.

[Kamal900]

1. Bring all world leaders in one room
2. Bring laughing guy
3. Achieve world peace


From my favorite Japanese show, Gaki No Tsukai.

[The Lawspeaker]

"Many of their customs are so distant, foreign, and far removed from our own that is difficult to believe that one can find such stark contrasts among us and people who are so civilized." In 1543 Portuguese traders and missionaries landed in Japan and started the Nanban Trade Period. For half a century, these missionaries and traders interacted with the Japanese, up until the early sixteenth century and the beginning of the isolationist policies of the Edo period. Here we have missionary Luis Frois describing some of the differences he saw between Europeans and the totally foreign Japanese - on subjects ranging from hairstyles to abortion. Taken from chapters 1, 2, 3 and 14 of the translation 'The First Europeans in Japan, 1585', translated, edited and annotated by Richard K Danford, Robin D Gill and Daniel T Reff and published by Routledge. Available at: https://www.amazon.com/First-European... https://www.routledge.com/The-First-E...

Here we have something special - the Japanese perspective of the first Europeans in Japan. In 1543 two Portuguese traders - men "whose physical features differed" from the locals - arrived on a Chinese junk, with a gift that would change the course of Japanese history. Recorded for posterity by Nanpo Bushi half a century later, this account gives us the view of a people coming into contact with Europe for the first time. Translated by Olof G Lidin in his book "Tanegashima: The Arrival Of Europe In Japan" and published by NIAS press: http://www.niaspress.dk If this channel is something you like, if you think saving primary sources is important, head over to the patreon and join up!

[The Lawspeaker]

Here we have the first full description of the island east of China - what would become Japan. Straight from the 3rd century History of the Kingdom of Wei, these words give us our first insight into life on that remote island and their mysterious female rulers.

[The Lawspeaker]

Why did Japanese people recite green as blue? And what are we staring at in the blue? I thought that I could also know about that part, I made this video

The reason for expressing green ones in blue is related to the fact that there were only four words expressing colors in ancient Japanese. In the Nara period and the Heian period, Japan has only four adjectives representing colors, "Whiteness", "Redness", "Blue", "Black", expressing all colors with the four words I had to do. For this reason, these four adjectives have a wider color range to express than the current "white", "red", "blue", "black", "blue" in the Nara period and the Heian period is the current green From words to purple and gray had become words. And even though it is green, to be exactly speaking, words such as "green apple", "blue juice", "blue clam", "blue caterpillar", "blue shiso", "blue onion", "vegetable", "lush green lily" What remains until now is the remnant when I was expressing green as blue. Therefore, the reason for expressing the green ones is because the adjective "blue" in the Nara period and the Heian era was also a word expressing green, so that remnant still remains. · In the Nara period and the Heian period, for example yellow was judged as red color and it was expressed in red. Since the meaning of "Akira" such as "bright" and "obviously" was included in the old red, words such as "others of red" (obviously others), "red shy" (obviously shame) Even now it exists. Music : The House Glows (With Almost No Help) by Chris Zabriskie http://chriszabriskie.com/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...

なぜわれわれ日本人は緑色を青色と認識して来たのか？ そして、青色の中に何を見つめていたのか？ その一端でも知ることが出来ればと想い、この動画を制作しました。

緑色のものを青で表現する理由は、古代の日本語に色を表す言葉が４つしかなかったことと関係し ています。 奈良時代や平安時代、日本には色を表す形容詞が、「白し」「赤し」「青し」「黒し」の４つしか なく、その４ つの言葉で全ての色を表現しなければなりませんでした。 このため、この４つの形容詞は、現在の「白」「赤」「青」「黒」よりも表現する色の範囲が広く 、奈良時代や 平安時代の「青」は、現在の緑色から紫色、灰色までを表す言葉になっていました。 そして、正確に言えば緑色なのに、「青リンゴ」「青汁」「青のり」「青虫」「青しそ」「青ねぎ 」「青菜」「 青々と茂る」などの言葉が現在まで残っているのは、緑色を青と表現していた頃の名残です。 よって、緑色のものを青で表現する理由は、奈良時代や平安時代の「青」の形容詞が緑色も表す言 葉であったた め、その名残が今も残っているからです。 ・ 奈良時代や平安時代は、例えば黄色は赤寄りの色と判断され、赤で表現されていました。なお、昔 の赤には「明 るい」、「明らかに」などの「明」の意味があったため、「赤の他人」（明らかに他人）、「赤っ 恥」（明らか に恥）などの言葉が今でも存在します。

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[The Lawspeaker]