c*****g 发帖数: 4747 | 1 其实这个短片我3年前就看过了,制作者是名古屋设计专业学生的毕业作品,当时转给
了办公室里差不多所有的非日本同事。短片非常幽默,一点也不枯燥,画面配音都相当
有趣。
做为在日本工作过几年的我,我可以说这个短片描述的日本相当精准深刻。
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au0Ue7qCy6k
附短片全文
Japan is a small country located in east Asia. The population is around 130,
000,000 (one hundred and thirty million) people. The total world population
is 6,800,000,000 (six point eight billion), which means that roughly 2 in
every 100 people are Japanese. Japan's land area measures 378,000 (three
hundred and seventy-eight thousand) square kilometers. If the earth's land
area is 149,000,000 (one hundred and forty-nine million) square kilometers
and the total area is 510,000,000 (five hundred and ten million) square
kilometers, then Japan is no bigger than this red dot.
Japan is the most advanced country in Asia. It is second only to America in
GDP and it's proud of its high standard of living and economic wealth. Life
expectancy of Japanese men is 79 years and 86 years for women, which is the
longest in the world. And there are culture practices such as KABUKI, BONSAI
, SUMO, SADOU, KIMONO and ORIGAMI, all of which have developed into
distinctly Japanese traditions.
And we must not forget, Japan was the first country in the world to
experience the destructive power of not one, but two atomic bombs dropped on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II. More than 220,000 (two hundred and
twenty thousand) people lost their lives and as a result, Japan abandoned
its war time constitution.
In these ways Japan is a country with its own original culture and history,
but nowadays there are also many strange things about modern day Japan. Let'
s take a look at these strange things in eight different categories.
1. Character.
Japanese people tend to be short, have black hair, small mouth and small
eyes. This is a typical Japanese salaryman and over here is a Japanese
schoolgirl. These days Japanese girls have a variety of ways to make their
eyes appear bigger. There's even a function to make your eyes so big when
you have a photo taken. Japanese technology sure is amazing. Another
obsession Japanese girls have is with brands. Not more than anything else,
they're obsessed with diets. Japanese women walk about town, carrying their
high-quality brand bags. But for them, it's the ultimate status symbol.
Japanese people also have the worst eyesight of anyone in the world with 40%
(forty percent) of people using glasses or contact lenses. Japanese people
are, generally, pretty shy. You could say that they find it particularly
difficult to express how they really feel. Thanks to this, Japanese company
meetings tend to drag on, and even after work is over, a Japanese person can
't refuse an invitation for drinks. They also need to be careful of work
relationships between their boss and co-workers. Don't forget to bow on your
way home, again, and again, and again. "So, when do I get my vacation?"
2. Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan's capital city, makes up an extremely small area, but it's the
heart of Japanese politics, economy, distribution and fashion. A true
megalopolis. Tokyo is the Mekka, the place everyone wants to live. And so in
recent years, it's become overpopulated to the extreme. An example, compare
to an American, who can claim a living space of 180 (one hundred and eighty
) square kilometers to himself, there are 11 (eleven) Japanese people
cramming to the same space, but in Tokyo alone, there are 192 (one hundred
and ninty-two) people squished into the same extremely crammed living
conditions. At the famous SHIBUYA scramble crossing, about every green light
street peak hours, around 3,000 (three thousand) people will cross at the
same time. At a Tokyo's McDonald's, it's perfectly normal to have just 50
centimeters of bench space per customer. Kind like being a chicken in the
coop, isn't it?
3. Food
From traditional Japanese style food, to Chinese, Italian, French and
American style junk food, Japan is a nation of food lovers. However, the
amount of food actually produced in Japan is only around 40%. It's
incredible to think that a nation so obsessed with food lets 23,200,000 (
twenty-three point two million) tons of it go to waste every single year.
That's actually more than four times the 5,900,000 (five point nine million)
tons of food that gets sent yearly by eight programs to assist starving
nations. Right now, there are 1,000,000,000 (one billion) people in the
world suffering from starvation. That's equal to one in every seven people.
And someone in the world dies from starvation every four seconds. Of those
who die, more than half are children under five. But despite that, Japanese
people will eat as much as they like and simply throw away the rest. So,
Japanese cuisine, really is a big deal.
4. Technology
Japan is a techonologically advanced nation with bullet trains that reach a
speed of 300 (three hundred) kilometers an hour. And mobile friends that can
act as a credit card and television all-in-one. Robots that walk like
humans? Now truly. There are even restaurants that employ robots to make
your RAMEN for you. The toilets in Japan now lift technological marvels. The
seat warms your bottom. The lid automatically opens and shuts. And if you
like, your toilet will even wash your ... and hhh. But for some reasons, old
-style Japanese squat toilets still remain popular. Can't imagine why.
5. Water
In Japan, if you turn on the tap, the water that comes out of it is
perfectly safe to drink as is. Being an island country, Japan has water in
abundance, but despite this, Japan imports huge amounts of mineral water
from Europe, like about 580,000 (five hundred and eighty thousand) kilo
liters every year. That amount equates to more than 1,160,000,000 (one point
one six billion) 500 (five hundred) milliliter PET bottles. By the way,
more than 1,100,000,000 (one point one billion) people in the world, or
about eight times the population of Japan, don't have access to clean
drinking water. A large portion of those who have to drink dirty water
suffer from diarrhea and other diseases.
6. SUSHI
When you think Japan, you think SUSHI. There's a traditional style counter
SUSHI restaurants, but now SUSHI train restaurants are also popular. You can
choose from shrimp, salmon roe, egg and any number or types of SUSHI.
Recently, you can even order pudding or Korean BBQs. We don't really know
why. By the way, the king of SUSHI in Japan is TUNA. That almost 2 million
tons of it fished worldwide every year, Japanese people eat 710,000 (seven
hundred and ten thousand) tons. That's a third of the world's total. Or
Japan consumes 80% of the world's supply of bluefin tuna. In the past thirty
years, the total population of tuna has decreased by a third. Because of
that, the bluefin tuna could soon be designated a threatened species, just
like the giant panda, blue whale, tiger and African elephant. Now, for the
amount of disposable wooden chopsticks that you use to eat that SUSHI with,
Japanese people use 23,000,000,000 (twenty-three billion) pairs of
chopsticks per year and every person will throw a two-hundred pairs each.
And these days, 90% of those chopsticks are sourced from China. Did you have
any idea that Japan was using Chinese natural forest resources to make its
disposable wooden chopsticks?
7. Love
Have you seen those amazing buildings that look like fairytale castles? Well
, you're in Japan. Of course, they are love hotels. There're around 30,000 (
thirty thousand) love hotels in Japan and in a single day, 1,850,000 (one
point eight five million) couples will visit one. That's quite a lot, but
consider this, while every Japanese couple has sex of a grand total of 48
times a year, the global average number of times a couple has sex in one
year is 103. And then there are those sex-loving Greeks who for a cate on
average 138 times a year. That's more than once every three days. Incredible
! Oh, for the record, this is an actual Japanese castle. Please, don't
mistake it for a love hotel and try to have sex in it.
8. Suicide
For a country with such a strong economy and the luxury of throwing away
unwanted food, you'd think Japan would be a happier country, but it also
boasts one of the highest rates of suicide in any developed nation. Even
Mount FUJI, a revered symbol of Japan, is a notorious suicide spot for the
around 100 dead bodies discovered in the surrounding woodness every year. It
's so not reported, but every year, around 35,000 (thirty-five thousand)
people in total kill themselves in Japan. That's 90 people every day. Every
16 minutes in Japan, one person takes their own life. I guess a healthy
economy does not necessarily make a happy country, does it?
So, this is Japan. When you look at it from a global perspective, do you see
what I mean when I say Japan is a strange country? Does Japan seem a bit
different from what you first imagined? After all, Japan projects an image
of wealth and prosperity. There's probably a lot you can't see behind that
image. But take a step back and you can see the bigger, strangier picture.
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