Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Japan was the future but it's stuck in the past (2023)

bbc.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

1–10 of 91 posts

Re: Japan was the future but it's stuck in the past (2023)

#5

Post by alexott »

billy99k wrote: post #2

I traveled to Japan and Vietnam last year. I got far faster Internet speeds in Vietnam. Sometimes double or triple the speed.

I was in Thailand in 2017th - mobile internet with 4g was almost everywhere, including small islands. It was a huge contrast to Germany where you need to get 15 minutes drive from most of cities to get only Edge at best, or no mobile coverage at all

Re: Japan was the future but it's stuck in the past (2023)

#6

Post by alephnerd »

billy99k wrote: post #2

I traveled to Japan and Vietnam last year. I got far faster Internet speeds in Vietnam. Sometimes double or triple the speed.

Interesting. Where in Japan and where in Vietnam?

And when in Vietnam was it via Vintel [EDIT: Viettel - doh I need my noon coffee]?

Re: Japan was the future but it's stuck in the past (2023)

#8

Post by jbm »

nextworddev wrote: post #4

Lived in Japan. I think world will come to realize that Japan's past is also the world's future.

Came to say the same thing. The supposed backwards parts are seeming charming the longer I live in Canada.

Having a sovereign language has allowed it to avoid so much brainrot in our culture today.

Re: Japan was the future but it's stuck in the past (2023)

#9

Post by alephnerd »

Ehn, Japan doesn't have the same zeitgeist as it did in the 1980s-early 2000s, but it is still cool and imo forward facing - just different and more self assured.

The kind of guy who enjoyed Japan in the 80s or 90s probably isn't the kind of guy listening to modern J-Wave, watching Anime, or digging into METI and the ADB's Flock of Geese strategy.

Instead of mimicking and pastiching western culture like back in the 80s and 90s, Japanese subcultures now merge the west and Japan in a more imo mature and self assured manner.

Also, Japan has absolutely become more diverse compared to 20 years ago - before the foreign population was fraction of a percent, but now it's reached 2-3% - most of whom are from all across Eastern and Southeast Asia.

Japan has been developed now for a generation, so there isn't much of a pull to leave Japan and evangelize within America - especially when Japanese firms have a much stronger market position in ASEAN and India. Same thing will happen to Korea in 10-15 years.

Post reply on HN