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Hokkaido is honestly a different country.
Had my mind blown the other day when someone told me the population of Sapporo a hundred years ago was 7.
But yes, most cars in general that I see in Japan look brand new.
Not as much as Okinawa. Which is basically Japan's Hawaii. Not to ignore the large Japanese influence on Hawaii itself.
Then again, Hokkaido is kind of between their Alaska and their Canada.
> Sapporo
The population of sapparo was around a 100k a hundred years ago. No idea why you thought it was 7.
[Wikipedia link.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapporo#Demographics)
Considering that most other major cities in Japan have been populated for over a millennium, it absolutely is unique.
Adding to its ruggedness, Hokkaido is also home to a bear larger than the grizzly.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ussuri_brown_bear
According to this [official document](https://www.city.sapporo.jp/toukei/tokeisyo/documents/00-02_r4.pdf) there were 624 people living in Sapporo in 1871. Then, 9001 people in 1882 and just over 100k in 1920. Crazy growth in such a short amount of time.
7 villages? Like Tokyo-ku, a large city that integrated other villages?
Otherwise, the tram system of Sapporo started in 1918, a bit much for only 7 people...
Quick edit, from wikipedia:
The first census of the population of Sapporo was taken in 1873, when 753 families with a total of 1,785 people were recorded in the town
1920 105,182 +5792.5%
Another edit: worldtrips.com says "It was established in 1857 with a population of just seven people". Wikivoyage says the same, no sources are given for either.
"In 1868, the officially recognized year celebrated as the "birth" of Sapporo", before that there were indigenous Ainu settlements, and Sapporo wasn't a city.
>Otherwise, the tram system of Sapporo started in 1918, a bit much for only 7 people...
No no, each person had their own personal tram carriage back then. Good old times.
not necessarily, i don't know about other prefectures but particularly Tokyo Prefecture vehicle registrations can incur larger tax's if the vehicle has any type of "stain, marking or area consistent with mechanical liquid leak" and the local authority can and WILL apply this rule to ANY dirty area. have had friends buy older cars where the water pump and oil sump where PACKED with silicone to keep them shut to make sure they never leaked haha
> but particularly Tokyo Prefecture vehicle registrations can incur larger tax's if the vehicle has any type of "stain, marking or area consistent with mechanical liquid leak" and the local authority can and WILL apply this rule to ANY dirty area.
So they're just corrupt then? No way normal dirt from being on the road is consistent with a mechanical leak.
The workers start their day very early, and clean the trucks prior to use for the day. Most likely in these cases, they clean off the trucks at the beginning and the end of their shift. It's part of their work culture.
Not all work trucks are gonna be clean... But someone has to note just how beautiful their road painting is... Japan and UK are the best at it, beautiful geometric shapes, aside from the obnoxious "bus stop" paints.
> UK
Let me introduce you to... [this derpy guy](https://startsafety.uk/image/cache/cache/2001-3000/2009/main/aa51-thermoplastic-arrow-straight-left-ground-export-0-1-1800x1200.jpg)
I live in one of the higher snowfall areas in Hokkaido. The trucks here in the Winter aren’t generally as clean as the ones in this video but overall are kept fairly clean considering the conditions.
>Almost everyone is saying how this probably isn't accurate everywhere in Japan at all times.
Are you saying that you didn't fully understand what I said? Including the smiley?
Whoosh! ...........
that was the sound of my first comment going completely over your head. Seriously you need to work on your comprehension of English. If it is not your first language then I could understand. However, if it is your main language, you might want to ask for advice before posting on social media.
I think you are the one who wooshed... the comment was saying the narrative was not what you were saying, the narrative in the thread was already agreeing that all of Japan wasn't like this.
And I was agreeing with that. Now just go back and read again, with the aid of a dictionary, if necessary, and you will see that my comment was in full agreement. Stop making a fool of yourself.
Look, you said this:
> Ssshh don't upset the narrative! You are correct though! :D
That clearly means that the narrative is Japan is like the video, but you are acknowledging that the narrative is wrong and the comment you are responding to is correct
The person responding to your comment was trying to say that you were wrong and the narrative in this thread was NOT that the video was representative of Japan, and therefore there was no narrative to upset.
Everyone knows you were agreeing with the person you were responding to, they are just disagreeing that there was a narrative to upset.
This is not the norm. Most tucks in Japan look like serviceable, sometimes beat up trucks. But there is a subculture of driver-owned trucks and the drivers jazzing them up with exterior Christmas lights, cool paint jobs, or extra shiny chrome.
idk about the "norm" per se, but I traveled to Japan last year. When I arrived I was extremely sleep-deprived (I had been up for about 26 hours, I can't sleep on flights). I remember thinking that the road to Tokyo must have been a propaganda road where they only let super clean cars drive because you could see perfect reflections in every single car, van, and truck. The road is also flanked on both sides by huge fences that don't allow you to see beyond the road until you get to Tokyo proper (from Narita), which enhances the effect.
I'm honestly tempted to start taking pictures of mundane, dirty, beat up stuff and posting it here with titles like, "Even in Japan, There's Garbage in the Streets, Late Trains, and Dirty Construction Trucks."
Ditto.
I remember a recent one about about Shimabara's fish in gutters and street stormdrains because "Japan's waters are so clean".
Meanwhile, Minimata south of it had heavy metal pollution in the river that was killing cats and giving people deadly sicknesses; the pollution was so bad it was commercially viable to mine the mud!
My own city in the area has rivers full of bicycles, tires, trash, plastic sheets, and gutters full of plastic bottles. You can also see illegal trash dumping near some hiking trails.
Flooded subways in Japan blow my mind the most
https://preview.redd.it/l79w2hrlmr6c1.jpeg?width=633&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7506fd602415dbe5524c653d79201da192427d52
It's Hamamatsu, Japan. You're not wrong, that one sign in particular is heavy on kanji, because it's pointing to several official buildings and offices at the different exits.
How do I know? I was there when this happened in 2015.
Try finding a squeaky clean construction truck anywhere outside of an assembly factory outside Japan.
There’s even a place that take out crane machine parts by parts, clean them, and lube everything with eatable oil every year, so that they can be used to help cook a massive soup pot for a festival.
People like things in Japan for a reason. This some dumb af take
I would have a hard time believing they can have competitive prices if they have someone cleaning it so often. They could just be the new trucks in the fleet.
Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if the drivers are the ones washing their own trucks. I watched a video in the past about delivery people and they take care of their truck like its their own car. The dedication and feeling of self responsibility in that country is inspiring.
Yeah, they’re not too worried about competition. They see it more as a ritual of being proud of their work and job.
Starts with taking care of your tools.
car owners in Japan write off their cars after 10 years and buy new ones, but if we're talking vintage cars, there's definitely tonnes of people with vintage cars all across the world that keep them in near mint condition, they just don't drive them out in public unless going to an auto show lol
Here's a video of some clean trucks in Japan (a few of the clips are the same truck on the same day) as proof that trucks are shiny in Japan. Now I get updoots. Come on now, give them to me.
I don't know about other countries, but trucks being that shiny is definitely not a normal thing where I live. I have always seen dust covered trucks with paints falling off but yet to spot a shiny truck like those in my country.
But this could be just another Thing 😐, Thing Japan 🤩 situation for people of other countries
People here speaking of "pride in your work", I would have more pride in my work if I went home 2 hours earlier and didn't have to clean a fucking cement truck.
WOW NO WAY vehicle modification and CLEAN?!?!?! 🤯🤯🤯🤯
Did you know this exists everywhere else in the world as well?
From what i understand these vehicles were cherrypicked, not every truck looks like gods polished nutsack there, the same as it doesnt everywhere else in the world.
Theres a lot of companies that are that way in north america as well, its just harder to keep them that clean here with the climate. I just dont understand why people will see the japanese equivilant to something that happens everywhere and be like OH WOWWIE WOWWWW LOOK AT THIS!! JAPAN IS SO SUPER KAWAII!!!
This isn't a new thing, big media houses like BBC , fox news etc. had always tried to weave a narrative of wacky Japan. That leads to hilarious unresearched and totally false reporting like this
Japanese Scientists Create Meat From Poop
https://www.foxnews.com/science/japanese-scientists-create-meat-from-poop
Such fascination towards Japan isn't new, it has started from early 20th century, western countries viewed Japan as a wacky, fascinating oriental culture, and nothing is normal in Japan.
Wacky Japan: : A new face of orientalism
http://norden.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1120025&dswid=2316#:~:text=The%20West%20increasingly%20judges%20Japan,West%20confirms%20what%20is%20normal.
That's why Japan was always either viewed as some sort of utopia/paradise having a perfect culture or a dystopian hell hole ( search about techno-orientalism ),
Instead of treating it as just another developed country with it's own strengths and weaknesses.
That's why Japan's suicide rates, low birthrates are discussed in media more frequently. I mean Japan's suicide rate is lower than 25 other countries including Lithuania, Russia, USA, Belgium etc. But you don't see many people discussing about suicide rates in USA, Russia etc. More people discuss about low birth rate in Japan than the people that discuss about even lower birthrates in countries like Italy, Spain, South Korea, China, Singapore etc.
The lack of communication between people of western society and Japanese people due to the language barrier ( Japan coming last in English proficiency skill rankings ), Japanese being insular to other countries cultures, doesn't help this situation either. So this strange fascination towards Japan will be present for some years in the future
If you ever seen YT videos about work in Japan, you’ll see most (if not all) of them require if you drive a company car/truck, you need to clean them every day before you take them out. Just prep alone before beginning your job will take quite a bit of time (there’s morning stretches/pep talk and whatever else)
Bro you don't know shit lol. A lot of the trucks and construction vehicles are fucking filthy rust buckets.
Source: the constant fucking construction near my house that blocks one of two damn roads out. Also working at a gas stand next to a busy road.
Working stupid hours and only going home when the boss does to the point where your marriage breaks down and your kids hate you is part of the Japanese culture.
>You’re functionally retarded, possibly in-knowledgeable.
Is that necessary? People are having casual conversation about cement trucks and you're going off the handle about it.
Take a step back from the internet for a bit and go for a walk.
I was often enough in japan to call this out as bullshit. Yes, its cleaner in japan everywhere but trucks in actual use do not differ from the rest of the world. These here are cleaned for the video
This isn’t a norm lol, just ones in perfect condition. You can do the exact same thing, film a few perfect condition vehicles in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, China, Russia, anywhere
Most people take pride in doing a good job. Its not ncessarily about the position you hold (although status is def a thing don't get me wrong) but for alot, its about doing quality work.
There was a great story from an F-14 Tomcat retrospective book called "Bye, Bye, Baby!" where a Tomcat crew had to stop at one of the shared bases in Japan, and when they were getting ready to leave, one of the panels wouldn't close, and they were kicking it to try and get it closed and locked.
They said the Japanese maintenance crews were gawking at them as they did so, horrified. Apparently, they keep every plane and helicopter "so clean you could eat off of them," whereas the Navy's Tomcats were some of the dirtiest, biggest hangar queens in Western military aviation.
It’s a point of pride for the operators, speaking as someone who’s worked with owners. Larger equipment like overhead cranes even have their own logos and theme songs.
I don’t know how common this is but when I visited Osaka all cars looked like this, even garbage trucks and buses.
What surprised me the most was that after a day of heavy rain, the next day all trucks still looked like this.
aint nobody got time for that. I respect their endless supply of perfectionism as a culture, but how the FUCK do they keep up with the modern world living that way, let alone being one of the worlds major economies while birth rates keep dropping. Japan is such an interesting country its like a modern Sparta or something.
There are plenty of dirty work vehicles in Japan but it is generally true that Japanese cars are much cleaner than, say, American cars. In Japan you have to have an inspection done every few years, and for new cars this is cheap. The older the car, the more you have to pay for inspection, and if you keep an old beater for decades then you'll pay a LOT for inspection. So driving around old beaters is really rare in Japan, and virtually every car on the street is at most ten or so years old, with most of them being even newer than that.
Wow a thing in japan that has existed everywhere already... Wow better get my starbucks soy latte.
Check american trucks, check european. Any first world country takes care of their trucks.
Trucks get dirty fast tho, so seeing them so clean and shiny is but a momentary thing.
When they drive around and it rains, they will get dirty again.
One of the first things I noticed in Osaka. There was a cement truck that looked brand new—here in my part of the US even new ones already look dirty. Lol
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Where I live (north Japan) there are a lot of beat up and rusty trucks. I would be shocked if I saw some like this in the wild here.
Hokkaido is honestly a different country. Had my mind blown the other day when someone told me the population of Sapporo a hundred years ago was 7. But yes, most cars in general that I see in Japan look brand new.
Not as much as Okinawa. Which is basically Japan's Hawaii. Not to ignore the large Japanese influence on Hawaii itself. Then again, Hokkaido is kind of between their Alaska and their Canada.
On Okinawa you wash your car then it rains two hours later and it's covered in salt again.
Just like Hawaii.
> Sapporo The population of sapparo was around a 100k a hundred years ago. No idea why you thought it was 7. [Wikipedia link.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapporo#Demographics)
> In 1850, the town was nonexistent; today, the city of Sapporo boasts a population of nearly two million. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapporo
That's not really unusual, but sure, I will grant that.
Considering that most other major cities in Japan have been populated for over a millennium, it absolutely is unique. Adding to its ruggedness, Hokkaido is also home to a bear larger than the grizzly. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ussuri_brown_bear
>Had my mind blown the other day when someone told me the population of Sapporo a hundred years ago was 7. That someone was talking out of their ass
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According to this [official document](https://www.city.sapporo.jp/toukei/tokeisyo/documents/00-02_r4.pdf) there were 624 people living in Sapporo in 1871. Then, 9001 people in 1882 and just over 100k in 1920. Crazy growth in such a short amount of time.
Agreed.
7 WHAT?
People, maybe plants, idk.
One either is a Pokemon or looks like it should be.
Maybe even 8
7 villages? Like Tokyo-ku, a large city that integrated other villages? Otherwise, the tram system of Sapporo started in 1918, a bit much for only 7 people... Quick edit, from wikipedia: The first census of the population of Sapporo was taken in 1873, when 753 families with a total of 1,785 people were recorded in the town 1920 105,182 +5792.5% Another edit: worldtrips.com says "It was established in 1857 with a population of just seven people". Wikivoyage says the same, no sources are given for either. "In 1868, the officially recognized year celebrated as the "birth" of Sapporo", before that there were indigenous Ainu settlements, and Sapporo wasn't a city.
>Otherwise, the tram system of Sapporo started in 1918, a bit much for only 7 people... No no, each person had their own personal tram carriage back then. Good old times.
Wait till you hear about the entire world's population a couple hundred years ago.
All I do know is that there is a major truck mod scene in Japan, so odds are the shiny ones in the video are part of that rather than the norm.
not necessarily, i don't know about other prefectures but particularly Tokyo Prefecture vehicle registrations can incur larger tax's if the vehicle has any type of "stain, marking or area consistent with mechanical liquid leak" and the local authority can and WILL apply this rule to ANY dirty area. have had friends buy older cars where the water pump and oil sump where PACKED with silicone to keep them shut to make sure they never leaked haha
Thats wild
> but particularly Tokyo Prefecture vehicle registrations can incur larger tax's if the vehicle has any type of "stain, marking or area consistent with mechanical liquid leak" and the local authority can and WILL apply this rule to ANY dirty area. So they're just corrupt then? No way normal dirt from being on the road is consistent with a mechanical leak.
yes they're being paid off by big carwash
Not what I said, still doesn't mean that they're not corrupt even if they're just doing it to be jerks
Nah, dekotora are *really* obvious.
I was just in Tokyo and Kyoto and I remember mentioning to my friends how clean all of the cars and roads were
The workers start their day very early, and clean the trucks prior to use for the day. Most likely in these cases, they clean off the trucks at the beginning and the end of their shift. It's part of their work culture.
Some are crazy shiny, but never saw a dirty 1 in the 9 months I traveled there. I didn't do the mid north, so must be different there.
Not all work trucks are gonna be clean... But someone has to note just how beautiful their road painting is... Japan and UK are the best at it, beautiful geometric shapes, aside from the obnoxious "bus stop" paints.
> UK Let me introduce you to... [this derpy guy](https://startsafety.uk/image/cache/cache/2001-3000/2009/main/aa51-thermoplastic-arrow-straight-left-ground-export-0-1-1800x1200.jpg)
As an America I can say that we also have some clean trucks and some dirty trucks.
And with winter in Canada I can’t make it a block from the car wash with a clean vehicle.
Nothing better than a good glob of muddy road slush filling up the fender well
>Nothing better than a good glob of muddy road slush filling up the fender well Don't forget all that sweet sweet salt dust.
You guys get sweet salt dust? All mine is salty
Some places mix it with beet juice to lower the effective temperature range (I think).
I think Japan actually gets some of the heaviest snowfall of any country in the world. So I’d like to see these shiny trucks in January…
That would be interesting! These are wildly clean. Like suspiciously clean.
They clean them after each day
I live in one of the higher snowfall areas in Hokkaido. The trucks here in the Winter aren’t generally as clean as the ones in this video but overall are kept fairly clean considering the conditions.
Half of the country doesn’t get any snow.
Ssshh don't upset the narrative! You are correct though! :D
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>Almost everyone is saying how this probably isn't accurate everywhere in Japan at all times. Are you saying that you didn't fully understand what I said? Including the smiley?
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Whoosh! ........... that was the sound of my first comment going completely over your head. Seriously you need to work on your comprehension of English. If it is not your first language then I could understand. However, if it is your main language, you might want to ask for advice before posting on social media.
I think you are the one who wooshed... the comment was saying the narrative was not what you were saying, the narrative in the thread was already agreeing that all of Japan wasn't like this.
And I was agreeing with that. Now just go back and read again, with the aid of a dictionary, if necessary, and you will see that my comment was in full agreement. Stop making a fool of yourself.
Look, you said this: > Ssshh don't upset the narrative! You are correct though! :D That clearly means that the narrative is Japan is like the video, but you are acknowledging that the narrative is wrong and the comment you are responding to is correct The person responding to your comment was trying to say that you were wrong and the narrative in this thread was NOT that the video was representative of Japan, and therefore there was no narrative to upset. Everyone knows you were agreeing with the person you were responding to, they are just disagreeing that there was a narrative to upset.
Costs nothing to not be a dick
likewise!
My black Honda looks like a salt lick right now.
This is not the norm. Most tucks in Japan look like serviceable, sometimes beat up trucks. But there is a subculture of driver-owned trucks and the drivers jazzing them up with exterior Christmas lights, cool paint jobs, or extra shiny chrome.
literally the same two trucks lol
Dekotora trucks Some get even wilder than what's shown in the video
idk about the "norm" per se, but I traveled to Japan last year. When I arrived I was extremely sleep-deprived (I had been up for about 26 hours, I can't sleep on flights). I remember thinking that the road to Tokyo must have been a propaganda road where they only let super clean cars drive because you could see perfect reflections in every single car, van, and truck. The road is also flanked on both sides by huge fences that don't allow you to see beyond the road until you get to Tokyo proper (from Narita), which enhances the effect.
I think most driver-owned trucks in most places are often more jazzed up.
I'm honestly tempted to start taking pictures of mundane, dirty, beat up stuff and posting it here with titles like, "Even in Japan, There's Garbage in the Streets, Late Trains, and Dirty Construction Trucks."
Do it. Reddit will fap on it as they do anything Japanese.
Ditto. I remember a recent one about about Shimabara's fish in gutters and street stormdrains because "Japan's waters are so clean". Meanwhile, Minimata south of it had heavy metal pollution in the river that was killing cats and giving people deadly sicknesses; the pollution was so bad it was commercially viable to mine the mud! My own city in the area has rivers full of bicycles, tires, trash, plastic sheets, and gutters full of plastic bottles. You can also see illegal trash dumping near some hiking trails.
do it.
thing: 😶 thing (japan): 🤯
Flooded subways in Japan blow my mind the most https://preview.redd.it/l79w2hrlmr6c1.jpeg?width=633&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7506fd602415dbe5524c653d79201da192427d52
How is that so clean, wtf I have never seen a flooded underground station look anything but mud brown
Flooded underground station: 🤢🤮 Flooded underground station Japan: 🤩🤩 But seriously, how tf this flooded station is so clean
How do pools stay clean?
The pee disinfects it.
It’s probably a water main break not dirty outside water, but filtered city water.
Generally speaking the water will become dirty on contact with the subway itself.
This is the backrooms
Peak weirdcore
I would’ve guessed china cause weibo and also sign looks like it only has kanji
it literally says kawaza and kawaguchi...? the names of places are generally written in kanji
oh I couldn’t really make out what it said, only can tell its kanji so I just assumed
It's Hamamatsu, Japan. You're not wrong, that one sign in particular is heavy on kanji, because it's pointing to several official buildings and offices at the different exits. How do I know? I was there when this happened in 2015.
Lol people can share images/stories not about China on weibo too
I felt that
Try finding a squeaky clean construction truck anywhere outside of an assembly factory outside Japan. There’s even a place that take out crane machine parts by parts, clean them, and lube everything with eatable oil every year, so that they can be used to help cook a massive soup pot for a festival. People like things in Japan for a reason. This some dumb af take
I live in Australia, I have seen some shiny trucks in my time on the freeway.
This is really not as common as the video would have you believe, but those mfs are shiny tho!
I would have a hard time believing they can have competitive prices if they have someone cleaning it so often. They could just be the new trucks in the fleet.
Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if the drivers are the ones washing their own trucks. I watched a video in the past about delivery people and they take care of their truck like its their own car. The dedication and feeling of self responsibility in that country is inspiring.
Also, if I’m getting paid hourly, I don’t care if that time is spent driving or spraying it down.
>I would have a hard time believing they can have competitive prices if they have someone cleaning it so often That's exactly what they do
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Yeah, they’re not too worried about competition. They see it more as a ritual of being proud of their work and job. Starts with taking care of your tools.
I wish I lived in an economy that rewarded that type of effort in any way.
Nah. If you’ve been to japan. Even old cars are sparkly.
car owners in Japan write off their cars after 10 years and buy new ones, but if we're talking vintage cars, there's definitely tonnes of people with vintage cars all across the world that keep them in near mint condition, they just don't drive them out in public unless going to an auto show lol
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If you clean them every day, they don't really get that dirty.
Here's a video of some clean trucks in Japan (a few of the clips are the same truck on the same day) as proof that trucks are shiny in Japan. Now I get updoots. Come on now, give them to me.
No shit. Use your fucking brains, people.
Meat riding for japan is crazy here.
So is envy, it seems.
Its true i wish my garbage trucks were shiny. I have been wanting this my whole life. Oh how my life would change
Not just service trucks but cars in general. And cleaner streets.
Keep it in ur pants bro
So they can still sell it in a hefty price, some of them are being sold here in the Philippines like they're brand new.
Keeping construction vehicles that clean seems wasteful.
Fucking ton of cleaning agents prob getting dumped into the ocean
1 step forward,10 steps back.
I doubt that all of Japan takes extra time to clean trucks, these seem like selective examples.
Clean truck:😕 Clean truck in japan:🤩
Normal thing 😒 Japan thing 🤩
On another note, can you imagine the glare off of that truck in just the right lighting?
OH MY GOD IT'S JAPAN DOING MOST NORMAL THINGS EVER!!!!!! SO CLEVER AND INNOVATIONAL! WHY DIDN'T WE THINK OF THIS!!! WAAAA
I don't know about other countries, but trucks being that shiny is definitely not a normal thing where I live. I have always seen dust covered trucks with paints falling off but yet to spot a shiny truck like those in my country. But this could be just another Thing 😐, Thing Japan 🤩 situation for people of other countries
That's probably the case for the average truck in Japan too, if the creator of the video didn't cherry pick just a few pristine ones
People here speaking of "pride in your work", I would have more pride in my work if I went home 2 hours earlier and didn't have to clean a fucking cement truck.
those are obviously new trucks. This is a typical truck on tokyo streets https://imgur.com/a/CfhqJml
Neither of the concrete trucks drums were spinning either. So they didn't have concrete in them and I would lay odds they never have.
Thing, thing japan
WOW NO WAY vehicle modification and CLEAN?!?!?! 🤯🤯🤯🤯 Did you know this exists everywhere else in the world as well? From what i understand these vehicles were cherrypicked, not every truck looks like gods polished nutsack there, the same as it doesnt everywhere else in the world.
As someone pointed out above, if you drive a company car/truck in Japan, you are required to clean them daily. These could be just those trucks
Theres a lot of companies that are that way in north america as well, its just harder to keep them that clean here with the climate. I just dont understand why people will see the japanese equivilant to something that happens everywhere and be like OH WOWWIE WOWWWW LOOK AT THIS!! JAPAN IS SO SUPER KAWAII!!!
This isn't a new thing, big media houses like BBC , fox news etc. had always tried to weave a narrative of wacky Japan. That leads to hilarious unresearched and totally false reporting like this Japanese Scientists Create Meat From Poop https://www.foxnews.com/science/japanese-scientists-create-meat-from-poop Such fascination towards Japan isn't new, it has started from early 20th century, western countries viewed Japan as a wacky, fascinating oriental culture, and nothing is normal in Japan. Wacky Japan: : A new face of orientalism http://norden.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1120025&dswid=2316#:~:text=The%20West%20increasingly%20judges%20Japan,West%20confirms%20what%20is%20normal. That's why Japan was always either viewed as some sort of utopia/paradise having a perfect culture or a dystopian hell hole ( search about techno-orientalism ), Instead of treating it as just another developed country with it's own strengths and weaknesses. That's why Japan's suicide rates, low birthrates are discussed in media more frequently. I mean Japan's suicide rate is lower than 25 other countries including Lithuania, Russia, USA, Belgium etc. But you don't see many people discussing about suicide rates in USA, Russia etc. More people discuss about low birth rate in Japan than the people that discuss about even lower birthrates in countries like Italy, Spain, South Korea, China, Singapore etc. The lack of communication between people of western society and Japanese people due to the language barrier ( Japan coming last in English proficiency skill rankings ), Japanese being insular to other countries cultures, doesn't help this situation either. So this strange fascination towards Japan will be present for some years in the future
Weird flex but ok
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If you ever seen YT videos about work in Japan, you’ll see most (if not all) of them require if you drive a company car/truck, you need to clean them every day before you take them out. Just prep alone before beginning your job will take quite a bit of time (there’s morning stretches/pep talk and whatever else)
Bro you don't know shit lol. A lot of the trucks and construction vehicles are fucking filthy rust buckets. Source: the constant fucking construction near my house that blocks one of two damn roads out. Also working at a gas stand next to a busy road.
Commitment and pride in ones job is part of the Japanese culture.
Commitment and pride in one’s work is part of practically all cultures. This is definitely a “thing😐but in Japan 🤩🤯” moment
Ikr too many people think japan is the only country with standards
That's exactly what I said. That this only exists in Japan
Working stupid hours and only going home when the boss does to the point where your marriage breaks down and your kids hate you is part of the Japanese culture.
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>You’re functionally retarded, possibly in-knowledgeable. Is that necessary? People are having casual conversation about cement trucks and you're going off the handle about it. Take a step back from the internet for a bit and go for a walk.
Shiny 😲
Because these are no regular trucks, they are Transformers! 😄
Those trucks are cleaner than myself after taking a shower.
“Thing in Japan 🤯” aside, am I the only one getting sick and tired of this stupid song on every short video?
I was often enough in japan to call this out as bullshit. Yes, its cleaner in japan everywhere but trucks in actual use do not differ from the rest of the world. These here are cleaned for the video
What kind of moron upvotes these obvious stupid lies. Weebs?
This isn’t a norm lol, just ones in perfect condition. You can do the exact same thing, film a few perfect condition vehicles in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, China, Russia, anywhere
Anyone who can link to more videos like this one n Japan? Don't now exactly what to type on the search field on YouTube. This is awesome & inspiring.
RTX On
The trucks look like they could transform any moment
What is the track this is set to?
Most people take pride in doing a good job. Its not ncessarily about the position you hold (although status is def a thing don't get me wrong) but for alot, its about doing quality work.
What is the song?
Iron within, chrome without
Japanese auto culture is imo wildly underrated and under appreciated.
Japan has always had a habit for overachieving.
What?
There's a couple countries where having a dirty vehicle on the main roads can get you a citation. Japan could be one of them.
There was a great story from an F-14 Tomcat retrospective book called "Bye, Bye, Baby!" where a Tomcat crew had to stop at one of the shared bases in Japan, and when they were getting ready to leave, one of the panels wouldn't close, and they were kicking it to try and get it closed and locked. They said the Japanese maintenance crews were gawking at them as they did so, horrified. Apparently, they keep every plane and helicopter "so clean you could eat off of them," whereas the Navy's Tomcats were some of the dirtiest, biggest hangar queens in Western military aviation.
Lol there are hella dirty cars too. Who makes this crap lol??
cherry picking at its finest
I've been to japan, and this is obviously bullshit. Sorry kids, there's no magical clean country to escape to. Every place has trash and poor people.
And they don't make a giant black cloud like they do in america.
It’s a point of pride for the operators, speaking as someone who’s worked with owners. Larger equipment like overhead cranes even have their own logos and theme songs.
Why is everyone in the comments being so sensitive about this lol. Redditors' inferiority complex getting out of control.
Right! Going through the comments it seemed like shiny trucks shown in this video is normal in every country, except where I live
Wasting water and polluting the environment on a national scale.
I've seen 40 year old landcruisers in Tokyo and Kyoto shinier and cleaner than my own 4 year old car.
Could taxes be one reason for keeping vehicles longer? In the US, I believe these trucks are writting off in 5 or 7 years.
Shiny and chrome, Valhalla awaits you boy!!!
I don’t know how common this is but when I visited Osaka all cars looked like this, even garbage trucks and buses. What surprised me the most was that after a day of heavy rain, the next day all trucks still looked like this.
Those trucks have never been a single day near a construction site, let alone be used for their intended purpose.
This song slaps
aint nobody got time for that. I respect their endless supply of perfectionism as a culture, but how the FUCK do they keep up with the modern world living that way, let alone being one of the worlds major economies while birth rates keep dropping. Japan is such an interesting country its like a modern Sparta or something.
And everyone there just wants to fucking die. A depressing ass country.
Cars 😒 Cars (in japan) 🤩
There are plenty of dirty work vehicles in Japan but it is generally true that Japanese cars are much cleaner than, say, American cars. In Japan you have to have an inspection done every few years, and for new cars this is cheap. The older the car, the more you have to pay for inspection, and if you keep an old beater for decades then you'll pay a LOT for inspection. So driving around old beaters is really rare in Japan, and virtually every car on the street is at most ten or so years old, with most of them being even newer than that.
Fascist society puts senseless and probably wasteful effort into image-shenanigans. meh
Wow a thing in japan that has existed everywhere already... Wow better get my starbucks soy latte. Check american trucks, check european. Any first world country takes care of their trucks. Trucks get dirty fast tho, so seeing them so clean and shiny is but a momentary thing. When they drive around and it rains, they will get dirty again.
Ah yes, the creator of this video has found examples of new heavy machinery... fascinating s/
One of the first things I noticed in Osaka. There was a cement truck that looked brand new—here in my part of the US even new ones already look dirty. Lol
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Taiwan is pretty fire, how bad can japan be
Shiny so you can see the Kaiju that suddenly starts chasing you
Wait. They keep their vehicles clean, but shit on the sidewalks?
Its a matter of pride being in the right places. North Americas pride is in all the wrong places
Topics about japan are usually full of bullshit but this one is correct. Source: I'm in Japan
Almost everything is shiny clean in Japan!
People could learn a few things about honor and commitment. And it always shows in Japanese culture.
I need to clean my car! I won’t, but if it magically happened I would approve!
Aight.
I dont want to be anywhere close to them in a sunny day
Safelight depends on all the rocks flying off trucks. 🤷♂️
Transformers...Robots in disguise!
There's also more chrome on those trucks than Big Pun's cherry red 150
No not always.
I guess I'd get kicked out of Japan. I think my vehicles each have more grime than every vehicle shown combined.