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For a fun experiment, try Google finance with the Japanese language tag (https://www.google.com/finance/?hl=ja https://www.google.com/finance/?hl=ja). Even know

• ikornaselur 5y ago
  Wait till /r/wallstreetbets finds out about this!
• tjbiddle 5y ago
  Thanks for the share - Makes me feel like my investment portfolio is rocketing now!
• lifthrasiir 5y ago
  Oh wow, that greatly varies from locales to locales. Not only the color can be swapped depending on the locale, but the specific color can also change. For example the Korean locale (hl=ko) uses red for up (same to Japanese) but uses blue in place of red for down. Both languages have a single native word for blue-or-green or "grue" so either should work in principle, but I have no idea why Korean specifically uses blue. In my brief check there is only one more locale (Khmer, hl=km) where blue is used in place of green (for up in this case).
• derefr 5y ago
  I know Japan likes red, but I'm surprised that the TSE uses green for a negative/falling connotation. That's not a Japanese cultural thing generally, AFAIK. Is this just a historical path-dependent thing — e.g. stock-exchange trading floors traditionally all buying their sign boards from some specialty company that produced boards specialized to have exactly two "color channels" — red and green — and then, when the TSE got theirs, it was all they could do to just wire the color channels up backwards? (I guess there are a few types of meters that always use red as high and green as low — e.g. pressure gauges. But that's because red in those cases means danger. A high stock value isn't dangerous!)
  • naniwaduni 5y ago
    You have, like, two natural choices of contrasts to red: green and blue, maybe black/white. There may be more involved reasons why green is more globally common as a second color choice than blue, but I don't think it's surprising that they use a green even without special cultural connotations.
  • jptech 5y ago
    Right now on websites it's not displayed as green, but blue (or greenish blue). Even the traffic light is called blue here (青) and they would look at you with surprise if you say the lights are green!
• culi 5y ago
  Reminds me of the time I heard from someone much older than me that Democrats and Republicans switched from being red or blue almost every year until 2000 when the election results were so uncertain that people got used to seeing red=Republican and blue=Democrat for weeks and the color scheme just ended up becoming permanent. As a (younger) politics junkie I was shocked even though it makes total sense and I've always kinda felt they should've been switched.
  • monkeybutton 5y ago
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    • culi 5y ago
      Liberal in most of the rest of the world usually means something similar to "neoliberal" which is usually thought of as a moderate or conservative ideology. When you say liberal, do you mean it in the way it's used in the US (a stand-in for "leftist") or the way it's used in the rest of the world?
      • NovemberWhiskey 5y ago
        Red is almost uniformly a more-left/pro-labor political color outside the U.S.
        • eyelidlessness 5y ago
          More left than conservative, but not leftist in the blanket sense usually used in the US.
          • nopenopenopeno 5y ago
            Red has been the symbolic color of every socialist movement since the French Revolution.
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• jedberg 5y ago
  With the market the way it's been going these days, I think I prefer getting fooled!
• bsimpson 5y ago
  "I hope 'plunging' means 'up,' and '75' means '200'" - Homer Simpson on stocks