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> In Japan, marketing emails are not even required to have an "unsubscribe" link at the bottom. Which all has to do with Japan being barely post-feudal. That's
by earthboundkid 5y ago
> In Japan, marketing emails are not even required to have an "unsubscribe" link at the bottom. Which all has to do with Japan being barely post-feudal.
That's a weird way to put that. American newsletters have an unsubscribe link because our Congress passed a law in 2003. But Americans lets prescription drugs advertise on television, which is an indefensible barbarism. So it goes. Every country has a different vision of what nuisances are and are not worth of regulation.
- johnnyanmac 5y agoYea, that seems to go back to what the article describes: >Urban Landscape – Walk around one of Tokyo’s main hubs like Shibuya and you’re constantly bombarded with bright neon advertisements, noisy pachinko parlours (game arcades), and crowds of rambunctious salary men or school kids The only American analogues to such a design would be some parts of New York City and Las Vegas. Not even Los Angeles, San Francisco, or Chicago as mega metropolitan areas have this kind of "density". Japan has a third of the population crammed into less than 5% of the land area. So adverts have a lot more incentive to just cram everything into a city block compared to any american city