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Well, I have lived for 6 months in the Kansai region and also had a very nice guest family that I met at least every second weekend, also multiple times in thei
by ascar 5y ago
Well, I have lived for 6 months in the Kansai region and also had a very nice guest family that I met at least every second weekend, also multiple times in their house. They certainly didn't have beds and the futon they used definitely would not have counted as a proper mattress for me. Maybe you draw your conclusions based on observations in Tokyo (westernization is on another level there after all, which is why I personally didn't enjoy Tokyo so much), but as another commenter linked about 50% of Japan still sleeps on futons (2014) and it was even 75% in 1990.
Also, you could avoid the condescending tone. Especially since your argument is wrong. Adding that time traveling accusation and other examples of common westernization was unnecessary to make your point.
- suction 5y ago6 months, so you're basically a tourist, and have one piece of anecdotal evidence. Yet you wrote as if you have deep experience of modern Japanese culture - any sort of condescension was warranted.
- ascar 5y agoMan your attitude is really unwarranted. Not the kind of comments and discourse one likes to have here. I provided anecdotal evidence (which I added because the tone of your comment provoked me to give evidence that I actually do have some relevant experience and certainly didn't time travel to 1940) and statistics that your claim "a very small minority" is wrong. Here is the link from a sister comment providing the data I spoke about: https://tg-uchi.jp/topics/3807 https://tg-uchi.jp/topics/3807
- suction 5y agoAre you 100% sure you're not a time traveler?