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There's not though, quite to the contrary. Did you witness the handling of the Fukushima accident? The Japanese proverb for it is: "Kusai ni futa wo shire" - i

There's not though, quite to the contrary. Did you witness the handling of the Fukushima accident? The Japanese proverb for it is: "Kusai ni futa wo shire" - if there's a stink, put a lid over it.

soraminazuki 4y ago
Sadly, there's nothing noteworthy about corporations trying to evade responsibility for screwups no matter where we are on the globe.
- suction 4y ago
  Ah, Whataboutism - the most Japanese fallacy.
  - soraminazuki 4y ago
    Your racist remark aside, huge for-profit entities act unethically because of economic incentives. It's ridiculous to assert that it's something ingrained into a country's culture.
    - suction 4y ago
      I beg to differ. It's not ridiculous at all. The go-to retort to any kind of mild criticism for Japanese is people is to say "but country x or person y did the same, too!" I have never heard this in nearly the same frequency or predictability from members of any other culture. It's almost cute in how revealing it is when you hit their weak spot.
      - soraminazuki 4y ago
        You could praise or criticize Japan all you want, but either way your reasoning remains flawed. Corporate greed and accountability evasion is an artifact of human nature, but you attribute it to race and culture instead. Your only justification of that is the equivalent of "because everyone disagrees with me in the same way." > It's almost cute in how revealing it is when you hit their weak spot. What's actually revealing is how you were quick to assume my nationality and spit out racist insults.
        suction 4y ago
        Your nickname says you're either weeaboo or Japanese (I guess the first). And it's 100% Japanese culture that creates these types of dangerous accidents. South Korea has them too, because they culturally so close (confucianism and remnants of feudalism being at the core of the problem).
elldoubleyew 4y ago
I believe the proverb is 「臭い物に蓋をする」"kusai mono ni futawo suru"

There's not though, quite to the contrary. Did you witness the handling of the Fukushima accident? The Japanese proverb for it is: "Kusai ni futa wo shire" - if there's a stink, put a lid over it.

soraminazuki 4y ago

Sadly, there's nothing noteworthy about corporations trying to evade responsibility for screwups no matter where we are on the globe.

suction 4y ago
Ah, Whataboutism - the most Japanese fallacy.
- soraminazuki 4y ago
  Your racist remark aside, huge for-profit entities act unethically because of economic incentives. It's ridiculous to assert that it's something ingrained into a country's culture.
  - suction 4y ago
    I beg to differ. It's not ridiculous at all. The go-to retort to any kind of mild criticism for Japanese is people is to say "but country x or person y did the same, too!" I have never heard this in nearly the same frequency or predictability from members of any other culture. It's almost cute in how revealing it is when you hit their weak spot.
    - soraminazuki 4y ago
      You could praise or criticize Japan all you want, but either way your reasoning remains flawed. Corporate greed and accountability evasion is an artifact of human nature, but you attribute it to race and culture instead. Your only justification of that is the equivalent of "because everyone disagrees with me in the same way." > It's almost cute in how revealing it is when you hit their weak spot. What's actually revealing is how you were quick to assume my nationality and spit out racist insults.
      - suction 4y ago
        Your nickname says you're either weeaboo or Japanese (I guess the first). And it's 100% Japanese culture that creates these types of dangerous accidents. South Korea has them too, because they culturally so close (confucianism and remnants of feudalism being at the core of the problem).

elldoubleyew 4y ago

I believe the proverb is 「臭い物に蓋をする」"kusai mono ni futawo suru"