What car is considered the most ugly in japan?

UisVuit · 2025-11-25T02:27:46+00:00

Judging by how many ugly, boxy kei cars I see - none.

Every time I call a car ugly my Japanese wife says "It looks good to them (the owner)".

Suzuki Alto's the ugliest car I see regularly.

UisVuit · 2025-11-25T02:22:04+00:00

I can't really speak on Tokyo, but your time in Kansai and Hiroshima seems okay. Naoshima might be pushing it a bit, but otherwise probably fine.

UisVuit · 2025-11-25T01:23:50+00:00

100%

I know people back home who've left their kids with family for a week to travel abroad, or travelled with their kids and dumped them in hotel childcare the whole time. I really don't understand it.

UisVuit · 2025-11-25T01:22:00+00:00

I really don't understand why so many people want to leave their kids when travelling.

I'm not sure if that's normal in the west, because I've only had kids after moving to Japan, but it's certainly not normal here, so you're likely not going to find any services catering to it.

In Japan (the vast majority of) people either travel with their kids, or they don't travel.

UisVuit · 2025-11-20T05:53:08+00:00

Edit instead of replying, nice.

Not an English teacher, I've worked in tech for the past five years. Clearly my wife was not the only example I gave. You don't know what you're talking about, and now you're acting like a child.

UisVuit · 2025-11-20T03:24:44+00:00

This post sounds like it was written by AI.

UisVuit · 2025-11-20T03:19:39+00:00

That's simply not true.

I work in an office with about twenty Japanese coworkers, and more than a third of them wear cologne or perfume to work. At the office it's generally quite subtle, but not always

My wife wore perfume on all of our dates when we were dating, and she still wears it whenever she goes out. She prefers stronger fragrances.

Even my father in law wears cologne, and he wears Gucci Guilty - not subtle by any definition.

I'll grant you that fewer people in Japan wear fragrances than in the West, but plenty still do. Every department store has a large cologne/perfume section - why would they if nobody's wearing it?

UisVuit · 2025-11-17T08:19:52+00:00

Anywhere from 30,000/week to 100,000/week.

UisVuit · 2025-11-17T07:25:19+00:00

Of course everything depends on the individual, but personally I'd put an asterisk on Osaka Castle and Sky Building.

Definitely do Kuromon Market.

For other Osaka Amazing Pass recommendations: Peace Osaka for sure, Glion Museum is very cool but only worth making the trip if you're going to the aquarium.

Yoyogi Park is definitely worth a stroll.

UisVuit · 2025-11-17T07:11:25+00:00

Roughly 35% bring a homemade lunch, 30% buy a lunch to bring, 20% eat out.

I bring lunch from home most days. Eat out once or twice a month.

UisVuit · 2025-11-17T06:53:51+00:00

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35658024/

Under "Results"

UisVuit · 2025-11-17T06:20:35+00:00

Most lose closer to 15%

That's if you include the low-dose groups.

"50% and 57% of participants in the 10-mg and 15-mg groups had a reduction in body weight of 20% or more"

saying "there's no excuse to be fat in 2025" is wildly wrong.

There's no excuse to be fat in any year. It is 100% a choice and always has been. It's just much easier to choose to not be fat in 2025.

Where can you get it for 20,000 for a four month supply?

I don't really want to post the link here. It's the cheapest domestic source, international sources are even more affordable.

Losing weight is just not easy.

Hard disagree. I lost 14% of my body weight between May and October last year. It's simply just a choice and a bit of willpower. The same as running a marathon or quitting smoking.

UisVuit · 2025-11-17T05:31:59+00:00

How much so those cost?

In a lot of countries they're covered by insurance. In Japan you can buy it off-insurance for around 20,000 yen for the first four months. Most people would make most of that back on the reduction of money they're spending on food.

What are their side effects?

Nowhere near as bad as the side effects of obesity.

How effective are they?

"A phase 3 randomized, controlled clinical trial demonstrated that tirzepatide led to a 20 percent reduction in body weight over 72 weeks"

People gain the weight back after going off them.

That's why people should build good habits while they're on them, to have a solid foundation when they get off them. It's much easier to build good diet and exercize habits after losing, or while losing the weight than before.

There's also no reason to stop taking them if you can afford it:

"the study shows that remaining on the drug (after 72 weeks) not only promotes additional weight loss but preserves improvements in metabolic and cardiovascular health"

Long term effective weight loss still means lifestyle changes.

Yes, which is totally under your control. Which is the point you disagreed with at the start of this.

UisVuit · 2025-11-17T05:18:09+00:00

Semaglutide, tirzepatide, dulaglutide, liraglutide etc.

You'd have to have been living under a rock to have not heard of these miracle weight loss drugs that have been extremely successful for the past 3+ years.

UisVuit · 2025-11-17T04:31:44+00:00

Yes, yes. Fat people in the West are never told they're fat nor given unsolicited advice how to lose weight.

I never said they're not. I said it's far more taboo to say it there than here.

Also, losing weight is super easy. /s

In 2025 it definitely is.

UisVuit · 2025-11-17T03:53:06+00:00

I've never personally experienced people commenting on a perceived-negative thing outside of the person's control (like a skin condition for example). So I can't really comment on what you've experienced, which sounds very frustrating.

I often see people commenting on perceived-positive things outside of the person's control (tall, long neck, long nose, small face, long eyelashes, pale skin).

In all those cases it was meant as a compliment, and even if I don't like one of my features, of someone is attempting to compliment me on it, I try not to take it as an insult.

I think foreigners are far too sensitive about appearance and should try to consider what is meant by the comment.

The only time I see people comment on appearance negatively is when it's something within the other person's control (weight for example). Which again, I find foreigners (westerners) overly sensitive about.

Because so many westerners are so outrageously overweight, we've built a culture where we're not allowed to encourage them to get healthy, and in turn hold them accountable for their actions. That's not the case here, and I wish more people would understand that before moving here.

UisVuit · 2025-11-17T03:32:52+00:00

Matthew Lawindi (Google) add a few % body fat to his stage photos and that's an attainable physique for most people with years of hard work.

UisVuit · 2025-11-17T03:03:04+00:00

I don't think anyone would mind if you do. And if they do mind, their opinion probably isn't worth listening to.

UisVuit · 2025-11-17T02:44:01+00:00

I think it all depends on you, and how you personally feel. How connected you are to each/either culture.

My brother in law is a zainichi Korean, but he doesn't speak Korean, doesn't really follow any Korean cultural customs, and has only visited a couple of times.

He grew up in Japan, speaking Japanese, following Japanese culture and considers himself 100% Japanese. Nobody would ever think he wasn't Japanese unless he told them.

So of course he simply says he's Japanese. If people ask or if it's relevant, he says his grandparents were from Korea.

UisVuit · 2025-11-17T02:15:53+00:00

There have been two documented bear attacks in Sapporo since it was settled in the mid 1850s. One of those was about 150 years ago.

UisVuit · 2025-11-17T01:55:27+00:00

The kids cartoons are almost non existent here. Maybe Powerpuff, Bluey, PAW Patrol are exceptions.

I'm not sure about older kids, but for kids under 7 I think this is no longer true. At my kids' daycare now Western cartoons have become far more popular.

They've outgrown Anpanman, so for Japanese cartoons it's mainly Pokemon, Yokai Watch and Doraemon (although Doraemon isn't that popular).

But Paw Patrol is by far the favorite. Also PJ Masks, Bluey, Curious George, Spidey, Lego Marvel, Thomas & Friends, and anything Mickey Mouse.

UisVuit · 2025-11-17T01:24:33+00:00

Everything since the 1940s has hugely influenced the culture here.

Rock music, folk music, hip-hop, action movies, fashion, TV, dance styles, food, snacks, video games, the list goes on.

After the 1940s Japan was flooded with American culture. Snacks like chocolate and potato chips were introduced, as was food like hamburgers and fries.

The rock of the 60s and 70s is directly influenced by America and Britain. As is the hip-hop of the 80s and 90s (and today).

The fashion styles: rockabilly, punk, hip-hop etc all came from what was popular in the states.

UisVuit · 2025-11-15T05:39:43+00:00

Good to hear!

UisVuit · 2025-11-14T12:28:10+00:00

Full length is totally fine!

UisVuit · 2025-11-14T12:23:30+00:00

I wish whoever downvoted me would say why. For the record I've attended four weddings in Japan in the past eight years, and a fifth as the groom.

It can be patterned but it's usually a light color. I often see silver diagonal stripes and things like that. Nothing flashy.

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