Japan
More than 1,700 years ago, when Zhuge Liang in the East was still busy thinking of cleaning up the Cao Di family and fighting for his "stupid son of the landlord's family, Liu Chan"; when the indomitable Roman Empire in the West was also overwhelmed by the civil war in the war-torn enclave; and when the American Indians were still living the life of the indigenous tribes.
On the west coast of the Pacific Ocean, about 320 kilometers from Weihai in Shandong Province, a country called Yamato emerged, which was the predecessor of Japan.
Why Japan is a strange country, today I will take you to see its strangeness.
When I was a child, my impression of Japan has always stayed on the anti-Japanese drama on TV, and as I grew older, I gained a new insight into Japanese movies, and then I have a more comprehensive understanding of Japan as a country.
Of course, I will not mention japanese manga, unique dining culture and unique cultural scenery, I believe everyone is already familiar with it.
Today I will start from several other aspects, such as the japanese violent group culture, the officially recognized boundary mana, the admired Golden Morro Festival culture, the minimalism of the break, and the funeral culture that penetrates us year by year.
Takeshi Kitano's work - underworld film "Extremely Evil and Non-Taoist"
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Even one percent of the light can illuminate ninety-nine percent of the darkness.
- "Extremely Evil and Non-Taoist"
The underworld depicted in Takeshi Kitano's film Extremely Evil is violent and bloody. Although it is only a fabrication, it can be seen in the pipe peeping leopard.
After all, the underworld is a cruel existence, but in Japan there is a triad organization that has been recognized for about 100 years, the Yamaguchi Group.
Officially known in Japan as the Designated Violent Group by the government, the Yamaguchi Group is the largest and largest underworld organization in Japan, with more than 20,000 members, spread around the world, and about 10,000 people operating in Japan.
Although the government calls them designated violent groups, they do not consider themselves violent, and they call themselves "benevolent groups" and have their own newspaper, the Yamaguchi Kuyo Shinbo, on which they publish rules and regulations, entertainment activities, and team building contents within various organizations.
Each member of the Yamaguchi group has his own specific badge, and the organization even stipulates that they are not allowed to participate in regular meetings without wearing a badge, and the management system is strict.
In Japan, the profit model of the early Yamaguchi group was of course the traditional collection of protection fees, theft, robbery, drug trafficking, etc., but today they are completely transformed into real estate, stocks, art investment, and bad debt sorting industry.
In the 20th century, because of the Intervention of the United States in Japan's political management, the Japanese people's livelihood was extremely chaotic, violent incidents were frequent, and the rate of solving cases was very low. The Yamaguchi group even assumed the function of a temporary police at the local level, assisting the police in solving cases. Not only that, whenever there is an earthquake, tsunami and other major disasters in Japan, they rush to the scene for the first time to carry out rescue operations.
In order to dilute people's bad impression of them, they even posted information such as "banning drugs", "hoeing the strong and helping the weak" and "purifying the country" on their official websites, and from time to time flaunted their various achievements in rescuing the country's disasters.
Of course, the Japanese government has also introduced various policies to restrict its development, the Law on Countermeasures against Violent Groups. For example, members of the violent group cannot open a bank account, take out a loan, and cannot buy a house, and all consumption can only be purchased in full in cash.
Moreover, if anyone in Japan is a friend or relative of a member of a violent group, they will be rejected to the greatest extent by the Japanese government and the people.
Therefore, for the Japanese people, the tolerance of the underworld is absolutely zero.
Map of the Tokyo Boundary
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In Naruto, each village must have its own special spell to enter, otherwise it will be considered illegal.
In real life, the Japanese combined the Chinese Theory of The Five Elements of Yin and Yang, the spells of Taoism and the divination of Tantric Buddhism, combined with Japan's own regional culture, created a unique "Yin and Yang Dao", and used the principle of "Yin and Yang Dao" to apply the boundary in Tokyo, a spell that is still recognized by the Japanese government - Tokyo Junction.
This boundary is used to protect the peace of one side, and the wind and rain are smooth.
There are two dots in the Tai Chi diagram shown above. That is, the black dot in the white area is called "Yang Yin", also known as "Hand of the Mountain", which is a sacred place, which is forbidden for mortals to enter, and it is said that only gods can enter. The white dots in the black area are called "Yin and Yang", which is a gathering place for demons and ghosts. In the Yamanote Line Taiji Formation, the "Yin of Yang" is where the Emperor lives. "Yin and Yang" is Shinjuku, so Shinjuku has always been a chaotic and difficult place in Japan.
During the Meiji government, five shrines were built to form a square array, which was just covered on the Big Dipper Seven Star Boundary, and was used to suppress the Heijō gate Hokuto Seven Star Junction.
Part 5: "Zoshigaya Cemetery", "Yanaka Cemetery", "Yasukuni Shrine", "Aoyama Cemetery", "Tsukiji Honganji Temple".
Yes, the Yasukuni Shrine, which is despised by everyone in the world, is also among them, and every year japanese government officials and people visit the shrine one after another. This also proves the status of the Tokyo Boundary in the eyes of the Japanese government and the public.
There are many historical facts about the Tokyo Boundary, but I will not open it here for the sake of length, and those who are interested can search online.
Japanese Phallic
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I believe that there are many Japanese film lovers among male compatriots in the world, but Japan's sexual culture has a long history, and the worship of male genitalia is the pursuit of women.
Every year, Japan holds a male genital worship and reproduction activity, and its scene is hot and open, which is rare in the world. Japanese men don't seem to care about letting their wives participate in such activities.
April 5 is Japan's annual Golden Moro Festival, also known as the Male Root Festival, which dates back to the Edo period in Japan, when the Male Root Festival was used by prostitutes in Kawasaki, Japan to pray for a prosperous business and avoid disease, and now people use it to celebrate the arrival of spring, pray for health and a happy marriage.
Minimalist pictures
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No matter how expensive or rare something is, the talent who can judge according to whether they need it or not is strong enough. Only by letting go of attachments can people be confident.
- Hideko Yamashita, "Breaking Away"
There's something appealing about minimalism.
Is it the simple truth of the great road? Is it "Breaking Away" written by Hideko Yamashita? Is it a simple life back to basics? No one can define it specifically.
Jobs, the founder of apple's series of electronic products that cut gold around the world, took minimalism to the extreme, with a simple button and a screen containing everything in the world.
Jobs's minimalist inspiration came from Japan.
The Japanese believe that for those who adhere to minimalism, minimalism is the "minimalism" of life and "wealth" in spirit.
On the one hand, the cause of minimalism in Japan is helplessness and the frequent occurrence of natural disasters such as earthquakes, whenever disasters come, people can only escape with simple things. On the other hand, since Buddhism was introduced to Japan two thousand years ago, the Japanese people have gradually advocated simplicity and simplicity in life, attaching meaning to the existence of things, and changing the concept of looking at it, and only a little change can play its role, and many Japanese people believe that minimalism is in line with the teachings of Buddhism.
Over time, minimalism thrived in Japan.
The bedroom is so simple that there is no bed; one thing will be done to the extreme; the life is self-satisfied; etc., the prevalence of minimalism in Japan has even affected the fertility rate of the country's people.
It's Kore-eda films
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Happiness is such a thing! If you don't give up, you won't get anything.
——Kore-eda's "Deeper Than the Sea"
In recent years, the "funeral culture" that has gradually become popular among Young Chinese people is popular, and as the place where "funeral culture" is prevalent in Japan, "mourning" has become a popular symbol.
72 years ago, Osamu Dazai's line in "Human Disqualification" said, "I am sorry to be born as a human being." It became the beginning of Japan's "funeral culture".
The manifestation of Japan's "mourning culture" is the low desire of young people. I don't want to get married, I don't want to have kids, I don't want to go into debt and buy a house. Grass-eating men, nibbling on the old people in large numbers, they do not want to work, choose to watch comics and play games at home every day, and become the waste that their parents denounce - that is, the "Heisei Dead House" often said on the Internet.
According to Official Japanese statistics, the number of "nibbling old people" aged 40 to 46 is estimated to reach 613,000, surpassing 541,000 people aged 15 to 39. There is even news that 80-year-olds take care of 50-year-old children, and when encountering such children, I guess parents are more "lost" than their children!
In order to encourage young men and women to go out of their homes and interact with each other, the Japanese government has launched various social games. In order to increase the poor national fertility rate and increase the desire of young people to have children, the government has introduced a variety of machine babies to cultivate young people's interest in childbearing.
The Chinese people use the word "mourning" to express a low-desire life, or there is a sense of humor, it seems that our people are still relatively sunny and optimistic.
Peel it
Conclusion
A group of strange imitators, forming a strange country.