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This Japanese Life.
Personal blog · thisjapaneselife.orgculture
This Japanese Life. is a personal blog at thisjapaneselife.org about culture. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a thread on doing business in Japan. The one comment discusses the historical social standing of merchants in Japan and does not judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A New England Expat in Japan.
What Hacker News says?
I totally agree that the best programmer can make more of a difference in every way to the world than the best janitor. HOWEVER- For hundreds (thousands?) of years, money and behaving in a way that is profit driven was reserved for the lowest of what was considered people in Japanese society. "Merchants" (a broader term than our interpretation of it) were seen as barely a step up from the lowest group that we would…
Comment linking /2013/07/03/burakumin-japan/
on “Doing Business in Japan”Submitted On Living in the Wrong Neighborhood in Japan – This Japanese Life as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Being sick in Japan as a story · 2 points
HN discussion