🤯 The World Asks! "Why Are There So Many Perverts in Japan?" Dialogue with Chinese Influencers and the Darkness of the Anime Industry

💬 International Meaning of Hentai Seen from Dialogue with Foreigners

In Hello Talk, I discussed with various foreigners in English or Japanese. What I noticed there is that foreigners think that Japanese people are perverts and that Japan and Japanese culture are perverted country and perverted culture.

An American told me that in English, Hentai Hentai has a different meaning from English pervert, and it means anime porn. The situation was the same in China. In Chinese, Hentai didn t have a bad meaning, because the customs of the land were different, but now it has a meaning like Japanese Hentai, so to speak Hentai or Hentai Sexual Desire, and Hentai has a bad meaning in Chinese. The pronunciation of Chinese is the same as Bientai and Japanese, and Hentai is a keyword in the world, and in English culture, it has a specific meaning of anime porn.

🇨🇳 Interaction with Chinese Influencers and "Hentai" Video Production Request

I became friends with Dong Yiyan, a Chinese influencer from Shanghai and living in Osaka, through Hello Talk. He said he had no money when he was on a business trip to Tokyo, so he came to my house for about five days. He seems to like Japan and now lives in Osaka.

He is now a famous influencer in China, but I jokingly imitated a Japanese YouTuber, a professional psychic channel, and provided him with a video of chanting esoteric mantras in Sanskrit. It was a joke video, a rip-off, and I thought no one would see it, but it exceeded tens of thousands of views in a few days, and now I am pointed at by Chinese people in Tokyo.

Mr. Dong asked me to make a video for a hot question, "Why do Japanese people have so many perverts?"

I didn't get any yen from him, and I was aware that I was a pervert myself, but I didn't recognize that other Japanese people were particularly perverts, and I didn't want to be kicked out of Japan by lying and being scolded by other Japanese people. It's been about half a year since he requested me to make a video, so I decided to make this video in Chinese. This is not because the Chinese people who have this question are particularly anti-Japanese or have bad feelings towards Japan, but because other foreigners have that doubt as well.

🌎 "Japanese metamorphosis culture" has become a global concern

Not only the American introduced earlier, but also a self-proclaimed Mexican talked about Japanese Hentai culture on Hello Talk. He loves Japanese Hentai and posted a lot of Japanese Hentai links and images in the Hello Talk group chat. He said that he gets very excited when he sees Hentai in Japanese. There was an American woman in the group chat and she disliked it because she was a pervert and left the group.

Therefore, this issue of Japan, Japanese people and perverts is a matter of concern all over the world, and we cannot overlook it.

🗣️ Recommendations to conservative activists to clear up international misunderstandings

Perhaps because I was involved in conservative activities when I was young, I would say to Netouyo and Internet conservatives, "I approve of your activities, but please do activities to protect Japan, Japanese people, and Japanese culture in foreign languages, English, Chinese, etc.," because otherwise misunderstandings about Japan abroad cannot be clear.They attack domestic left-wing political parties, left-wing politicians, and left-wing people as anti-Japan, but if you say such things, there are many anti-Japan outside of Japan.

It is necessary to explain and prove the correct position of Japan to such people. To do that, I want right-wing and right-wing people to learn foreign languages.

🤔 My conclusion: universal libido and Japanese economic structure

Well, although the introduction has become long, my answer to "Why do Japanese people have many perverts?" is the following two points.

1. All humans are perverts

I explained that all humans are perverts, and that both Japanese and Chinese people do not change. There is nothing as diverse as libido. Some people may estrus on men instead of women even though they are men, or they may lust for women in anime or games instead of real women. These things are common sense, and it does not mean that Japanese people are special. Before asking the Chinese people first, I intended to tell them in Chinese that they should face their perverted libido (* My Chinese conversation skills are still low and I can not hear them).

2. Structural problems of creators suffering from low wages

I explained that Japanese manga production companies and animation production companies are low wages, so creators have no choice but to engage in erotic jobs, and everything is a matter of money. I think this is something that Japanese people will understand.

Mr. Sean Strickland, an American mixed martial artist, also tweeted, "Why do Japanese people only make erotic animations?" I think this problem is very serious. In the first place, there were talks about putting Cool Japan, anime, games, manga, etc. as the central policy of the country, but the wage issue was not addressed.

As for the problem of low wages in anime, it seems that animators are not paid but commissioned, and the minimum wage is not guaranteed. Unless this structural problem improves, Japanese creators will have no choice but to engage in the erotic industry, won t they?

Tomohide Oh, a manga critic, said that artists in the Edo period drew shunga with ukiyo-e, the same way, but if that were the case, the environment surrounding Japanese art and erotic may not have improved since the Edo period.

🎬 Discussion Conclusion: The root of the international "Hentai" misunderstanding lies in economic structural problems

As a result of the discussion on the question "Are Japanese perverts in the world?," we come to the conclusion that the special meaning of the word "Hentai" (mainly referring to anime porn) in the international community does not indicate the perversity or anomaly peculiar to Japanese people, but is deeply rooted in the economic structural problems of Japan's creative industries.

Certainly, diversity of sexual preferences is a universal phenomenon common to all humankind, and it is important to note that Japanese people are not particularly "perverted." However, behind the excessive prominence of Japanese erotic subculture in the world, there is a desperate economic reality that animators and manga artists, who are in the limelight with the "Cool Japan" policy, are placed in an unstable position of low wages and outsourcing, and they have to rely on the production of adult content that is easy to monetize for their livelihoods or as an outlet for self-expression.

This issue can not be dismissed as a mere cultural prejudice, but is a serious issue related to Japanese art, freedom of expression, and the soundness of the working environment, and is considered to be a major factor distorting Japan's cultural impression of the world. Therefore, in order to clear up this international misunderstanding and protect Japanese culture, we strongly argue that both urgent economic measures to fundamentally improve the wage structure and working conditions of the anime and manga industry, as well as proactive public communication to the international community by accurately explaining Japan's cultural and economic situation in foreign languages, are essential, not just spiritual theories and conservative patriotic movements.

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