THE SECRETS OF THE JAPANESE MIND- Demystifying the Japanese psyche towards life, gender, love, sex and more
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“Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.”
-Emil Cioran
How can the people of a nation who places utmost value on respecting others and not encroaching upon their personal space, also be one of the biggest and most prolific producer and consumer of the largest variety of pornography (which in essence is basically identical in nature as poking a hole through the wall and watch other individuals perform the most private and intimate of acts) in the entire world?
How can the people living in the land of the samurai, and what the eminent psychologist Hofstede ranked as the “most masculine nation in the world” also be the original home to the predominant group of “herbivore men”, who are one of the most shy and passive subset of men in the entire world?
As you can clearly observe, Japan is a nation inundated with conspicuous contradictions. And as all things are when it comes to the process of acquiring an in-depth level of knowledge and understanding in any given field, it takes hard work, rigorous effort and endless hours in order to be able to even partially understand the intricate dynamics of the fascinating nation which is Japan, and the minds of its endogenous people living within the nation.
Once again, everything starts from the people.
However, as I’ve stated previously, it is realistically almost impossible for an average individual to obtain an in-depth level of knowledge in every given field in life. Thus, most people including myself, rely heavily on the heuristic method in order to conduct our daily living.
The process of procuring an answer to the unique collective psychology possessed by the individuals living in the historically isolated nation of Japan is no exception, as most people rely on heuristic techniques and reading terse, generalized sentence-long answers, which are simple enough to understand on a superficial level. And with all due respect, the problem with the individuals who are the providers of such short, overgeneralized answers while nonetheless adamantly promising you of the complete legitimacy of their claims is that they most often suffer from the Dunning-Kruger effect, which is a cognitive bias held by the people who hold a low level of knowledge on a given field paradoxically having a stronger sense of conviction in that their answers are the right one.
Let’s take the pornography question, for example. Some answerers on internet platforms give answers such as,
“Japan is the third-largest economy in the world, so it is only natural that they have a porn industry which matches in level”
“It is due to the rising Western influence in Japan slowly deteriorating traditional Japanese values”
“The answer is simple — It’s a huge business! Not just for the companies producing pornography, but for the government as well.”
While such answers may indeed possess a partial level of truth within it, it is just so far from being the true answer.
Hence, this book will be taking a 47,000 words-long dive in what will be a journey into understanding the secrets of the true psychological framework of the average Japanese individual in which no one has yet dared to reveal in the world of traditional publications, where adherence to political-correctness is a must and even comes prior to the ingrained level of actual truth within the answer.
And once you finish reading this book, you’ll walk away with an understanding of the inner Japanese psyche that no non-Japanese individual has yet to ever possess.
I guarantee it.
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About the Author:
AL Kim graduated from Waseda University 早稲田大学 (the alma mater of the current Japanese Prime Minister, Chairman of Samsung Group, CEO of Sony, president and CEO of Honda, etc) with a degree in Global Political Economy 国際政治経済学科 at the Department of Political Science and Economics 政治経済学部, and have lived, studied and worked in Japan for over a decade.
He is in charge with the research and presentation on the Youtube Channel- Asianalysis with AL & HELEN, where he creates videos dealing with topics on social issues and other interesting aspects of Japan and South Korea, with his wife, Helen.
-Emil Cioran
How can the people of a nation who places utmost value on respecting others and not encroaching upon their personal space, also be one of the biggest and most prolific producer and consumer of the largest variety of pornography (which in essence is basically identical in nature as poking a hole through the wall and watch other individuals perform the most private and intimate of acts) in the entire world?
How can the people living in the land of the samurai, and what the eminent psychologist Hofstede ranked as the “most masculine nation in the world” also be the original home to the predominant group of “herbivore men”, who are one of the most shy and passive subset of men in the entire world?
As you can clearly observe, Japan is a nation inundated with conspicuous contradictions. And as all things are when it comes to the process of acquiring an in-depth level of knowledge and understanding in any given field, it takes hard work, rigorous effort and endless hours in order to be able to even partially understand the intricate dynamics of the fascinating nation which is Japan, and the minds of its endogenous people living within the nation.
Once again, everything starts from the people.
However, as I’ve stated previously, it is realistically almost impossible for an average individual to obtain an in-depth level of knowledge in every given field in life. Thus, most people including myself, rely heavily on the heuristic method in order to conduct our daily living.
The process of procuring an answer to the unique collective psychology possessed by the individuals living in the historically isolated nation of Japan is no exception, as most people rely on heuristic techniques and reading terse, generalized sentence-long answers, which are simple enough to understand on a superficial level. And with all due respect, the problem with the individuals who are the providers of such short, overgeneralized answers while nonetheless adamantly promising you of the complete legitimacy of their claims is that they most often suffer from the Dunning-Kruger effect, which is a cognitive bias held by the people who hold a low level of knowledge on a given field paradoxically having a stronger sense of conviction in that their answers are the right one.
Let’s take the pornography question, for example. Some answerers on internet platforms give answers such as,
“Japan is the third-largest economy in the world, so it is only natural that they have a porn industry which matches in level”
“It is due to the rising Western influence in Japan slowly deteriorating traditional Japanese values”
“The answer is simple — It’s a huge business! Not just for the companies producing pornography, but for the government as well.”
While such answers may indeed possess a partial level of truth within it, it is just so far from being the true answer.
Hence, this book will be taking a 47,000 words-long dive in what will be a journey into understanding the secrets of the true psychological framework of the average Japanese individual in which no one has yet dared to reveal in the world of traditional publications, where adherence to political-correctness is a must and even comes prior to the ingrained level of actual truth within the answer.
And once you finish reading this book, you’ll walk away with an understanding of the inner Japanese psyche that no non-Japanese individual has yet to ever possess.
I guarantee it.
——————
About the Author:
AL Kim graduated from Waseda University 早稲田大学 (the alma mater of the current Japanese Prime Minister, Chairman of Samsung Group, CEO of Sony, president and CEO of Honda, etc) with a degree in Global Political Economy 国際政治経済学科 at the Department of Political Science and Economics 政治経済学部, and have lived, studied and worked in Japan for over a decade.
He is in charge with the research and presentation on the Youtube Channel- Asianalysis with AL & HELEN, where he creates videos dealing with topics on social issues and other interesting aspects of Japan and South Korea, with his wife, Helen.