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  • This guy thinks everybody's head will be in the shape of Carrots in 100 years? That is such a load of rubbish it almost makes me think badly of Japan.

    So 100 years prior to this very comment, did we have fat huge fucking heads? No, we didn't. As far as you go back in history there is NO difference in our head shape.. the only differences would be when we were literally Apes.

  • i think in america its more important to fake all emotions then to always have a blank face

  • oh my god this was the scariest shit ever (the mask thing) fuck

  • 1:08 -"But to a westerner it's very boring." I wonder for what will they not get bored?

  • Damn... guess I would not be good for working in Japan. I do not smile much, at least not any big smiles. But I am not understanding the Smile School... maybe this is just for the older generations? There are plenty of videos with Japanese young adults and children who laugh and smile all the time. Plus anime has people smiling and full of emotion all the time too...

  • creepy....

  • if they want a smile training they should hire Dave Chapelle

  • Everybody wear masks. Not just in Japan. You might not realize it but we all, without exception, build an image of ourselves that is not always in accordance with what we really are or really feel. The mask is a tool for social interaction, it has been so since the dawn of humankind.

  • their smiles look so fake. they should just be told to relax their face and be truthful to themselves. :)

  • I frown when I am happy and I smile when I am pissed. Rule # 47 "Never let anyone know who you are, what your doing, and where your going"

  • this movie is so funny. My class laughed a lot. Love Japan, come to my country and we can make you laugh. :D , especially my classmates, they are really crazy. Hihi!

  • LOL, the music....... haha, hehe, hihi???????

  • Any future in No is a no-no

  • TSUNAMI!!! LOLOLOLOL!!

  • thats sad ..... smoke weed ... it makes everyone smile ...

  • @Aztekninja24 weed psychosis is no smiling matter lol

  • What confuses me is, if a smile means or can hide anger or a negative emotion, then how am I supposed to know when someone is happy or what it is they want?

    I realize this cultural aspect may not necessarily apply to everyone, but still, people who suppress and hide emotions are difficult to get through to because I can't read minds, nor can any ordinary human.

  • @BadReligion1994 You are depending too much on obvious visuals as a means of reading someone. I depend on reading the gait, body language, subtle movements, whispers and most importantly, aura to tell me how a person is feeling. That's how I know if someone is angry or happy, or to be more precise, that's how I know if someone has plenty of negative emotions or lack negative emotions at the time.

  • @RoniCMaster did u study physiology too?

  • @ParkJiHye92 Nope, never did. Just basing it on my experience with people.

  • im a bit of a freak and smile generally (even when walking alone), people smile at me and have waved in case they know me :D hehe

  • It's kind of sad that these grown- and oftentimes intelligent- people on the video have to relearn how to do something that is so simple yet brings so much natural joy... =*(

  • I think it is ridiculous to say that asian people feels no emotion, when they produced some of the finest art, music, food (yes, that is a form of art too) available in the whole world. It is just a very different culture and way to relate to people.

  • @fuckjjokbariseki I entirely agree. Asians, especially Japs, don't have any emotions. Because we didn't purge those Japs completely off the Earth that we still need to put up with these mutated shits.

  • @NukeJAPANAgain holy shit plz kill urself

  • That fellow at 6:08 looks like he's grimacing in pain! poor guy. Yeah, smiling to improve business is one thing, smiling when you are sincerely happy is something else.

  • Calling them "emotionally challenged" is a bit culturally insensitive. They express there emotions, they just do it differently than us.

  • Its so strange to me that here in America, its just natural to smile, but in Japan it's sort of a taboo. As an infant in America you're surrounded by smiling faces all looking at the ''cutesy baby''. If anything we communicate more with expression than words. Its such a surprizing culture jump to me.

  • they don't know how appear sad at a funeral?

    No wonder japan is at the forefront of robot tectonically they are taught to be emotionless robots them selves.

  • no wonder the suicide rate is so high :/

  • "taught how to appear sad at a funeral" WTF?

    are these people devoid of emotion?

    what are the children taught in schools?

    isn't this hypocrisy?

  • @revolutiongrl They feel emotion just fine but are taught to hide it. It's the same as American men holding back their tears if they're sad because they don't want to appear unmanly.

  • @squreshi10 yeah social stereotypes cause people misery everywhere.

    and japan has a culture of working it's people to death.

  • Only in Japan.

  • I thought smile was an universal sign of hapinness! O.o

    But I don't understand, I always see plenty of Japanese smiling... especially girls...

  • @Ofionnain The meaning of a smile is different in different places. Google it, the stuff you find is really interesting.

  • this must be a joke

  • 100 years time japan will have the lonest and narrowest chins ever. wow....im not buying that. there goes all the kawaiiness

  • oh my god that future Japanese is freaky. looks like homo futurus

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  • wth? with the beginning 

  • Weird Japanese people.

    

  • Japanese smile when they are pissed off.

    Don't get fooled by japanese fake smiles.

  • not even the dentist has perfect teeth ^-----^

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  • @PhotonMotion wow you have alot of misguided hate :/

  • I checked out the "Rape Club - Japan" video as well, and I agree that lot of Jap people seemed pretty pathetic. I thought such mentality in that video didn't exist these day, but boy I was proven wrong. Those trash obviously lost the "Samurai pride" their ancestors had during the warring periods. This video just further strengthened my suspicion that Jap's so called politeness is just a facade to hide their true colors. Pity that lot of foreigners fall for this without knowing their true nature.

  • @XYZrebelrevolver The Samurai pride was a book telling them how they should act, like classes telling kids to be abstinent. It wasn't how they really acted. Also, most Japanese are perfectly nice people who don't go around raping.

  • @XYZrebelrevolver Are you surprised? China is stealing swedish technology, american technology, you name it, they copy ANYTHING, business, you name it, wetsern open it hands to be friends and china steals.

    Asians.

  • @Imhornydadcomeinside I concur. All Asians are just mindless drones who copy from the western technology. They're never really innovative. They only tweak few things, but never really create anything new. Chinese and Japanese.... they're all the same in my book.

  • Try checking out the com. section of the video I mentioned below. What really surprised me is how those so called "polite" Japanese people are pushing all the blame about the "rape club" and their heinous past crimes to the other Asians. I don't know about you guys, but in my book, I know that just because they are nice to me, but racist towards other races doesn't make them any more polite than rest of the human population. IMHO, I think the "politeness" of Japanese is just a stereotype.

  • @XYZrebelrevolver holy shit. i fucking hate kikes like you who just go on other culture's websites and mock them. how dare you. if you have an opinion say it to yourself. you don't see us black people who actually respect japanese NOT JAPS go on jewish videos and say shit about your big ass noses, circumsized dick and greedy ass money-sucking spit fucks. no wonder kikes don't get any respect!

  • @Unit731Jap Now that you mentions it, it I've noticed how Japanese people tend to keep everything discreet amongst themselves by trying to hide it with their smile. I know that I've been fooled by their smiles, since I've been to Japan. Lived there for 3 yrs , and I never was able to make real friends, even though I was open and considerate. They seem to be intolerant of any kind of criticism aimed towards Japan. Cultural or not, they need to consider fixing this kind of attitude.

  • @fuckimperialists Maybe you weren't as open as you thought you were. However, I'm pretty sure the Japanese weren't conspiring to fool you with smiles while laughing behind your back.

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  • @fuckimperialists damn your ignorant because you cant accept the way how one culture has lived on for decades in history. no need to try to change Japanese culture in order to fit your own.

  • @Unit731Jap some japanese supermarket owner got pissed that i was curious and had touched too much items. he was not even smiling

  • @Unit731Jap didn´t know that so many asians pissed off

  • @Unit731Jap it's smile on the outside and no one knows your hurting inside

  • @Unit731Jap

    well, you can learn which smile is real and which not ^^

  • @Unit731Jap Broke my friend's bike back in high school. Her mom came to the shop to get the quote for repairs? She laughed. But it wasn't a "that's it?" kind of laugh. I was vividly frightened.

  • wagahahahahah :)))))) oldman at 00:45 looks like he's too tired to even care what he's watching :))))))

  • i find that funny how they once considered expressions with the face bad and now they make all kinds of facial expressions and gestures in things like j-pop videos and stuff.

  • That reporter is extremely rude! I can't believe he called Noh boring directly in front of that professor! "No plot"? Do a little research, most Japanese people already KNOW the plot because Noh plays tend to feature historical and mythological figures. Sure, it might feel boring to SIT there for hours, but Noh is by NO means boring in and of itself.

    You'd think a reporter would have the sense not to insult another country's culture in such a way...

  • wtf you have to learn how to look sad at a funeral and look happy at a funeral?... :o

  • XD I never try to pull a smile when I go outside in public but I find this amusing! But really, I'd rather smile during the right moment instead of trying to pull fake emotions deliberately.

  • Strange. I always thought of smiling as something completely natural.

  • I love that "Ahahahahahahahahahah" song :P

  • AHHHHHhh~ what is the name of the theme song?

  • smiling can be considered as the best medicine for anti aging... it was nice to know that a certain country like Japan had a smile school....

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  • HighPR, artificial smile dosent help to the health,one hasw to smile from the heart, then body will produce some neurotransmitters, which can be useful for antiaging,in school they teach you buisness smile, like the girls on reception.

  • One of our speakers, a long time ago, trained Chinese Hotel staff in China on this one too.

  • ROFLLL XDDDD I love japan and japanese people, but that was hilarious

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  • @ranger2613 外人ではとっても馬鹿路だよー

  • this is freaki funny

  • Whites believe Asians do not succeed when it comes to inventions and creativity and change because they have no feelings and are apathetic and indifferent to any situation.

  • Given the way how they are raised up under its very strict school system, emotional inexpressiveness is the norm.

  • anyway, it sure brought a smile to my face...(:

  • what the hell was that.../:

  • 5:59 was the best smile, it made me laugh

  • Looks like I pulled a Japan when I got out of a really bad situation a few years ago when I was stealing change from realy rude customers at a convenience store. I had a sort of interview with the store manager and I was so serious at the time that I did not make any facial expression. I just sort of stared at his face the whole time. He even commented about it mid interrogation.

    I had a lot of practice from smiling where I'd normally say f*** you very much too.

  • japan's full of oppurtunities.....a laughing teacher job??

  • that's hilarious!

  • the guy at 6:15 is hilarious. he was working up a sweat trying to smile.

  • smile schools is this shit for real is like potty training for adults

  • BWAH HA HA HA

  • smile school??

  • why are the japanese so depressed? as in the working adults...

    its really stressful watching them...

    on a lighter note, japanese actors and high school kids are hot..haha..

  • totally devoting oneself to a job they might not really like all that much from sunrise to late pm 6-7 days a week can do that to you. The one part about working in japan that would be difficult for me.

  • Japanese are depressed ? How so? they have the most longest life average span in the whole world. So go believe your media crap which is where it seems you get all your facts.

  • what does life span have to do with being depressed. having a long life sucks if your never happy

  • They also have one of the highest suicide rates in the world . 30,000 sucicides per year on average .

  • I like how their 3d models are always lighter in complexion then the japanese.Japaneses are so crazy about light skin it is beyond madness.On another note they don't look depressed to me , they express a set of feelings differently.They appear a little stuck up.but i think it is mainly because in the west japanese are seen as asexual or manga crazies

  • ty for the video

  • japanese talk english.. if u nv listen properly.. it sounds gibberish

  • If you type in "Japanese workers on smile training" and click the ReutersVideo, you'll see that their video was submitted July 17, 2009. In a way, this smile training could be plausible because it seems that many people in Japan are depressed from their long work days, high stress, or other situations. Plus they do have a high suicide rate. It's very sad. =(

  • huh? is this real...come on ...let's not generalize..

  • .....Americans have this down to a science.

    So many of us fake smile and laugh all the time.

    And we sound so convincing.

  • totally agree

  • i totally love how i can understand Japanese without subtitles, even though I don't speak Japanese.

    >=|

  • Im the same!

  • there a funny bunch.

  • How come Japan have some of the craziest and funniest tv shows....and still they need schools like this. Hehehehe. I wonder if they watch Crayon Shin Chan. hahaha

  • I know that as a child I smiles a lot and then my family got on hard time in young adult yrs and for several Yrs have not had the heart to smile. then about a yr ago I look into the mirror and tried to smile but could not .its a scientific fact that the face uses more muscles to frown then to smile and if you don't work the smiling ones you WILL loose the ability. I try to smile more so I don't have a face that looks like my moms. she had a stroke and lost the ability to smile all together.

  • I am in TOTAL agreement with you. I have been in Japan 5 years. I don't know where this is coming from.

  • It's the older people, not the younger people.

  • @hapaxjalapenox I don't know about that.. all my Japanese hairdressers hardly smile, same with an ex (Japan born and bred)

  • but babies smile naturally.... when happy!

  • because they feel the energy of people

  • Racist propaganda. Japanese doesn't know how to show facial expressions?

  • With all respect, why would there be a school with paying clients trying to learn western facial expressions? Most of us watching this are truly interested in the Japanese, besides some of the people who show bigoted comments below, and would like to see the cultural differences for us to better understand the Japanese.

  • I'm Japanese, but this is a terrible instance of propaganda.

  • Do you think that perhaps the way this classes shown are trying to teach the clients Western facial expressions rather than the claim that Japanese culture has less facial expressions? Sorry, just interested in the subject.

  • Thank you! I'm not Japanese, but I have been to Japan several times & this video is total nonsense! A lot of these people's videos are very outdated... I've seen so much untruth here that I can't help but think these people are a bunch of liars.

  • its just helping with pesonality issues, NOT saying No one in Jp smiles, they defintly do.

    & the people on the street are just like anywhere, when people are walking on the street to & from work there Not Smiling, Gleeming

  • Mutsueaa, I agree with you. Whoever made this documentary took some extreme aspect and tweaked it to play into stereotypes. I too hate when I see my culture misrepresented in foreign countries. I live in Japan, people laugh, smile, cry, wince, grin, roll their eyes and other sorts of facial gestures. When I walk down the street people wave and smile automatically.

  • I don't understand why you say this is a false representation of the culture. I mean Im watching them taking smile classes. The evidence is right in front of me. Did you mean that this is'nt the norm there?

  • just because you see a shooting on TV doesn't mean it's happening everywhere.  Same applies here. Sure, there may be a few of them, but it's not like EVERY person there is like this. It may be a thing that is somewhat unique to there, but that doesn't mean it's common.

  • what??

    ive never heard of anything like this before

  • Why is the Japanese finding it so hard to smile? Gawd, you guys borrowed our Chinese culture and yet you forgot to borrow our laughters? Chinese people are infamous for laughing out loud, lol. Wait .. maybe that's why we have round-ish facial features o-o

  • WTF, "teach you how to appear sad in a funeral", so they don't really care about the dead person, LOL.

  • well, the japanese do cover their mouths when they smile

    but i hope that japanese people don't look like that in 100 years

  • WTF OMFG

  • People love to be told what they do.... it's ridiculous

  • "Professor Hiroshi Hiroshima has a face fetish."

    Am I the only one here who thinks that sounds seriously off?

    Anyway, I find it hard to believe that the Japanese have frowned upon (no pun intended) facial expressions and smiling. I dunno...I just doesn't seem natural to keep a straight face all the time.

  • i agree but the straight face could be bad ass. The spartans didnt express any emotions and it is said that if you punch one of them in the face they would look at you and wonder why you did it. no reaction

  • lol~ do you have to go to school in order to learn how to smile...

  • I hope the japanese wont look like that in a hundred years... Eww!

    Ignoring facial expression is supressing the natural means of communication.

  • sub titles please

  • amazing

  • why aren't the japanese bits translated?

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