How ironic. Everything that happens to Americans (pearl harbor, 9/11), you get hurt in your ego. You become the greatest victims in all history and everyone is a terrorist. but if you do something similar or worse even, its okay. Throwing the nuclear bomb on Japan for instance.
I wonder what would happen if 9/11 was a nuclear attack.
Writing your address in Japan is also unbelievably logical. It goes from the largest thing (your 'ken', or state) to the smallest thing (your name). The zip code is written across the top of the envelope, or on top of everything. So you write: (ZIP CODE), Ken (state), City, Ward (neighborhood), Chome (district of ward) - Block - Building number, Apartment building name, Apartment number, Your name. Your address zooms in on you from an all-Japan view!
you get lost easily in japan. just as you are lost in translation. being lost in japan, and finding someone else who is also lost. you both explore and find your way out. you both end up being even more lost. you both keep looking for a way out, but find many things along the way. being abit lost becomes fun. lost in a foreign culture, in a foriegn land. so alienated. but you have someone to be lost with. eventually you both find your way, and you both have to part. i never forgot about her..
I really enjoyed this video. Very clean, intelligently put together and well thought out. I live in Japan and "think" I understand their address system but even after 2 years I still have trouble explaining it to people back home =S I'll just show them your video next time.
Man this is so true. I get lost EVERYTIME I try to find somewhere new. What makes it worse is that the address isn't often clearly displayed (if at all) on lots of buildings.
They've got the same system in Mannheim, Germany, at least in the city center, which is made up of square blocks. Each square has a letter and a number, which thankfully go in order (letters right to left, numbers up and down). So to go from N1 to M2, you go one block up and one block over. The house numbers on each block do go in order, although I still haven't figured out where the numbering starts. So sometimes you have to walk around 4 streets to find the house you're looking for.
Wow very interesting! I was directed here via PostCrossing, it's amazing that there's such different postal systems in the world! Though I definitely like how we have the numbers in order - so much easier on the brain!
WOW, so the addresses in Japan are the opposite of the ones here in America. Hmmm, seems simple enough here but I bet it's a misson and a half to find some place in Japan without some kind of map. =/
In Tokyo area, address system was streamlined probably 50 years ago. Houses are now numbered in clockwise within a block. Finding a house from an address was an easy task not only for mailman but also for anyone else. So, I was surprised to learn this numbering system!
Memories... I remember my first time in Japan in 2006. I knew beforehand that streets didn't have name. I had to look on the little "block signs" all around the place when I was lost.
lol, his accent does sound a bit peculiar, but hey, give the guy a break, at least he's interested in learning the language. No one is perfect. No one pokes at YOUR ghetto accent or improper grammar so you should leave people alone
THANK YOU SO MUCH ! Dude the address thing in Japan has been driving me crazy. Why they have no street names and the order of the building puzzled me for years. No one could answer my questions. Japanese would just look dumb founded and say they didn't know. Very helpful I subbed.
U sound very intelligence....and it's funny that most people in America think that the world is the same as the way they "think it should be"...not really....
No, I'm not, but my native language allows to imitate japanese quite well and I had countless contacts with Japanese, so I think that I can say whether or not it sucked. Previous commentator thinks it as well, as you can see :P
Another simple yet commonly overlooked opposite is in telling the time: Most people in the UK (or the rest of the english speaking world for that matter) say 'half eight' refering to 'half an hour past eight o'clock' or 8:30. In Germany they say 'half eight' meaning 'half an hour before eight o'clock' or 7:30...
I guess we jp use street name as pretty much same as block name.. hmm actually no. we don't really use block name except sending shipments. Especially in Tokyo where I used to live for over 20 years
I was along for the ride up until the part about houses being numbered in the order they were built. That information is particularly irrelevant to a system of spacial coordinates. Sure it may be meaningful to the local community, but it seems like its just going to waste the time of people looking for an address.
For those who can't envision doing this: I agree that the "other way" may seem absurd at first, but ultimately it's all a matter of what you grew up with. As Mr. Sivers points out, BOTH of the persons asking for help felt confused.
Neither system is better or worse. This is an excellent example of how our perspectives can limit us.
Japanese addressing is much like addresses in Brasília, Brazil. Streets do have names here, but they are unimportant. More important are blocks names -- actually, numbers.
Directions generally involve convenience stores as reference points (you can't go a block or two without seeing one). In Tokyo driving is relatively rare so street names are kinda irrelevant.
@RealityGameWorld i don't think its that hard of a system to follow. Just getting the writing down would be the most difficult I think. I think we have a harder time here in the US because some blocks can border multiple streets and therefore sometimes its hard to tell which street a building is on or the address is on.
He never said it was an Indian Map. Watch again and listen if you don't believe.
The Map is perfectly accurate and in the grand scheme of the Universe and our Planet it is our assumption that the North is up and the south is down but there is nothing that says that must be right the opposite is perfectly possible.
As for the addressing system in Japan that system actually makes a lot more sense to me than the western forms even though I was born and grew up in the western hemisphere
I didn't say he said it was an Indian Map... there were quite a few people in the comments who thought it was an Indian map, giving sufficient evidence of subliminal messages...
Really? I mean the numbering (not naming) of blocks really is a great thing, the numbering of houses chronologically is a totally crazy/unhandy way of doing things. I always like the new york aproach of numbering streets, i would have taken it further and would even have the others street named A,B,C so u know exactly where to go when u know at which street crossing u are and are given go to D7.
Absolutely excellent. Learn about randomness. The all time realm, or the quantum Lactating superconcscious, Where ever perception spins into implosion, we are nurtured with dharma. All probabilities exist until you observe. Be Observant
Very nice video. As a student of culture studies, I think this is a really great example about how you can educate people that any point of view can be perfectly valid and their own is not any better than any other.
I think that paying docters when your not ill, is great... But I am affraid that in western society everything will stop, because we do not like paying and love being "sick" instead of working
For another pair of opposites: I once heard that both "Universe always existed" and "Universe started at Big Bang" are true, since time starts at Big Bang as well. Think about it.
interesting-ish video. could you be any more of a douche though? if i was going to give you some piece of trivia - such as say teaching you about gordon of khartoum or how oil is refined, I don't think i'd pretentously try to give "life lessons" about it as you seem to want to do. the pseudo intellectual accent and the japanese thank you at the end doent help you either. still, i appreciate that you're trying to do something good - just try a little less douchey next time.
hmmm....doctor gets paid when you're healthy, and not when you're sick....and who administers the billing system? how do they discern how healthy or how sick you are? If I've got a headache on Tuesday the 23rd, is that considered "sick" or "healthy"?....getting drunk on Monday the 22nd, and waking up hungover on Tuesday might be cheaper than paying the doctor for an otherwise :healthy" month....
they would ask, "isn't your HMO system similar to this?" to which we'd answer, "pretty much, especially if the plan uses a capitation formula to pay the "providers". They get a set fee for your enrollment, whether you're sick, healthy, really, really sick, or never even have a visit. If you're sick, the attention they have to devote to you burns up that set fee pretty quick."
I've lived in Japan for 20 years, and it is simply the worst addressing system on earth. Even Japanese postmen cannot find their way around. Top sellers on every street corner are fat books of detailed city maps because no one can find anything without them. Taxi drivers would never get you to your destination without their GPS, on and on.... Anyway, just me mouthing off.
@Kevinontheroad in Poland there is exactly one street at which the numbers of the houses were given chronologically ... and it is a tourist attraction.
The district municipalities can choose if they want to have a road name based system or a block based system in Japan. So there are some cities and towns that use the road base address system and usually it is popular among the towns people because it is much more practical. in Imperial Japan's pre-colony Manchuria the Japanese built towns and cities with an address system like the rest of the world. When Kyoto was still the capital the country used street names as the address system.
The reason why they ended up adopting the block system was the during the feudal age, the military made roads and passages as complicated and twisted as possible to prevent the enemy from invading the main castle, and did not give street names as Roman tradition taught europeans. So during modernization they decided to use the block address system because cities were already in a complicated layout with non existent street names.
hmm interesting... I grew up there till I was 12 but never knew how the address system always worked :) This is definitely one of the things you don't bother learning until you look at it from the outside.
In the spirit or this article, I would also like to point out that there are serious disadvantages to the Japanese system (though there may also be advantages). Under ideal circumstances, the number street names would be as little as the square root of the number of block names. Under all circumstances it will be less. Furthermore, by providing a linear path on a street in address number, you can always orient yourself relative to your destination once on the correct street.
So if I want to tell someone where to meet me I don't use the block system, I say meet me at the Mos Burger on Bell road, ext.... However Addresses are wrote in the "Block System."
I never knew this till now thanks
lJavieR7l 1 month ago
So what happens if building 3 on a block gets torn down. Does the replacement become No. 3?
2223ams 4 months ago
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stupid fuckin japs let's not forget pearl harbor
Song4Alex 4 months ago
@Song4Alex
How ironic. Everything that happens to Americans (pearl harbor, 9/11), you get hurt in your ego. You become the greatest victims in all history and everyone is a terrorist. but if you do something similar or worse even, its okay. Throwing the nuclear bomb on Japan for instance.
I wonder what would happen if 9/11 was a nuclear attack.
Smaug 4 months ago
I love how the buildings are in number order then you can see how old or new they are :)
TheInfiniteZombies 6 months ago
14 people havent gotten over WWll
Bobalini1 6 months ago
Writing your address in Japan is also unbelievably logical. It goes from the largest thing (your 'ken', or state) to the smallest thing (your name). The zip code is written across the top of the envelope, or on top of everything. So you write: (ZIP CODE), Ken (state), City, Ward (neighborhood), Chome (district of ward) - Block - Building number, Apartment building name, Apartment number, Your name. Your address zooms in on you from an all-Japan view!
WristCutGauze 6 months ago 2
i think i like japan's system is beter, it looks easy to understand, while i get all confused when i look at a bunch streets
CRamirez201313 6 months ago 2
This is fascinating how different things can be in other cultures.
collectivelight 6 months ago
more egg sexx baby japan
prheadfrankie 7 months ago in playlist omg omfg rotfl etc
many japanese streets were originally animal paths.
most of them are winding meaninglessly because of that.
there were unnamed streets first and people settled around there later.
in american cities, the people paved the roads and named the streets first.
then the people settled along them.
shrimpchocolate 7 months ago 2
my life has dramatically changed in the way that i think, mind blown
iansmelly 10 months ago
you get lost easily in japan. just as you are lost in translation. being lost in japan, and finding someone else who is also lost. you both explore and find your way out. you both end up being even more lost. you both keep looking for a way out, but find many things along the way. being abit lost becomes fun. lost in a foreign culture, in a foriegn land. so alienated. but you have someone to be lost with. eventually you both find your way, and you both have to part. i never forgot about her..
VertigaDesignMEDIA 1 year ago 3
I really enjoyed this video. Very clean, intelligently put together and well thought out. I live in Japan and "think" I understand their address system but even after 2 years I still have trouble explaining it to people back home =S I'll just show them your video next time.
Zeal42 1 year ago 2
Man this is so true. I get lost EVERYTIME I try to find somewhere new. What makes it worse is that the address isn't often clearly displayed (if at all) on lots of buildings.
lunamielstar 1 year ago
They've got the same system in Mannheim, Germany, at least in the city center, which is made up of square blocks. Each square has a letter and a number, which thankfully go in order (letters right to left, numbers up and down). So to go from N1 to M2, you go one block up and one block over. The house numbers on each block do go in order, although I still haven't figured out where the numbering starts. So sometimes you have to walk around 4 streets to find the house you're looking for.
cgialloreto 1 year ago
so when you are outside the city, does the roads, freeways etc have the name or even simply the number E24 etc?
krzysiekru 1 year ago
before to go to japan; i have to wacth again that video
rabia846 1 year ago
@rabia846 And if you don't speak Japanese, you might want to work on those English skills.
Muffinmanone 1 year ago
Wow very interesting! I was directed here via PostCrossing, it's amazing that there's such different postal systems in the world! Though I definitely like how we have the numbers in order - so much easier on the brain!
shillise 1 year ago 2
Just wonder which other countries have the same address system as Japan.
isaacwn 1 year ago
2:20 this map blow my mind
Varttino 1 year ago
this is a freakin amazingly interesting video
LunarDistortion 1 year ago
good vid!
bbsimple1 1 year ago
WOW, so the addresses in Japan are the opposite of the ones here in America. Hmmm, seems simple enough here but I bet it's a misson and a half to find some place in Japan without some kind of map. =/
dagger09 1 year ago
Very interesting. Thanks
yargnitstingray 1 year ago
This video is excellent. But there is one mistake.
★Japan has Street names and Block names
★U.S.A has Street names
This is correct.
SamuraiTogo 1 year ago
In Tokyo area, address system was streamlined probably 50 years ago. Houses are now numbered in clockwise within a block. Finding a house from an address was an easy task not only for mailman but also for anyone else. So, I was surprised to learn this numbering system!
dzunku1 1 year ago
smarter
DarkPyro32 1 year ago
You did a great job! This video is a very helpful...!
brawnricecafe0000 1 year ago 32
hmmm... i`m really confused oO
pitbohl 1 year ago
@pitbohl then you should watch LOST!
thecomputerist 1 year ago
At least someone watches Ted Turner.
McTojo 1 year ago
Memories... I remember my first time in Japan in 2006. I knew beforehand that streets didn't have name. I had to look on the little "block signs" all around the place when I was lost.
remino 1 year ago
this guy is wrong in china they will still chargeyou if you are sick.
thatsit07 1 year ago
lol, his accent does sound a bit peculiar, but hey, give the guy a break, at least he's interested in learning the language. No one is perfect. No one pokes at YOUR ghetto accent or improper grammar so you should leave people alone
miinibee 1 year ago
he did say gozaimasuta, right?
nevermind bout that. there's worst things in life.
zerosonico 1 year ago
THANK YOU SO MUCH ! Dude the address thing in Japan has been driving me crazy. Why they have no street names and the order of the building puzzled me for years. No one could answer my questions. Japanese would just look dumb founded and say they didn't know. Very helpful I subbed.
robertc190 1 year ago
Taoism.
XenOtai 1 year ago
U sound very intelligence....and it's funny that most people in America think that the world is the same as the way they "think it should be"...not really....
WaiWu 1 year ago 5
@WaiWu
thats not really fair, because in the video the japanese man was also confused...
sounds like you have a prejudice there =P
chris11sholtz 1 year ago
so they have unside down maps?! crazyyy. btw thnx for the video this will help a looot. XD
xXnimitsXx 1 year ago
good post. it helps me to explain it when people ask me about the difference of China and Europe:)
lcxml 1 year ago
nice, I understand well, but it's gozaimashita, you pronounced it gozaimasta
SilverGunZoO 1 year ago
actually, he said "gozaimashita" which, when pronounced right sounds like "gozaimashta". The 'i' is omitted from the phonetic in this case.
alext10786 1 year ago
No it doesn't, maybe in English, but not Japanese, you're talking with a man who speaks Japanese here.
SilverGunZoO 1 year ago
your awesome
prep42o 1 year ago
Very nice and understandatable English, but the "gozaimashita" in the end really sucked :P
NixGerit 1 year ago 5
@NixGerit Are You Japanese Or Something?
jennifer78676 1 year ago
No, I'm not, but my native language allows to imitate japanese quite well and I had countless contacts with Japanese, so I think that I can say whether or not it sucked. Previous commentator thinks it as well, as you can see :P
NixGerit 1 year ago
your map is an accurate mercator projection rather.. so.. only relatively accurate.
elephantman2222 2 years ago
the chinese health care system is a way better than the europe ones! they could cut off a piece!
xThomag 2 years ago
Another simple yet commonly overlooked opposite is in telling the time: Most people in the UK (or the rest of the english speaking world for that matter) say 'half eight' refering to 'half an hour past eight o'clock' or 8:30. In Germany they say 'half eight' meaning 'half an hour before eight o'clock' or 7:30...
peachesontour 2 years ago
I guess we jp use street name as pretty much same as block name.. hmm actually no. we don't really use block name except sending shipments. Especially in Tokyo where I used to live for over 20 years
mask8 2 years ago
I published this video on the Dutch website WELSTIJL (2 february) Kind regards Sem Mallée
welstijlfilms 2 years ago
I was along for the ride up until the part about houses being numbered in the order they were built. That information is particularly irrelevant to a system of spacial coordinates. Sure it may be meaningful to the local community, but it seems like its just going to waste the time of people looking for an address.
RDLoehrke 2 years ago
For those who can't envision doing this: I agree that the "other way" may seem absurd at first, but ultimately it's all a matter of what you grew up with. As Mr. Sivers points out, BOTH of the persons asking for help felt confused.
Neither system is better or worse. This is an excellent example of how our perspectives can limit us.
cb50dc 2 years ago 3
hhhhhhhhh
dilaijan 2 years ago
Japanese addressing is much like addresses in Brasília, Brazil. Streets do have names here, but they are unimportant. More important are blocks names -- actually, numbers.
turlinen 2 years ago
Jeez, I can't imagine how much of a pain it must be to give directions.
kyuzo555 2 years ago 4
Directions generally involve convenience stores as reference points (you can't go a block or two without seeing one). In Tokyo driving is relatively rare so street names are kinda irrelevant.
tachikaze222 2 years ago
Interesting.
diabolo1956 2 years ago
I just came across this in a link.. that's really interesting! Thanks for the video (:
shelbierocks 2 years ago
i would not want to be a Mail-Man over there then.
RealityGameWorld 2 years ago 12
@RealityGameWorld i don't think its that hard of a system to follow. Just getting the writing down would be the most difficult I think. I think we have a harder time here in the US because some blocks can border multiple streets and therefore sometimes its hard to tell which street a building is on or the address is on.
thegiantmike 6 months ago
ok a very useful information
teachemariusz 2 years ago
digitalek7 - Ty też źle napisałeś.....
Ironekk 2 years ago
Domo Arigato Gozaimasta po co pytasz jak i tak nie zrozumiesz?
digitalek7 2 years ago
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Oregato co?
s4muel666 2 years ago
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The title of the map is supposed to be "Upside Down World Map" but you cut out the "Upside Down" part... I wonder why =P
Google up "Upside Down World Map" to find it... and it's not "the India map" lol subliminal
MicrosoftBOT 2 years ago
He never said it was an Indian Map. Watch again and listen if you don't believe.
The Map is perfectly accurate and in the grand scheme of the Universe and our Planet it is our assumption that the North is up and the south is down but there is nothing that says that must be right the opposite is perfectly possible.
As for the addressing system in Japan that system actually makes a lot more sense to me than the western forms even though I was born and grew up in the western hemisphere
Amadeus2k8 2 years ago 3
I didn't say he said it was an Indian Map... there were quite a few people in the comments who thought it was an Indian map, giving sufficient evidence of subliminal messages...
MicrosoftBOT 2 years ago
@Amadeus2k8,
Really? I mean the numbering (not naming) of blocks really is a great thing, the numbering of houses chronologically is a totally crazy/unhandy way of doing things. I always like the new york aproach of numbering streets, i would have taken it further and would even have the others street named A,B,C so u know exactly where to go when u know at which street crossing u are and are given go to D7.
tjeerdomaat 2 years ago
Lol looks like you have found a whole new audience over here on youtube :-) -Atul-
atulisrockin 2 years ago
No word is fit to describe how much I love this video. O_O
I woke up in a surprisingly bad mood, sitting at work looking at the wall while waiting for the customers that never arrived.
Then I get home, watch this and... wow... Im all sunshine again ^_^
AxelTheManly 2 years ago 3
Has this guy been to Japan? I think you'll find street signs..
yourtubedinto 2 years ago
did not know that
2naruto1 2 years ago
Absolutely excellent. Learn about randomness. The all time realm, or the quantum Lactating superconcscious, Where ever perception spins into implosion, we are nurtured with dharma. All probabilities exist until you observe. Be Observant
gravitymindofgod 2 years ago
the india map is just ridiculous
peterequation 2 years ago
I reckon the block system is brilliant, maybe not the numbering on age if the block was huge, but I don't know, it's just interesting.
goodlukeing 2 years ago
Very nice video. As a student of culture studies, I think this is a really great example about how you can educate people that any point of view can be perfectly valid and their own is not any better than any other.
Well done.
Yora21 2 years ago 3
Amazing!!
wleoncio 2 years ago
I want a map like that, hehe
Voodoomancer 2 years ago
I think that paying docters when your not ill, is great... But I am affraid that in western society everything will stop, because we do not like paying and love being "sick" instead of working
Secredgarden 2 years ago
well when China can achieve the high life expectancies of, say, Northern Europe, I'll agree with you
anyway nothing in this video really goes against the principle of non-contradiction
he's just talking about different conceptual schemes
odenskrigare 2 years ago
Uhh, interesting. Block and house numbers would seem a little easier to me haha.
NovemberThreat 2 years ago
thank god I live where I live.
unhingeddavo 2 years ago
call me stupid bUT WHHHHHAT?
stinknus 2 years ago
Awesome vid, very interesting.
chaseblackbeard 2 years ago
Very interesting video.
For another pair of opposites: I once heard that both "Universe always existed" and "Universe started at Big Bang" are true, since time starts at Big Bang as well. Think about it.
deifo 2 years ago
very interesting
liiliiliiliiliiliil 2 years ago
Thanks for sharing!
allydnyc 2 years ago
very informative... tks!!
Jagerbabe 2 years ago
good lookin on the info. Very interesting.
Ezrick13 2 years ago
Thanks for sharing this knowledge!.
frodo004 2 years ago
This was one of the most interesting videos I've ever seen! I learned so much from it.
Thank you for posting it on here. :)
ZannyRamone 2 years ago
Hi Derek,
interesting-ish video. could you be any more of a douche though? if i was going to give you some piece of trivia - such as say teaching you about gordon of khartoum or how oil is refined, I don't think i'd pretentously try to give "life lessons" about it as you seem to want to do. the pseudo intellectual accent and the japanese thank you at the end doent help you either. still, i appreciate that you're trying to do something good - just try a little less douchey next time.
YouSmallMindedIdiot 2 years ago
i think his name says it all..
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Very cool video!
mokes310 2 years ago
In Brazil, houses are numbered by the number of meters they are from the beginning of the street.
That makes so much sense. Think about it. If you want to get somewhere in the street, you immediately know where it is, and the distance it is.
zisforzeh 2 years ago 3
hmmm....doctor gets paid when you're healthy, and not when you're sick....and who administers the billing system? how do they discern how healthy or how sick you are? If I've got a headache on Tuesday the 23rd, is that considered "sick" or "healthy"?....getting drunk on Monday the 22nd, and waking up hungover on Tuesday might be cheaper than paying the doctor for an otherwise :healthy" month....
geddysuncle 2 years ago
wow i'm surprised someone can be so close minded....
imagine the kind of questions the chinese would have for our healthcare system
ArcticSheep 2 years ago
they would ask, "isn't your HMO system similar to this?" to which we'd answer, "pretty much, especially if the plan uses a capitation formula to pay the "providers". They get a set fee for your enrollment, whether you're sick, healthy, really, really sick, or never even have a visit. If you're sick, the attention they have to devote to you burns up that set fee pretty quick."
geddysuncle 2 years ago
Now there's a health care system that makes sense.
gieron1 2 years ago 2
Interesting!!!
Blankname101 2 years ago
This is a wonderful short introduction to ethnocentrism at its most practicable - extremely well done. Kudos, Derek.
ksrberck 2 years ago
I've lived in Japan for 20 years, and it is simply the worst addressing system on earth. Even Japanese postmen cannot find their way around. Top sellers on every street corner are fat books of detailed city maps because no one can find anything without them. Taxi drivers would never get you to your destination without their GPS, on and on.... Anyway, just me mouthing off.
Kevinontheroad 2 years ago 27
@Kevinontheroad in Poland there is exactly one street at which the numbers of the houses were given chronologically ... and it is a tourist attraction.
KatharsisWorks 1 year ago
Now THAT is how addresses should work. None of this "on the left or right side?" crap.
Digeridude 2 years ago
@Digeridude Obviously you have never had a delivery job.
kdixon7783B 2 years ago 3
Chinese medical system is how thing should be, seriously. Sweet video!
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so why is the map upside down north america is above the equator right india is below. so why is the world map upside down?
harleybayo 2 years ago
@harleybayo ... you did not get the interpretation. Failed.
malindor 2 years ago
YA still dont get it
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bossesboss1 2 years ago
Very cool, I really like the map at the end
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bossesboss1 2 years ago
Hey Derek, your video was actually really interesting!
deliveryboy10 2 years ago
very informative... ty 4 postin
Xesstel 2 years ago
This was interesting thanx for the post
SiNgHayStyle 2 years ago
nice demonstration.
cpdkw 2 years ago
wut? wat are u trying to say? O_o
kull218 2 years ago
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he's saying the world is fucked up in some parts. Things are opposite from what were used to compared to other places, the example being japan.
XINKAI 2 years ago
Very informative! You explaine this so well and your voice is soothing and nice to listen to, which helps when listening is needed. LOL! Great video!
FaithHopeAmour 2 years ago 2
hey that's pretty cool! i didn't know that. thanks for the info and the easy-to-understand vid ;)
salvajez13 2 years ago
wow, didnt know that, great story to explain it!
AMVoverlord 2 years ago
cool
levert345 2 years ago
interesting man
MidwestMex 2 years ago
This is great! I wish videos from my past foreign language classes had cilps like these.
yuliko 2 years ago
knowledge is power!
longerino 2 years ago 3
thank you, this is great!!!!
gojibebe 2 years ago 3
I learn something new every day! :D
Asabasgurl 2 years ago 2
Where do you get your info? I live in Japan on a street and not a block.
burntonion05 2 years ago
wait, what does India have to do with this??? They make their maps upside down???
ChristinaWatkinson 2 years ago
excuse me, "what is the point of this video?"
jmisiur 2 years ago
The district municipalities can choose if they want to have a road name based system or a block based system in Japan. So there are some cities and towns that use the road base address system and usually it is popular among the towns people because it is much more practical. in Imperial Japan's pre-colony Manchuria the Japanese built towns and cities with an address system like the rest of the world. When Kyoto was still the capital the country used street names as the address system.
GikoSan 2 years ago 5
The reason why they ended up adopting the block system was the during the feudal age, the military made roads and passages as complicated and twisted as possible to prevent the enemy from invading the main castle, and did not give street names as Roman tradition taught europeans. So during modernization they decided to use the block address system because cities were already in a complicated layout with non existent street names.
GikoSan 2 years ago 5
hmm interesting... I grew up there till I was 12 but never knew how the address system always worked :) This is definitely one of the things you don't bother learning until you look at it from the outside.
Seitabobo 2 years ago
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ReggieWriteous 2 years ago
hi reddit
m0ntekarl01 2 years ago
fail.
TheLyther 2 years ago
0:31
gibberishgoblin 2 years ago
I love this video!
koffiebroodje 2 years ago
Being a japanese person living outside of japan, i never really knew this :O
yoshinibble123 2 years ago
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lol good vid.
check my vids please nothing too do with dis vid lol
ESDLproductions 2 years ago
Do tashimashite
xXWindG0dXx 2 years ago
super ta vidéo mon pote!
nanolunik 2 years ago
Ha! That was fun and interesting
rudeeee1990 2 years ago
your voice is beautiful :D hehe
LuvBugKisses07 2 years ago
Wow!!! Thanks so much. That was fun to learn -C
scifiwritir 2 years ago
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ughh.. japanese people are racist
FadedVenom 2 years ago
In the spirit or this article, I would also like to point out that there are serious disadvantages to the Japanese system (though there may also be advantages). Under ideal circumstances, the number street names would be as little as the square root of the number of block names. Under all circumstances it will be less. Furthermore, by providing a linear path on a street in address number, you can always orient yourself relative to your destination once on the correct street.
rbarghouti 2 years ago
So some Afrikans say 2,3,4,1? Do you mean 4,3,2,1 O_o
isokessu 2 years ago
arigato ogozaimas!
Polpats 2 years ago
what about rural streets?
BerPolo 2 years ago
that small fact about china is just simply not true
classic1991 2 years ago
Heeeey, I know that chinese herbal shop he showed! (= It's in San Francisco Chinatown<3! Mayor Gavin Nwesom went in there ;D
C00KiESnCREAMiES 2 years ago
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Japanese people are fuckin stupid.
iReece07 2 years ago
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fo30stm 2 years ago
In Finland we have names for streets, but also for blocks :D
TheRoopertti 2 years ago 4
@TheRoopertti In Finland there's names for streets, numbers for houses and letters for apartment stairs (as far as I know)
isokessu 2 years ago
Yup, but the blocks also have their names :p
TheRoopertti 2 years ago
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TheRoopertti 2 years ago
very true my friend appreciate the video
maroc23 2 years ago
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TheNomorelockdoors 2 years ago
I lived in Japan for 4 years. Streets have names!
So if I want to tell someone where to meet me I don't use the block system, I say meet me at the Mos Burger on Bell road, ext.... However Addresses are wrote in the "Block System."
dagin2 2 years ago 5
For more in-depth study, see Weird Al's "Everything You Know is Wrong."
infectedpo 2 years ago
very cool! my brain grew. thank you! :3
kristanova 2 years ago
In American Subidivision there are lots, blocks and street names.
autobahn46 2 years ago
Quite interesting. But how do you know in which direction to go when you're looking for a house in Japan?
DonDuracell 2 years ago 2
that makes a lot of sense
Shino686 2 years ago
what i want to know is, how do they give directions in japan?
pyr666 2 years ago
most streets and intersections do have names.
tomatomistake 2 years ago
interesting stuff thanks for the video
goommm 2 years ago
ouch that world map hurts my brain
Migslayer101 2 years ago
thanks for this useful vid :)
fcukyouuuuus 2 years ago
not true abouth china doctors.
well,not true nowadays.
ching105 2 years ago 2
@ching105 he never said all chinese doctors. there must be some who still work that way.
TheWiseCommenter 2 years ago