I think the most striking similarity is that these are probably the only two cultures where silence can be an acceptable (sometimes even desirable) part of a conversation.
It's funny. Im finnish my self and i don't watch anime and i don't hype Japan but every person i know in Finland likes Japan. The most scary part is that even that famous japanese skijumper loves Finland and he knows how to speak finnish a little. Dreams about finnish wife also. Why he don't take japanese wife, cause they sure are great looking.
I think this video doesn't mention the most important things the finnish seem to have in common with the japanese, but if it was made by a finnish guy he couldn't mention it because you're so humble. Finnish people work hard, they party hard, they really seem to enjoy life, but sort of in a quiet way and they are very nice. But most importantly they seem to be the most humble and polite people of Europe and japanese seem to be the most humble and polite people of Asia if not the World.
En ymmärrä tän pointtia, muutakun et haluut esittää kuin hienoja suomi ja japani on. Yhtä paljon meillä on yhteistä vaikka vittu afganilaisten kanssa. Äläkä tunge noita sotakuvia tonne se on vitun noloa ja häpeällistä
@mikila94 Do you feel insulted that I compared you to wonderful nation-japanese?:)
You are in my opinion more handsome than they,but your eyes are not so big like other europen people,maybe because you have days lasting half year?so you must blink your eyes or wear sunglasses.But if comes about character I think that you are similiar to japanese...
I´m from Finland and I know only few people with blue eyes and I dare to say that none of the eyes I´ve seen look like Japanese people´s (except my step sister.)
@monia866 well ahh, don't forget to mention the jap cockroaches men also like to RAPE WOMEN, BEAT WOMEN AND ABUSE WOMEN just like what they did to so many women of other cultures before and during ww2. sorry to burst your bubble but your just ooo sooooo IGNORANT.
@1greatdude hey! who said japanese raiped woman? Korea? china? like a nankin they said first time 7000 in 1945 after glow to glow each other now 200,000. we hate ANTI-JAPAN PROPAGANDA. this is MEDIA WAR!!!
LISTEN FINISH!! Korean media center bribery japanese media now its getting media war!! please help us!!
Wtf.... U again lol? do u deliverately search all the Japanese vids and write one sided propaganda over and over?? Sorry to burst ur bubble but u r from USA right? U do know that the rate of rape in US per 100,000 ppl is 30 times more than Japan lol? 30 fucking times... Yeah, real nice way to treat women mate. Propaganda lies but statistics never do. What are u anyway? I look up jp vids coz I lived and worked there. Why do u even bother with this shit? Just out of curiosity.
@malibutequila <--- and just out of curiosity from here when you "lived and worked" in Japan, did you go get drunk after work all the time and let some filthy pieces of shit jap men fucked you in your ass? mate?
@1greatdude Hahaha, so much hate lol. It's funny looking at ur comments. Everything u write is negative and hateful. And no, I didn't get fucked in the ass (lol wtf?). Like I said before, the chances of being raped in Japan is 30 times lower than ur country. It's one of the only few places in the world where women can walk safely in streets past midnight. Yap, they r sooooo barbaric man ;) FYI, All the other crimes r also significantly lower than US btw. I'd b more worried about ur own ppl.
oh and you forgot to mention another similarity of finland and JAPan, that is both of these nations had at one time or another been FUCKED IN THE ASS by VATER RUSSIA you silly little fin.
You forgot they are both weird!!! Ahah. But many words in different languages have some words and nature. I think these comparisions are quite odd. Finland has more in common with their neighbours (as well as any other country) than Japan.
1) People living near the ocean was eating whales. But, As you know, Japan has a mountain area. these people did not eat whale. culture of eating beef is introduced from Europe.
Since then, people eating whale were depleted. Almost modern Japanese have never eaten whale.(Me too.)
BTW. In Hinduism and Islam is taboo to eat beef(Japan also banned it in the past.)But they never said "Europeans must not eat beef".
2)And whaling countries are not only Japan. Russia Norway Iceland Canada are also whaling countries. Also, Some countries in the world eat dogs. Surprisingly, one of the country eating human fetus. For them it is a common food culture. Do you hate these country?
I think. Culture and customs vary by country.
(Sorry for my poor English. Thank you for reading :D)
@sakurasaku004 No, I don't hate Japan, Japan has many advantages too. But hundreds of thousands of whales and dolphins killed each year in Japan. Yes I know this is happening elsewhere in the world. Where in the world people eat human fetuses? o.O In Finland, there are problems too.
Check out the latvian/lituanian language . its so similar to Sanskrit indian language... Its said that one latvian can undestand 30 % hindi . Finish people is related to the indian invasion of europe lands . Japanese have nothing to do with europeans... Totaly different boddy, face structur. One albino indian looks exactly like an european.
some say japanese are the lost tribe of israel. some say japan and iceland have a lot in common. tamil, a south indian language is supposedly akin to japanese.
well... whatever. all i can see from the comments here is that wherever japan is mentioned, korean trolls appear from nowhere XD
@sijour if the japs are the lost tribe of israel, i am assured that they are the ones that israel or jews don't ever want to relate to. the jap monkeys sided with the nazis and indirectly collaborated to wipe off the jews. jap monkeys appear more when korea or anything related to korea is mentioned. the monkeys just love to jump on bandwagon. love finland but japan? there is no relation whatsoever. the japs have amazing talent to distort history and disguise one's culture as its own.
@PUAPrivateArchive sero=zero, i'm pretty sure that japanese pronounce it like that, same way as finns do but americans pronounce that "zero" like "zzziiiirouuu" and i think some of those words might be actually borrowed to japanese from english. There are MANY words and names that are same but mean something else in finnish and japanese and we pronounce them pretty much in same way. When I read manga I usually laugh for some character's 'cos their names can mean something stupid in finnish:D
@PUAPrivateArchive here some names that are in both countries or mean something also in finnish: Ai, Aika, Aimi, Aina, Airi, Aki, Ami, Emi, Eri, Hana, Hikari, Hinata, Inari, Jiro, Juro, Kanako, Kimi, Kumiko, Mami, Mariko, Masa, Mika, Miki, Miku, Nami, Nana, Rika, Riko, Riku, Rina, Sakura, Sakurako, Sato, Sora, Suomi, Tomiko, Toru..
@greeenrain sorry to tell you this, but most japanese names you cited are used only in the last couple of centuries. japanese are very flexible with their names, and some of them are naming their kids 'pikachu' and 'maikeru' (michael) these days.
@sijour I actually took many of those names just from internet and there didn't read "this name is new!!!!" And btw, finnish names are also pretty much like that, many of finnish names have came from germanic names like Riku(Rikhard) or that Michael is changed to Mikaeli/Mikael. i prefer names that are finnishfinnish like Lumi(snow) or Taika(magic) 'cos i think it's cool to have name that mean smthing.. But Pikachu? Oh dear...^^'
@PUAPrivateArchive Japanese borrowed those words from English when they stopped being isolated. They changed their culture to western a bit, and thanks to those changes, Japan beat Russia in Japan-Russia war. Please read history first before commenting :D
The only two points I would concede are the morphological and phonetic similarities of Japanese and Finnish, and that they are both neighbours of Russia. But it's not really surprising that japanese and finnish have similar-sounding words. Such word association hardly constitutes science... overall, the video is full of tenuous, wishy washy nonsense. Using the same methods, we could connect almost any two countries or cultures or languages, and claim striking similarities. *sigh*
I shall write some finnish then and it really has some japanese in it xD:
Hajosiko takakumi autosta. Ari omistaa kotona olevan kitaran ja osaa sitä soittaa jo. Koita kurottaa kovasti ja ota takasta tikut. Takanani on lakana joka taitaa olla tosi kivasti taitettu. En taida omistaa ruokaa kun masunikin kurnii kovasti jo. Se kai koskee jokaista. Joku kaiketi ajoi moponi jalkaani ja se ontuu kovasti kun koitan sen suoristaa. Ota hara ja koita saada ne risukasat katoltani pois jo. Veery funny!
Both are agglutinative languages which is unusual. Not only words are similar:
Genitive
Japanese: add "no", Finnish: add "-n" to the end
Question
Japanese: add "ka", Finnish: add "-ko" or "-kö" to the end
Also many people say that their first impression of finnish is japanese.
There are also Japanese jokes in Finland that we don't have about other languages, f.ex. "what is farmer's name in japanese?" "Kanakusi Takanasi"(Chicken peed behind you). These jokes are also based on similarities.
People, this vid is not ment to be like "FINLAND AND JAPAN ARE TOTALLY SAME OMG!!" Ofc Japan has more things in common with other Asian countries and Finland with Nordics. But it's just that there are some similar things thought we are not from same area at all.
Some of those things in vid aren't so good examples but there are things.. Like both people are usually pretty shy, we both are leading countries in suicides(unfortunatelly) and we both have crazy things like competitions. And moomins!
If you'd make you research better you would know that eventhough not related, both languages are pronounced in a shokingly same manner (both also are very unique). Japanese and Finnish people find this similarity very amusing, and those who hear finnish for the first time often say it sounds like a fast japanese.
Finnish and Japanese also share a very rare language factor, which is that both languages are pronounced the same way they are written. Easy to learn Japanese. =P
Hah, very unusuall guestion. But yes, I am finnish indeed. You'd propably know already that viima means breeze, its not a everyday word and usually people just tend to say: tuuli (wind). But you could use it in a context's like; Kylmä viima hiveli hänen kasvojaan = Cold breeze caressed her/his face.
or
"Täällä käy ilkeä viima", which roughly translates to "the breeze here is uncomfortable."
But Im pretty sure you meant to say "viina" instead which means booze. xD
Cold wind! That's exatly right. Looks like you know better than me lol. Now that I think about it I have never heard or used it in a context that doesen't refer to cold. Natives tend to use their own language the right way without thinking too much. :) However, the word cold is often added when talking about viima.
Hah hah.. No word for alchol in hebrew? And I was under the impression you have holiday when you are supposed to get very drunk.
Why Czech composers (Dvořák and Smetana) when you deal with Finn-Japanese subject? Yeah, Sibelius is rather too predictable, so why not Einojuhani Rautavaara and Tōru Takemitsu (certainly not my favourite, though)? Saké (Nihonshu) is not a kind of spirit despite the claim in this video. It's a fermented product made of rice. So it's more like white wine than Finlandia Vodka. The only similarity here is its colour, or the lack of it, looking like pure water.
No surprise there as both finland and japan were members of the AXIS in WW2 and massacred millions of innocent people. The Finns shoulda been punished severely just like germans and japs.
@Tennessee44444 LOL you really don't know history at all! Finland was forced to a war against Soviet Union because they had decided tha Finland would become part of it. Finland fought as well as it could and 'cos Russian soliders were much worse it's a fact that over 200 000 Russians died while "only" 25 000 Finns died. We didn't even want into the war, Finland was forced and Finnish people are one of the WW2 heroes.
I've always thought we Finns, and the Japanese. Have some simularities. But not much. I myself as a Finn, a, very intruiged by the Japanese Culture. And the Way of The Sword. I am Taking Japanese next week in college. I Wish i knew more about my Ethnicity and Culture. Than just what my Grandfather told me. But i'm just a Finn From in the United States.
11. Finland lost the war for Russia, which was by the way a really big fail to claim otherwise. About japanese' war with russia I do not know anything.
@SunBreaker6 "Google it fot yourself" You really believe in media propaganda in the internet. Next your gonna say "I read it from wikipedia, so it's true" Or "My stupid dad told me" SHUT UP YOU IGNORANT FOOL
7. Sauna has nothing to do with hotsprings. They are meant for different purposes.
8. You have taken a picture of a chines' styled building.
9. Oh my god, my eyes are dropping just from tears of miss leading information. You thought that just because they had horses or you just haven't read enough of Hakkapelita.
10. Finnish baseball is different than japanese baseball... If you were more in sport or more in read, you would know that very well.
1. there are many other countries who have same words in their languages.
2. Japanese take care of their nature better than Finland and have more culture to their nature than Finland. Nowdays there are more citizen lovers than nature in finland.
3. Japanese are way ahead in technology than Finland that it is so redicilous to even claim them being even.
4. nothing to comment
5. Fish is main food with rice in Japan than it is in Finland. <- A forgotten food mainly.
@SunBreaker6 LOL you are a diehard ignorant japan fan. You are one of those mentally retarded people who take pictures when they see japanese. That's called obsession you pig!
Both are descendants of the Hun tribe, so both languages belong to the similar language system. I heard the Finnish children have blue spot on the buttocks.
@toki1221 1,5 meters of snow in Helsinki this winter (the capital), but usually most of the snow has come in february and march so we should have much more. Only -25 degrees though, but it is quite cold for coast city.
@nagasaki70 Yeah, we know him in Finland too. Mauri Turunen was his finnish name, if I recall correctly.
God how I love Japan! I will go there some day and give all japanese people Salmiakki! It's finnish candy and I hear that japanese can't handle it's flavor. Now, you're from Japan, I trust? I gotta ask this question...I heard that "matto" means carpet in japanese - well, is it true?
Getting find a similarity is cause of having an awareness, recognition and familiarity I think. I don't quite understand partially and disagree on some, but wanna say I appreciate you.
@chinaownseverything You're kidding... Recent whole genome data confirms that Finnish are completely European descent, though there are some distance from Norwegian / Swedish or Russian, and it is far from Asian.
@RoseMilord Another reason of the defeat of Russia is the alliance between Japan and British Empire at that time.
I'm Japanese and my mother-in-law is Finnish, and my opinion is that the similarity lies the most in their modesty. Anyway I like Finnish and Finland country very much.
@y0ichr0 Yeah, but the people that habited Finland before current finns arrived were from the East...so who knows. The language of Finns is from Asia, while the population is from Europe. It's really confusing.
I'm a Japanese,and I have experiences of work with Finnish.
I feel comfortable, as I working with Japanese. I think I can understand them, and they understand me, its not happen so many time, with other countries.
I think many Japanese feel same way, we might have same feelings of honesty.
Finland and Japan, I love both countries. Friendship forever!
may be Japanese won a battle or two over Russia, you Finns certainly didn't! All you have in common with Japan is widespread beer alcoholism :)
bambinonero1 5 days ago
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toki1221 1 week ago
@sagqe, probably not Mati Nykanen;)
monia866 2 weeks ago
i like the japanese nature way better then the Nordic one ( i'm Swedish ) looks more magical and it's probobly warmer in Japan.
12345678909269 2 weeks ago 3
I love both of your countries, but those similarities were so incredibly far-fetched, come on.
tsurutom 2 weeks ago
I think the most striking similarity is that these are probably the only two cultures where silence can be an acceptable (sometimes even desirable) part of a conversation.
UFOPOLI 2 weeks ago
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toki1221 3 weeks ago
@Juostenkusten We even had a lesbian president. U have been warned!
Juostenkusten 3 weeks ago
It's funny. Im finnish my self and i don't watch anime and i don't hype Japan but every person i know in Finland likes Japan. The most scary part is that even that famous japanese skijumper loves Finland and he knows how to speak finnish a little. Dreams about finnish wife also. Why he don't take japanese wife, cause they sure are great looking.
Juostenkusten 3 weeks ago 3
Asahi beer = fuck yeah <3!
Juostenkusten 3 weeks ago
How do you say "mechanic" in Japanese?
answer: "Hayoshi koto yotashi" (hajosiko toyotasi? - did your toyota break down?)
seriously, can you make jokes like these in any other language?
Hairysteed 1 month ago 2
I think this video doesn't mention the most important things the finnish seem to have in common with the japanese, but if it was made by a finnish guy he couldn't mention it because you're so humble. Finnish people work hard, they party hard, they really seem to enjoy life, but sort of in a quiet way and they are very nice. But most importantly they seem to be the most humble and polite people of Europe and japanese seem to be the most humble and polite people of Asia if not the World.
SwedenLovesJapan 1 month ago 6
ei yhtää samalaiset!
hattaramies 1 month ago
En ymmärrä tän pointtia, muutakun et haluut esittää kuin hienoja suomi ja japani on. Yhtä paljon meillä on yhteistä vaikka vittu afganilaisten kanssa. Äläkä tunge noita sotakuvia tonne se on vitun noloa ja häpeällistä
zeizee 1 month ago
@zeizee et tietenkään ymmärrä ku ei sulla nassukka oo vielä tarpeeks ikkää:) kyllä se siitä helepottaa ku vähä vanhemmaks tuut..
rakkipallo 4 weeks ago
I <3 MEXICO
Juostenkusten 1 month ago
no voi helvetti..
doippaable 2 months ago
I also love Finland I will go there someday.
nipols 2 months ago
I MUST travel to Japan someday.
Greetings from Finland! :)
SUPlKOIRA 2 months ago 2
VIVA FINLAND AND JAPAN!!
Thumps up for Finland and Japan!
AndroidiNro17 2 months ago 3
Great Japanese skijumpers: Kazuyoshi Funaki, Masahiko Harada, Noriaki Kasai, Yukio Kasaya, Hideharu Miyahira, Takanobu Okabe, Hiroya Saitō
Go Japan!
Greetings from Finland
PohjolaNorden 3 months ago 3
87% of Finland is forest
piirimies 3 months ago
This conversation about "eastern eyes" is so funny.
I have been living in Germany for years,
and and people here have especially in east germany
also sometimes'"eastern eyes" actually much more than in Finland.
I myself am from German and Swedish Background and have also
Slightly eastern eyes, Why? couldn`t care less.
This is so absurd topic
kontrapunkti 3 months ago
MIKÄ? japan sucks,, go suomi perkele!!
kevinpaallikko 3 months ago
@mikila94 Do you feel insulted that I compared you to wonderful nation-japanese?:)
You are in my opinion more handsome than they,but your eyes are not so big like other europen people,maybe because you have days lasting half year?so you must blink your eyes or wear sunglasses.But if comes about character I think that you are similiar to japanese...
monia866 3 months ago
@monia866
I´m from Finland and I know only few people with blue eyes and I dare to say that none of the eyes I´ve seen look like Japanese people´s (except my step sister.)
mikila94 3 months ago
@monia866 well ahh, don't forget to mention the jap cockroaches men also like to RAPE WOMEN, BEAT WOMEN AND ABUSE WOMEN just like what they did to so many women of other cultures before and during ww2. sorry to burst your bubble but your just ooo sooooo IGNORANT.
1greatdude 3 months ago
@1greatdude hey! who said japanese raiped woman? Korea? china? like a nankin they said first time 7000 in 1945 after glow to glow each other now 200,000. we hate ANTI-JAPAN PROPAGANDA. this is MEDIA WAR!!!
LISTEN FINISH!! Korean media center bribery japanese media now its getting media war!! please help us!!
watch?v=okW35n0Xz34 watch?v=taVBnBndtzY
kisho1172 3 months ago
@1greatdude
Wtf.... U again lol? do u deliverately search all the Japanese vids and write one sided propaganda over and over?? Sorry to burst ur bubble but u r from USA right? U do know that the rate of rape in US per 100,000 ppl is 30 times more than Japan lol? 30 fucking times... Yeah, real nice way to treat women mate. Propaganda lies but statistics never do. What are u anyway? I look up jp vids coz I lived and worked there. Why do u even bother with this shit? Just out of curiosity.
malibutequila 2 months ago
@malibutequila <--- and just out of curiosity from here when you "lived and worked" in Japan, did you go get drunk after work all the time and let some filthy pieces of shit jap men fucked you in your ass? mate?
1greatdude 2 months ago
@1greatdude Hahaha, so much hate lol. It's funny looking at ur comments. Everything u write is negative and hateful. And no, I didn't get fucked in the ass (lol wtf?). Like I said before, the chances of being raped in Japan is 30 times lower than ur country. It's one of the only few places in the world where women can walk safely in streets past midnight. Yap, they r sooooo barbaric man ;) FYI, All the other crimes r also significantly lower than US btw. I'd b more worried about ur own ppl.
malibutequila 2 months ago
oh and you forgot to mention another similarity of finland and JAPan, that is both of these nations had at one time or another been FUCKED IN THE ASS by VATER RUSSIA you silly little fin.
1greatdude 3 months ago
1. There are loads of words in Finnish which are the same in other languages but have different meanings.
2. Norway also is close to their nature, does Norway = Japan?
3. Sweden and Switzerland are other examples of technology based countries...
4. Japan is a group of islands in the Pacific Ocean. Finland borders with three other countries and is part of continental Europe.
5. So do many other countries (e.g. Iceland)...
yrhyngrwyd 3 months ago
6. As in many other countries...
7. You also find hot springs in Iran and New Zealand…
8. Wood is also used for buildingsin Sweden and Norway…
9. As do many other countries…
10. I think most people in Finland prefer ice hockey.
11. Connection there is…?
12. Ireland makes whiskey…
yrhyngrwyd 3 months ago 2
funny!
nice video:)
shiosaibook 3 months ago
Is it just me, or are the Ainu and Saami culture incredibly similar?
JapanDeservesLove 3 months ago
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JapanDeservesLove 3 months ago
lol finn is suck from china
marie1000ist 3 months ago
you are wrong asians are asians... dont asume
ndy09 3 months ago
and btw, point of this video?
hottubeful 3 months ago
atleast we dont have kamikazes in finland.....
hottubeful 3 months ago
@hottubeful But Finland had a civil war called Red-White war. So, we are in the same line. :D enjoy this fact.
PastaGod1 3 months ago
@PastaGod1 Ye, the "red-white war". Red ones wanted to ally with russian..... enjoy that fact. It have nothing to do with Japan.
hottubeful 3 months ago
Finland and Japan far distant past I would have had ethnic ties of blood?
keiya1955 3 months ago
now finland is slave of EU
rilluma 4 months ago
nowdays finland is slave of EU byrocrates
rilluma 4 months ago
haistakaa vittu
runehurtta 4 months ago
Thanks to Nippon for producing wonderful and reliable cars!! I love my Subaru! <3
keppe1 4 months ago 2
white ppl always trying to take credit for what they had no role in. oh gosh so happy ur dying out
heckler171 4 months ago
@heckler171 Dying out? Oh gosh :D Have a great day anyway.
Juostenkusten 4 months ago
Japan loves Finnland! And We love finnland. Friendship for ever!
I wish to drink TOGO beer.
kaisermuto 4 months ago 30
@kaisermuto, It's Finland. :) You wrote an one extra n. :D
cokedude100 4 months ago
You forgot they are both weird!!! Ahah. But many words in different languages have some words and nature. I think these comparisions are quite odd. Finland has more in common with their neighbours (as well as any other country) than Japan.
royalsteven 4 months ago
I have respect for Suomi. Suomi has a great nature and culture and there are wonderful people! :)
I hope the friendship between Suomi and Nippon. Thank you :D
sakurasaku004 4 months ago
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sakurasaku004 4 months ago
I hate it in Japan, when Japanese are killing so many whales there.
Otherwise I have nothing against Japan.
-Greetings from Finland!
AndroidiNro17 5 months ago
@AndroidiNro17
Hi! In the long comment I'm sorry :)
1) People living near the ocean was eating whales. But, As you know, Japan has a mountain area. these people did not eat whale. culture of eating beef is introduced from Europe.
Since then, people eating whale were depleted. Almost modern Japanese have never eaten whale.(Me too.)
BTW. In Hinduism and Islam is taboo to eat beef(Japan also banned it in the past.)But they never said "Europeans must not eat beef".
sakurasaku004 4 months ago
@AndroidiNro17
2)And whaling countries are not only Japan. Russia Norway Iceland Canada are also whaling countries. Also, Some countries in the world eat dogs. Surprisingly, one of the country eating human fetus. For them it is a common food culture. Do you hate these country?
I think. Culture and customs vary by country.
(Sorry for my poor English. Thank you for reading :D)
sakurasaku004 4 months ago
@sakurasaku004 No, I don't hate Japan, Japan has many advantages too. But hundreds of thousands of whales and dolphins killed each year in Japan. Yes I know this is happening elsewhere in the world. Where in the world people eat human fetuses? o.O In Finland, there are problems too.
Thank you also to you
AndroidiNro17 4 months ago
I love Japan and I'm from finland :3
Ansku1997 5 months ago
I love Finland
from Japan
11ne11ne 5 months ago 2
Check out the latvian/lituanian language . its so similar to Sanskrit indian language... Its said that one latvian can undestand 30 % hindi . Finish people is related to the indian invasion of europe lands . Japanese have nothing to do with europeans... Totaly different boddy, face structur. One albino indian looks exactly like an european.
dinapoli123 5 months ago
Like brothers that took a different road =3
Things are different but still so alike
FlpttiMasta 5 months ago
hello Finlad! from Japan with love
Xxkunio920xX 5 months ago 3
NICE VIDEO! Finish language is also URAL ARTAEK language. How is TOGO beer?
I want to drink. But I have never seen it in Japan.
kaisermuto 5 months ago
My name is Riku and i heard it means "land"in japanese.
xB4LL50F5T33Lx 5 months ago
some say japanese are the lost tribe of israel. some say japan and iceland have a lot in common. tamil, a south indian language is supposedly akin to japanese.
well... whatever. all i can see from the comments here is that wherever japan is mentioned, korean trolls appear from nowhere XD
sijour 5 months ago
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@sijour if the japs are the lost tribe of israel, i am assured that they are the ones that israel or jews don't ever want to relate to. the jap monkeys sided with the nazis and indirectly collaborated to wipe off the jews. jap monkeys appear more when korea or anything related to korea is mentioned. the monkeys just love to jump on bandwagon. love finland but japan? there is no relation whatsoever. the japs have amazing talent to distort history and disguise one's culture as its own.
SneakerRock 5 months ago
Fucking weeaboos
olyfag 5 months ago
lol what a dumb video. Japanese and English have similar sounding words. Toire = Toilet, soccer = sakka, Ball = boru, Sero = Zero, omg Japan = USA
PUAPrivateArchive 6 months ago
@PUAPrivateArchive Yyyyeah... You shouldn't be talking about things you know nothing about..
BlueOrangeSC 6 months ago
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@BlueOrangeSC if you think this video has any credibility you are a fucking moron.
PUAPrivateArchive 6 months ago
@PUAPrivateArchive sero=zero, i'm pretty sure that japanese pronounce it like that, same way as finns do but americans pronounce that "zero" like "zzziiiirouuu" and i think some of those words might be actually borrowed to japanese from english. There are MANY words and names that are same but mean something else in finnish and japanese and we pronounce them pretty much in same way. When I read manga I usually laugh for some character's 'cos their names can mean something stupid in finnish:D
greeenrain 5 months ago
@PUAPrivateArchive here some names that are in both countries or mean something also in finnish: Ai, Aika, Aimi, Aina, Airi, Aki, Ami, Emi, Eri, Hana, Hikari, Hinata, Inari, Jiro, Juro, Kanako, Kimi, Kumiko, Mami, Mariko, Masa, Mika, Miki, Miku, Nami, Nana, Rika, Riko, Riku, Rina, Sakura, Sakurako, Sato, Sora, Suomi, Tomiko, Toru..
greeenrain 5 months ago
@greeenrain sorry to tell you this, but most japanese names you cited are used only in the last couple of centuries. japanese are very flexible with their names, and some of them are naming their kids 'pikachu' and 'maikeru' (michael) these days.
sijour 5 months ago
@sijour I actually took many of those names just from internet and there didn't read "this name is new!!!!" And btw, finnish names are also pretty much like that, many of finnish names have came from germanic names like Riku(Rikhard) or that Michael is changed to Mikaeli/Mikael. i prefer names that are finnishfinnish like Lumi(snow) or Taika(magic) 'cos i think it's cool to have name that mean smthing.. But Pikachu? Oh dear...^^'
greeenrain 5 months ago
@PUAPrivateArchive Japanese borrowed those words from English when they stopped being isolated. They changed their culture to western a bit, and thanks to those changes, Japan beat Russia in Japan-Russia war. Please read history first before commenting :D
-Love from Finland.
PastaGod1 3 months ago
The only two points I would concede are the morphological and phonetic similarities of Japanese and Finnish, and that they are both neighbours of Russia. But it's not really surprising that japanese and finnish have similar-sounding words. Such word association hardly constitutes science... overall, the video is full of tenuous, wishy washy nonsense. Using the same methods, we could connect almost any two countries or cultures or languages, and claim striking similarities. *sigh*
K2nsl3r 6 months ago 19
@K2nsl3r Exactly.
HermanniSan 5 months ago
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toki1221 3 months ago
YAP...it is rare haplogroup and u can see it in japanese, tibetan, jews and some european, not chinks and gooks.
toki1221 6 months ago
I am interested in Finnish.
3188117 6 months ago
I shall write some finnish then and it really has some japanese in it xD:
Hajosiko takakumi autosta. Ari omistaa kotona olevan kitaran ja osaa sitä soittaa jo. Koita kurottaa kovasti ja ota takasta tikut. Takanani on lakana joka taitaa olla tosi kivasti taitettu. En taida omistaa ruokaa kun masunikin kurnii kovasti jo. Se kai koskee jokaista. Joku kaiketi ajoi moponi jalkaani ja se ontuu kovasti kun koitan sen suoristaa. Ota hara ja koita saada ne risukasat katoltani pois jo. Veery funny!
Juostenkusten 6 months ago
so all white ppl with droopy eyes are mongolian.???i have droopy eyes.
chadberry75 6 months ago
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japanese were niggers before the chinks raped them
japanese DNA:
O—M175 54.2%（chink）
D—YAP 34.7%（native aussi/ nigger looking）
C—M130 8.5%（negrito/ shorty niggers）
Jiucieu 6 months ago
sushi is disgusting
westbohan 6 months ago
Baseball and pesäpallo are two different games.
tsiuppidautsu 6 months ago
finland is ural and japan is altaic. ural-altaic is bro.
toki1221 6 months ago
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ZEPGX 6 months ago
フィンランド (=´∀｀)人(´∀｀=) ニホン
nazokaiseijin 6 months ago
That’s why we Japanese love Sibelius so much.
I understand.
maroanledgloria 7 months ago
面白かったっす！
カニパンはうさぎパンになっちゃうのか・・・（ガクブル・・・）
北欧の面白い国さん、大好きです！
フィンランドのエアギター選手権は日本でも有名ですｗ
ムーミンとかマリメッコとかシモ・ヘイヘさんも人気ですー
フィギュアではキーラ・コルピさんが大好きです。レピストさんも！
距離はありますがこれからもよろしく～moimoi！！
sakusakukenmin 7 months ago 2
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Such a stupid idea.
Sora and different word you get here were from Korea not from finnish Ok?
Korean is finnish? What?
So stupid thinking.
Samuri came from korea it was SAULAbi
uttakeda 7 months ago
Such a stupid idea.
Sora and different word you get here were from Korea not from finnish Ok?
Korean is finnish? What?
So stupid thinking.
uttakeda 7 months ago
I very much agree with this video... we have many things in common for two such distant countries :)
Also, both finnish and japanese sense of humour is considered strange by outsiders :D
tontsa911 7 months ago
Both are agglutinative languages which is unusual. Not only words are similar:
Genitive
Japanese: add "no", Finnish: add "-n" to the end
Question
Japanese: add "ka", Finnish: add "-ko" or "-kö" to the end
Also many people say that their first impression of finnish is japanese.
There are also Japanese jokes in Finland that we don't have about other languages, f.ex. "what is farmer's name in japanese?" "Kanakusi Takanasi"(Chicken peed behind you). These jokes are also based on similarities.
greeenrain 7 months ago 13
@greeenrain Also: sekosiko siimasi and jokohama kumahutan :)
Teqo7 4 months ago
People, this vid is not ment to be like "FINLAND AND JAPAN ARE TOTALLY SAME OMG!!" Ofc Japan has more things in common with other Asian countries and Finland with Nordics. But it's just that there are some similar things thought we are not from same area at all.
Some of those things in vid aren't so good examples but there are things.. Like both people are usually pretty shy, we both are leading countries in suicides(unfortunatelly) and we both have crazy things like competitions. And moomins!
greeenrain 7 months ago 5
なぜBGMがモルダウなんだｗ
tennouzi 7 months ago
ありがとう
KontaroOki 7 months ago
I study Japanese, it's such a beautiful language ^^,
TheRevengeofmyghost 7 months ago 2
we love you Finland!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!^^ from japan
momoyuchun3 7 months ago 5
we love you Finland!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!^^
momoyuchun3 7 months ago
Both Finnish and Japanese people tend to be very reserved and shy people.
Suomi, Helsinki, Oulu - sounds like Japanese
The Sami resembles Japanese people
theraver2020 7 months ago 2
日本に行きたい！
sc00zie 7 months ago 3
lol..x) well..i think its...china = japan and korean = japan x)
Thekeichan21 7 months ago
BTW,the music is from CZE...........
suomilumme 8 months ago
same words? so what? yes in hebrew is "ken" does'nt this sound like japanese for you? and forward is "kadima" which really sounds like japanese
if you notice every language sounds like another far language
deathtoislam1000 8 months ago
@deathtoislam1000
If you'd make you research better you would know that eventhough not related, both languages are pronounced in a shokingly same manner (both also are very unique). Japanese and Finnish people find this similarity very amusing, and those who hear finnish for the first time often say it sounds like a fast japanese.
Finnish and Japanese also share a very rare language factor, which is that both languages are pronounced the same way they are written. Easy to learn Japanese. =P
Shiroiyatsura 7 months ago
@Shiroiyatsura i don't know i listen to a lot of Finnish music and i have never noticed anything like this
deathtoislam1000 7 months ago
@Shiroiyatsura by the way if you are Finnish
can you give me an example of how to use the word viima?
deathtoislam1000 7 months ago
@deathtoislam1000
Hah, very unusuall guestion. But yes, I am finnish indeed. You'd propably know already that viima means breeze, its not a everyday word and usually people just tend to say: tuuli (wind). But you could use it in a context's like; Kylmä viima hiveli hänen kasvojaan = Cold breeze caressed her/his face.
or
"Täällä käy ilkeä viima", which roughly translates to "the breeze here is uncomfortable."
But Im pretty sure you meant to say "viina" instead which means booze. xD
Shiroiyatsura 7 months ago
@Shiroiyatsura but basically it refers to a cold breeze right? because it is translateed (not by google) to "icy wind"
and yes by the i know that viina means booze because of a song named juodaan viinaa
i think we are the only people who doesnt have a general word for alcohol
deathtoislam1000 7 months ago
@deathtoislam1000 viina actually means wine in finnish its just often used to describe drinking in general :D
Dudehyrule 7 months ago
@Dudehyrule Viina is booze and viini is wine in Finnish.
roflontex 7 months ago 2
@deathtoislam1000
Cold wind! That's exatly right. Looks like you know better than me lol. Now that I think about it I have never heard or used it in a context that doesen't refer to cold. Natives tend to use their own language the right way without thinking too much. :) However, the word cold is often added when talking about viima.
Hah hah.. No word for alchol in hebrew? And I was under the impression you have holiday when you are supposed to get very drunk.
Shiroiyatsura 7 months ago
@Shiroiyatsura lol yes they say in purim you must to get drunk
but we mostly drink wine this is what's common in the Mediterranean area
deathtoislam1000 7 months ago
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@Shiroiyatsura but basically it refers to a cold breeze right? because it is translateed (not by google) to "icy wind"
and yes by the i know that viina means booze because of a song named juodaan viinaa
i think we are the only people who dont have a general word for alcohol
deathtoislam1000 7 months ago
Why Czech composers (Dvořák and Smetana) when you deal with Finn-Japanese subject? Yeah, Sibelius is rather too predictable, so why not Einojuhani Rautavaara and Tōru Takemitsu (certainly not my favourite, though)? Saké (Nihonshu) is not a kind of spirit despite the claim in this video. It's a fermented product made of rice. So it's more like white wine than Finlandia Vodka. The only similarity here is its colour, or the lack of it, looking like pure water.
xapaga1 8 months ago
No surprise there as both finland and japan were members of the AXIS in WW2 and massacred millions of innocent people. The Finns shoulda been punished severely just like germans and japs.
Tennessee44444 8 months ago
@Tennessee44444 You obviously don't know much about Finnish history during WW2. :)
randomjesse 8 months ago 3
@Tennessee44444 LOL you really don't know history at all! Finland was forced to a war against Soviet Union because they had decided tha Finland would become part of it. Finland fought as well as it could and 'cos Russian soliders were much worse it's a fact that over 200 000 Russians died while "only" 25 000 Finns died. We didn't even want into the war, Finland was forced and Finnish people are one of the WW2 heroes.
greeenrain 7 months ago
@Tennessee44444 You suck at history...
Horrorlord1 7 months ago
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Sliteh 6 months ago
this is...
Bullshit!
TheLasgun 8 months ago
@TheLasgun Stupid american... It isn't
Horrorlord1 7 months ago
@Horrorlord1 dude im a fenno swede -.-
if someone stupid its you
MultiAllahakbar 6 months ago
@MultiAllahakbar Does it matter? American and stupid have the same meaning. So I just said "stupid stupid..."
Horrorlord1 6 months ago
I love Finland soooo much!!!!! フィンランド大好きだぜ
（・ω・*）moimoi
sakurasaku004 8 months ago 51
@sakurasaku004
I love Finland soooo much!!!!! フィンランド大好きだぜ
Glad to hear that. But were not as u expected us to be, Were tougher :)
AmiApache 7 months ago
@sakurasaku004 im finnish and i love japan so much ^.^
UzumakiRafu 5 months ago
@UzumakiRafu さん
Kiitos. ystäväni!
I want to go to Suomi someday.^^
greeting from Japan with love^^
sakurasaku004 5 months ago
@sakurasaku004 Ole hyvä i want move to Japan someday greetings from Finland 友達
UzumakiRafu 5 months ago
I would've thought that either a finnish or japanese person had made and uploaded this video. Anyway, very nice. Greetings from Japan.
hushichou201147 9 months ago 4
The comparison in spirits (liquor), I found to be quite trivial and a bit ridiculous to be honest.
Lunatic4Bizcas 10 months ago
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tamamo90 10 months ago
japanese people likes scat. finns not maybe ....
tipenux 11 months ago
I've always thought we Finns, and the Japanese. Have some simularities. But not much. I myself as a Finn, a, very intruiged by the Japanese Culture. And the Way of The Sword. I am Taking Japanese next week in college. I Wish i knew more about my Ethnicity and Culture. Than just what my Grandfather told me. But i'm just a Finn From in the United States.
ProudFinn1 11 months ago
come to* Japan
lovemusicand24 11 months ago
wow cool
come yo Japan :)
lovemusicand24 11 months ago
And finally my personal fafourite
11. Finland lost the war for Russia, which was by the way a really big fail to claim otherwise. About japanese' war with russia I do not know anything.
SunBreaker6 11 months ago
@SunBreaker6 "die Moldau" as a background music doesnt help either..
lisakettu 10 months ago
@SunBreaker6
Was Finland conquered by Russia? It wasnt and it means we won and you are moron for claiming otherwise
mitanytkeksis 10 months ago
@mitanytkeksis yes you person with lacking of historial knowledge. Russia won the war between it and Finland. Go read some history
SunBreaker6 10 months ago
@SunBreaker6
If Russia supposedly won then why arent we part of russia? Russias plan was to invade whole Finland and they utterly failed at it.
mitanytkeksis 10 months ago
@mitanytkeksis I stop right here telling you why, because you are so freaking stupid that you can't google it yourself...
Finland lose for russia - but russia didn't make finland part of their country, you freaking moron >_<
SunBreaker6 10 months ago
@SunBreaker6 "Google it fot yourself" You really believe in media propaganda in the internet. Next your gonna say "I read it from wikipedia, so it's true" Or "My stupid dad told me" SHUT UP YOU IGNORANT FOOL
Horrorlord1 7 months ago
7. Sauna has nothing to do with hotsprings. They are meant for different purposes.
8. You have taken a picture of a chines' styled building.
9. Oh my god, my eyes are dropping just from tears of miss leading information. You thought that just because they had horses or you just haven't read enough of Hakkapelita.
10. Finnish baseball is different than japanese baseball... If you were more in sport or more in read, you would know that very well.
SunBreaker6 11 months ago
1. there are many other countries who have same words in their languages.
2. Japanese take care of their nature better than Finland and have more culture to their nature than Finland. Nowdays there are more citizen lovers than nature in finland.
3. Japanese are way ahead in technology than Finland that it is so redicilous to even claim them being even.
4. nothing to comment
5. Fish is main food with rice in Japan than it is in Finland. <- A forgotten food mainly.
6. Don't let me laugh
SunBreaker6 11 months ago
@SunBreaker6 LOL you are a diehard ignorant japan fan. You are one of those mentally retarded people who take pictures when they see japanese. That's called obsession you pig!
Horrorlord1 7 months ago
Both are descendants of the Hun tribe, so both languages belong to the similar language system. I heard the Finnish children have blue spot on the buttocks.
loveyoufolks 11 months ago
Olen Suomalainen ja rakastan Japania!
(I'm Finnish and I love Japan!) ;)
NuuNei 1 year ago 46
@NuuNei Olen Japanilainen ja rakastan Suomea koko sydämestäni!
(I'm Japanese and I really love Finland!) :D
niroro 1 year ago 8
my hometown asahikawa is -30 degree and we have much snow. now we are cleaning the snow from the roof twice a day and how about finland?
toki1221 1 year ago
@toki1221 1,5 meters of snow in Helsinki this winter (the capital), but usually most of the snow has come in february and march so we should have much more. Only -25 degrees though, but it is quite cold for coast city.
pherediac 1 year ago
Wow Awesome Video Two of the Best places in the world -- though haven't been to japan yet but Finland is hex lot better than america (it sucks)
harvestmoon1331 1 year ago
@OnlyLifeMatters
of course, it is true! and we call carpet "sikimono" in another way :)
but why carpet?
by the way, i have heard about Salmiakki. i wanna eat at once :)
nagasaki70 1 year ago
@LuciferxFIN
It's Ok, no problem.
KoooICHIsama 1 year ago
Marutei Tsurunen is the first foreign-born Japanese of European origin serving as a member of the Diet of Japan
and he is from finland :)
nagasaki70 1 year ago
@nagasaki70 Yeah, we know him in Finland too. Mauri Turunen was his finnish name, if I recall correctly.
God how I love Japan! I will go there some day and give all japanese people Salmiakki! It's finnish candy and I hear that japanese can't handle it's flavor. Now, you're from Japan, I trust? I gotta ask this question...I heard that "matto" means carpet in japanese - well, is it true?
OnlyLifeMatters 1 year ago
It's interesting. I didn't know that.
And nice music. Well.......is it "The Moldau"?
nopporis3 1 year ago
Nice vid, didn't expect someone to create something like this. Good work.
AmaraKitty 1 year ago
顔は似ていないがな。
00720000 1 year ago
@00720000 hahaha tashikanine!!! demo nanka sugoitteiuka......ore finlando daisuki!!!!! :DD dareka finland de tomodachini nattekureru hito inaikana??? demo, oosakabento finlandogo nitenai? ahoyanen toka nen gatsukutokoro!!!!
nitroluv1 1 year ago
Getting find a similarity is cause of having an awareness, recognition and familiarity I think. I don't quite understand partially and disagree on some, but wanna say I appreciate you.
amexrose 1 year ago
I love Finland!
yuikeion 1 year ago
@yuikeion Hehee, and finns generally loves Japan! Finland and Japan are the only countries in the world to have a Karaoke-bar culture lol
OnlyLifeMatters 1 year ago
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oicmiz 1 year ago
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oicmiz 1 year ago
@chinaownseverything You're kidding... Recent whole genome data confirms that Finnish are completely European descent, though there are some distance from Norwegian / Swedish or Russian, and it is far from Asian.
@RoseMilord Another reason of the defeat of Russia is the alliance between Japan and British Empire at that time.
I'm Japanese and my mother-in-law is Finnish, and my opinion is that the similarity lies the most in their modesty. Anyway I like Finnish and Finland country very much.
y0ichr0 1 year ago
@y0ichr0 Yeah, but the people that habited Finland before current finns arrived were from the East...so who knows. The language of Finns is from Asia, while the population is from Europe. It's really confusing.
OnlyLifeMatters 1 year ago
I'm a Japanese,and I have experiences of work with Finnish.
I feel comfortable, as I working with Japanese. I think I can understand them, and they understand me, its not happen so many time, with other countries.
I think many Japanese feel same way, we might have same feelings of honesty.
Finland and Japan, I love both countries. Friendship forever!
purple55shin 1 year ago 9