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Answerman - Why Is It Unusual For Japanese People To Use Computers?

And here I thought Japan would be a beacon of computer technology.

How else will anime fans in Japan get their anime fix other than DVDs?

Evangelion take place in 1998 if I'm not mistaken

Do people in Japan use speech-to-text to write now?

Well...do you have any actual data to refute what Justin's saying? Or any of the reports and surveys that he's cited?

You know, because you can't be caught dead saying Japan is better or else be labeled a weaboo on the comments these days.

http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/techlit/docs/Levels%20of%20Use.pdf

As far as this document is concerned, Japanese people aren't computer illiterate dullards who supposedly "can't into computers."

One thing I've thought in regards to the business side of this is that maybe the permanent employment system might have something to do with Japan's sluggishness to embrace new technology. Say a company has a chance to acquire a new system or program that, once learned, can allow one person to do the work of two. Since they essentially can't remove the second person, they would have to find something else for that person to do. At that point, it might seem a lot easier to stick with the old-fashioned method.

Not entirely sure what you're trying to say with that document. It's talking about kids going to school in Maryland, and most of the schools I've been to have a computer lab of some sort, even if it's fairly basic*. If you're trying to make a point about general computer proficiency in the US, though, I'd argue that most people my age (twenties and slightly above) know how to do, if not all, than most of the "Intermediate" stuff, as well as a few basic "Proficient" stuff.

That said, I'm still not sure that has much of anything to do with Japan's general computer proficiency levels. Now, if you had, say, a document detailing the level of computer literacy expected from a public school student in Japan, then at least we'd have something to compare and contrast with. Otherwise, this just seems to reinforce that schools in the US place a high priority on computer literacy.

EDIT: *I did some digging; apparently most schools in Japan DO also have computer labs, they just don't seem to get used with the same regularity as in the US, which, when I went to school, usually had at least one class booked for a turn in the computer lab, regardless of the subject (though Economics and Social Studies tended to be the most common).

Which is downright annoying and insulting because people can apparently like other countries without being labeled as something but for liking Japan, no, you gonna get bombarded with all sort of things, even if their interest in the country is apart from the usual beside from liking anime and manga. Then again, some fans are overstating too much about the nation and praising it beyond belief (these so called weeaboos) which would be understandable to received huge amount of hate (which a group of people that I rarely notice on the internet and I would not even cared enough to do anything upon seeing them any way) but nowadays, hating on those that like Japan even to the smallest degree or caught watching anime and such are still being labeled as weeb as part of that internet meme. Nothing could be done about it though but just to ignore it and get through with your life doing whatever you preferred until the end.

On topic, it's really is quite surprising seeing that Japan is quite modern in various department, including making robots and such

Afezeria wrote:

Which is downright annoying and insulting because people can apparently like other countries without being labeled as something but for liking Japan, no, you gonna get bombarded with all sort of things, even if their interest in the country is apart from the usual beside from liking anime and manga. Then again, some fans are overstating too much about the nation and praising it beyond belief (these so called weeaboos) which would be understandable to received huge amount of hate (which a group of people that I rarely notice on the internet and I would not even cared enough to do anything upon seeing them any way) but nowadays, hating on those that like Japan even to the smallest degree or caught watching anime and such are still being labeled as weeb as part of that internet meme. Nothing could be done about it though but just to ignore it and get through with your life doing whatever you preferred until the end.

This happens with any group of fans with a small but vocal and obnoxious faction, especially if they exhibit monomania over it (meaning they don't really like anything except the one thing they're a fan of). I'd say most Sonic fans and most Zelda fans enjoy most things and are pretty quiet about things, for instance, but you have the loud persnickety people with short tempers and want to shoehorn their favorite things into anything, then get upset if someone else doesn't share their opinions on everything, and it causes outsiders to have a distorted and negative view of these fans. It becomes guilt by association combined with the squeaky wheel getting the grease.

That is, I think a lot of the anti-Japan hate comes from that small group trying to shove Japanophilia in other people's faces so much that liking Japanese things becomes a berserk button.

Japan is no longer considered to be leading on many fronts.

Let's cease with the unneeded weaboo comments and discussion please. Thank you.

They mostly just use IMEs - input Roman characters which the machine first converts to kana and then to kanji if necessary (the most popular input method for mobile phones cuts out step 1).