Voici ce projet de fin d’études du jeune graphiste de 23 ans Kenichi basé à Nagoya. Une vidéo pleine d’infographie et de data-visualisation représentant le pays du Japon : sa culture, son histoire et ses habitants avec le point de vue étranger. A découvrir en vidéo dans la suite.
I see the video a little bit discerning.
I want to see a video like that about europe and the usa for comparing…
An i got one question: how many chopstick are used in china??? ;)
( Sorry but I speak no french, im a german ^^ Google-Translate ftw! :P )
It was funny at the beginning then started a little disturbing.
Too much criticism, almost making fun of their culture.
From what I know, they are ecology conscious just as European and dislike wasting, in fact there is a word Mottainai, means wasteful and I often heard it while I was there.
Coupez la voix off par pitié… mais c’est joli. C’est la grande mode de ce genre d’animation, ça doit faire la 10e que je vois dans le même style depuis le debut de l’année.
japan is beautiful. this video shows great discrimination to its culture. go knock yourself out .
J’adore ce design, ça me fait beaucoup penser à ce site : http://www.onlineschools.org/
@eric pas raciste, c reel. leur racisme peut etre tres tres pernicieux
les japonais sont tres nationalistes et accpetent peu la critique. demandent leur a propos de la question de peche aux baleines et du thon bleu? deux epseces en voie disparition a cause du surpeche et ils ont reussi malheureusement a capoter les accords qui pouvaient limiter leur peche
ok mais je ne parlais pas de ça. Le fait qualifier une nation d »‘étrange » pour les raisons qui sont données, notamment parce qu’ils ont « de petits yeux », ou parce qu’ils se saluent en s’inclinant ça c’est du racisme. On a le droit de parler des différences entre les civilisations, mais dit que c’est étrange parce que c’est différent, c’est très idiot quand même. Et c’est une forme de xénophobie.
Je n’irais pas jusqu’à parler de racisme comme eric, mais la video est foireuse sur le fond (la forme est chouette). Cette video est truffée de generalités et des clichés dignent d’une ecole primaire.
@eric Il me semble que c’est fait par un japonnais nan ? Je pense pas qu’il faut le prendre au pied de la lettre… C’est un peu du second degré quoi, il met un peu en dérision la vision que les étrangers peuvent avoir de son pays…
Comparer et faire ressortir les différences n’est pas du racisme… c’est juger ces différences qui en est….
Il aurait fallu sous-titrer « le japon vu par les étrangers vus par un japonais » (aussi en anglais) histoire que même ceux qui ne regardent qu’en diagonale ou ont laissé leur cerveau dans le décalage horaire n’ entament pas ce procès ridicule.
Un bon boulot, joli, amusant et instructif.
« Les japonais
Les japonais sont appelés ainsi pour que nous ne les confondions pas avec les carcassonnais. Il existe d’ailleurs un moyen mnémotechnique fort simple permettant d’éviter cette confusion. On s’aperçoit, en effet, lors d’une relecture plus minutieuse, que si le suffixe onais est commun aux uns et aux autres, les japonais, en revanche, n’ont pas de carcasse, ce qui leur confére une souplesse exceptionnelle dans la pratique des arts martiaux et lors des accolements fornicatoires dont ils restent très friands, malgré la sévère politique de dénatalité en vigueur au Japon. » Pierre Desproges
on devrait tous boire notre urine et vivre dans des cavernes, c’est bien ça le sens profond de cette video?
Les gars, c’est un japonais qui a réalisé la vidéo, faut arrêter de voir du racisme partout…
Il énonce des chiffres et ça c’est pas vraiment contestable, que vous soyez d’accord ou pas.
La voix-off est pas folle, mais la vidéo reste sympa et instructive. Après ya plus qu’à aller faire un tour sur place pour observer tout ça par soi même. :)
This short film missed a lot of good opportunities to call out actually unique and strange elements of Japanese culture; like eating squid while they’re still alive. The Japanese language is also unique in that you can speak it in, I believe, 4 different styles. How about cultural differences? Of course, not all of this is « strange ». Japanese eyes are not exactly « smaller » either; this could also be said of Chinese or Taiwanese.
Waste and suicide and chopsticks… these are all things that are even worse in the United States and beyond. The notion of a country’s wealth and waste somehow bestowing happiness is also naive. Besides that, Japan’s economy has been struggling in the past few years (like everyone else). I really like the style of the animation and voiceover, but the content was ultimately disappointing.
Ive always enjoyed these stylized info animations but their nature lends itself best to very specific topics that can be covered quickly. This presentation started out well enough but became aimless as it tried to cover whole groups of topics at random. The voice-over and animation script was not very tight and neither part was given enough rein to dictate the pace, one running over the other with unnecessary talk or animations. Also social consciousness is important as a counter point but the criticisms came across as heavy handed and there was a bizarre, morbid undercurrent to it all. Every topic was punctuated by death or some kind of suffering. the whole of it ending on the note of suicide. As a matter of focus if all you really wanted to talk about was social pressures and similar issues in Japan you should have done that and skipped the rest.
How insulting this video is, especially to turn blind sided to so many other facts in Japan that seems to balance out what this video is trying to say. I am not Japanese but it seems the tone of this video is a bit condescending, biased and insulting. Really typical of an outsider’s view. Should have been titled « Japan-A narrow look, hence its strange place »
Why does it focus on looking down on the Japanese? It’s bias hence racist. Comparing food waste, chopsticks made from China, etc. without comparing to other nations is just naive. This type of editing is very very sad, and the tone of the video with angels and splat suicide is very narrow minded and naive…ironic because this video is suppose to educate. Its obviously some people just want to make a « cool » factual video with no sense of real reporting. Naive all the way.
@Sliver: China and Korea reuse their chopsticks since they are made from plastic or metal. Japan has a tradition of always using wood.
But yes, I do find this article a bit too discriminating and malicious
how can a video made by a japanese man about japan be racist? because of twits like you and many others on this page and other pages calling him racist about his own damn country he has taken the english version down, get over yourselves.
ok at first, then got more and more superficial and biased. for example, the high suicide rate doesn’t warrant « i guess a healthy economy doesn’t necessarily make a happy country. » maybe it’s an honor issue, sometime valued above personal happiness. also, what’s with the « do you see what i mean when i say japan is a strange country? »?? what, is japan full of aliens? the music/mood all of a sudden becomes so conspiracy theory. this video would have done better just presenting the facts, without the distorted commentary.
The video is very well done, but like some other comments I found it drifted into the offensive. All western countries waste food, and all western countries import massively from China.
I spent 4 months travelling through Japan from top to bottom, and 1 month living in Tokyo. I’m not sure that the author of the video has ever been, otherwise they would have had a lot more interesting things to say. For example, the entire country is kept immaculate – I don’t think that I saw any litter while I was there. This is partly due to a cultural taboo against eating or drinking while walking, meaning that the only place that they need public bins is outside convenience stores. Did it even mention the obsession with hot baths? To be honest I skipped through a bit.
This video isn’t racist!! it was made by a japanese guy actually, so i guess it’s self criticism, what’s wrong with that?…
Un peu longuet, mais bon pour résumer en quelques statistiques les pratiques d’un pays entier c’est pas mal du tout ! C’est vrai aussi que la voix est pas super agréable… Mais le tout se regarde avec plaisir tout de même.
Sinon je trouve navrant qu’on réussisse à trouver du racisme là dedans… A croire que c’est à la mode et de bon ton d’en voir partout…
I too found this video more disturbing than informative or insightful. It feels like a complete outsiders look at Japan, and I’m surprised to read it was made by a Japanese person. Also, it seems to wander completely off topic at times, such as the statistics of people dying from starvation, and healthy drinking water, which are unrelated topics. How about discussing the obsession with novelty, youth and impermanence? These seem like more fundamental issues, but I guess harder to put in an infographic. I realise this was supposed to be a brief and humorous glimpse at a country, but is seems way off.
Ok, the graphics are really great, but what is it with the content??? I found it totally full of prejudice. And as someone said before: very naif. Looking at the number of people that loved this video, I can see how strong can the images be… Be careful…
i commend the maker of the video. it is downright truthful. it doesn’t just show the good things about japan (like others would usually do, and leave out the REAL picture), but presents the other side — the « ugly » or « unpleasant » side of the country up to the present time.
A perfect example of well-done animated graphic can manipulate people really easily; Since there are more than 90 people liked it.The content of this video;came out of a personal frustration of the irritated author and it’s quite useless points not even updated for today.
The video is how others looked at a stero typical Japanese. Indeed we can make similar videos about other countries.
One thing I have to add. You forgot to add animation and manga. Typically, for most countries, both catagories are for kid entertainment. However, in Japan, these kind of entertainment goes beyound kid entertainment.
@JackC – sorry – it’s rubbish content & script.
the illustrations & animation ideas are great, wish you have taken a more objective view though.
i love how people are calling this discriminating and racist and untrue when a japanese man made the video. which for some reason he has removed from the internet. probably because a bunch of know it alls like the ones commenting here think they know everything about Japan. Try living here dumbasses and you will see allot of what he said about his own country is true.
La vidéo n’est clairement pas raciste, ou alors autant qu’une blague juive racontée par un juif, bref!
@ TiToo, par contre dire que par ce qu’il y des chiffres c’est incontestable, c’est tomber dans le piège très répandu, de la vérité par chiffres. Les chiffres si ils ne sont pas corroborés, recoupés, vérifiés, n’ont pas plus de vérité que tout autre forme d’expression humaine…
J’aimerais beaucoup pouvoir comprendre le commentaire. Y a-t-il une version en français ?
They left out the part about the bombarding pornos produced by jap every yr, and the fact that they were the ones responsible for evoking WW!! Insanely killed and slaughtered over a million ppl …. strange paranoid country for sure..
raciste? faux? stupide? c’est un japonais qui explique/donne son avis aux japonais pourquoi leur culture est parfois décrite comme très différente par le reste du monde.
Ou vous comprenez pas le jap à ce moment là pas de commentaires sur ces propos, ou vous comprenez et là faut réfléchir 2 sec. Super boulot en tout cas
En quoi est-ce raciste ? Je vois pas vraiment le rapport avec vos différents commentaires. La réalisation de la vidéo est très bien faite, cela a du lui demander beaucoup de travail, félicitations à Kenichi !
Superbe!