groundling20XX [none/use name]

This makes me sad, but one common thing Ive noticed is that Chinese travelers often expect other places to be as new and shiny as their own cities neglecting that most places have not had such a recent growth spike for new infrastructure and infrastructure wont always be brand new. Many tourists complain that Kyotos train system is old, while its serves its job to the local population and still is regularly maintained with minimal delays and a lack of overcrowding. It just wasn’t built in the last 10 to 15 years.

You can already buy those for a few hundred yen. They just are really niche since normally microwaves are available or hot water is.

A large amount of animation was offshored from Japan for cost and worker regulation reasoms. Now that the yen is weaker it’s less profitable to do this.

Japan in japan sabotages cars. The real issue is that Japan went deep on hydrogen power combined with the large increase in electric prices after 3/11 any future of electric car died for the Japanese domestic market. Toyota in particular put its money in hydrogen buses, cars and other things which lead to a galaoagos tech like half of the rest of the crap in japan. Theres also some general resistance to electric over the past decade to create a parallel technology stack to china which fizzled out.

No they are doing exactly what they promised.

This is also exactly the way someone who speaks japanese natively would talk in english as it’s a direct translation.