https://x.com/GerHolanda63475/status/2045923095886672316
CW: SA Mention of the Comfort women
https://x.com/hlnolvrgo_c/status/2044507463173456300
https://x.com/Erivlt/status/2045525574408368600
https://x.com/Erivlt/status/2045545414875574751
Auto-translate feels like releasing invasive species into Japan. I saw a Japanese threatening a Russian by pirating Dostoevsky, only for the Russian to reply with a pirate site and some book recommendations. They have no natural defenses against these people. RIP the ecosystem.
https://x.com/AllbonesJones/status/2045309780177330663
I saw a Japanese threatening a Russian by pirating Dostoevsky, only for the Russian to reply with a pirate site and some book recommendations.
fuck that’s so good lmao
This isnt even a threat? Dostoevsky has been dead for well over 100 years, his books are without a doubt in the public domain. For English readers you can just go to Standard Ebooks or Project Guttenberg (also has other languages)
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Does public domain exist in Japan?
For the intents and purposes of how I used it, it seems so. But I am not an expert in Japanese copyright law.
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TIL
This is the Japanese equivalent of Project Gutenberg
poster brings reciepts proving that tons of japanese people also use pirate websites
everyone including people in this thread act like it is characteristic of the Japanese brain pan to bootlick corporations over IP laws and not just a handful of people on twitter
From a 2025 report on piracy of Japanese media:
Assuming one comic book priced at 500 yen could be read in 30 minutes, ABJ estimated the damage for June alone was 704.8 billion yen, equivalent to 1.4 billion manga books that were not paid for.
This amounts to 8.5 trillion yen a year, nearly six times the 1.5 trillion-yen size of Japan’s publishing market in 2024.
By country, Indonesian viewers caused the most damage in June, at 92.3 billion yen, followed by Japanese at 83.4 billion yen, and those in the United States at 79.1 billion yen.
Only country ahead of Japan is an archipelago 2.5x bigger than it, and Japan is ahead of the US
It takes a very twisted mind to observe humans benefiting from a cultural transmission, and call this “damage”.
I wonder how much damage is done by rereading a book or lending it or checking it out at the library.
Seriously lmao. I keep encountering people at the game shop I visit who don’t know you can just pirate Warhammer books. They’re often wandering around asking if anyone has a e-book code for them to use. I’m like: “Just go get it from one of the thousands of .pdf dump sites? Fucking dork lololololollll!”
You see the climate of The Japans produces an occidental ownership center in the lower corticoloid brainpan which makes them biologically opposed to piracy. What’s this word, ‘wokou’? Get out of here with your foreign talkAh yeah, twitter almost always exaggerates anyway and has the worst of the worst. Guess people that have that attitude are more likely to speak out than someone who is ambivalent to it, or supports it for their own reasons.
Some more i found funny
russian https://x.com/proddya/status/2045868411406680258
If I ever go on a date with a Japanese girl again, I’ll pay for her, and when she says “oh, no need,” I’ll reply that it’s reparations for the fact that my fellow countrymen pirate manga.
russian https://x.com/sietlov/status/2045584707660697977
Dear Japanese people, every unpleasant thing you write about piracy, I naturally take as a personal attack.
Your behavior is disrespectful and outrageous. As early as tomorrow, we are convening the council of pirates of the seven seas and will discuss the possibility of imposing a naval blockade.
I will continue to pirate anime and there isn’t a damn tning they can do about it
But what about the companyyyy 👉👈
Go play with a rag in the street, sweaty
Same with Korea manga/Manhua. Amazing how upset they are that people aren’t paying for their terrible official translations while also needing to wait 6m to 1yr + to have the privilege of being able to buy then. And maybe triple that to get it in free to read on official sites
The official translations of manga/manhwa usually are very much done for an American audience and kills a lot of nuance in the process (very stark differences, e.g, USD rather than won or yen; there are usually no analogous words for ‘calling’ words). The fan/unofficial translations are usually great, sometimes with an extra page or two by the translator explaining the context for non - native people.
This is so fucking funny. Most Japanese people have lived their whole lives never interacting with anyone outside the country because their English education is utter dogshit and have “Japan > All” nationalist brain so they never travel internationally. I hope these conversations lead to Japanese people learning how to circumvent their government’s draconian anti-piracy laws (pretty sure a decent VPN is all you really need).
some of them go to Paris and freak the fuck out because it’s not as cool as they thought.
I remember learning about that and wondering if they’d literally never experienced a contradiction before in their lives. Like, how the fuck do you hold such idealist views that would be completely nonsensical to any normal person? Surely they’ve had at least one experience where the reality was a disappointment compared to their imagination? How have they not developed a sense of skepticism?
Life in Japan is highly prescribed. Everything has an order, and it’s really common for people to have violent outbursts at very minor deviations from the prescribed process. You can probably imagine from there how far the ripples go through various social systems
So basically Japan is if OCD was a country.
This is a little bit like when weird orientalists declare that China has cultural autism
cultural autism
I’ve heard this claimed about the Dutch as well. Apparently direct, clear, and honest communication can’t be a cultural choice, it has to be a pathology. smdh
Есть еще Американцы, они па весь мир ползут а из амереки некогда не шаг даже не ступили. Вам точно не стыдно?
Я знаю даже некоторых которая не умеют говорить по Эньлжишь, ну по характеру ани идэнтитиския.
Neoliberalism really likes to socially reproduce these sorts of people. Makes for the best wage slaves.
This is so got dang cute
I’m proud of all Brazilians mocking the losers
Alright, ty Japan for reminding me of your
with Togo characteristicsyour 2chan and 4chan, anti-piracy fetish, and your imperial Japan denialism have made this case against you
is quite literally the personification of the “LEAVE THE MULTIBILLION DOLLAR COMPANY ALONE” meme. And that’s before we even get into the war crime apologia and denialismYou can’t generalize like that, some vocal weirdos on twitter are hardly representive of the entire country’s stance on piracy, the fact that it’s the biggest pirate of japanese media should tell you as much.
Not going to comment on Japanese people’s perception of Japan’s historical role in the world.
And that’s before we even get into the war crime apologia and denialism
The did some of this too in the Piracy discourse
This is Japan. Keiji Nakazawa talking about what happened to his remaining family members who survived the Hiroshima bombing in the following months.
Site won’t let me upload the screencaps and I’m impatient so I’ll type it out.
“Take her to the police.”
Mother said, “Search our room.”
“No. She’s a thief from downtown.”
“Get her to sign an apology.”
She was dragged to the police,
and signed a statement, sobbing all the while.
“I will not steal an umbrella ever again.”
She said she was mortified.
I watched through the windows as my mother signed, sobbing. (not sure if he means himself or his mother here)
They were merciless.
My burns had formed scabs and begun to heal,
but I was out on the streets, and some tough kids surrounded me.
They harassed me, called me a “stranger,”
and then they socked me.
My scabs split open, and bloody pus came shooting out.
The bullying was hard to take.There is a limit on uploads. 6 within 3600 seconds (1 hour). By within I mean from the first is uploaded.
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You know what’s really funny, there’s a 99% chance not a single person in that exchange is Japanese
Have we learned nothing from hiphopthreads and blackpeopletwitter?
some japanese letists have dunk on their chud counterparts so they do seem legit https://x.com/tacowasa2nd/status/2045816910286086177
It’s not just in Japan—right-wingers around the world all have this mentality like bratty middle school second-year punks rebelling against the disciplinary committee or the strict female teacher, just to go against the grain.
Ever since posts started getting translated, I’ve seen right-wing folks from all sorts of countries, and it’s shocking how they’re all basically the same.
another one https://x.com/peacock_maroon/status/2045795022629683440
It’s lamentable that the automatic translation feature is causing xenophobes to relentlessly tarnish Japan’s image, but I genuinely think it’s an intriguing shift that tweets from other countries now flow in so naturally. You get to see these unique turns of phrase in warm words of encouragement, sarcasm, or trash talk—it’s pretty fascinating.
Thank fuck there’s some normal people in there lmao
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I mean now that it’s blown up, sure it’s gonna attract some actual Japanese people
But reading that initial exchange I’m convinced it’s Russians vs weird race playing Germans and Austrians, I remember reading a recent thread by some incel 4Channers commenting on this weird race fad taking over parts of online right-wing German spaces
I’ve seen it on Reddit where they pretend to be Israeli and another time one pretended to be Venezuelan
Unfortunately I think this is so expected from Japan because of their fascist brainworms, and their so-called ‘first-world development’ that makes them think they’re above piracy, and of course, ignorant about their own history.
so-called ‘first-world development’ that makes them think they’re above piracy
That shit is so cringe. Sure, just keep licking that boot until you wear a hole through it.
Meanwhile DPRK bans piracy because they understand cultural imperialism an don’t want to get colonized by foreign media.
Of course to a Westerner this is incomprehensible to choose to make your own movie instead of pirating one.
Just to reinforce what the other comrade already said about this being false.
It’s a Business Insider article, but at least they are reporting on it, if you search “North Korea Squid Game” it’s almost always a “North Korea executes teenager for watching Squid Game” propaganda bullshit article that shows up.
You’re right I left a reactionary take, the actual situation is more nuanced.
Also Squid Game is the perfect movie to show on big screen in People's Korea for sure, it's an artistic portrayal of life under Capitalism.
Basically you can go through insurmountable amount of struggle and reach the very end like player 456 and you reward will be at best some cash for your family and nothing is going to change, at best your kid is going to be ignorant of the game and at worst they’ll join it and probably lose. Or they could also work for the game which is technically the safest option once you hit rot bottom, but you need to sacrifice your “soul” and do whatever you are told to be in that position. The fact that they keep making sequels of the movie and it can’t end because profit is a cherry on top."
But you know what they say. Writers under Capitalism often write the best critiques of it. Even if they are unaware and lack class consciousness, it makes their life absolutely miserable.
Also I was probably just having PTSD from The Irony of Fate. But it’s just a reactionary response I doubt the Union fell because of cultural propaganda alone, can you blame me that much tho? (yes) China does restrict access to some anime afaik and I’ve asked locals to confirm I sadly don’t know any Koreans which makes it kinda tricky to figure out what’s true or not. I’ve seen they have a gaming cafe now too so I’m sure there’s been movies avaiable with western stuff too, probably vetted tho’ not all of em, but majority are avaiable (I would guess)
Yeah it’s fine comrade, we all end up spreading some propaganda without noticing every now and then. I’m sure there might be at least some sort of control so bullshit don’t slips through, and they would be right to do so.
There’s a brazilian comrade called Lucas Rubio I follow on social media who have really good relations with the DPRK because of the institute he’s a part of, Instituto Paektu. He has a lot of videos from the DPRK in his Instagram and I remember him talking on podcasts about how nowadays they are much more open to foreigners just filming and takings pictures there, alongside other things like how they have smartphones with really good battery life. It’s some really interesting stuff.
I thought I should let you know that I ended up giving him a follow. I’m glad I managed to fail here otherwise I wouldn’t have learned about him. We should dare to fail more.
But how could they possibly live without watching Revengers 11: Mountain DewTM man’s revenge???
Holy based
That’s false. There’s state-sponsored kiosks selling bootleg DVDs of western movies at least in pyongyang, to my knowledge.
Where’d did you obtain your knowledge?(genuine question not inherent doubt)
I saw it in a video. I failed to find it, but I’ll resume searching later because it was interesting. You could see an english-speaking person buying DVDs from a kiosk, then reviewing their haul and giving tidbits like studios logos being removed, or movies being subbed instead of using the ROK dub if available.
Not the video I’m talking about, but similar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y28hbXI9cpY
Here you can see a man buying animated movies from a kiosk, with many Disney movies displayed.Yes, sometimes North Korea also makes their own dubs of Animated movies and shows, most of the time it’s based on the South Korean Dub and theres not a lot of change. I think a few years ago the Shrek movies North Korean Dub got leaked online, also Disney seems to be very popular in North Korea. Also North Korean Studios do some times work on Western animated shows and Japanese Animes too, we just don’t know too much about it because of the US sanctions.
Russia and Latam vs japanese in a shitpost war?
Fatman and Little Boy vs Coughing japanese baby
lol watching the conversations happen because of the auto-translate feature has been neat. More frieren dicussion unlocked hahaha
frieren discussion
basically some fascist guy said that frieren was a catholic story and the japanese fanbase picked that up and started discussing it.
japanese frieren demon discussion goes more or less the same as it does in english where people liken the demons to a dangerous “other” (such as bears, or people who dont understand emotions) that needs to be killed in the context of the story. The picking up of christian notes is interesting (while acknowledging it isnt a christian story at all,) but not as good as the analysis i’ve heard from filipino comrades where they say the demons fit in an orientalism metacontext.
I kind of wonder given the inheritance from old DND being morphed into a new context if the demons aren’t basically the distilled idea of racial prejudice somewhat separated from a specific race being targeted. Among Japanese people I suppose I once read the work of a fascist who portrayed Koreans quite like the Demons (the manga Shamo, which needless to say I don’t recommend), but I think that that was probably a significant outlier in terms of the style of anti-Korean racism.
