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Through gritted teeth, Apple and Google allow alternative app stores in Japan (www.theregister.com)
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[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 25 points 4 days ago (3 children)

How can I simulate being in Japan?

[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 28 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Get yourself some universal health care, good roads, affordable small cars, and cheap, beautiful old houses in the countryside.

[–] Pechente@feddit.org 17 points 3 days ago

You forgot about the amazing public transport. Fast long distance trains, tiny local trains, towns with random monorails. It’s amazing.

[–] demonsword@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Don't forget to include a healthy dose of xenophobia, so that you'll feel unwanted and ostracized anywhere you go. Add some fascism too, lots of people there love it.

[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

If you're waiting for a xenophobia-free society with no right-wing nationalist presence before you're allowed to say something nice about a place, I'm afraid the only place we're allowed to praise is the moon.

[–] demonsword@lemmy.world -1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'm just putting some gray on your rose-tinted idealized Japan. No need to be so defensive about it. And it's hardly the only place that what I said applies, plenty of places in Europe are like that, or on the fast track to become like that.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Play a Pokémon game

[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Eeek.

Can I try something else?

[–] Teal@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

Digimon.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

Sorry that’s the only way. I don’t make the rules.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 4 points 3 days ago

Technically only the first four generations are set in "Japan".

The ones after them are set in fantasy New York, France, Hawaii, Great Britain, and Spain.