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Germany has black people in their national sports teams.
It is very hard for foreigners to become citizens of Japan.
Germany has good relations with european neighbors.
Japan has tense relations with asian neighbours.
Germany because geologically it's a bigger area with a great deal more stable and habitable space and it has 47 million less people than Japan does.
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Actually Japan is slightly bigger, 377,944 km2 vs 357,021 km2. Both have dense populations. Both make a lot of cars, are known for their high quality electronics goods/technology and cars of course, and both had well-disciplined armed forces during the War when they were Axis allies...
Too different to really compare. I find Japanese culture more interesting, and would rather live there if I could. Germany has interesting things about it but in Europe I prefer France and Italy.
Originally Posted by Zoisite Germany because geologically it's a bigger area with a great deal more stable and habitable space and it has 47 million less people than Japan does.
Actually Japan is slightly bigger, 377,944 km2 vs 357,021 km2. Both have dense populations. Both make a lot of cars, are known for their high quality electronics goods/technology and cars of course, and both had well-disciplined armed forces during the War when they were Axis allies...
Too different to really compare. I find Japanese culture more interesting, and would rather live there if I could. Germany has interesting things about it but in Europe I prefer France and Italy.
Only about 1/3rd of the land mass of Japan is habitable. The habitable land is the seismically unstable land along the coastlines and in lower elevation foothills and low lying flat valleys. The other 2/3rds of the land mass is uninhabitable craggy stone vertical mountains that no modern infrastructure and very little agriculture can be built upon. Japan has 127 million people crammed together in coastline cities in limited habitable space, while Germany has around 80 million people living in a much greater area of habitable and seismically more stable space.
Firstly, I feel like Democracy is more apparent in Germany. Doesn't Japan vote for the same party year after year after year?
I respect Germany a whole lot more. Japan still pays tribute to people who enacted grotesque military atrocities during the times of Imperial Japan.
Where would I like to settle is a no brainer, Germany. Japan is very hostile to immigrants. Even if the immigrant is of Japanese descent they don't like them. For instance they do not allow the five million Brazilians of Japanese descent to move to Japan as guest workers even. Germany seems to be fine with immigrants as long as they try their hardest to integrate into society.
Economically I think Japan is going downhill too. They have been in an economic slump for the past two decades now and whenever things start to look better they just get bad again. I think today there is more opportunity in Germany.
I don't believe that Japan is hostile to immigrants so much as it is unable to take immigrants or large numbers of guest workers. Japan is over-populated and has no more habitable space available to allow for immigration and new infrastructure and it's very limited in agricultural space. Japan now relies almost entirely on imported foods because it can't produce enough for the population it has.
Hard choice--there are a lot of obvious differences between the two countries, but I find the cultures sometimes similar in terms of being particularly orderly in many ways that spawn incredible multifarious subcultures. Both have interesting regional differences in terms of culture and topography. In terms of cuisine, Japanese cuisine is certainly my favorite, but I do love German food and the surprisingly, given German cuisine's reputation, diverse offerings available. I'd be pretty happy to live in both major and minor cities in either country.
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