My Belief about Japanese People

Before I came to USM, I have never met any Japanese people before. The first Japanese people I met was my Japanese class teacher, Rika sensei. Before that, I am seldom approach to Japanese people or Japanese culture. Most of my beliefs are come from news, cartoons, television programs and dramas. I have only watched few Japanese cartoons and Japanese dramas like Doraemon, Conan, Dragon Ball, Long Vacation, Nodame Contabile and Hero. Therefore, this information gives me superficial impression about Japanese culture and Japanese people. It has a little bit hard for me to analyze my belief about Japanese culture and Japanese people. However, I would like to discuss about my belief of Japanese people from drama I have watched before.
My belief about Japanese people is most of them are dedicated to their job and enjoy in doing their job as well. This belief come to my mind when I watched a drama named . This drama is presented by Takuya Kimura, Takako Matsu, Hiroshi Abe and other actors. The drama is talking about the story of a public prosecutor, Kuryu Kohei (presented by Takuya Kimura) and his colleagues. Kuryu dresses casually and ignores standard procedures, but he is a hard-working and serious person while doing his job. He is a good investigator because he has brilliant instincts. He is being a good investigator not only because his brilliant instincts but his determination too. He is spending most of his time to investigate a case until he find out the truth. He is dedicated to his job. For once, he went to meet an old man who has amnesia and asked him questions every day for about 20 days. He hoped he can get some answers from that old man because he was the only one eyewitness of the incident he was investigating in.
Another character, Amamiya Maiko (presented by Takako Matsu) is an assistant of Kuryu Kohei. She is also a hard-working and serious person in dealing with her job. She is aiming to be promoted to the position of a prosecutor. Hence, she is studying independently in order to pass the Judicial Test. Besides of her hard-working, she is also willing to sacrifice her personal time to perform her job. For example, she let go a chance to attend to a concert of her idol because she thought that is her responsibility to complete the investigation. Hence, I find out that she is also a dedicated person to her job.
There are still 3 other public prosecutors, 2 assistants and 2 chiefs. Everyone is doing his or her job seriously. They work hard because that is their job and they realized that they have the responsibility to do it seriously. They have the power to investigate and decide whether someone has to be prosecuted or not. They believe great power come great responsibilities. They do it well and at the same time they are enjoy in doing their job. I believe that not only the public prosecutor are hard-working and dedicated to their job, but most of the Japanese people in any field with different working positions are do work hard, responsible and enjoy their job too.

My opinion about Japanese culture

Japan is a beautiful country. She has many beautiful scenery and seasonal weather. I used to look the picturesque scenery from advertisement, drama and travel program from television. Japan has busy and prosperous city like Tokyo. There are many people passing through the main road and walking by the roadside. There are many lights of various colours at night. It makes the night beautiful. Japan also has scenic village landscape especially during the winter. I like white snow there although I have never seen snow in front of me in any other places.
From drama, I realized that Japanese are loyal to their job and company. They work hard with their job and company. They are dedicated. Some of them only work in one company from young age until they are retired. The company also treats them well in return.
The teenagers in Japan are very fashion. They like cosplay. I think they are rich because the costume is very expensive. But it is very interesting to see some characters in comic books become a real person. Not only the costume, those people also imitate the hair style of the character in the comic books. They can do it exactly same as in the comic books. They imitate the roles very well. Some of them will show themselves on a street. But I cannot remember the name of that street. I get to know this mostly from the news in television.
In addition, Japanese are the people who care about cleanliness of the environment. Some of the old citizens who live near the Mountain Fuji climb the mountain every day. They will collect garbage at the road when they climb the mountain. Because of their determination, the environment at the Mountain Fuji is very clean although there are many tourists go there every day. Tourists will keep the environment clean automatically as the environment is clean. I read this information from newspaper. Other than that, the cities are also clean although many people live in there. Not only the houses of residents who live in the cities are clean, but streets also clean. Japanese have build up a good image among other countries.
I also realized that Japanese are always bowed down 90 degree. They are able to bowed for many times. They bowed down to show their respect to someone. I had read an article that state this motion of Japanese have increase the risk of getting headache compared to other country’s people. It is hard for me to do the 90 degree bowed down.
Other than that, Japanese are strongly respect to the elders. The younger person must respect to the elders and new person must respect to old or experienced person especially in the part of occupation. That is a good habit, but some elders will bully the younger person like knock the head of someone. Nowadays, this phenomena may had been decreased or disappeared.