I want to know what Japan is like from people who actually live in Japan especially after seeing some misleading posts online from people who don’t live in Japan being misleadingly negative

    • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip
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      9 months ago

      its less bussling and profitable than it used to be pre covid. some gimmick restaurants and several arcades have closed down.

      people are just going to shop on yahoo auctions/amazonjp and such for merch. japan also overtime has been opening up to pc gaming in the past few years (basically the only country in asia where consoles, mainly handheld, is significantly more popular than pcs, where its virtually the reverse elsewhere) (both are smaller than mobile gaming market though combined)

    • parpol@programming.dev
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      9 months ago

      Everytime I go there, major stores have closed down for good. People seem to shop more online nowadays.

      It isn’t dead or anything yet, but if this keeps going, it will continue to shrink.