Modern day Japan?

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Nigel Goodwin

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My daughter is currently in Japan, she's there for a conference next week, so has taken her husband a week early to have a holiday as well. The conference is in Tokyo, currently they are staying out near Mount Fuji.

They are staying in an authentic Japanese style hotel with paper walls and sliding screens etc.

Here's a picture of the TV in the room



It's like going back 20 years
 
Nigel Goodwin said:
Here's a picture of the TV in the room
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I will agree that it is a bit in congruous in modern times, but consider:

If it works correctly, why replace it?

How often is it used? Maybe it averages one or two hours per day, so the lower energy use of an LCD/LED type of tv does not justify the capital expense of its purchase.

Maybe the Japanese psyche does not include the rampant consumerism and "keep up with the Jones's (Suzuki's)" culture of the west.


JimB
 
It might also have to do with the lack of landfill space and/or the cost of disposal and replacement.
 
Do folk still have VHS tapes (if thats what the sharp thingy is)
 

Quite the opposite, Japan is a VERY consumer driven society, and often have new items to replace still quite new equipment, so I was very surprised to see that old TV. However, as this is 'out in the sticks' perhaps they are less consumer driven?.

There used to be a large grey import market in the UK for fairly new Japanese cars (probably the same in Oz?), as the Japanese regularly replace their cars, so there's a big surplus of good second hand models.

However, I wouldn't have thought the TV is going to see any use, I doubt there's any English or Dutch programming available, and neither of them speak Japanese - although my daughter did used to play and sing some Japanese songs a few years ago
 
Ian Rogers said:
Do folk still have VHS tapes (if thats what the sharp thingy is)
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That was exactly my thought

However, when I looked at another of her pictures, of the whole room (complete with six inch high 'table') it's floor standing, so presumably an air conditioner, dehumidifier, or similar?. You don't want the paper walls getting soggy
 
Nigel; I had a similar analog colour TV back in the 1990s.

Oh, the glory and splendor of the NTSC system!!
 
Problem with that TV is no USB socket to charge your phone. A useful tip when staying anywhere with a modern TV.

Mike.
 
Never forgot a 60 minutes piece, guessing timeframe 70's / 80's, on a recycling
plant in Japan that was, at that time, something like 80% effective. Americans still
constructing mountains of crap that will take Plutonium's 1/2 life to get rid of. And
we ship to to other countries to bless them our rot.

My father, right up until his death, active lobbying fisherman not to use drag
nets, which were, and still are, destroying ocean floors, one of the principal habitats
on the globe.

One can see their homes, and talk to them, visit their shrines, and see the
discipline they conduct themselves with.

Regards, Dana.
 
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schmitt trigger said:
Nigel; I had a similar analog colour TV back in the 1990s.

Oh, the glory and splendor of the NTSC system!!
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PAL versions were available as well

In fact it looks pretty well identical to sets I've repaired in the past, and has the typical 90's Panasonic styling.
 
danadak said:
One can see their homes, and talk to them, visit their shrines, and see the
discipline they conduct themselves with.
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Funny you should mention that



And on a more forum oriented theme, she found a severed cable, followed it, and found this. I'm sure most of us know exactly what it was. But looks a pretty crappy job.

 
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