Kenichi Tanaka’s final thesis project is an interesting 11-minute infographic video talking about the oddities of the Japanese culture.
This is my final thesis project. I created info-graphic, motion piece. My objective is to make Japanese people to think about that everything happening here in Japan, isn’t that normal. So I created this video from foreigner’s point of view, rather than Japanese people’s point of view.
After a short introduction, it covers 8 different unique areas such as food, diet, and work life.
Update 3/31/2010: Not sure why, but he’s removed the English-translated version. Find the original Japanese version below.
Japan – The Strange Country (Japanese ver.) from Kenichi on Vimeo.
@Richard True.. But as stated by the author “My objective is to make Japanese people to think about that everything happening here in Japan, isn’t that normal.” And he admits that he himself is Japanese as well.
I watched this, and I thought thegraphics were nice, but the script seemsanti-Japan to me. I could write something just like for any country: the USA, Australia, England, Norway.
Not sure why the writers felt they needed to be so anti.
R.