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English in Japan - 10-09-2009, 03:11 PM

I know that English is really important to some countries, but Japan has been the only country, whos native language is not English, that uses too much English in their media: music, movie and their titiles, tv shows, anime, and especially video games. Maybe im wrong, and theres another country that uses more english, but Japan has been the only one i seen.

I was playing an import Japanese game, and the characters were speaking English all the time with Japanese subtitiles, the menu options were in English with with Japanese subtitles. Even the titile of the game was in English with the small Japanese titile below. It will be obvious, if the game was American in Japan, but no, its a Japanese game. Its not the first time I seen it, theres other games with the same things too.

I seen something similar with anime. I havent watch anime lately, but I remember that most animes had English titiles with the small Japanese titile below.

Last but not least, music. I havent also listen to some Jmusic lately, but it was reallly rarely to dont see atleast one English word in a Japanese song or maybe half the song in English.

I dont know why they are doing this. Are the Japanese been force to learn English then?
By the way, Im not complaining; Im just curious and wondering why they do this.


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