[Nyororin]

Originally Posted by GoNative

If it's so good then why would couriers who are very familiar with the area they deliver to constantly need assistance in finding places?

I think you`re having trouble distinguishing between a system and practice. Read the part of my message directed specifically to you. (I merged two so you might have missed it the first time around.)
Japanese roads have issues. Japanese house numbering has issues. The address system itself isn`t a problem, and I think it`s a far more efficient system. The thing is, the roads and house numbering is so incredibly messy that there is no system that could make it easy to navigate. With the way the Japanese roads and traditional numbering schemes go, the Japanese address system is the best at getting you to where you need to go.
I think it would be much harder to find a location in Japan using a street name based mapping system... Unless you bulldozed pretty much everything and started from scratch.

I live in Japan, 99% of my travel is in Japan. Naturally I am going to prefer the system that works best with what I have to deal with. I don`t recall ever telling anyone they should have their country switch over to this system - only that I prefer it. To quote myself "If you have a map, I`m pretty sure that any system will work. But wandering around without a map, and on foot (Public transportation FTW), and it`s much much easier to figure out where you are and how close you are to where you need to be with the Asian system."

But I've yet to see you ever admit that anything the Japanese do is not as good or better than the way it's done in the west Nyororin so I doubt you'll agree with me.

You are probably right, but there is a reason for this that isn`t what you`re thinking.
A) I don`t bother to reply to support anything I just agree with unless there is something really big I have to contribute to it.
B) I don`t bother to reply to overly positive stuff as it tends to be by people who know nothing about Japan and who are just randomly spouting praise of a country they`ve never been to.

This narrows it down to mostly replying to questions about things, and to replying when something negative is posted that I don`t really agree with. I don`t post randomly, so chances are you only see posts disagreeing with negative things posted by disgruntled foreigners or reposted from somewhere else that was posted by the same.