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Photographs of 19th Century Japan

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444 points merothwell | 1 comments | 09 Apr 25 12:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.212s | source
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DeathArrow ◴[10 Apr 25 06:07 UTC] No.43641131[source]▶
>I’m once again struck by the fact that none of the people in these images are still with us. If any of them somehow returned to the land of the living, I’m not sure they’d recognise the Japan of today.

On the other hand, if someone sees one of this pictures without any explanation, he will recognize it's made in Japan.

I think Japan changed, but not so much.

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1. Cthulhu_ ◴[10 Apr 25 07:11 UTC] No.43641470[source]▶
Japan still is pretty isolationist or culturally conservative; I have no firsthand experience so this is all hearsay, but I gather the people living there are under a lot of societal / cultural pressure in how to behave, speak, live, etc. Foreigners get some leeway because they're foreign, but that's probably not so different wherever you go.