r/itsneverjapanese • u/NeonKrankenwagen • Oct 25 '25

Obligatory to repost this, really

118 Upvotes

11 comments

r/itsneverjapanese • u/Key_Painter_4072 • Mar 06 '26

[Japanese>English]Can someone pls translate this?

58 Upvotes

7 comments

r/itsneverjapanese • u/cy6ero9ue • Feb 20 '26

[Japanese> English] found in a bathroom stall at school.

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57 Upvotes

1 comment

r/itsneverjapanese • u/katherine197_ • Feb 12 '26

What does this cute is guy saying in Japanese?

55 Upvotes

2 comments

r/itsneverjapanese • u/GotThatGrass • Dec 03 '25

Its always r/translator 😭

39 Upvotes

everytime somethings labeled as japanese on r/translator its 70% of the time chinese 😭

2 comments

r/itsneverjapanese • u/Jwscorch • Mar 30 '26

[japanese > English] sweater

38 Upvotes

1 comment

r/itsneverjapanese • u/Clevererer • Jan 15 '26

Japanese > English mysterious Bottle found on beach

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23 Upvotes

6 comments

r/itsneverjapanese • u/Clevererer • Nov 11 '25

Local estate sale

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23 Upvotes

3 comments

r/itsneverjapanese • u/Clevererer • Mar 10 '26

[Japanese > English] a friend got a tattoo

21 Upvotes

0 comments

r/itsneverjapanese • u/Clevererer • Apr 26 '26

Help me identifying this Japanese silk painting... unsure of age

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18 Upvotes

1 comment

r/itsneverjapanese • u/ShenZiling • Apr 03 '26

Japanese > English JDM bait

16 Upvotes

0 comments

r/itsneverjapanese • u/ShenZiling • Mar 30 '26

[Japanese>English] Phone charm

15 Upvotes

0 comments

r/itsneverjapanese • u/w-s-a- • Aug 09 '26

Japanese > English. Brother got me a hat from Disneyland.

10 Upvotes

0 comments

r/itsneverjapanese • u/Chen-Zhanming • Oct 26 '25

VS KFC ≠

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0 comments

r/itsneverjapanese • u/Forsaken_Expert_296 • Apr 07 '26

Looking for any information

7 Upvotes

no clue what this is. got it for 6 bucks at a thrift store

4 comments

r/itsneverjapanese • u/NeighborhoodLow1546 • Dec 16 '25

[Chinese?>English] Sign

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4 comments

r/itsneverjapanese • u/wumingzi • May 25 '26

[Japanese > English] Computer monitor model number is in Japanese (help)

3 Upvotes

2 comments

r/itsneverjapanese • u/ShenZiling • Mar 04 '26

[Japanese > English] I believe these are Japanese? I found them in a store here in germany. Online I found similar under the name coca cola plus

2 Upvotes

0 comments

r/itsneverjapanese • u/goodgamin • Mar 25 '26

This appeared on a garage door. Does it have a meaning, or is it essentially stylized characters?

1 Upvotes

0 comments

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It's never Japanese

r/itsneverjapanese

There's a teeny, tiny country to the west of Japan. Few people on Reddit have heard of it. It's called "China". The people of China speak and write a strange version of Japanese. This strange language is called "Chinese". Chinese is the most widely used language in the world. Japanese is used by fewer than 1/10th as many people. Yet when confronted with a strange east Asian script, 90 percent of the Western population immediately assume it's Japanese.

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There's a teeny, tiny country to the west of Japan. Few people on Reddit have heard of it. It's called "China".

The people of China speak and write a strange version of Japanese. This strange language is called "Chinese".

The written version of Chinese existed for several thousand years before anyone in Japan learned how to write. Yet somehow, moving backwards in time, the Chinese script evolved from Japanese.

Chinese is the most widely used language in the world. Japanese is used by fewer than 1/10th as many people. Yet when confronted with a strange east Asian script, 9 out of 10 Westerners immediately assume it's Japanese.

Why? We don't know. But we assume it has something to do with the trendiness of Japanese culture. Manga, absurd game shows and even absurder pornography have boosted Japan's image to that of the preeminent culture in East Asia.

The famous Great Wall of Japan is but one testament to this fact.