What if those Nazis didn't only speak your language, but were almost perfectly transparent? A bit like that scene from Spirited Away, except we seem to be in control of the consequences?
The fact that there is almost no point of contact for average Japanese person in life to anything not Japanese, still in this day and age, seems too often overlooked. Here, everything from baby formula to grad school textbooks on nuclear physics are available from local producers or at least in thoroughly rewritten versions. Average scores for TOEIC Reading/Listening test[1] for University students in English language major is ~600/990. 450/990 for CS students btw(!!) and both without doubt heavy uses of sophisticated test-taking techniques.
And it's the same even for Twitter: Everyone you follow speaks solely in your language, and has zero contacts with anyone who don't. Anyone who aren't speaking your language always seem total Martian and the languages don't even translate. Maybe you would come across couple quote-tweets per day from influencer types explaining peculiar foreign contents. You'd know that the domain name of the service is registered to an address in San Francisco, CA, USA, which is supposedly an area on a land, and that'll be the whole global experience you would passively receive on Twitter as a Japanese user.
1: which is apparently almost like a sanity check for a 5th grader, like the hardest challenge is finding the correct store hours on a flyer printed on the test book by multiple choices, literally, but the questions are also written in the same language as the flyer, so...
The fact that there is almost no point of contact for average Japanese person in life to anything not Japanese, still in this day and age, seems too often overlooked. Here, everything from baby formula to grad school textbooks on nuclear physics are available from local producers or at least in thoroughly rewritten versions. Average scores for TOEIC Reading/Listening test[1] for University students in English language major is ~600/990. 450/990 for CS students btw(!!) and both without doubt heavy uses of sophisticated test-taking techniques.
And it's the same even for Twitter: Everyone you follow speaks solely in your language, and has zero contacts with anyone who don't. Anyone who aren't speaking your language always seem total Martian and the languages don't even translate. Maybe you would come across couple quote-tweets per day from influencer types explaining peculiar foreign contents. You'd know that the domain name of the service is registered to an address in San Francisco, CA, USA, which is supposedly an area on a land, and that'll be the whole global experience you would passively receive on Twitter as a Japanese user.
1: which is apparently almost like a sanity check for a 5th grader, like the hardest challenge is finding the correct store hours on a flyer printed on the test book by multiple choices, literally, but the questions are also written in the same language as the flyer, so...