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Petteri Uusitalo
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Toimittaja. Kirjoitan; yleensä Japanista ja teknologiasta.

Vapaa-ajalla animea ja mangaa, niistä podcastaamista, akvaarionrakentelua ja jännien kasvien parvekeviljelyä.
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petteriuusitalo.bsky.social
On se Japani niin järjettömältä tuntuva paikka. Kengätkin pitää joskus välillä ottaa pois.

www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/ar...
December 3, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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bmhughes.bsky.social
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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kmybeat.bsky.social
Olipa erinomainen Freddy Limin haastis.
HS Visio | Taiwanin lähettiläs tuntee autoritaariset naapurit – nyt hän neuvoo Suomea
Taiwanin uusi lähettiläs Freddy Lim on maailmankuulu metallimuusikko, joka tuntee autoritaariset naapurit. Hän haluaa jakaa kokemuksia Suomelle: Taiwanissa on eletty Kiinan disinformaation, kaapelirik...
www.hs.fi
October 30, 2025 at 5:31 PM
petteriuusitalo.bsky.social
Trump assertoi dominanssiaan. Historia toistaa itseään.
October 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
petteriuusitalo.bsky.social
Tokiossa taas.
October 28, 2025 at 2:28 AM
petteriuusitalo.bsky.social
Olen huomenna puhumassa Helsingin Kirjamessuilla.
mangakartta.bsky.social Mangakartta-podcast @mangakartta.bsky.social · Oct 22
Oletko tulossa Helsingin Kirjamessuille?

Keskustelemme messuilla mangan suosion salaisuudesta huomenna torstaina 23.10. kello 10:30.
October 22, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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levimclaughlin.bsky.social
Japan, ostensibly one of the least religious countries in the world, had its political order upended by the lay Buddhist organization Soka Gakkai. That is THE story about Friday's epochal shift in Japanese politics (thread follows):
October 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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mattalt.bsky.social
“Very few people here in America have the balls to do what anime does,” a veteran Hollywood animation director told me.

blog.pureinventionbook.com/p/why-hollyw...
Why Hollywood stars are saying “F*** anime”
And why they’re right to be scared
blog.pureinventionbook.com
October 10, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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japan-media-review.bsky.social
Bizarre thing about “Japan-lovers” as observed by a Japan content creator

Full post on Patreon for unpaid members
www.patreon.com/posts/140679...
As a content creator who focuses on showcasing how the Japanese media criticizes problems in Japan, I have noticed a bizarre trend among a subset of my viewers. This subset of viewers simply cannot comprehend the idea that it’s possible for Japanese people to criticize Japan. They are so trapped by the “Japan vs foreigner” paradigm that they just cannot accept that criticism of Japan can stem from Japanese sources. They completely dismiss the Japanese sources I cite since they have no way of interacting with Japanese sources that are critical of Japan. In their worldview, all criticism of Japan must stem from foreigner perspectives that misrepresent Japanese culture; you cannot have a meaningful discussion with them about Japanese criticism of Japan since their mind simply cannot bend that way. While I can just dismiss these viewers as delusional weebs, I see these viewers as representative of some deeper problems in how Japan is perceived in Western circles. 1) “Don’t judge Japan with Western standards” Some Westerners think Japan cannot be judged by Western standards and assume that all attempts to measure Japan in Western standards are foreigners misunderstanding Japan. While I understand that Westerners want to be open-minded to other cultures and refrain from judging other cultures with Western standards, this mentality itself is a Western bias. If you watch enough Japanese media, you’d notice that the Japanese media uses Western standards to judge Japan all the time. In fact, Japan in general judges itself with Western standards all the time. You can see an example of this in my video “Japanese Women Speak Out About Their Reality”, which is about the Japanese media criticizing Japan for lagging behind in global gender equality metrics. Many viewers were outraged by this video since it uses a Western standard of gender equality to judge Japan. However, what they neglect is that this is literally Japan using a Western standard to judge itself, so it’s actually an authentic Japanese perspective. If your interpretation of Japan is free of any Western standard, then your interpretation of Japan would just completely differ from Japan’s interpretation of Japan. Your interpretation would only make sense to other Westerners who share your Western mentality of “I must not impose Western standards on other cultures.” 2) “It’s a feature, not a bug” Since my content discusses many problems in Japan as discussed in the Japanese media, I always get comments from Japan-lovers who try to rationalize the problems as beautiful unique features of Japanese culture. Even as real Japanese people criticize these problems as problems, Japan-lovers insist on seeing them as beautiful unique features that don’t need to be criticized. Some of these Japan-lovers would even accuse those who criticize the problems as “not understanding Japanese culture,” despite the fact that I’m literally citing Japanese sources that criticize the problems. To these Japan-lovers, any criticism of Japan necessarily stems from an imperfect understanding of Japanese culture, even if the criticism is literally made by real Japanese people. This makes you wonder, why can’t real Japanese people just love Japan as much as these Japan-lovers? Why do real Japanese people keep complaining about these beautiful unique features of Japanese culture? Maybe Japan-lovers should open classes to teach real Japanese people about how to achieve an accurate understanding of Japanese culture. The most notorious examples of this can be found in the comment section of my video “Dark Reality of Life in Rural Japan”. The video is about Japanese people complaining about how suffocating and xenophobic rural communities in Japan can be. Despite seeing real Japanese people complaining about this problem, many Japan-lovers kindly pointed out that these are simply misunderstandings of Japanese culture; if these real Japanese people understood Japanese culture as well as these Japan-lovers, they would not have these problems in rural Japan. Obviously, seeing real Japanese people complaining about a problem in Japan and immediately rushing to the conclusion that the criticism is due to not understanding Japanese culture doesn't make any sense. What this reflects is that many Japan-loving Westerners genuinely cannot comprehend the idea that criticism of Japan can stem from authentic Japanese perspectives and voices. They just don't know how to interpret the information my channel outputs, so they end up reacting in a way that makes no sense. This obviously reflects many deeper problems in Western representations and understanding of Japan, and I look forward to your explanations =) P.S. My Patreon has all my writings AND many more videos than my YouTube channel! You can join fore free! https://www.patreon.com/JapanMediaReview
October 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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scriptingjapan.bsky.social
[X] the Ancient Japanese Art of [Y]: The Mobilization of #Japanese Metalinguistic Fantasies in Self-Help Literature

Recording of a lecture I gave at JSAA2025

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TElW...
X the Ancient Japanese Art of Y: The Mobilization of Linguistic Fantasies in Self-Help Books
YouTube video by Scripting Japan
www.youtube.com
October 5, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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kmybeat.bsky.social
Jouduin vainoamisen kohteeksi työni vuoksi. Annoin haastattelun asiasta, sillä nyt käytetyt metodit voivat yleistyä entisestään.

Tätäkin on olla toimittaja.
#äärioikeisto
Kun Petri Jääskeläinen oli tehnyt paljastuksia ääri­oikeistosta, alkoi vaino – professori ihmettelee, miksi poliisi keskeytti tutkinnan
Perättäisten vuosien verkkohyökkäyksiä yhdistivät monet piirteet. Molemmilla kerroilla esimerkiksi Rentokil-yhtiö tilattiin tekemään Jääskeläiselle tuholaistorjuntaa ja hänelle luotiin tunnuksia porno...
suomenkuvalehti.fi
September 29, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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mulboyne.bsky.social
The Mainichi has an English version of last week's article asking whether a culture of tipping will take hold in Japan. The answer proferred is "Probably not". mainichi.jp/english/arti...
Could tipping culture spread in Japan as foreign visitors express desire to pay? - The Mainichi
TOKYO -- To tip or not to tip -- that is the question on some people's minds as Japan welcomes a surge of tourists against the backdrop of a weak yen.
mainichi.jp
September 30, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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suika.bsky.social
"More than a decade after he arrived in Japan with his wife and their two eldest children, Ali is fighting a battle on two fronts – a decision on his application for refugee status, and rising hostility towards his family and other members of the country’s Kurdish community."
‘My kids are too scared to go outside’: Kurdish migrants face hostility as Japan wrestles with demographic crisis
Antagonism toward migrant communities visible in the UK, Europe and the US appears to be spreading to Japan
www.theguardian.com
September 29, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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namatsuu.bsky.social
2/2 tapakulttuuria ja taikauskoa, joka juontaa juurensa shintōn. Moni onsen haluaa korostaa itseään kulttuurimuotona, jolloin tatuointikielto nähdään osana kulttuurin kunnioitusta, siinä missä sentōissa eli korttelikylvyissä harvemmin ketään kiinnostaa, onko tatuointeja vai ei.
September 21, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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namatsuu.bsky.social
@sasori701gou.bsky.social ja @petteriuusitalo.bsky.social kommentoivatkin jo tatuointi-assosiaatioita, mutta lisättäköön vielä että tässä unohdetaan myös niiden yhteys rituaaliseen saastuneisuuteen ja kylvyn yhteys puhtauteen. Luulen, että iso osa tatuointikielloista on 1/2
www.hs.fi/urheilu/art-...
Japani | Laura Arffman käännytettiin Tokiossa kylpylän ovella tatuointien takia – Tutkija selittää syitä
Japanilaisessa kulttuurissa tatuoinneilla on vahva stigma. Ne liitetään usein rikollisuuteen.
www.hs.fi
September 21, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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namatsuu.bsky.social
Kirjoitin mun kaksi senttiä Demon Slayer -elokuvasta sekä sarjasta ilmiönä: www.mtvuutiset.fi/artikkeli/ko...
Kommentti: Demon Slayer nousi katsotuimpien elokuvien joukkoon – miksi anime takoo ennätyksiä?
Demon Slayer on noussut jätti-ilmiöksi niin alkuperämaa Japanissa kuin kansainvälisestikin.
www.mtvuutiset.fi
September 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
petteriuusitalo.bsky.social
Artikkelista jää mainitsematta, että koristeelliset tatuoinnit alettiin aikoinaan yhdistää rikollisuuteen juuri sen takia, että ne olivat käytännöllinen tapa peittää alleen rikollisten rangaistustatuointeja. www.hs.fi/urheilu/art-...
Japani | Laura Arffman käännytettiin Tokiossa kylpylän ovella tatuointien takia – Tutkija selittää syitä
Japanilaisessa kulttuurissa tatuoinneilla on vahva stigma. Ne liitetään usein rikollisuuteen.
www.hs.fi
September 21, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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sasori701gou.bsky.social
En oikeen tiedä, onko tuo rikollisuus nykypäivänä enää koko totuus. Olin viime vuonna Kiotossa jossa turismi on kasvanut paljon, ja tattoo-friendly-kylpylässä oli aika paljon ulkomaalaisia. Kylpylät on monesti vähän semmosia paikallisten yhteisöllisiä paikkoja, minne ei välttämättä haluta turisteja.
Japani | Laura Arffman käännytettiin Tokiossa kylpylän ovella tatuointien takia – Tutkija selittää syitä
Japanilaisessa kulttuurissa tatuoinneilla on vahva stigma. Ne liitetään usein rikollisuuteen.
www.hs.fi
September 20, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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tabicine.bsky.social
Helsingin viimeinen näytös:

Kino Engel esittää Cloudin huomenna maanantaina kello 20:30. (Vain suomenkielinen tekstitys.)

kinoengel.fi/elokuva/cloud/
September 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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mrjeffu.bsky.social
"Japan needs its version of the AfD to rapidly save the nation." - Elon Musk, reacting to a Japanese user who very wrongly described Takaichi Sanae a "center-left figure."
She's so conservative that a former Prime Minister Kishida allegedly referred to her as the "Taliban."
September 14, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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paularcurtis.bsky.social
Probably no one in mainstream media is going to fully investigate/explain what groypers (and their divisions) are because it’s not in their interest to. I know about it from being a target due to their intersections with historical denialists on socials. rachelandthecity.substack.com/p/when-catch...
When “Catch This Fascist” Doesn’t Mean What You Think,
How far-right trolls use leftist symbols to hide in plain sight
rachelandthecity.substack.com
September 12, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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tabicine.bsky.social
Cloudin näytökset ovat tulossa päätökseen!

Tässä ovat todennäköisesti kaikki jäljellä olevat näytökset.
Croud Viimeiset näytökset Ke 10.9. Kinopalatsi, Helsinki Pe 12.9. Kino Engel, Helsinki Ma 15.9. Kino Engel, Helsinki To 11.9. Kinopalatsi, Helsinki & Turku La 13.9. Kino Laika, Karkkila Pe 19.9. Cinema Sheryl, Espoo La 27.9. Cinema Sheryl, Espoo
September 10, 2025 at 12:13 PM
petteriuusitalo.bsky.social
Kannattaa lukea myös kommentit ennen suuttumista.
countmystars.bsky.social Liz Thurmond @countmystars.bsky.social · Sep 1
Apple is sneaking AI into everything. Turn off enhanced visual search on your photos:
Apple opts everyone into having their Photos analyzed by Al Settings -> Apps -> Photos -> Enhanced Visual Search (all the way at the bottom)
September 3, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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tabicine.bsky.social
Cloudin näytökset jatkuvat! Tässä ovat seuraavan viikon näytökset listattuna kahdella eri tavalla.

Kaupungin viimeinen näytös on merkitty punaisella.
September 3, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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jyoungman.bsky.social
I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field.

There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.
scalzi.com John Scalzi @scalzi.com · Aug 31
Remember, kids: A real big goal of "AI" is to entirely sever capital from labor, and no, there will be no universal basic income, you can all just starve and die, thanks

www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...
AI is already taking jobs away from entry-level workers
Software and customer service are most at risk right now and could be the canary in the coal mine.
www.axios.com
September 1, 2025 at 4:03 AM