A foreigner saying Japan is weird is nothing out of the ordinary. When a Japanese himself makes that statement, moreover with a corresponding video for his final thesis, now that’s something!

Stumbled upon Kenichi’s info-graphic motion video today from a post in Figure.FM. It’s very informative and comes with beautiful easy-to-understand graphics and suitable music. I must say however that it only touches the surface of Japanese weirdness, though that’s as much as one could cover in slightly over 10 minutes.

Japan-The Strange Country (English ver.) from Kenichi on Vimeo.

Here’s a word from the creator:

“This is my final thesis project. I created info-graphic, motion piece. My objective is to make Japanese people to think about that everything happening here in Japan, isn’t that normal. So I created this video from foreigner’s point of view, rather than Japanese people’s point of view.

Both English and Japanese versions are available.

By the way, please don’t call me racist, because I am one of short, small eyes Japanese ;P “

Japan – The Strange Country (日本語版) from Kenichi on Vimeo.

日本は変な国だな～って思ってる外国人は大したことないんだが、もし日本人がそういうふうに思ったら？しかも、説明は映像まで作れるなんて思わなかったｗｗｗ

はい、本人より：

「大学の卒業制作で制作した映像です。（日本語版）
日本で生活していると、当たり前すぎて気づかない「不思議な事実」を、海外で生活した経験も生かし、外国人の視点から統計とともに映像化しました。
笑いつつも、「なんか不思議だな」と考えてもらえれば幸いです。
日本語版と英語版を制作しました。」