16 Signs That Japan Loves Small Stuff. The Japanese tend to value small things over big.
This way of thinking evolved over thousands of years. It has both practical and religious roots. Best Japan Websites - Japan Sites, Japan Blogs, Japan Information and Pictures. Discover Japan. Censored: Japan Cuts Emperor Akihito's Nuclear Comments from TV. On the one-year anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, March 11, Japan's Emperor Akihito gave a speech at a government-sponsored memorial ceremony in Tokyo.
Japan's Emperor Akihito at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo March 21, 2012. (photo: REUTERS/Koichi Kamoshida) The emperor, who had just been released from the hospital a week earlier from a heart bypass surgery, said in his address that people who had lived in areas marked as danger zones had been forced to leave their homes and said, "In order for them to live there again safely, we have to overcome the problem of radioactive contamination, which is a formidable task. " While the address was seen in its entirety live and in the morning newspapers, The Atlantic reports that by the evening, major news programs took out his nuclear comments and made no mention of them.
The Atlantic points out that social media forum quickly made note of the omission and accused networks of censorship.