why Japan's internet is weirdly designed

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Answer in Progress looks at why Japanese websites tend to look dense, busy and text-heavy compared with Western ones. The video walks through examples and the cultural, linguistic and historical reasons behind those design choices.

HN people share it alongside discussions of Japanese web design as a cool, accessible look at why the Japanese web looks so different.

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@thunderbong2024 · in “Why Japan's internet is weirdly designed [video]”
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@bananatron2023 · in “Why Japanese web design is so different (2013)”
A cool video on the topic I found a while back: ▶ this video
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@byschii2023 · in “Ask HN: How to Classify Websites?”
Maybe you can take inspiration from this ▶ this video It's not an explanation, but show a possible way to cluster (thus classify) websites based on the how they appear, if you want your classification based on content... Maybe you need something different
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