another thing about the written language that could be pointed out is the use of は and わ , へ and え
there wasn’t equal education so even though は is used in terms of grammar many people used to write わ (which i know learners also confused, i used to as well), and へ as in when your addressing a letter to someone was sometimes written as え as well.
but im really glad to see that for the most part things havent changed!
i mean japanese spoken language is so old, i’d love to know what the differences were before they adopted chinese characters.

about the foreigners kind of bashing other foreigners.
i absolutely see that all the time. and exactly as someone was mentioned, “i don’t do it i’m better/more japanese, stupid foreigners”
just recently saw a post by sakura house which just had a picture of trash left on a bench in the station, and 9/10 people who were also foreigners were like “definitely a foreigner/gaijin”
seriously,
it’s very strange when people start to act like this.
and even more so when they say that “japan is perfect”
i do love japan but i try to recognize the negatives as well, and im sure there are many people that do, but it’s just strange to see when people post things like that.

someone reminded me of another interesting thing in terms of japanese history and how things change over time.
even in terms of nara and kyoto, they are definitely considered the more traditional areas in terms of the bigger cities as they were capitals but also they kind of destroy their own traditional buildings also trying to modernize almost thinking that tokyo is somehow considered better because it’s modern. well that might be going too far but definitely it’s sad that certain things have been destroyed.