That Japanese Man Yuta: the videos Hacker News recommends
Not the channel's most viewed videos: the ones HN commenters kept linking with real commentary. The top pick, "Why Japan's Conviction Rate is 99% (Actually Explained)", recommended as a sourced, nuanced corrective whenever the Japanese justice system's conviction rate is raised.
- 3 HN recommenders 3 months 2020explainerRecommended as a sourced, nuanced corrective whenever the Japanese justice system's conviction rate is raised.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2020–2021demoHN uses it to answer whether Japanese speakers can read Chinese: they can guess a lot, but not reliably.
- 1 HN recommenders 1 months 2020–2024explainerCited in threads on writing systems and CJK characters as an entertaining test of how much Japanese people can understand of Chinese.
- cited 4× 0 months 2016–2024explainerCited in language-learning threads as evidence that natives often cannot handwrite kanji.
Questions
Which That Japanese Man Yuta video does Hacker News recommend most?
Why Japan's Conviction Rate is 99% (Actually Explained): recommended in 3 different months by 3 HN users between 2020 and 2020.
Is this every That Japanese Man Yuta video?
No. Only videos that at least three different HN users linked, in at least three different months, with at least a sentence of their own commentary. That filter is what makes the list useful.
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