i think istj and especially isfj seem right. i imagine infj enjoys japan bc it is ok to be introverted, no one is invasive, and the NiFe allows them to grasp profound truths about the culture while recognizing the highly symbolic interaction in those around them. plus infj loves anime!
these are what i've often considered that Japan is more of I
NFJ than I
SFJ .
I don't know..maybe because I've never really lived there for a long period of time to really experience it.
but based from my 2-weeks vacation last year, and also so many movies, anime, friends, and basically any 'cultural' things from Japan, I can vow that they all indeed have these 'quirkiness' tendency that, as you all can also look and testify, makes Japan kept sprouting-out many 'weirdest' things (or inventions), which is not very 'sensible' (S) in a way?..
even in movies, brilliant ideas , in a sense of very eccentric & 'non-sensical' ideas, also usually comes from Japan. like that popular Hollywood triology:
Matrix series. at first, I've thought wow, this is really a fresh 'out-of-this-world' kind of movie coming out from Hollywood, that I like very much. but only after further research, i've found out that the idea originally was from Japanese's "
Ghost in The Shell" anime.
there are many many other examples, like how cartoons in America is often likened to kids-market, while in Japan, you get unique and 'eccentric' anime like
Neon Genesis Evangelion, Serial experiment Lain, which IMO, is highly 'intuitive' , and many other 'weird' stuff.
all of these is what makes me seriously think that most Japanese people are of INFJ nature.
maybe the ISFJ is due to the survey/research being taken on the 'surface' level of corporate/industry-people , which many or most people tend to just 'camouflage' in order to fit-in to the 'professional image', or something like that..but not really genuine of them.
I tend to see the whole 'cultural' thing as more genuine than what you found in 'corporate' setting, always.
well, that's my view, but i could be wrong, though (like I said, i haven't lived or stayed long enough to really experience Japan. i've only based it from my keen observations & 2-weeks experience only).
any thoughts on this one?