Why Japanese people are so fearful
Prof. Tsuyoshi Miyakawa recently appeared on “Sekai Ichi Uketai Jyugyou” to educate viewers about how Japanese people are more fearful than Westerners:
Through his research, he isolated a gene that supposedly causes one’s brain to feel more fear. In tests with lab mice, those mice that do not have the gene are far more likely to freely walk around on a high platform without safety barriers.
It would seem that some tests have been conducted to determine which countries have more carriers of thie fear gene and Japan ranked at the top of the list:

- Japanese: 97%
- White Americans: 77%
- Indians: 67%
- Germans: 64%
- Black Americans: 46%
- South Africans: 32%
According to Ken Y-N, another Japanese TV show (“Otona no Sonata”) also aired a segment this week about how Japanese people posess genes that make them uniquely fearful. On that show, Westerners and Japanese people were shown walking through a haunted house:
“15 out of 15 Japanese were scared, but just one foreigner. A Russian couple
were laughing at the traps, and a African-Australian wanted to punch the
exhibits…”
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