[bourgoin]

It's funny to me that one could look at these webpages and think they're "behind": https://www.yomiuri.co.jp https://okwave.jp

They load pretty much instantaneously, run few scripts, have no swooshing animations or scroll behavior overriding, elements don't jumble around and rearrange themselves as the page is loading... they are basically just plain text and hyperlinks on a plain background. From my perspective they're lightyears ahead of the state of English-language webpage design.

I guess they're behind in the sense that they have declined to incorporate many new bad practices. They're behind like a farmer who doesn't use pesticides, a candy-maker that doesn't use artificial coloring and flavoring, or a gas station that doesn't play ads on a screen at the pump.

[mattl]

Article is 7 years old

[throw_away]

Yomiuri, at least, looked very different back then: https://web.archive.org/web/20131231233037/http://www.yomiur...

[eganist]

And yet the minimalism improves even further.

[brabel]

These websites look excellent... I think I will re-style my website in the same style.

[drstewart]

It's pretty disingenuous to pretend that those sites the kind of sites that are under discussion here.

[jhardy54]

Feel free to read the article, where those websites are linked as the examples being discussed. Absolutely hilarious comment though.

> Go on a safari around some of Japan’s most popular sites and here’s what you can expect to find (see Goo, Rakuten, Yomiuri, NicoNico, OKWave, @cosme, and more):

The links, in case you still don't want to read the article:

- https://www.goo.ne.jp

- https://www.rakuten.co.jp

- https://www.yomiuri.co.jp/

- https://www.nicovideo.jp

- https://okwave.jp/

- https://www.cosme.net/

- https://www.slideshare.net/socialogilvy/top-50-japanese-webs...

[skwirl]

The article was written seven years ago. What you see now is not necessarily what you would have seen in 2013.

[nik_0_0]

Thank god for Wayback Machine!

https://www.goo.ne.jp/

https://web.archive.org/web/20131120212107/https://www.goo.n...

Pretty close, same dense pack of information, tiny photos. Seems to check most of the list.