TikTok is popular in Japan: "if I can't use (tiktok), I can't live."

At present, the United States is using "national security" as an excuse to stop short video application tiktok. As an ally of the United States, Japan also has a coalition of members of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) which suggests that the government should impose restrictions on tiktok. However, similar news has made Japanese female high school students (JK), who like to use tiktok, lament that "they can't survive."

In addition, domestic survey data in Japan also showed that 89% of the surveyed female high school students in Shibuya, Tokyo, opposed the ban on tiktok.

According to the Japanese economic news Chinese website on August 17, a Japanese female high school student, who lives in Kanagawa Prefecture, is "disturbed" by the news that Japan may restrict tiktok. Although she usually doesn't care about political news, she has been following the trend of US restrictions on tiktok recently. She even said: "if I can't use (tiktok), I can't live."

This student uses tiktok for 1 hour every day. "My friends also said they didn't want to ban it," she said. "Especially lovely girls, want every week to send a video".

Another 17-year-old female high school student in Tokyo, also said she watched tiktok almost every day. Compared with other video platforms such as youtube, the videos in tiktok are shorter, averaging about 15 seconds, so "the charm of favorite artists and idols has been condensed," she said.

In addition, she also said that the school rules of each school in Japan are different, which leads to different use of tiktok in schools. "Schools that don't get criticized for using smartphones in their schools feel like tiktok is very popular."

As of August this year, tiktok has more than 10 million users in Japan and is very popular among young people, according to The Japan Times.

In addition, many local governments in Japan have opened accounts on tiktok to publicize important policies and even "Selling" local agricultural products. However, after the United States suppressed tiktok and some Japanese members proposed to set a limit, Saitama Prefecture and Kobe City, which had reached a cooperation agreement with Byte Dance, recently stopped account updating.

Tiktok has also won the mobile phone Application Award in the Japanese catchwords contest for junior high school girls in 2018. In the context of the expansion of the COVID-19, celebrities all over the world have also released videos to attract attention. Tiktok has become a "cooling agent" for middle school students who have accumulated resentment due to lockdown.

On the reason why tiktok is popular in Japan, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun quoted science and technology reporter Suzuki punzi as saying that the reason why tiktok is supported by young people is that "Sending videos is handy".

Users just need to turn on the camera of the smartphone and dance with the prepared music, and then they can shoot videos that imitate the actual music performed by artists. Moreover, users can also use the beauty function to achieve a unique performance effect. Even if users don't edit videos, they can post very cute videos, which is tiktok's selling point.

Another attraction of tiktok is that it can become famous overnight. On most social networking sites, videos need to be judged whether they can be recommended according to the "like" comments of other users.

However, tiktok's algorithm can make videos with almost no evaluation get recommended, which also attracts the attention of ordinary users.

On August 11, a survey released by Japan's Yahoo News website also showed that 89 out of 100 female high school students interviewed in Shibuya, Tokyo, opposed the ban on tiktok, and "we will lose fun" became a major reason for their opposition.

According to the question of whether they watch tiktok or not, 87 people said they would. Yahoo News Network said that this means that tiktok is very popular among female high school students. But 75 said they had never published content on tiktok.

In addition to students' concerns about the limitation of tiktok, the government's move to impose restrictions on tiktok also seems to have a "big disturbance" among enterprises as enterprises continue to use tiktok.

According to a previous report by Yomiuri Shimbun, the "rule formation strategy alliance" affiliated to the ruling Liberal Democratic Party of Japan held a meeting on July 28, and decided to propose to the Japanese government to require legislation to restrict China's mobile phone apps, including tiktok, a popular short video social networking platform among young Japanese.

With regard to the statements made by Japanese legislators, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said at a regular press conference on July 28 that the Chinese government has always required Chinese enterprises to carry out foreign cooperation on the basis of complying with international rules and local laws and regulations. Foreign governments are also responsible for safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of international investors, including Chinese enterprises, in accordance with market principles.