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Source, out of curiosity as a long-time foreign resident of Japan?
As a person who is Swiss and has lived a while in Japan, everyone says “Heidi”. I think Heidi/the alps is the biggest stereotype of Switzerland to japanese people, not banking.
What's "Heidi"? I need to ask my wife about this one. Is the pronunciation like German on this word for reference?
It’s a swiss story about a little girl who lives and herds goats in the alpine pastures.
And it got turned into a really popular japanese kids anime.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi,_Girl_of_the_Alps
Yeah the pronunciation is german but Japanese people tend to pronounce it Haiji ハイジ.
Thanks for responding. I'll check it out tomorrow (and ask my wife if she's heard of it)
Edit: after clicking the link, I have definitely seen the image wiki uses several times
Same here, but I've noticed that, at least from my circle here, people don't know too much about countries in Europe. Not that they really should, I guess. I'm from the Czech Republic, and usually I should point it on a map for people to understand better where it is.