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human
ELI5: How does Japanese culture hold dignity and reservation so sacred, and yet also have such perverse and absurd gameshows and the like be so popular?

I guess my question is about the cultural and historical origins of modern Japanese humor.  

Has this sort of entertainment always been part of Japanese culture, or was there a time following the second world war that a shift happened?  If so, why and how?
gpt
Just because those aspects are valued by the culture, it doesnt mean the need for perverse and absurd things go away. If anything, the cultural repression of those things make the need for them even higher.