The Japan Thread
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Yeah, that sounds like Japan alright 
So YungJamez went back to Shinjuku recently... with Fred the Bodyguard and Tyler Oliveira! It went about like you would expect, but not a ton of fireworks. They did some good investigative work that hopefully gets the ball rolling with authorities. Those Kurds though!
So YungJamez went back to Shinjuku recently... with Fred the Bodyguard and Tyler Oliveira! It went about like you would expect, but not a ton of fireworks. They did some good investigative work that hopefully gets the ball rolling with authorities. Those Kurds though!
Yeah, that sounds like Japan alright
So YungJamez went back to Shinjuku recently... with Fred the Bodyguard and Tyler Oliveira! It went about like you would expect, but not a ton of fireworks. They did some good investigative work that hopefully gets the ball rolling with authorities. Those Kurds though!
I can see why the Japanese want those people out of their country. The police really should have beaten up those Kurds.
Japan's economic decline has been slow but steady over the last several decades. Its GDP per capita in the late 1980s was the highest in the world behind only Switzerland, but today they are at #39 behind the Czech Republic, S. Korea and just ahead of Portugal and Greece. Their economic outlook today is even worse, hard times ahead.
Japan is using the power of AI to actually make matchmaking work. (Small Hats take control in 3, 2, ... ).
Here's an interesting video about Japan's social problems being largely created by the abandoning of traditional values and spirituality. I think Kaname's language videos are excellent.
I don't know if this is a real success or just a small party trick.
Here's an interesting video about Japan's social problems being largely created by the abandoning of traditional values and spirituality. I think Kaname's language videos are excellent.
@DeWoken your posts are very interesting to me. Do you currently live Japan now? Despite my wife and I vacationing many times to Japan in the last decade, while they are exceptionally polite people, I hardly know them at all and it is difficult to talk to them whereas with Mainland Chinese / Vietnamese people they seem to want to know about our whole life and are geniune abou it. It seems they see foreigners as transactional and just want to get on with their lives. Funny enough though I had a Japanese Mentor but hes a Expat in Vietnam and had been away from Japan for so long for me to consider someone whos in tune with Japan of today.
Regardless, I am interested in how they operate, values, etc on their day to day lives - and how they adapted Sino-Confucius values into their island - especially putting aside geopolitics.
I look forward to more of your posts.
Regardless, I am interested in how they operate, values, etc on their day to day lives - and how they adapted Sino-Confucius values into their island - especially putting aside geopolitics.
I look forward to more of your posts.
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Japan's economic decline has been slow but steady over the last several decades. Its GDP per capita in the late 1980s was the highest in the world behind only Switzerland, but today they are at #39 behind the Czech Republic, S. Korea and just ahead of Portugal and Greece. Their economic outlook today is even worse, hard times ahead.
The hard times have been coming for 30 years. Are things harder than during their bubble years? Of course. But by all metrics, the Japanese are doing just fine and in many ways are doing far better than most other western countries.
- Single income families are the norm.
- Food is cheap and healthy.
- Sports and fitness are celebrated at all ages.
- Crime is non existent.
- Investment in infrastructure is constant.
- Immigration is heavily checked and monitored.
- Society puts Japan as its top priority.
- Absolutely zero tolerance for LGBT agendas in the school system.
- Cultural pressure to be married and with children before 25 (extra heavy pressure on women).
Does this sound like the west prior to the 2000s? Exactly. It's what it feels like in Japan.
It is certainly not without issues, but the issues at hand are pretty manageable when the above metrics are the norm.
How big is the whole LGBT thing in Japan? I know there's thesee subcultures in manga/anime that focuses on fetishizing homosexual romance but it seems like that's seen more as a niche rather than something that's actively promoted in mainstream media like you see in the west.
Gay marriage in Japan is not allowed.
But what percentage of Japanese are married with children at or before 25 today?
I see lots of domestic LGBT content on NHK's English channel, is that not also the case on the main Japanese networks?
I agree with the main thought though, Japanese society is more able to weather a continued economic stagnation.
But at least the culture is still actively pushing for motherhood at a young(ish) age. If the foundations are there, all that is needed is a small nudge and things could drastically change in 9 months.
NHK English is going to be just as much of a mouthpiece for globalism as BBC or similar. Who consumes NHK English? Not the Japanese.
^A lot of the content from NHK English is dubbed over footage from the Japanese flagship network. I don't watch it that often, but it's on one of my local PBS channels and one time they had a long feature about a wannabe homo pole dancer dude...
Japan is a bit better than S Korea wrt feministic/careerist young women who opt to defer marriage but that is still a thing in Japan today, no?
The rate in the US of childless women over 50 is below 20%, so it seems to have been an ongoing problem in Japan decades ago.
Japan is a bit better than S Korea wrt feministic/careerist young women who opt to defer marriage but that is still a thing in Japan today, no?
The rate in the US of childless women over 50 is below 20%, so it seems to have been an ongoing problem in Japan decades ago.
I read some post somewhere from a Japanese girl saying "I won't think about kids until I'm 50" so maybe that's a uh problem...
Why the low birth rates then? Most Jaoabese women I have met in Australia do not want kids although its obviously a biased sample since a Japanese girl living abroad is by definition not traditional or mainstream.
I think it's only a matter of time before the Japanese and Chinese get tired of women's monetary demands or special privileges for having children and their respective governments start to grow their own children in labs or start cloning.
My bet's on China leading the way with lab grown children or cloning since they don't give a damn about ethics or political correctness or feminists' agendas.
Think about it: 30 years ago, who would have thought that Man could create something out of nothing ( 3D printing) or 100 years ago, who would have thought that each of us would be carrying a device in our hands that could retrieve almost all of mankind's knowledge or enable us to see each other from the other ends of the earth or even from space (cellphones).
So, it's only a matter of time before governments get tired of women's reluctance to have children and start creating their own children. Women won't be necessary anymore. At least not for having babies. And this would be women's own doing.
My bet's on China leading the way with lab grown children or cloning since they don't give a damn about ethics or political correctness or feminists' agendas.
Think about it: 30 years ago, who would have thought that Man could create something out of nothing ( 3D printing) or 100 years ago, who would have thought that each of us would be carrying a device in our hands that could retrieve almost all of mankind's knowledge or enable us to see each other from the other ends of the earth or even from space (cellphones).
So, it's only a matter of time before governments get tired of women's reluctance to have children and start creating their own children. Women won't be necessary anymore. At least not for having babies. And this would be women's own doing.
Thanks, @expectation 
Yeah, I've been interested in Japan for a while and I ended up living there for over a year doing the eigo sensei thing. Probably my understanding of the country could be improved by learning a bit more about Asia in general. Japan is fascinating country, with a lot to learn about. I just wish I were better at studying these days. Being addicted to Youtube does not a Big Brain make. Lately I've been enjoying traditional wood block prints of the 20th century.
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Cloning eh? Reminds me of this film based on a book written by a sort-of-Japanese author, Never Let Me Go (2010). What's taking them so long? (Dolly was 30 years ago!)
I'm curious how this new government is going to play out. I watched Sanae-chan playing drums with South Korean President, Lee Jae Myung, and was not very impressed. But the selfie with Meloni turned into an anime pic was stylish (even if Meloni is trash).
Are they really going to cut back on foreigners in the country, or is it just going to be Chinese and Whitey that gets the boot, while Team Apu floods in the backdoor or something?
Yeah, I've been interested in Japan for a while and I ended up living there for over a year doing the eigo sensei thing. Probably my understanding of the country could be improved by learning a bit more about Asia in general. Japan is fascinating country, with a lot to learn about. I just wish I were better at studying these days. Being addicted to Youtube does not a Big Brain make. Lately I've been enjoying traditional wood block prints of the 20th century.Shin Hanga | The Art of Japan
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Cloning eh? Reminds me of this film based on a book written by a sort-of-Japanese author, Never Let Me Go (2010). What's taking them so long? (Dolly was 30 years ago!)
I'm curious how this new government is going to play out. I watched Sanae-chan playing drums with South Korean President, Lee Jae Myung, and was not very impressed. But the selfie with Meloni turned into an anime pic was stylish (even if Meloni is trash).
Are they really going to cut back on foreigners in the country, or is it just going to be Chinese and Whitey that gets the boot, while Team Apu floods in the backdoor or something?
A large part is the manipulation of data. Of course women are not having 5-7 babies like they did post war. And during the bubble years the birth rate 'plummeted' as couples had 1-3 kids. The birth rate was cut in half. If Japan's population and birth rate continue at this pace, their population will even out at a very manageable and sustainable level within a couple decades.
There are certainly a lot of 'leftover' women in Asia, and much of this is their own fault. They can be sexual camels and go many years without sexual relationships. And women being women, they will find each other and it becomes their ingroup promise to remain single.
I've mentioned before how easy it is to live in Japan. And for women it's almost comically easy, especially if they are average looking. They can sling product (to each other) in a bunch of part time jobs and make enough to live, eat, shop and travel (with their single girls). Which leads to the bottom lines of cosmetic companies, who will see their profits fall if Japanese women enter motherhood on mass again. And of course major sponsors of TV propaganda are product companies, so you know that boardrooms are all pretty aligned in that keeping women single and vain is their best source of income. Japan is no different in this regard to any other consumer nation.