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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > The Japanese politics thread: Old men loving robots ITT (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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# ? Apr 4, 2017 15:38 |
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# ? May 25, 2024 13:19 |
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Truga posted:The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > The Japanese politics thread: Old men loving ITT FTFY
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# ? Apr 4, 2017 15:44 |
I always say when the robot uprising/SkyNet 2.0 comes Japan will be the first affected so we'll at least have a little time before they blanket the world in their metallic glow
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# ? Apr 4, 2017 15:46 |
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Truga posted:The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > The Japanese politics thread: Old men loving robots ITT
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# ? Apr 4, 2017 15:49 |
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mystes posted:The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > The Japanese politics thread: This thread always degenerates into "weird japan" within 2 pages I'll take this one too
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# ? Apr 4, 2017 15:52 |
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Dr.Radical posted:Yeah but you can't hire robots to entice sexless, single 20 something salary-men into maid cafes. Akiba would collapse! Give it a bit of time, they'll get there.
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# ? Apr 4, 2017 16:11 |
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Dr.Radical posted:Yeah but you can't hire robots to entice sexless, single 20 something salary-men into maid cafes. Akiba would collapse! Maid-cafes, the only industry surviving from the pre-AI-driven economy. Who'd have thought?
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# ? Apr 4, 2017 16:19 |
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Kenishi posted:There are more jobs than just nurses out there and AI/Robots can realistically fill them. Delivery, warehousing, agriculture-anything, taxi services, retail/service jobs, freight services. ok, i meant more along the lines of nursing home staff.
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# ? Apr 4, 2017 17:31 |
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A big flaming stink posted:ok, i meant more along the lines of nursing home staff. Immigration is also an option, and Japan has a program where foreign workers can come and train to become caregivers, but they have to pass a test (in Japanese, written for native Japanese speakers) within I think two years or they have to leave. This is basically impossible if they aren't already fluent in Japanese so only a handful pass every year and the entire system is more or less pointless. Immigration seems to be a hard sell to Japanese voters in the first place, and for nursing homes the language barrier is actually a legitimate concern because the staff need to be able to communicate with the people in the nursing homes. In other fields it might be practical for companies to employ lots of foreign workers very quickly if the need emerged and the laws were changed appropriately. Unfortunately, caregiving, despite otherwise being the obvious target for foreign workers, is a situation where this might not be possible. Even if Japan starts seriously teaching kids English, that isn't going to help the baby boom generation.
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# ? Apr 4, 2017 17:54 |
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mystes posted:I think this will likely run into problems where you might be able to somewhat reduce the requirements for unskilled labor by using machines to help move patients with limited mobility, etc., but the unskilled labor isn't the bottleneck in the first place. To be honest, I expect that I will be cared for by Filipino nurses when I end up in palliative care and their native fluency would not be important. However glorious Nippon is weird af about their language being spoken by non-Japanese. My partner has been in Canada for 20 years, but if she hears someone non-native speaking Japanese she starts to complain about it. "Quit complaining about the steward telling you the flight will be 9 hours. " - me
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# ? Apr 4, 2017 18:09 |
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mystes posted:I think this will likely run into problems where you might be able to somewhat reduce the requirements for unskilled labor by using machines to help move patients with limited mobility, etc., but the unskilled labor isn't the bottleneck in the first place. I'm not sure of how the lack of English-speaking is an issue in this case but otherwise this feels pretty spot on. ocrumsprug posted:To be honest, I expect that I will be cared for by Filipino nurses when I end up in palliative care and their native fluency would not be important. However glorious Nippon is weird af about their language being spoken by non-Japanese. My partner has been in Canada for 20 years, but if she hears someone non-native speaking Japanese she starts to complain about it. anecdotal as gently caress but I recall some blog or something saying it's ideal to aim to be 30% japanese, so that everyone's eyes will bug out when you speak conversational japanese but they don't try to incorporate you into the Glorious Nippon hundred-thousand strong Spirit or whatever it's called. if you try to marry into a family you're 100% turbofucked though A big flaming stink fucked around with this message at 20:25 on Apr 4, 2017 |
# ? Apr 4, 2017 19:02 |
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A big flaming stink posted:I'm not sure of how the lack of English-speaking is an issue in this case but otherwise this feels pretty spot on.
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# ? Apr 4, 2017 20:07 |
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The only way to increase the Japanese population's English ability is to increase the numbers of English speaking foreigners in Japan.
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# ? Apr 4, 2017 23:05 |
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Stringent posted:The only way to increase the Japanese population's English ability is to increase the numbers of English speaking foreigners in Japan. A solution favored by literally nobody.
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# ? Apr 5, 2017 00:20 |
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ocrumsprug posted:To be honest, I expect that I will be cared for by Filipino nurses when I end up in palliative care and their native fluency would not be important. However glorious Nippon is weird af about their language being spoken by non-Japanese. My partner has been in Canada for 20 years, but if she hears someone non-native speaking Japanese she starts to complain about it. Your sample size of one doesn't say much. Your partner is a weirdo expat.
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# ? Apr 5, 2017 00:30 |
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I work with immigration here and I'm not sure why everyone thinks the govt. is so anti immigrant. Compared to other countries, getting a visa here is very easy and fees involved are negligible. There's also a system in place for low-skilled immigrants to come to Japan and work in factories, restaurants, and other such jobs. Technically it's kind of a grey zone, but very well-known and exploited in Asian countries. Especially in Nepal, there's a very good chance that any Nepali will be in Japan due to this system, and even if they have a proper visa they'll all know about it.
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# ? Apr 5, 2017 00:47 |
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Original_Z posted:I work with immigration here and I'm not sure why everyone thinks the govt. is so anti immigrant. Compared to other countries, getting a visa here is very easy and fees involved are negligible. Abe literally had to reassure people a year or so ago that his proposed plans for encouraging foreign workers to come to Japan weren't aimed at encouraging (permanent) immigration, and despite talking about these plans being part of his overall approach to revitalizing the economy, he has made changes that are so small as to be negligible.
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# ? Apr 5, 2017 01:15 |
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Old man yells at people for calling him out over not doing his job. Possibly the most Japan thing ever:https://www.japantoday.com/category/politics/view/minister-yells-at-press-after-he-criticizes-remaining-fukushima-evacuees posted:Japan’s disaster reconstruction minister said Tuesday displaced people yet to return to areas of Fukushima Prefecture deemed safe to live in are “responsible for themselves,” before snapping at the reporter whose question prompted the remark.
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# ? Apr 5, 2017 03:11 |
Stringent posted:Old man yells at people for calling him out over not doing his job. Possibly the most Japan thing ever: Lol I love how Suga is the cleanup man for literally everything Speaking of which, who the hell is in the wings after Abe leaves? Inada? Aso again? I know Japanese politics is Byzantine and bizarre and this is way down the road but I literally cannot think of who takes over LDP after Abe finally retires/plays shadow PM
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# ? Apr 5, 2017 03:48 |
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Ron Darling posted:Lol I love how Suga is the cleanup man for literally everything Some of the Japan watchers I follow on twitter have said it basically looks like Kishida, the foreign minister
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# ? Apr 5, 2017 04:14 |
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I can't stop recommending the Lying with Stats book (http://www.ebookjapan.jp/ebj/385089/volume1/) - Just read a section where the author talks about a Japanese study that seemed to find that older women that live on higher floors of apartments are more prone to miscarriages than those living on lower floors (x-axis: floors, y-axis: % have experienced miscarriages) There's a bunch of arguments he makes against it but mostly sample size; the 67% for 10+ floors came from 4 women out of 6 in the bucket.
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# ? Apr 5, 2017 05:03 |
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Yeah but if you're gonna have kids, have them by the time you're 30 anyway. Any later and you're just adding a ton of risks. Plus, do you really want to deal with 20 year old brats when you're 60? lol
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# ? Apr 5, 2017 09:10 |
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To compliment that really stupid post, here's a really stupid article!http://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20170405/p2a/00m/0na/012000c posted:Bakeries across Japan are furious after a textbook publisher changed "a bakery" that appears in an elementary school ethics textbook to "a Japanese-style wagashi confectioner" in response to suggestions the education ministry made in light of the "respect for tradition and culture" requirement under a curriculum for ethics classes, which is scheduled to be upgraded to an official elementary school subject in the 2018 academic year.
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# ? Apr 5, 2017 09:25 |
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It's not about wagashi being better than bread because wagashi is, in fact, not as good as bread.
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# ? Apr 5, 2017 09:49 |
icantfindaname posted:Some of the Japan watchers I follow on twitter have said it basically looks like Kishida, the foreign minister That would probably make the most sense
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# ? Apr 5, 2017 13:29 |
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any anime made about the current administration
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# ? Apr 5, 2017 13:31 |
Kurtofan posted:any anime made about the current administration Unsurprisingly I believe so I know there's some manga about Barron for whatever bizarre reason (Japan) Also the Israeli Embassy of Japan made a series of anime videos to entice Japanese tourism there. It's... something. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFT22S9euEI
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# ? Apr 5, 2017 15:28 |
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Just don't tell the UN that (or Japan, for that matter)!
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# ? Apr 5, 2017 22:33 |
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lol http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/20...reign-tourists/quote:Kozo Yamamoto, the regional revitalization minister, apologized Monday for his remark the previous day in which he called museum curators “the biggest cancer,” saying they are not doing enough to make foreign tourists understand the nation’s cultural assets. As a an aside, the failure of the opposition to take advantage of the LDP's high incidence of foot-in-mouth disease really goes accentuate how pathetic of an opposition it is.
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# ? Apr 17, 2017 04:11 |
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That's the weirdest poo poo I've heard all day and I listened to a lecture about how important it is to properly greet people.
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# ? Apr 17, 2017 11:39 |
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Only a week or two ago, there was another similar gaffe by a minister, too: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/20...rst-journalist/ quote:Masahiro Imamura, minister in charge of reconstructing the disaster-hit Tohoku region, apologized Tuesday for raising his voice to a freelance journalist at a news conference over demanding questions on the government’s support for Fukushima evacuees. This comes on the heels of a study revealing that, "More than 60 percent of current or former evacuees from the Fukushima nuclear crisis said they were victims of bullying or discrimination in areas they evacuated to or witnessed or heard of such incidents." ([a]http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201702260027.html[/a]) I have also heard concerns that people who have allegedly returned to the disaster area are simply commuting back there on weekends for reasons relating to government assistance or something because even ignoring the fact that there's no actual reason to think that the fukushima situation is actually over or in the process of getting better, it's not actually possible to live in that area now with such a huge percentage of the population gone. mystes fucked around with this message at 12:18 on Apr 17, 2017 |
# ? Apr 17, 2017 12:04 |
Mr. Fix It posted:lol http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/20...reign-tourists/ Are you kidding me The fact is you're right, the LDP can get away with a lot more poo poo because this is effectively a one party country. If there were any sort of effective opposition, he would have resigned already Jesus. What's it going to take for the opposition to put up more than a token fight every election?
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# ? Apr 17, 2017 21:28 |
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According to an FNN poll (link in Japanese), 52.9% of Japanese people are in favor of amending the constitution, and of these 56.3% are in favor of amending Article 9. This still means that the total number of people in favor of changing Article 9 is low (around 30%), but the percentage in favor of amending the constitution in general is much higher than what it was a year ago (45.5%) (they just added the Article 9 question so it's not possible to compare that with last year). It's possible this is partly because the way the Abe administration went about trying to change the constitution before made almost everyone angry, but as time has passed people's concerns based on that have diminished. mystes fucked around with this message at 18:36 on Apr 18, 2017 |
# ? Apr 18, 2017 18:33 |
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mystes posted:According to an FNN poll (link in Japanese), 52.9% of Japanese people are in favor of amending the constitution, and of these 56.3% are in favor of amending Article 9. I'd imagine it would also be due to anxiety over the way poo poo's going at the moment, especially with two fuckheads with lovely haircuts and a tendency to throw their toys out of the cot on a regular basis hanging about.
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# ? Apr 18, 2017 23:20 |
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Polling by Japanese media tends to be pretty lovely. If you look at the polling setup this time round, they lead the question about the constitution with a bunch of questions equivalent to 'man, it's scary what NK is doing amirite?' so not surprised if that's skewed people's responses.
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# ? Apr 18, 2017 23:53 |
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shrike82 posted:Polling by Japanese media tends to be pretty lovely. If you look at the polling setup this time round, they lead the question about the constitution with a bunch of questions equivalent to 'man, it's scary what NK is doing amirite?' so not surprised if that's skewed people's responses.
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# ? Apr 19, 2017 02:44 |
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/25/national/politics-diplomacy/gaffe-prone-tohoku-reconstruction-minister-strikes/#.WQINKdy1u9Iquote:During a party held Tuesday in Tokyo, Imamura said “it was rather good” that the 2011 tsunami-quake disaster hit the Tohoku region and “not somewhere near the Tokyo area,” because it would have caused an “enormous amount of (financial) damage” to the country. Public broadcaster NHK aired a video clip of the remark. Just can't stop putting a foot in a mouth
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# ? Apr 27, 2017 16:25 |
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So uh, lots of royal news Cabinet greenlights Emperor Akihito's abdication Japanese Princess Mako set to become a commoner Did a bit of research on Imperial Law and the royal family because of all this. Interesting stuff. Kinda feel bad for Princess Masako. http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/20...s/#.WSKSw7hBDgx NikkolasKing fucked around with this message at 08:29 on May 22, 2017 |
# ? May 22, 2017 08:26 |
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I would like to offer my support to Emperor Naruto.
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# ? May 22, 2017 08:43 |
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# ? May 25, 2024 13:19 |
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How exactly is the commoner/royal/other? Distinction defined in Japanese law and custom? Like are there noble families a princess can marry into to retain her royal status or is becoming a commoner inevitable for all female members of the Imperial family?
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# ? May 22, 2017 16:05 |