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I Love Annie May posted:https://twitter.com/kmokmos/status/915112146748416000 
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He essentially is saying that they lack intelligence if they can't understand the reasons for dissolving the House of Representatives. I don't think that's quite the same thing.
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Oct 4, 2017 13:54
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*sad trombone* Hope Party has lost nearly half its polling support in the Tokyo PR block in one week https://twitter.com/amycatalinac/status/917574665702428674 
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Oct 10, 2017 04:45
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Which was the one with Ozawa? I wish he'd just loving gently caress off.
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Oct 10, 2017 06:19
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Vagabundo posted:Which was the one with Ozawa? I wish he'd just loving gently caress off. That's the Hope Party / Koike's party. I don't think he has been that publicly prominent, people were speculating about his influence behind the scenes but he's still running as an independent
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Oct 10, 2017 06:23
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icantfindaname posted:That's the Hope Party / Koike's party. I don't think he has been that publicly prominent, people were speculating about his influence behind the scenes but he's still running as an independent Ozawa's whole MO has been to knock the LDP out of government irrespective of anything else, so I respect his consistency at least. Not so effective, tho.
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Oct 10, 2017 06:41
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*an even sadder trombone* https://mobile.twitter.com/ShingetsuNews/status/917722597483094017 I think Koike and Maehara have to go down as some of the most destructively incompetent politicians ever icantfindaname fucked around with this message at 15:09 on Oct 10, 2017 |
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Oct 10, 2017 15:06
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Koike at least managed to take Tokyo. Maehara on the other hand...
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Oct 10, 2017 16:09
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Anyone following the election? Unsurprisingly, it looks to be almost assuredly a rout for the LDP/Kōmeito coalition. Very bad news for those opposed to constitutional revision.
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Oct 22, 2017 14:30
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Langley Esquire said Koike had no interest in becoming PM but her party wanted her to run anyway. They predicted the Party of Hope would fold because it was a bunch of opportunists trying to ride her coattails to supreme power but she had no interest in supreme power. Is that really a mark of her incompetence?
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Oct 22, 2017 14:35
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Frigate Orpheon posted:Anyone following the election? Unsurprisingly, it looks to be almost assuredly a rout for the LDP/Kōmeito coalition. Very bad news for those opposed to constitutional revision. Not really no, it looks like they'll lose a few seats from what they had going in. They had close to a supermajority to start with. I still don't believe revision will happen until it does
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https://twitter.com/observingjapan/status/922127679813435393
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Oct 22, 2017 16:50
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They reached 310 just now.
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Oct 22, 2017 17:19
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What is the nature, funding, and quality of japanese political polling?
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Oct 22, 2017 17:21
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icantfindaname posted:Not really no, it looks like they'll lose a few seats from what they had going in. They had close to a supermajority to start with. I still don't believe revision will happen until it does I worded my post incorrectly - I meant a rout in favour of the governing coalition. Sure I don't think passing revision will happen quickly or smoothly with the supermajority (which they secured anyway in the previous two elections), but it pays to be cautious. Interestingly, it looks like all the parties lost seats save Edano's CDP. In related news, the turnout this time looks to be around 53.6% - higher than last time, but still the second lowest showing in post-war Japan's electoral history.
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Oct 22, 2017 20:11
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I mean it's not a rout relative to what was expected going in. The DP was such a shitshow going into the election and Maehara such a dumbass that a complete collapse was a real possibility, and that didn't happen. If Abe had gained a bunch of seats I think revision would be much more likely, as it stands I think it probably won't happen I wonder what this means for Abe now. Someone on twitter suggested that if his poll numbers keep falling he might be replaced as LDP leader in the spring, although as it stands right now he probably will win a third term. I guess 4 more years of status quo? Olympics is coming up soon, surely something interesting has to happen before then? Maybe that's a monkey paw wish? Discendo Vox posted:What is the nature, funding, and quality of japanese political polling? It's done by major newspapers and news companies for the most part. I'm not sure how it works, but it seems pretty accurate icantfindaname fucked around with this message at 22:03 on Oct 22, 2017 |
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Oct 22, 2017 22:00
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The CDP seems to be polling better by a large margin than the DPJ did at any point post-2012 https://mobile.twitter.com/MichaelTCucek/status/923290716473769984 If only the split had happened a month before the election icantfindaname fucked around with this message at 02:55 on Oct 26, 2017 |
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Oct 26, 2017 02:51
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icantfindaname posted:The CDP seems to be polling better by a large margin than the DPJ did at any point post-2012 Interesting but also  that an opposition party polling at 17% is an unprecedented level of support
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Oct 26, 2017 02:57
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The LDP itself doesn't poll more than mid to low 30s Here's another article with a graph of party and cabinet support rates from 2001 to early this year. DP/J didn't poll more than 10% after 2012  http://www.asahi.com/articles/ASK5V3PWRK5VULZU002.html icantfindaname fucked around with this message at 04:54 on Oct 26, 2017 |
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Oct 26, 2017 04:39
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A good article from Tobias Harris: https://newrepublic.com/article/145506/bright-side-japans-bleak-election
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Mr. Fix It posted:A good article from Tobias Harris: https://newrepublic.com/article/145506/bright-side-japans-bleak-election Interesting and informative read, thank you. I never really thought about the irony of it being the conservatives who want to revise the constitution. It occurred to me as as I read about how certain ex-Democratic Party members had to go elsewhere because they were too liberal which meant they wanted to keep things as is. But I'm here because I'm curious about something. What exactly is up with the Komeito? Where are they on the political spectrum? All I know is they are a political wing of a new type of Buddhism but that doesn't really tell me anything.
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From what I've read the Komeito is basically a centrist-liberal to slightly right-of-center party. Apparently in the 1960s/70s it had left-wing/anti-American/anti-nuclear foreign policy views, but moderated them in the 1990s. In the 60s and 70s it was an opposition party to the LDP along with the other left-leaning parties but starting in the late 90s it went into a coalition with the LDP and has been in that coalition ever since. It did not join the DPJ government from 2009-2012, and has been an important reason the LDP has stayed in power since the 90s, although after 2012 the LDP has had a 50% majority by itself and doesn't actually need them except for constitutional revision My impression is that it doesn't really want to revise the constitution and isn't really down with the creepy fascist revisionist stuff in general, but has played along up to now in order to stay in the government and get a cabinet post or two as a reward. It would in theory be highly desirable, and realistically might be mathematically necessary, for a left-of-center party to court it away from the LDP coalition in order to actually win power, but for reasons I'm not really clear on it hates the Communist Party and refuses to work with anyone who works with the Communists, who are about the same size and whose support is also realistically necessary for any left-wing party that wants to actually win This is basically the problem the Japanese left has had for 40 years, even with a gerrymandered election system it's had the raw numeric votes to win, but it's been split between multiple parties that hate each other and can't form coalitions. If you compare Japan with Germany in the 1970s, you had basically the same percentage of people voting for the left versus the right, but in Germany the left successfully formed a coalition with a centrist-liberal party very similar to the Komeito (and the Communists were banned in West Germany) and was in power for a decade, while in Japan the socialists were split between three different parties https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_German_federal_election,_1976 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_general_election,_1976 icantfindaname fucked around with this message at 10:58 on Oct 26, 2017 |
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Oct 26, 2017 10:18
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Japan still a lovely place for womenquote:日本の男女格差１１４位に下落 「政治」１２３位に後退
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So I just had an interview for a job that is a Japanese company. It's owned by Japan but the HQ is in America. 60% of the employees of the place are Japanese. During the interview, the lady (who was white) spoke about how much better Japanese business culture is as oppose to America's. That there is little disrespect in comparison, bosses value their own employees more and vice versa, CEOs take the first pay cut (gave a Japanese airline as example), workers aren't fired as often, much less gossiping, etc. How true is this? punk rebel ecks fucked around with this message at 23:41 on Nov 10, 2017 |
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Nov 10, 2017 23:35
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punk rebel ecks posted:much less gossiping LOL
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Nov 11, 2017 01:24
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punk rebel ecks posted:So I just had an interview for a job that is a Japanese company. It's owned by Japan but the HQ is in America. 60% of the employees of the place are Japanese. lol
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punk rebel ecks posted:So I just had an interview for a job that is a Japanese company. It's owned by Japan but the HQ is in America. 60% of the employees of the place are Japanese. CEO pay isn’t as crazily high as the US, that’s true and generally a good thing I think. Workers being fired less is technically true but that’s because of legal protections in Japan making it hard to fire people at all; the downside is that it’s very hard to fire someone incompetent, so every large company has a bunch of people around doing drat little and just collecting pay because they’re not quite bad enough to legally fire. They also sometimes try to force people to quit by abusing them; moving them to small dark rooms in the basement and forcing them to do boring repetitive task etc. Indeed in general abuse as a management tactic is pretty common. I’m not even going to get into gender issues because lol
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LimburgLimbo posted:CEO pay isn’t as crazily high as the US, that’s true and generally a good thing I think. Workers being fired less is technically true but that’s because of legal protections in Japan making it hard to fire people at all; the downside is that it’s very hard to fire someone incompetent, so every large company has a bunch of people around doing drat little and just collecting pay because they’re not quite bad enough to legally fire. LimburgLimbo posted:I’m not even going to get into gender issues because lol
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Nov 11, 2017 06:32
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punk rebel ecks posted:Please do. I'm curious. Last meeting I had with Japanese clients, they had 24 guys and 1 women from their side. We have no idea how she exists in that organization tbqh.
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Nov 11, 2017 06:40
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I remember doing a summer internship in Tokyo at the HQ of a Japanese multinational "maker" where I sat in on a vendor meeting with Gartner. Gartner was represented by a single non-Japanese speaking Asian-Chinese woman. The head of my group, a Japanese man in his 50s, kept on talking poo poo about her in Japanese throughout the entire meeting in front of her. This was like 2007
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Nov 11, 2017 06:59
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From what I've heard and seen, women are expected to serve guests before a man in the workplace just as a matter of course.
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For reference, everything I know about Japanese work culture comes from anime. Not sure how accurate it is.
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punk rebel ecks posted:Please do. I'm curious. apparently 1/3 of japanese women have been sexually assaulted at work, for starters. of course, with those kinds of stats in that kind of culture, the actual number is probably way higher. who knows how common it actually is. from this article: quote:Few women hold professional, technical or managerial roles. In 2012 they made up 77% of Japan’s part-time and temporary workforce. quote:In 2011, 4.5% of company division heads were female, up from 1.2% in 1989. But relative to other countries the numbers are still dismal. Of the most senior, executive-committee-level managers in Japan, 1% were women in 2011, according to a regional study by McKinsey. The equivalent figure for China was 9%, for Singapore 15%. quote:In a study that compared the reasons why Japanese and American college graduates leave their jobs ... Japanese women blamed dissatisfaction with their jobs and a feeling of being put into “dead-end” roles. The fact that their husbands, who spend more time at work than their counterparts in other developed countries, spend less time on child care or household chores, adds to the perceived need to stay at home. quote:When Japanese firms take their pick of university graduates they choose men and women, but they still prefer men for management, sticking most of the women on the “clerical” track. Foreign companies have been able to take advantage of this prejudice by hiring and promoting able female graduates quote:Male dominance extends beyond the corporate world: in politics, too, women are grossly under-represented. In the lower house of the Diet, women hold only 8% of seats, with 19% in the upper house. In a global survey of women in parliaments, Japan ranked 123rd out of 189 countries. The older generation of men is particularly traditionalist, and still wields the most clout. there's a lot of other poo poo in the article about home life and poo poo, but tl;dr don't be a woman in japan edit, re: anime- anime is mostly awful sexist garbage marketed at whatever the japanese analogue to incels is. like the way women get portrayed in most mainstream anime is incredibly demeaning, and even if the source material is okay, usually the merchandising is ridiculous objectifying crap noether fucked around with this message at 07:15 on Nov 11, 2017 |
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It’s a multi-faceted issue though; the work culture is also so poo poo that women often quite actively don’t *want* to be professionals. If you’re a reasonably attractive woman you can 1) work a bit and find a decent husband and live a nice life as a homemaker where you’re in charge of the finances etc. or 2) join a company with awful working conditions and maaaaybe get somewhere despite rampant sexism and live a largely lovely life as an underpaid drone. It’s not surprising that there aren’t as many women trying to change the dynamic, because the only reward would be the right to participate in Japan’s hilariously broken office culture. Thus very few women actually do it, and then there are few role models of professional women. The relative few successful, career driven Japanese women are often doing their best to get out of Japan and work overseas.
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Well financial necessity is driving more women to work, or to stay at work even after they've found a partner
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LimburgLimbo posted:The relative few successful, career driven Japanese women are often doing their best to get out of Japan and work overseas.
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Kilroy posted:Sometimes they marry into the royal family, too. That poor woman...
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noether posted:there's a lot of other poo poo in the article about home life and poo poo, but tl;dr don't be a woman in japan This poo poo is worse than America circa 1950. Why is Japan so behind in gender equality, even compared to China? noether posted:edit, re: anime- I was referring to stuff like ReLife. In it a Japanese woman outperforms the men, and the men get so jealous that they constantly bully her until she kills herself. And when she does the company brushes it under the rug.
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China's an outlier because one of the very few positive things the CCP did was insist on and enforce gender equality, destroying a lot of the traditional sexist poo poo. Korea's a better comparison and it is pretty similar to Japan in misogyny, though Japan usually somehow ranks even lower. There's a lot of reasons, mostly around the general conservatism over here. There's never been a serious feminist movement. Also while it's always too tempting to reductio ad Confucum, fact is Confucian roles are extremely misogynistic and it's a part of the societies in East Asia.
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Yeah, the lack of any real women's rights movement in Japan really shows.
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