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mystes posted:Wikipedia says it has been used 19 times: I stand corrected. I was looking at more recent names. Prior to the Meiji restoration it seems its usage was more common. Oops. To be fair, though, I'm not just coming at it from a negative angle because words scare me. A lot of friends I have in Japan are uneasy with the declaration as well -- part of that may be because for most of them this is the first new era in their lifetimes or political awareness, but part of it is also that Japan's currently effectively something of a one-party system, and globally fascism is on the rise everywhere. Big peace-sounding Country First slogans are kind of the go-to for any fascist wannabe. I don't think that it's wrong to be wary or apprehensive about things that smell like they have that stank on 'em. But I will try to be more accurate in the future. Thanks for the correction.
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mystes posted:Since the new era name is causing Americans on twitter so much consternation, and the other candidates have now been leaked and we can see they are clearly much better than reiwa, I think the Japanese government should give in to international pressure and change the new era name to the alternate candidates 万和 or 万保, which would clearly be much less controversial. God forbid the Japanese decide on the name of their own era in their own calendar. Can't be having that, now can we? If we start allow those inscrutable Orientals to have some degree of self-determination, who knows what they'll get up to? edogawa rando fucked around with this message at 18:22 on Apr 2, 2019 |
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Vagabundo posted:God forbid the Japanese decide on the name of their own era in their own calendar. Can't be having that, now can we? I, for one, blame the US for letting the Japanese keep their silly imperial system in the first place!
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I struggle to understand most Japanese politics but shouldnt the fact that it can be so easily taken out of context to mean something far more sinister be all the reason you need to go back and pick something new?
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Furnaceface posted:I struggle to understand most Japanese politics but shouldnt the fact that it can be so easily taken out of context to mean something far more sinister be all the reason you need to go back and pick something new? I had no idea that something that is purely an internal matter that doesn't affect anyone else in any way whatsoever can only happen with the approval of a bunch of white motherfuckers living an entire ocean away. As a Japanese man, I can only humbly apologise.
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Furnaceface posted:I struggle to understand most Japanese politics but shouldnt the fact that it can be so easily taken out of context to mean something far more sinister be all the reason you need to go back and pick something new?
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Vagabundo posted:I had no idea that something that is purely an internal matter that doesn't affect anyone else in any way whatsoever can only happen with the approval of a bunch of white motherfuckers living an entire ocean away. As a Japanese man, I can only humbly apologise. I really hope I didnt come across like that, sorry.  mystes posted:Anything can be taken out of context. I mean, the worst people can say about this one is that the first character can mean "order." If they had chosen "万和," Korea and China would probably be complaining that it sounds too much like some sort of abbreviation for "long live the Japanese empire." And this explains it much better than the (hilariously bad) local media. I was under the impression it was a bit of a controversy/hot topic but it seems like its not really a big deal at all.
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mystes posted:"How dare they use a Japanese poem for the Japanese era name?!" Oh come on, after like a thousand years of this, breaking that tradition is clearly more significant than “lol let’s go Japanese this time around.” I agree it’s silly to make a huge thing out of this compared all the other things Abe’s been doing but this thread’s “it means literally nothing” take seems like needless contrarianism. LimburgLimbo posted:maybe they don’t feel the need to pay homage to a country that’s regularly drumming up mass protest against them and regularly encroaching on their airspace with military aircraft, etc. That’s a fair point and obviously in the present climate+china’s own nationalism also asserting this lots of people view those ancient poems in that light, but I’d really contend things like that are more East Asian culture than Chinese. They’ve been core parts of the culture of Japan and Korea for as long as the latter two have existed as states, and their original provenance has been basically irrelevant to that. Making the break from tradition because thousands of years ago it was originally a Chinese thing just implies an alien-ness to so many other parts of traditional Japanese culture that are the same.
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Ershalim posted:A lot of friends I have in Japan are uneasy with the declaration as well
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A lot of the old ladies in my village are supporters of the JCP, so, y'know, predisposed to disliking Abe, but yeah among them there are quite a few people who say it's got vaguely sinister undertones. It's not like the name's a portent of coming right-wing ideology in Japan, it's a symptom of Abe's current and presumably continuing nationalism. At the end of the day it doesn't mean much. But it doesn't mean nothing.
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Rochallor posted:At the end of the day it doesn't mean much. But it doesn't mean nothing. This is basically where I come down on it. I’m not sure the fascism is coming right away, but I don’t believe it means absolutely nothing and is purely innocent. At least we can all agree to giggle about the concept of year R18 coming down the line.
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Godwilling we all make it to R18
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Bloodnose posted:Godwilling we all make it to R18 Let a hundred VNs bloom; let a hundred schoolgirl thots contend.
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R18, the year of por- oh no my house got flooded and I burned to death. From critical lack of bees syndrome.
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*Wet, lingering fart noise* https://mobile.twitter.com/miraisyakai/status/1113319556452311041 https://mobile.twitter.com/miraisyakai/status/1113320187757858816 https://mobile.twitter.com/miraisyakai/status/1113270195068358656
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Apr 3, 2019 20:27
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The approval rating of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan is down from around 10% in May to around 5%. (Also the Japan Restoration Party is up a little.) The cabinet's approval rating is up from around 35% to around 47%
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drilldo squirt posted:What do these mean? The Constitutional Democratic Party (CDP) is kind of the UK's Lib-Dem coalition. They're not very left wing, but they're significantly more lefty than the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which is the party that Abe's a part of. The break down of the house in Japan is massively skewed in favor of the LDP, and Abe's party has something like 300 of the total possible 465 seats. The CDP is the only remotely functional opposition party, and the only thing with anything resembling power aside from the LDP, and they're facing huge losses in public opinion (relative to the tiny approval ratings they already had). They hold something like 70 seats, but it doesn't really matter because the government has a large enough majority to basically do anything it wants. Basically -- it means that the bad government is getting more popular.
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I was in Kyoto yesterday and saw a poster for the "Kyoto Party: A Regional Political Party." Is that a new thing? Does a regional political party actually win seats and do anything? What's the deal?
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They're in the local government but don't have many seats. Elections are coming up soon, so that's why their posters are up.
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Wait is the cdp different from the zombified hulk of Ozawa
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A big flaming stink posted:Wait is the cdp different from the zombified hulk of Ozawa Yeah they've kept a distance from Ozawa himself
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On the optimist front, last time the era changed the LDP looked high on the hog, then a recession happened and they lost power 4 years later, soooo
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drilldo squirt posted:I'm confused. Some rich shitlord spends a month or so in Japan every year and can't speak Japanese.
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Stringent posted:Some rich shitlord spends a month or so in Japan every year and can't speak Japanese. More common than you think worldwide that is not japan specifically. I see certain languages as mystical because i dint grasp them, so hes trying to hold thst feeling of mystery.
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If there’s one thing the world definitely needs more of, it’s the foreigner/white guy perspective on the inscrutable Orient.
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LyonsLions posted:If there’s one thing the world definitely needs more of, it’s the foreigner/white guy perspective on the inscrutable Orient. That said, I am nostalgic for the days when I could ride the train and not understand what people were saying.
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LyonsLions posted:If there’s one thing the world definitely needs more of, it’s the foreigner/white guy perspective on the inscrutable Orient. nice av/post combo 
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Race Realists posted:nice av/post combo Don't sign your Posts.
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Last five minutes of Heisei era. Good thing there wasn't any horrible horrible war caused by Japan like the previous one. Countdown stream on TBS for those interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb_BEx8yIak
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LimburgLimbo posted:Guys today for lunch I had 和食, which translated to English is “Fascist Meal”, we’ve seriously crossed the Rubicon now that every day millions of Japanese people are paying omage to Mussolini at Evey meal. Are your farts all 和風 now
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hi hello post your most interesting or funniest articles about low birth rates and/or labor shortages in japan pls i'll go first! https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-10/japan-s-famed-convenience-stores-face-inconvenient-labor-truth quote:Apart from culture, food and a super-efficient rail system, one of the things that most impresses travelers to Japan are its convenience stores, bursting with sushi, alcohol, underwear and ready-made food available at all hours.
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i've been listening to the nhk news podcast which I'm sure is just a step or two up from farts from a butt but it is nice to listen to some japanese and go huh I half understood what the gently caress was going on there. what news sources do y'all like for finding out what's going on in Japan (or just silly trivia things too, those are good)
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https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/11/national/abe-apologizes-report-aging-said-elderly-couple-will-need-%C2%A520-million-savings/quote:Government backpedals on report that said elderly couples will need ¥20 million in savings Someone on Reddit amusingly compared it to when in 1941 the Japanese government rejected a report by the Total War Research Institute concluding that Japan would definitely lose a war against the US.
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mystes posted:https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/11/national/abe-apologizes-report-aging-said-elderly-couple-will-need-%C2%A520-million-savings/ The best part is that pushback came from Taro Aso who probably spends ￥20 million a year on dick pills.
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Taking a page from the Thai political handbook, I see. There is no problem. If there was a problem, do not worry because we have looked into the problem. Anyway, we are in charge.
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ReindeerF posted:Taking a page from the Thai political handbook, I see. We are looking into this, please wait.
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