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Ghost Leviathan posted:Just kinda the same poo poo everyone else is doing; demanding younger generations spend more money they don't have, get jobs when no one's hiring and have more babies when they can't even move out of their parents' house. And in general assuming that problems aren't a thing that's ever going to exist again. In brief: the number of ‘permanent’ positions is getting lower, and they’re suffering from the same wage depression the U.S. is; contract jobs have grown majorly, and they’re paid even worse. So for younger generations, there’s less security and you’re living more paycheck-to-paycheck. There are actually still a surplus of jobs, but Japanese firms also bitch and moan about not being able to fill them. Because the job pool isn’t a monolith of bright 22-year-old Todai kids. All that Abenomics did was “money printer go brrrrrrr” which allowed big companies to repatriate overseas profits at even higher gains, but meant gently caress all for those living and working in Japan. Guess what big companies did with all those on-paper profits!
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From an outsider's perspective since Japan's population skews older on average than most you'd expect a more conservative voting tendency. Allied with that fact that one party has been in power for 90%+ of the time and there's a ton of inertia to shift there. I wouldn't be surprised if many younger people don't even vote due to the perceived lack of impact.
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Flayer posted:I wouldn't be surprised if many younger people don't even vote due to the perceived lack of impact.
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Flayer posted:From an outsider's perspective since Japan's population skews older on average than most you'd expect a more conservative voting tendency. Allied with that fact that one party has been in power for 90%+ of the time and there's a ton of inertia to shift there. I wouldn't be surprised if many younger people don't even vote due to the perceived lack of impact. Ding! and add in that the major metro areas are disproportionately under-represented by the proportion of seats, and you have a situation where few young people bother to vote.
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Younger voters also tend to favour the LDP.
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The apportionment issue exists, but it's not as bad as it used to be. The problem with tweaking the map to fix it is that the rural prefectures keep hemorrhaging population, so it rapidly gets out of balance again. As long as people consider it important for each prefecture to have its own councillor, I don't see how you get around it, at least as far as the upper house. Besides, the LDP does just fine in suburban and urban areas too because of the divided opposition. Reallocation won't solve that more fundamental issue (full PR might but lol). Sauzer fucked around with this message at 14:43 on Aug 31, 2020 |
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Charles 2 of Spain posted:Younger voters also tend to favour the LDP. There was a good interview series from I think NPR, comparing younger voters in Japan to the US. Younger people in the US are change focused and Japanese youths were completely disinterested in change if it couldn't be actualized quickly into real benefits for them. That's a bit sad because sometimes change takes time, but it is what it is.
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This is the weirdest tweet for a profile I've seen in a while. "Suga is iron-willed. Except pancakes." https://twitter.com/NAR/status/1300583194044043264
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So the TWO WORKING-DINNERS include a meeting inside iHop?
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Spacewolf posted:This is the weirdest tweet for a profile I've seen in a while. "Suga is iron-willed. Except pancakes."
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That's a translation error, he actually eats 200 pancakes a day
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So he was also affiliated with Nippon Kaigi, so is still very much apart of the far-right nutball "branch" of the LDP.
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Ardennes posted:So he was also affiliated with Nippon Kaigi, so is still very much apart of the far-right nutball "branch" of the LDP.
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Sauzer posted:Both Kishida (the "moderate") and Ishiba are reportedly members too. Yeah, it isn't that Nippon Kaigi isn't "that bad," but the LDP is just embracing its roots. Also, it seems like Abe's economic policies (which nowhere) were Suga's to begin with, empty monetary stimulus with no significant changes on the horizon.
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Spacewolf posted:This is the weirdest tweet for a profile I've seen in a while. "Suga is iron-willed. Except pancakes." Yoshihide Suge Just Wants To Live A Quiet Life
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I was watching a Taiwanese political talking head show. They speculated that Abe hung it up at this particular time was not for his health. Abe probably got pressured by Trump to say nasty words to China (like what Australia and Taiwan are doing now) and Abe didn't want to jeopardize the economy to do it so he used his health to get the hell out of the way. The Japanese specialist also predicted Abe's right hand man Yoshihide Suga 菅 義偉 will be the next PM, not the wildly popular Ishiba Shigeru. If he gets I am going to call him the "Sugar Man". stephenthinkpad fucked around with this message at 18:53 on Sep 2, 2020 |
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Fresh off his 2.9% performance in the Tokyo governor's race, Makoto "kill all the koreans" Sakurai says he's running for the Diet! e: he also looks like one half of a manzai duo Sauzer fucked around with this message at 02:10 on Sep 3, 2020 |
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Sauzer posted:Fresh off his 2.9% performance in the Tokyo governor's race, Makoto "kill all the koreans" Sakurai says he's running for the Diet! That shitfuck? I wish that loving cockroach would just gently caress off.
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translation of character ishiba is standing in front of: fool
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Mr. Fix It posted:translation of character ishiba is standing in front of: fool Baka mitai~
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How is Covid doing in Japan six months in?
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Second wave was pretty bad, cases are starting to come down now but there's still not enough testing so virus eradication is basically impossible.
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Cases are falling slightly more quickly than testing is, so... good??? In fairness, you basically can't get tested without sustained covid symptoms or having been in contact with a confirmed case, so a drop in testing does mean fewer people are meeting those criteria. The government's done gently caress all though.
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Grouchio posted:When do we know whom the LDP brass picked as Abe's successor? When the white smoke comes out of Tokyo Tower. (Not sure when it’ll honestly come, but likely will see rumors of the announcement online before the presser is carried on TV)
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Rochallor posted:The government's done gently caress all though.
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Grouchio posted:When do we know whom the LDP brass picked as Abe's successor?
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remember the democratic party? it's back in constitutional democratic form
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Weatherman posted:remember the democratic party? e: Come on Wikipedia, keep up! 
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Guess we'll know the election results by tonight EST. Would it be a long-term boon if the next PM is less competent at keeping house than Abe?
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Grouchio posted:Guess we'll know the election results by tonight EST. Would it be a long-term boon if the next PM is less competent at keeping house than Abe? They're scheduled to announce the results at around 15:30 local time, so 02:30 EDT. I would hope that a scandal or two would be enough for the opposition to topple Suga and the LDP, but even back when LDP PMs were resigning annually it took two resignations and another year for them to lose power.
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Well it is officially Suga.
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おめでとう to Uncle Reiwa himself.
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*taps mic* ... *clears throat* ... Suga Daddy
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Does this sound about right for Suga Daddy?
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What's the state of the Japanese left by the way? It's probably my North American bias but it seems really off to not have a younger generation that is more left wing, especially in a country where the situation for young people is pretty dire.
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TW: Jake Adelstein but yeah, seems about right in that he's just gonna be the same as Abe.
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ToxicAcne posted:What's the state of the Japanese left by the way? It's probably my North American bias but it seems really off to not have a younger generation that is more left wing, especially in a country where the situation for young people is pretty dire. Pretty pitiful, the center-left (CDP) is polling around 7% of the vote and the Communists are getting around 4% (they will probably improve a bit in election results). I would imagine when you get down to it young Japanese people are probably more left-wing but also (I imagine) pretty apathetic because it doesn't seem like anything will actually change since the LDP still has enough of their core supporters to stay in power indefinitely. Remember that in 2017, turnout was 53% (sounds familiar?) and the LDP only got 33% of it (and 61% of the seats). The way the LDP are going they will continue to hold power and probably have use more and more openly undemocratic methods to hold power as their supporters slowly die off (also luckily for them there isn't enough young people any more to really sway things). Ardennes fucked around with this message at 02:36 on Sep 16, 2020 |
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