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CommieGIR posted:hopefully after safety updates lol good luck with that tbh
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LimburgLimbo posted:lol good luck with that tbh Well, to be fair most of the required safety updates were "Make sure your backup systems are not at flood level"
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Kishida? I heard the new PM was gonna be someone else https://twitter.com/ArmandDoma/status/1443337231700094978
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When asked about her thoughts on Japan's birth-rate and aging population issues, PM Spears remarked that she understands Japanese youth's reluctance to start families, and how their lonliness is killing them, but she must confess she thinks they still believe.
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Sanguinia posted:When asked about her thoughts on Japan's birth-rate and aging population issues, PM Spears remarked that she understands Japanese youth's reluctance to start families, and how their lonliness is killing them, but she must confess she thinks they still believe. Made me literally laugh out loud
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would naturalize to vote for candidates in ms. spears's work bitch party
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The New Prime Minister of Japan is a big Demon Slayer Fan. He wants to boost the incomes of workers in the manga/anime industry.
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Grouchio posted:The New Prime Minister of Japan is a big Demon Slayer Fan. He wants to boost the incomes of workers in the manga/anime industry. This is not a bad thing, I have a couple artists friends in Japan and the pay for manga and anime artists is poo poo.
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snap election snap analysis: top ruling party LDP and top opposition party both lost seats, with the populist center-right Japan Innovation Party (日本維新の会) picking up, at least numbers-wise, those seats. my dumbass impression: the coordination between opposition parties that weren't JIP had an effect, but part of that effect was pushing a bunch of JIP candidates over the top instead of theirs.
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Mr. Fix It posted:snap election snap analysis: top ruling party LDP and top opposition party both lost seats, with the populist center-right Japan Innovation Party (日本維新の会) picking up, at least numbers-wise, those seats. Are we going to get a Japanese Macron in a couple years?
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Nikkei has an article up https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Japan-election/Japan-s-ruling-LDP-secures-sole-majority-in-lower-house-election It's supposed to be good for the new PM because nobody likes or something and everyone expected the party to underperform and the opposition to pick up more seats. Or so I keep reading.
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Sanguinia posted:Are we going to get a Japanese Macron in a couple years? They already do frequently if you're typing in proper rōmaji.
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Grand Fromage posted:They already do frequently if you're typing in proper rōmaji. I understood this reference
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Still waiting for PM Mac Akasaka EDIT: Oh no he got milkshake ducked
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CDP would probably have gotten completely destroyed without coordination. My takeaway is that having the party still be run by dinosaurs like Ozawa, Kan and Edano himself, who have been rejected by voters now multiple times, is probably a bad idea. Well, in another electoral cycle many of them will be retired/retiring finally. Better luck in 4 years I guess
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Sanguinia posted:Are we going to get a Japanese Macron in a couple years? i would doubt that. i don't get the impression that the leader of the JIP has broad popularity. the electoral system basically guarantees that LDP will be the largest party and have a majority on its own unless a whole lot of stuff goes wrong for them. i think the LDP can only lose power if you get at least 3 or 4 of the following all at once: 1. really big scandal with smoking guns incriminating major party figures 2. major economic recession 3. a major defector or large group of lesser defectors establishing a separate power base 4. a poorly timed election (upper or lower house) 5. komeito leaves the coalition i think 4 is required, the opposition never maintains momentum. 5 is something that has intrigued me since the professor in a survey course on modern japan i took way back in the mid 00s brought it up. at the time, there was a thought that if the komeito switched to backing DPJ that the shift in SMD seats (soka gakkai folks voting for the local opposition candidate instead of LDP) would put DPJ over the top. i don't think the shift would be big enough to topple the LDP on its own now, but it would have an impact. far right folks hate soka gakkai and are always saying that the LDP should kick them out of coalition and komeito is not the most natural coalition partner ideologically, so it's not a completely insane thing to imagine. i don't anticipate any major LDP figures to try to defect, since Koike destroyed her chances at national power by gambling on that in the previous election. tl;dr:
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 at anyone who ever doubted that the LDP would easily win another majority as it basically always has. After all the average voter wouldn't want to step on any toes or possibly offend anybody by voting for another party or something that isn't the status quo. Perish the thought.
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Why is the electoral system such that a party that consistently gets just over a third of the votes consistently wields unchallenged power?
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My issue is more that this whole shying away from talking about politics or willing to be critical of the status quo and just kind of going along with it to avoid potential conflict is more or less incompatible with participatory democracy and all but the entirety of the reason that Japan is a single party system that just happens to hold elections. Like they do seem to be free and fair, just not even close to enough people seem interested in voting for anybody other than the LDP such that any other party will ever hold power ever again other than that one time. It wouldn't be so bad if the current state of that party wasn't stuffed full of Nippon Kaigi right wing nationalist shitheads in the major cabinet positions rather than some of the moderates they count among their members. Not even close to everybody in Japan is onboard with Nippon Kaigi, but I mean they keep voting for this party and then that party gets to appoint it's people and therein lies the hustle of how they get to wield outsized influence despite having some really unpopular ideas and Japan ends up with three Prime Minsters within a year. Like seriously gently caress Nippon Kaigi. Their politicians seem to care more about visiting that war crime shrine, saber rattling with China and Korea over basically nothing, and oppressing women and LGBT groups over some vague sense of nationalism than just about anything else let alone solving Japan's actual problems. Abenomics is a sham, their drive to revise the constitution failed to garner the necessary popular support in order to do so during Abe's appalling long term and is also a sham. Suga was like the worst most unpopular PM they've probably ever had in the history of the country by a long shot in his barely a year in charge and just seemed like a complete incompetent rear end in a top hat with a big mouth and no political or people skills to speak of. He was just some ghoul whip type figure under Abe that only got the job cause he was hand picked by him basically. The current guy Kishida while stated to be more mild mannered and open to compromise is expected to just get pushed around by the Nippon Kaigi hardliners and one of his first policy statements was of course about the stupid Yasukani shrine thing that I swear only Nippon Kaigi people even remotely care about as something important to consider. Like there's really very little reason for Nippon Kaigi to exist let alone being in the drivers seat of Japan's government at this point for how much damage they've managed to do especially under Suga's brief tenure and how much all of their policy pushes and drives have failed miserably. Kale fucked around with this message at 16:01 on Nov 1, 2021 |
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Not hugely relevant to most people here, but a big fat BOO to the Japanese Government's Omicron-COVID response. Or at least to the way they rolled it out. Monday - They say they are banning foreigners, or at least going back to the old set of foreigner restrictions. This is terrible news for me, as I am scheduled to arrive in Japan on the 20th. And already have my ticket bought and my Visa in my passport. I get an email from the company saying that it's sad that they have heard the news about the foreigner ban and are going to get clarification. Tuesday - I ring the Japanese consulate in Melbourne to ask what is going on re: my Visa and if I am allowed to arrive. The woman at the consulate says she thinks I will be right with my Visa, (I have an Instructor exemption which allows me in under the old rules), but will ring her bosses to check and get back to me. Later in the day she does get back to me and says that she has checked with her bosses, and all is well. My exemption still works, and I should be right to come to Japan to start work in a few weeks. I also get an email from the company saying they have checked with the Ministry of Justice that says the same thing. YAY! Thursday - I get another email from the company saying that the Ministry has re-clarified and that there is a blanket ban on foreign entries from Dec 2-31. Whoops, sorry so you won't be coming after all. And as this ban may be extended, we don't know when you can arrive. Hooray. Even if it may seem a little harsh and panicky, I can understand the Japanese Government closing their borders over a new strain of COVID. It sucks for me, but these are part of the realities of living in Pandemic times. Also, considering I got this job in September of last year, and was initially supposed to arrive in March this year, what's waiting one more month? But the No-Yes-No to my arrival within the space of a week is truly lovely. I also half expect another change before Christmas. It's frustrating, it's annoying, and I can't do a drat thing about it. Sorry about the rant.
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Today the Governor of Tokyo has announced she will make same-sex partnerships legal in the city starting April 2022
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How is the BACK TO THE OFFICE culture in Japan now? Is remote work a thing at all, or was it ever a thing since the start of the pandemic?
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People are going back in, the trains are going back to the usual morning sardines-in-can. A lot of places did work from home, thankfully. The school I work at had online classes for a few stretches when there were SoEs declared. You could work from home if you didn’t need to physically be there for some reason.
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Grouchio posted:Today the Governor of Tokyo has announced he will make same-sex partnerships legal in the city starting April 2022 *she Mercury_Storm posted:How is the BACK TO THE OFFICE culture in Japan now? Is remote work a thing at all, or was it ever a thing since the start of the pandemic? My company is trying to get us into the office two days out of the week. They also have very strong fears of people traveling during the holidays and the borders snapping shut on them.
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Mercury_Storm posted:How is the BACK TO THE OFFICE culture in Japan now? Is remote work a thing at all, or was it ever a thing since the start of the pandemic? I don't know how much remote work existed here before the pandemic but it definitely exists now.
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One place I work for managed to successfully shift most of their staff to remote work after realizing how much they were saving on office rentals.
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noted piece of poo poo, Shintaro Ishihara, has died https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/shintaro-ishihara-japanese-politician-who-set-off-row-with-china-dies-89-nhk-2022-02-01/ rest in piss
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Mr. Fix It posted:noted piece of poo poo, Shintaro Ishihara, has died
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So politics in Japan has become that uninspiring and uninteresting, huh
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Weatherman posted:So politics in Japan has become that uninspiring and uninteresting, huh
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Grouchio posted:Context? Assuming that it's been six months since the last post. Anyway, election next week, huh?
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The Yen is going to the toilet. That's something.
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Rochallor posted:Anyway, election next week, huh? The only insight or observation I can think of is if the LDP maintains control, the tourist doors might get kicked open not too long after. Whether that’s truly good or not I don’t know. Bit of both, honestly. stephenthinkpad posted:The Yen is going to the toilet. That's something. And everything’s getting more expensive. Almost every night on the news is an announcement that a company is raising prices for the first time in three emperors’ reigns from October. It’s not great!
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Grouchio posted:You mean the LDP gaining more seats in the senate? no Rochallor posted:Assuming that it's been six months since the last post.
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stephenthinkpad posted:The Yen is going to the toilet. That's something.
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Grouchio posted:Supply-side inflation? Something else? the bank of japan is pointedly avoiding raising interest rates, which is out of step with most other central banks around the world. they're continuing their years long desperate quest to force an increase in consumption in the face of stagnant population growth other currencies are now more attractive as short-term investments due to better interest rates, so people sell yen to buy dollars and euros. this weakens the yen, which makes imports into japan more expensive and exports less expensive this is just what i've picked up as an american who occasionally reads bad articles in the economist. there's probably a bunch of things going on that i have no idea about
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Abe got shot, so what (does this mean for the election)? https://www.iwate-np.co.jp/article/kyodo/2022/7/8/911597 MediumWellDone fucked around with this message at 03:58 on Jul 8, 2022 |
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