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If all manner of ghouls can get a Nobel prize in economics ( i know it's a fake Nobel), why not this man the real one?
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He should be a guest in Iron Chef
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Nov 19, 2022 19:47
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Negostrike posted:He should be a guest in Iron Chef He should make a cameo on the New Years Gaki no Tsukai in a couple years.
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Nov 20, 2022 07:04
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Negostrike posted:He should be a guest in Iron Chef Him and John Hinckley, yes.
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Nov 20, 2022 07:14
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I know it's a long shot but how do pardons work in Japan?
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Nov 20, 2022 11:52
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Lammasu posted:I know it's a long shot but how do pardons work in Japan? Apparently under the old system the Emperor could just do it but it was usually a kind of celebratory "okay, everyone in for three years for vagrancy or having a sour face can go home now" thing on marriages and new accessions.
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Nov 20, 2022 11:57
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Quixotic1 posted:If all manner of ghouls can get a Nobel prize in economics ( i know it's a fake Nobel), why not this man the real one? The nobel peace prize is probably more of a joke than nobel economic. Korea should just build a bronze statue reenact the shooting in the fashion of the headbutt statue. 
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Nov 20, 2022 13:47
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Charlz Guybon posted:Feel like Fry in that shocked, not shocked meme So, um, is SGI going to be included in this, or did they secure an exemption for themselves?
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Nov 20, 2022 14:47
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The assassination continues to succeed. https://twitter.com/NikkeiAsia/status/1594884195268042752
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Nov 22, 2022 04:36
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Huh...I'm going to guess this wouldn't have gone so well given what we've seen in Ukraine. https://twitter.com/Newsweek/status/1595828588581904384
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Nov 28, 2022 13:36
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Charlz Guybon posted:Huh...I'm going to guess this wouldn't have gone so well given what we've seen in Ukraine. Modern Newsweek should be taken with a spoonful of salt. It could be true, but I’d want confirmation from a better source. Especially since the Anpo commits the US to defending Japan; even contemplating such a thing would be reckless enough even for Putin to justify some skepticism.
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Nov 28, 2022 16:16
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Even assuming it's true, it sounds more like it would just be Russian ships posturing aggressively in the Kurils than an actual conflict. It's possible they war-gamed out an invasion, but every country does that. Japan would be an order of magnitude more complex than Ukraine and directly invokes US involvement. (Also Russia has a... less than stellar track record when it comes to naval maneuvers against Japan.)
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Nov 28, 2022 17:11
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Rochallor posted:Even assuming it's true, it sounds more like it would just be Russian ships posturing aggressively in the Kurils than an actual conflict. It's possible they war-gamed out an invasion, but every country does that. Japan would be an order of magnitude more complex than Ukraine and directly invokes US involvement. (Also Russia has a... less than stellar track record when it comes to naval maneuvers against Japan.) Czar Nicholas just never gonna live that down.
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Nov 28, 2022 17:21
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Even ignoring the nonsense source, Russia has no reason to attack Japan anyways since they already control the Kurils
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Nov 28, 2022 18:39
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random FSB analysts should also be taken with a grain of salt. one came out to the press after the 2022 Ukraine invasion saying something to the effect of "yeah, they ask us to run bullshit scenarios all the time, they don't make sense but we do them anyway. nobody expected them to actually go through with the invasion, we thought it was yet more garbage and wrote our usual bullshit analysis"
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Nov 28, 2022 20:18
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tractor fanatic posted:Even ignoring the nonsense source, Russia has no reason to attack Ukraine anyways since they already control Crimea and basically the eastern areas too
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Nov 28, 2022 20:35
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Are you serious with this comparison?
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that's... a bold take.Rochallor posted:Even assuming it's true, it sounds more like it would just be Russian ships posturing aggressively in the Kurils than an actual conflict. It's possible they war-gamed out an invasion, but every country does that. Japan would be an order of magnitude more complex than Ukraine and directly invokes US involvement. (Also Russia has a... less than stellar track record when it comes to naval maneuvers against Japan.) gently caress yeah, the battle of tsushima is way overdue for a sequel or reboot j/k, please don't fight near my home
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Nov 29, 2022 00:55
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Given current Russian ability you'd probably just end with control of Sakhalin / Karafuto again.
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Nov 29, 2022 17:22
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Tesseraction posted:Given current Russian ability you'd probably just end with control of Sakhalin / Karafuto again. I don't know, there are troubling signs related to Japan's forces: Japan Tractor Production Reaches 15-Year Low in 2020 https://www.agequipmentintelligence.com/articles/5101-japan-tractor-production-reaches-15-year-low-in-2020?v=preview
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Nov 29, 2022 18:10
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tractor fanatic posted:Are you serious with this comparison?
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Nov 29, 2022 18:37
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https://twitter.com/azureScapegoat/status/1597796352003825665
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Dec 1, 2022 00:20
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What badge does she give you
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Dec 1, 2022 00:34
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Rochallor posted:What badge does she give you The red one.
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Dec 1, 2022 15:02
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So after a solid decade at least of hammering away at it and abusing Japan's weird hard on for voting LDP majorities in with every election on top of ensuring that the PM candidate is always a Nippon Kaigi fucker.....it looks like that branch of the government is finally getting it's long awaited wish for a military buildup since there's apparently enough public support in the wake of real Chinese and Russian aggression to bump it's spending on defense up from 1 to 2 percent of the national budget. Like I kind of get it since it's based on actual current events and not JUST pure conspiracy or "Nippon Banzai!" Imperial era Japan horseshit , but gently caress Nippon Kaigi shitlords all the same. I doubt I'll be seeing relinquishing their iron grip on Japanese politics in my lifetime and will continue to work to shift the whole country even further to the far-right and nationalist bullshit over the next decade as well. Like all they have to do is ensure that the PM candidate is always a Nippon Kaigi diehard and will appoint a cabinet from that wing of the LDP and since that party wins every single election regardless that's enough to ensure eternal power for the hardliners.
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Dec 17, 2022 15:02
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I would say “not so fast” on public support - there might be support for a military build-up, but a surprise increases on taxes for normal people in the midst of bad inflation is not exactly popular. Just as Kishida was trying to trend upwards in public opinion, he goes and does this out of nowhere.
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Dec 17, 2022 22:22
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Sorry, I've been out with covid this week so am more behind on external politics than usual. What happened in Japan? I thought that Kishida was from the relatively less braying warhawk side of the party?
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Dec 18, 2022 00:05
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Tesseraction posted:Sorry, I've been out with covid this week so am more behind on external politics than usual. What happened in Japan? I thought that Kishida was from the relatively less braying warhawk side of the party? He knows how to be a more mask on than Suga and Abe basically but is very much from the Nippon Kaigi far right wing of the LDP. The LDP as I understand it is supposed to be more of a center right conservative party and that's what Japan prefers to vote for when they inevitably vote them into power every single election but Abe and his successors have made sure to handpick their cabinets and other key people from the ultra nationalist right wing Nippon Kaigi faction who among other things want to revert Japan to the Empire of Japan outlook where the emperor enjoyed godlike descended from Amaterasu status.
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Dec 18, 2022 01:19
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As I understand it, US allow Japan increase her military spending to 2% with the condition of using most of it on American Tomahawk missile.
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Dec 18, 2022 01:48
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To be sure there's a big chunk going to American military industry complex but Japan's own domestic military industrial complex is actually pretty big, they have domestic tanks and planes and shipbuilding and stuff, probably moreso than the average Euro country. I interpret this as a handout to them
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Wait, Japan's central bank did what?
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Lammasu posted:Wait, Japan's central bank did what? the bank of japan fucks with both the short term and long term bond rate, whereas other central banks only control the short term by setting the discount rate, or so i gather. they had set the range allowed for 10 year bonds to be -.25% to .25%, and they broadened the range to -.5% to .5%. this sent the 10 year rate to around .4%, leading to a bunch of buying of yen and those bonds, increasing the value of the yen. they kept the discount rate at -.1%. don't really know how this "yield curve control" works exactly, tho. this feels like something that npr's planet money or indicator will cover once they're back from break.
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Dec 21, 2022 10:52
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Yen getting stronger is not something I will complain about.
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harperdc posted:Yen getting stronger is not something I will complain about. Remember in Shadow Run how the money is in yen because Japan controls everything.
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Didn't realize Kishida was already polling barely at 30% . My god the LDP may not gain and even lose a seat or two in its majority in the next election if this keeps up
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Kale posted:Didn't realize Kishida was already polling barely at 30% . My god the LDP may not gain and even lose a seat or two in its majority in the next election if this keeps up Religion is always the bad guy in JRPGs for a reason.
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Lammasu posted:Religion is always the bad guy in JRPGs for a reason. Hopefully Japan will finally kill God IRL, generations have been prepared for this task by JRPGs!
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PT6A posted:Hopefully Japan will finally kill God IRL, generations have been prepared for this task by JRPGs! Never gonna happen. The strong tradition is to vote LDP and "not rock the boat" even though the boat already started taking on a poo poo ton of water in the 90's before Abe and his Abenomics that they've tried what feels like a half dozen times, before the Nippon Kaigi cabinet stacking and before the Unification Church ties got way out of control. The societies just not really built for serious democracy it feels like the way they cling to traditions like "Just Vote LDP" despite brutal approval ratings for the last 3 PM's they've had from the party and clearly not much getting better for it. It's crazy though the LDP has hosed up constantly and consistently and is evidently corrupt as poo poo with cronyism and cult ties and yet tradition saves them every time, but the DPJ has one term, things didn't immediately work out and they ran into some headwinds with internal party fighting over policy implementation and some events beyond their direct control like the tsunami and subsequent Fukushima disaster and it's immediately out with them and just LDP forever and lets have PM's like Suga.
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My understanding is that the problem is less tradition and more voter apathy. People who've internalized that it doesn't matter who's in power because all politicians are the same, so they completely ignore politics and don't pay attention to elections.
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God as in the moscot emperor?
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