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I'm glad this thread exists, as I'm very interested in keeping informed, though none of my friends share that interest, and my wife can only follow along for so long before she just gets mad/bored. We're in Tokyo. I convinced her that it was really important that she vote for Tokyo governor. I don't remember exactly who she voted for--it wasn't Mac Akasaka though, so no worries--but we were super bummed when Ishihara won again. That whole family is just, ugh. After the quake/tsunami, we were introduced to Yukio Edano, who gave near constant updates, and such and garnered quite a bit of sympathy from the people for how long he continued. Some people I knew said he should be PM, but he seems to stay away from the limelight. I hope he's actually a Good Guy, because he seems pretty likable. My two 'favorite' political stories recently are: -Defense Minister Naoki Tanaka, literally not knowing anything about anything -Maehara getting in trouble for taking donations from a "foreigner", which in these cases means an ethnic Chinese or Korean who was most likely born and raised in Japan and has a Japanese name. Also I am really looking forward to Toru Hashimoto opinions, because the guy frustrates me to no end.
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Lawman 0 posted:Wait how many chinese even live in japan now? There are like over 300,000 people of Chinese descent living in Japan. Quite a few were born and raised here. A lot of young Chinese come to Japan for work, study or travel, just like lots of Japanese people go to China for the same things. There are a lot of political and cultural tensions for sure but it's not like it's a racial terror day-to-day. Apraxin posted:Hashimoto On the news last night, I caught a video of him at a Kansai Electric shareholder meeting or something? He went over time, kept talking, and was drowned out by a ton of shouting. I wish I had been paying attention from the beginning of the story but I was distracted and wasn't really sure what was going on.
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I knew a girl who lived here for a few years who got completely livid and incensed that people told her 鼻が高い. Like, legit flipping out on the people who were talking about her. Yeah, I do tend to think it's rude if people around you are commenting about you to each other while you're right there, and they're not addressing you, maybe. But she literally did not understand the phrase, and in her head it just sounded like it was an insult. (In her defense, that was my own mental reaction when I first heard the phrase, similar to 顔が小さい.) A lot of times when foreigners I know get upset over things that were said to them, they oftentimes have actually just really misinterpreted the whole situation, whether it be a linguistic misunderstanding or a cultural one. I dunno, I guess everyone sees things from their own lens. As a Japanese-speaking honky, I haven't really perceived any "microagression" ever, because (again, anecdotally speaking) on the rare occasion any given Japanese person wants to actually discriminate against you, you will be very aware of it.
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Japan had a sizable socialist/communist community after the war into the 70s, and a few writers who were arrested for it. I bring this up but of course I don't remember any of the authors' names, I just remember reading a few in college. Things weren't very pretty though; you may have heard of a politician named Asanuma, who was assassinated with a sword on live TV. Then of course there was the Japanese Red Army and other similar groups that caused riots, bombed some places, hijacked some planes, etc. It's pretty wild stuff to read about.
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