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Grand Fromage posted:It's not just against the USD though. It's way up against the KRW, for one, and the won is up against the dollar too. As I'm reminded every time I transfer money back for student loans. If the Won is up against the dollar shouldn't you be happy when you transfer it back because you will be getting more USD for the same Won?
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Yeah I think you had those reversed. If the Won is up against the dollar, that means its value has increased relative to the dollar, right?
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Sep 24, 2012 02:13
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The guy's statement is entirely accurate. Imagine how shocking it would be for Japan to have a zai-nichi Korean as their Prime Minister.
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Feb 19, 2016 09:18
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But Barack Obama is descended from a slave, possibly the first one. Even if he wasn't, surely you aren't going to imply that the effects of slavery don't linger on to the present day?
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Feb 19, 2016 13:35
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Japan loves to talk the talk about an open liberal society but you will see the reality if go there and try to rent an apartment or get a credit card.
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Aug 27, 2017 07:29
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Pretty much everything in japan is designed with the assumption that everyone lives the exact same narrowly defined lifestyle. If you are living with your family into your thirties and dad has worked for the same company for twenty plus years, what problem is there with a three year phone contract?
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Aug 28, 2017 07:13
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Chomskyan posted:People sure get mad when you mention the time the US burned tens of thousands of innocent people to death You do know we are talking about unrepentant 100 % enthusiastic facists, right?
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Mar 14, 2018 11:18
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Why is it considered more acceptable for people to cast the Japanese as victims in a war they started but the same kind of narrative is not considered acceptable for the nazis or the American south? Tojo was not a victim of American racism.
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Mar 15, 2018 10:30
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The people who manufacture the zyklon b are not carrying rifles but characterizing them as innocent is just disingenuous. Do you think the average private has more agency in a society that has been totally mobilized to sustain the war machine than the people who make the tanks and feed everyone?
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Mar 15, 2018 10:41
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Weatherman posted:All Japanese people in the 1930s and 1940s were not necessarily involved in the war effort nor supportive of the war, hth I would love to hear about the anti-war movement in Japan in 1943.
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Mar 15, 2018 11:09
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There's no room for populism in Japan because basically everything that populists run on has been fully implemented in Japan for its entire post-war history.
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Jan 20, 2019 02:50
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What part of modern Japan doesn't fit perfectly into a typical populist platform? Immigration is kept to a minimum, domestic corporate interests dictate major policy, visible minorities do not exist outside of entertainment, am I missing something here?
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Jan 20, 2019 05:39
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Pollyanna posted:As I said, there's populism and then there's "populism". People like to use populism in the sense of "what the people want" as a way to say "gently caress the browns and gays". The modern concept of the word "populism" is racism, bigotry, xenophobia, unfettered inequality in wealth and rights, and absolute contempt for anyone that doesn't fit a very specific profile. I guess we are in agreement here, because these all describe Japan pretty well.
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I would find the prospect very unlikely, for the basic fact that Japan's median age is around 50. The aging majority of the country is not going to vote for anything except bleeding the minority of young, working-age people dry.
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Jan 20, 2019 07:14
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On the bright side there isn't much of a next generation in Japan to indoctrinate anyway.
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Jan 21, 2019 12:55
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Graphic posted:This and the fact that Japan has the most equal distribution of wealth in the world. And also the highest estate tax in the world. This poo poo is really perplexing, how it coexists with the popular image of salarymen working themselves to death, something most people would assume is a byproduct of a laissez-faire capitalist system What exactly are you basing this statistic on? Nothing I've ever seen indicates this is even close to true. As far as the estate tax, I would assume that people simply skirt around it by hiding their wealth behind the corporate veil. My former boss inherited his company from his father who founded it, I sincerely doubt he paid 60% of the value of the company in taxes upon the founder's death. As far as employment laws go, yeah as written they are pretty great. Did you know housing discrimination is also against the law in Japan? Who could have thought?
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Feb 13, 2019 08:35
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quote:The table below is for 2000, and is based on purchasing power parity (PPP) dollars, I'm more inclined to believe these post-great recession statistics. Something tells me however that the current government in Tokyo isn't going to be submitting these salaries into the wealth distribution statistics. Assuming that the officially reported figures are even reliable at all. EasternBronze fucked around with this message at 09:51 on Feb 13, 2019 |
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Feb 13, 2019 09:39
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Japan is a volkist state, hth.
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As someone who pays into the pension system in Japan, I can't say I am overly worried about it.
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