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I'm no expert, but I think it's a couple of things. Japan was still comparatively industrialized and stable after the war (I think that members of the old government stuck around after reconstruction) so there wasn't a need to build everything from from the ground up. Also the US wanted to stop communism in the Asia-Pacific region so it wasn't like the Middle East where the main goal is to plunder it for resources rather than ensure a functioning society.
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Okinawa should be independent and the military bases bulldozed.
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punk rebel ecks posted:Please explain to me the gap between Japanese and American colleges. ookiimarukochan posted:The most impressive part of that article is the journalist for a British organisation claiming that 70,000 yen a month for full time child care is expensive. Almost everything to do with children is a fuckload more expensive in Japan than the UK but childcare sure as gently caress isn't.
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https://twitter.com/miosugita/status/1021213480571973633 Good, run her out of town.
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She's a politician who wrote an article for a magazine saying LGBT are unproductive and so shouldn't get tax benefits along with other bigoted garbage. Also said the LDP backed her up on it. Now she claims she got death threats from a gay person and so deleted all her tweets about the issue.
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RIP Takeshi Onaga.
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Aug 8, 2018 14:19
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If it leads to her getting shook and quitting politics forever, it's good.
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Aug 10, 2018 10:17
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Could solve the aging population problem.
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punk rebel ecks posted:I wonder what Japanese Trump would be like?
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Stringent posted:I've never met a Japanese person who could answer this question, so good luck. - The other side is worse - All the other side does is complain and don't offer any solutions - The communist party are crazy/terrorists I'm somewhat involved with my local JCP and we're starting to see some changes with younger people but the apathy and nihilism is overwhelming at times.
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Yeah it's a four year holiday between the endless study needed to pass your entrance exam and the rest of your soul-crushing life as a salaryman. The quality of undergraduate education here is hilariously bad. It's more flexible in that you have a shitload of free time, but most students join non-political clubs. The only thing close to political groups I've seen in my university are a Marxist club and various volunteer groups for things like refugee welfare, and it's one of the supposedly more liberal universities. Charles 2 of Spain fucked around with this message at 06:03 on Mar 7, 2019 |
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mikeycp posted:ah yes it's just goons having such a reaction
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LimburgLimbo posted:You mean that single tweet getting ratioed from a leftist party which holds a whopping 4 out of 707 seats in the combined houses that will kneejerk hate everything said by Abe (which in a way is a sentiment I can otherwise get behind), which reads how it なとなく (“kinda”; it’s actually really weirdly casual language for a tweet from a political party) feels like it’s authoritarian because the character is also used in “order” (as in to give an order to someone).
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Apr 1, 2019 10:04
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Ershalim posted:A lot of friends I have in Japan are uneasy with the declaration as well
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They're in the local government but don't have many seats. Elections are coming up soon, so that's why their posters are up.
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harperdc posted:They did update the pay scale, starting from 2012. They made it start lower Lmao
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I was on the last year starting on the old contracts, which were apparently paying the same all the way from 198x until 2011. I think I did the math once, and yeah, that was closer to getting paid a good office job than it is now (when it’s like an okay starting job, depending on exchange rate).
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mystes posted:I would have expected the argument in this thread to be about how meaningful Japanese gun control laws are in light of this event or something, but no, of course not.
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Weatherman posted:poo poo like these posts is why I detest talking to anyone who's been here for less than five years or so, or is here on holiday.
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Jul 21, 2019 14:00
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It's boring and expensive.
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Jul 21, 2019 15:42
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My favourite Oh Japan thing happened about 10 years ago when some Western media claimed that eyeball licking was a trend among schoolkids.
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Jul 21, 2019 15:45
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At least they can't change the constitution yet.
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Jul 21, 2019 17:00
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Wow such a wacky country where nobody has sex ever!
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Aug 4, 2019 09:15
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Welp
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Aug 22, 2019 11:29
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Abe's reshuffling his cabinet, it's pretty boring.
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Sep 3, 2019 07:52
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shrike82 posted:Someone should do a galactic brain meme on the takes people have about Japan because there are definitely two tiers of "I'm a long time expat in Japan" brain going from "Japan is misunderstood by outsiders" to "Japan is misunderstood by outsiders and is actually worse than people think"
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Badger of Basra posted:If the LDP is dominant and the DPJ (or whatever we're calling them now) is weak and also doesn't really have an ideology, what leads people to join/vote for the DPJ? Is it people who got rejected from the LDP for some reason? People who don't like the LDP but can't bring themselves to vote for the Communists?
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Younger voters also tend to favour the LDP.
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Aug 31, 2020 14:00
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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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Rochallor posted:The government's done gently caress all though.
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Getting young people to vote left is difficult, although it's getting a bit better. Anecdotally, I find that although you get younger people caring about social issues and volunteering to help fix them, it doesn't translate politically. It's like the issues are always there but independent of any structural or political problems.
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Adelstein probably thinks Lowtax has Yakuza connections.
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BrigadierSensible posted:Hullo Japanese politics thread.
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There's no way Japan will ever have anything cool like universal healthcare.
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Mar 8, 2021 23:13
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People don't pay the pension because it's unlikely they'll get anything out of it at the end.
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I never paid into the pension for years when I was a student but when I started working I had to do it and also make all the backpayments so I thought it would be a hefty chunk of cash. Turns out they only told me to pay like 15,000 yen in the end 
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Voters under 30 are the government's strongest demographic.
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https://www.asahi.com/sp/politics/yoron/ It's been a phenomenon for a while tbh, and for me anecdotally it holds up.
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