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So the Unification Church has a big footprint in Japan? I didn't expect that.
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Once I was at my friends' house and I saw a copy of the Washington Times on the table and it kind of freaked me out. Afterwords, I asked him if he knew who published that and how crazy he was. Eventually my friend got into Qanon by his wife. Sorry, no point to this story I guess.
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Jul 10, 2022 01:26
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harperdc posted:apparently somebody also tried to start some poo poo at a train station in Hachioji over the weekend with a sickle I thought most murders in Japan were Death Note related.
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Jul 12, 2022 03:39
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Japan's minister for birthrate doesn't have any kids but did try a pregnancy belly.
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Aug 13, 2022 06:25
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Has an Evil Religion in a JRPG ever been based on the Moonies?
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Aug 24, 2022 10:47
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Tesseraction posted:And they said crime doesn't pay https://twitter.com/RihitoPhysicist/status/1562778830242480130 I knew Japan has an inherent distrust of organized religion, but I didn't know it ran this deep.
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Aug 27, 2022 01:28
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So I guess the lesson is if you want to bring about political change assassinate a prominent politician?
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Sep 1, 2022 03:09
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I'm kind of unclear what the Unification church is getting out of it. Korean/Japanese relations still suck.
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Sep 1, 2022 03:26
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As I recall Japan is like 3% Christian. Are most of those UC?
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Sep 2, 2022 02:43
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Shinzo Abe's funeral will cost 12 million dollars. So, like, do they have state funerals for every ex-PM? Because they have a lot of them so this could add up.
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Sep 6, 2022 20:48
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Speaking of tourism, I'd like to visit Japan one day but I'm on Adderall which is completely illegal in Japan. I can't go to a Japanese prison, I've seen Ricky-O. Anyone have any advice for this?
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Sep 12, 2022 16:01
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Charles 2 of Spain posted:Simply become a famous Olympic athlete. Are jerking off and playing video games an Olympic sport? Because if so I'm at a Morty level.
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Sep 12, 2022 23:43
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Navaash posted:Yeah. The amphetamine ban is over 70 years old at this point. Furthermore, Japan had an issue with speed being rampant in the 80s due to the yakuza and therefore doubled down. They allow a Ritalin variant called Concerta, but it's strictly controlled (you have to both hold a health insurance card in Japan and have a physician's referral to receive it, and a tourist isn't going to have the former). So, can I bring concerta into Japan if I have all the right paperwork?
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Sep 13, 2022 03:43
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RocknRollaAyatollah posted:Fun fact, amphetamines are banned in Japan because during WWII most of the nation was wired on them and didn't stop after the war was over. Even after the ban was in place in the 50's, legitimate companies were still producing them and unloading them on the black market. After one company got a slap on the wrist fine for doing this, lawmakers went nuclear because it became a party drug for all night partying. It was like the opioid crisis today but with meth because the government was handing them out like candy to soldiers and factory workers. The postwar work culture continued to push their abuse as well but the club scene was definitely what got lawmakers going. From what I understand didn't Imperial Japan invent meth?
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Sep 13, 2022 18:28
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Mr. Fix It posted:japanese politics are boring. the current government, headed by Fumio Kishida of the Liberal Democratic Party, is vaguely unpopular at the moment for two pieces of fallout from the Abe assassination: their extensive ties to the Moonies have been in the headlines and they held a state funeral for Abe despite it being highly unpopular. the most recent NHK approval poll has them five points underwater, 38%-43%. this doesn't matter tho, cuz they don't have to hold an election in the lower (more powerful) house of representatives until october 2025 and the next house of councilors election won't happen until july 2025. based on nothing but vibes, i would predict that there will be another cabinet reshuffle sometime between the close of the current special session of the diet and the opening of the regular session in january, probably closer to the latter.
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Oct 30, 2022 06:20
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FrozenGoldfishGod posted:Smiling up at, surely. Wouldn't he get reincarnated to an isekai?
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Nov 3, 2022 04:15
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edogawa rando posted:That usually involves a truck. I mean if anything deserves an isekai it's getting killed by a 6-barrel homemade shotgun.
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Nov 5, 2022 20:05
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What is the Japanese response to the ongoing Twitterocalypse? I know the app is really popular there.
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Nov 14, 2022 05:31
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Barudak posted:At my work its mostly "those rat fucks at LINE can't keep getting away with this" What's LINE?
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Nov 14, 2022 20:17
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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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Wait, Japan's central bank did what?
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Dec 21, 2022 07:13
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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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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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Dec 22, 2022 20:47
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So on this Calander, I got it lists Coming of Age day in Japan. What's that?
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Jan 5, 2023 20:50
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I mean, in the US you can vote at 18 but can't drink till your 21.
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Jan 5, 2023 23:58
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I just learned Japan has a national cheese day. I thought most East Asians were lactose intolerant.
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Jan 9, 2023 02:12
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I have a weird question probably no one will know the answer too. Colbert made a reference to George H. W. Bush throwing up on the Japanese prime minister. How did Japan react to that? In America we were going through the "Japan is going to control the world and replace America" phase so we thought they were laughing at us.
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Mar 3, 2023 06:16
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How do the Japanese react to anti-Asian racism? There was that talk recently about how Japanese developers consider the term JRPG a slur. This is like the only time I've seen Japanese media talk about anti-Japanese sentiment.
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Mar 28, 2023 03:16
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stephenthinkpad posted:They totally should have wore JRPG costumes. Like buckles and zippers everywhere. Fail! His son has to beat him in a turn-based battle to claim the throne.
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Mar 28, 2023 14:44
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I'm kind of confused about this gay marriage ruling. They upheld the ban, but people are still happy because they said it kind of sucks?
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May 31, 2023 00:34
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Mr. Fix It posted:the court in nagoya found that not recognizing same-sex marriages violates two articles of the japanese constitution: article 14 which guarantees equality under the law, and article 24 which guarantees marriage freedom. it did not award damages, however, on the grounds that the government has not been unduly slow in updating the laws. the thinking there is that the first municipalities to start recognizing same-sex unions did so in 2015 and the case in question stems from the plaintiffs being barred from registering as a married couple was "only" in 2019. i don't think courts in japan can really do much more than point out that shits unconstitutional and award damages if they belief the government has been too unresponsive. maybe they can, but just don't. not sure if this is a japanese govt thing, or a quality shared by all states with civil codes as opposed to common law. So, gay marriage when? I guess it's not like the US where when the supreme court legalized it places didn't even have enough time to print up new forms. And Japan is kind of weird about homosexuality.
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May 31, 2023 04:18
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Do you think he's bragging about Japan raising the age of consent to 16?
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Jun 27, 2023 01:52
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Does Japan have any tradition of having business executives testify before the parliament? The way Musk is messing up Twitter I'm surprised no one has suggested that.
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Jul 24, 2023 11:10
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Every time I hear the term Global South I think of the Australia episode of The Simpsons.
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I hope this ban on Halloween Street parties isn't permanent. Going to Japan for Halloween is number one on my bucket list.
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stephenthinkpad posted:I was listening to a Chinese podcast, their comments on the Abe fraction getting kicked was that actually the Abe faction was the one who wanted more independent monetary policy. And at this time the US is at the critical point of transitional from hiking interest rate to lower rate and start QE again, they wanted Japan to increase their rate to encourage capital flight and burst the market bubble, which will help suck the capital back to US, just when the Febs is lowering the rate. First off, I admire the balls of someone in China having a podcast. Also, I doubt America cares enough about Japan monetary policy to topple a government. As long as Nippon keeps the Godzilla movies and anime tiddies coming I think we are cool.
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Nessus posted:While the supply of Gunpla is a strategic necessity, I believe having a friendly power a short plane trip away from Red China is also a major factor, especially if they start looking coveteously at Taiwan. (I've heard Japan and Taiwan actually love each other now, somehow?) Also, most conspiracy theories about American machinations assume no other country has any agency.
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Tesseraction posted:That's fair, I suppose I hadn't really thought of the real estate bubble as being driven by America's financial intervention. It makes sense intuitively since I know that American popular culture often saw the Japanese as the big scary monolith looking to overshadow the US, but I guess I never really considered the causality.
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Badger of Basra posted:This was *the* thing everyone was freaking out about in the 80s. If you showed someone back then the story about Nippon Steel buying US Steel they would have a heart attack Oh God! Does Nippon Steel have an anime girl mascot? Seeing that on the Granite City steel mill would be glorious. In case you are wondering, Granite City, IL is like if you took all of New Jersey and condensed it down to one city.
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Was there anything on the Japanese news about Kimmel being impressed with how clean everything was?
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