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I think this comic was originally made to show Japan government and civilians being supportive of China, but feel free to make more jokes.
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Lol. Is this how the Japsnese get back on the Koreans who made the cowtow Abe statue.
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Aug 26, 2020 01:23
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If he expected he could make the Olympic go off smoothly or get RCEP signed he wouldn't get off the train now. He has made a lot of bad decisions including the sale tax hike in the last two years. During the Corona almost every east Asian country leader got a boost in the poll except Abe for the bad Corona performance. Even modi with his craptastic Corona numbers and soldiers getting killed has a high popularity lol!
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Aug 28, 2020 17:30
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If the Japanese don't want to own up to ww2 atrocities, it's 100% their own decision. Don't blame it on CIA. The Japanese are adults and they have access to all the information theu need.
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Aug 30, 2020 00:44
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So I am watching a retrospective of Abe on Al Jazeera. It really got me to think that Shinzo Abe has been doing the best he could do and managed the conflicts from all sides with skill on the prior "conservative mainstream projectary". However I think what he and the Stuff like hiking up the sales tax to pay for the children rearing cost is boneheaded. The Japanese young generations already don't want to spend anything, everyone acting like they are mininalist hikers living in a 60 sq ft tent. Increasing their cost of living will just make them spend less and shrink Japan's consumer market even more. In case of the #2 point, the more I read up on the economic decisions Japan made after the Plaza Accord, and thus hosed up their economy for 2-3 decades good, the more I believe Japan lack long term strategic thinkers. Japan was not the only country US forced to increase the value of the currency. Germany was made to do it. But because the German economy was already much more balanced and healthy, Germany just increased their mark easily without a skip. And if you look at the Sino-US economic disagreements in recent times. US has been repeatedly asked China to increase the value of yuan in the last few administrations, China just ignored US. Neither Germany nor China built up their economy in such a way that they NEED the US market to survive, not so for Japan's export economy during the PIaza Accord days. So many of their critical decisions in the modern times has been marked by adventurism high gamble decisions. If you keep pushing all of your chips to the table, you are going to lose to the house. The Korean politic has been swinging more violently back and fore in their every presidential term compare to Japanese old men politic, but IMO they are pushing their country and their economy toward a direction more suited toward the 21st century. stephenthinkpad fucked around with this message at 13:31 on Aug 30, 2020 |
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Aug 30, 2020 13:24
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So the TWO WORKING-DINNERS include a meeting inside iHop?
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Sep 1, 2020 16:21
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I was watching a Taiwanese political talking head show. They speculated that Abe hung it up at this particular time was not for his health. Abe probably got pressured by Trump to say nasty words to China (like what Australia and Taiwan are doing now) and Abe didn't want to jeopardize the economy to do it so he used his health to get the hell out of the way. The Japanese specialist also predicted Abe's right hand man Yoshihide Suga 菅 義偉 will be the next PM, not the wildly popular Ishiba Shigeru. If he gets I am going to call him the "Sugar Man". stephenthinkpad fucked around with this message at 18:53 on Sep 2, 2020 |
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Sep 2, 2020 18:42
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Japanese yound people have very low voter turnout. It's the opposite of the Taiwan voting demography.
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Sep 16, 2020 06:11
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Trump spent two years on the trade war and lost.
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Oct 13, 2020 08:25
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I mean if common Japanese don't care about Japanese politic, they probably don't care about world politic that much.
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Oct 14, 2020 11:45
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He just need to pay Zack Snyder to cut a music video for him.
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Mar 12, 2021 18:30
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I think Japan will just do the bare minimum to not have to refund the sponsorship money. So no audience, discourage nations to send large teams etc. I don't know what happen to the opening ceremony, hopefully Hazmat suite Interpretive dance.
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Apr 27, 2021 00:55
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The Yen is going to the toilet. That's something.
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Jul 4, 2022 04:39
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So far my favorite theory is Abe was planning a 3rd stunt in the PM seat after Kishida fail. Some people inside LDP really didn't want to see that and call in an old favor in the Japanese navy. Keep in mind Kishida kind of took a very aggressive stand regarding Russia sanctions when he didn't have to. Way more aggressive than SK and Taiwan. Kishida basically burn his bridge with Putin. And Russia passed a new law recently which will nationalize the gas company in far east which currently is supplying a lot of natural gas to Japan. There is evidence Putin is going to turn the knife coming this fall to shut off the gas to the 'unfriendly countries", including Nordstream 1. That would be Abe's chance since he still has good relationship with Putin.
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Jul 9, 2022 02:30
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American cults: mass suicides Chinese cults: mass protect in front of Zhongnanhai to directly challenge CPC Japan cults: terrorist acts in public South Korean cults: mass weddings (And brain wash the president) stephenthinkpad fucked around with this message at 21:15 on Jul 9, 2022 |
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Jul 9, 2022 21:12
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So what's the weapon of choice in Japan if you want to kill someone bigger and faster? They should set a Predator movie in Japan.
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Jul 11, 2022 23:08
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Japan's navy and air force are design to compliment the US force in Asia. If US is doesn't participate in a war, Japan's military are missing a lot of components. Their main naval gears are the faux carriers and some anti-submarine ships. They also pay alot of money to US every year to feed the US soldiers station in Japan. In a nutshell Japan spent 1% GDP on defense, while China spend about 1.5% with a lot of hidden expenses, with a GDP 3-4 times bigger. Also, from what I understand, S Korea spend about the same amount on the military but they get more bangs for their bucks, with more home grown weapons.
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Jul 12, 2022 01:19
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What manga do you send to the person who shot Abe?
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Aug 27, 2022 00:18
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Mr. Fix It posted:now cancel the funeral, bitch They are throwing the funeral bash because the American daddy told them to.
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Sep 1, 2022 01:08
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Too many old people..
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Oct 29, 2022 22:45
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What you described Line sounds like Wechat in China but Chinese digital market is slightly more competitive. Wechat should have created a different app for oversea market like Tiktok did, it would have become more popular.
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Nov 15, 2022 11:38
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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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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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God as in the moscot emperor?
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Dec 23, 2022 15:57
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Do Japanese death panelty inmate get to order whatever they want in last meal?
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Jan 4, 2023 01:33
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Center-right in labor issues; center-left in social issues. Most Anglo countries left side parties have side stepped the labor right struggle in their politics in recent decades. Like why does the UK Labour party even squatting this name?
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Jan 8, 2023 15:28
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By increase cigarette price and coporate tax.
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Jan 10, 2023 01:38
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Charlz Guybon posted:CNN got their hands on a war game that projected a costly western victory over China in a Taiwan war. Yeah this doctored war game is designed to scared Taiwan into buying more "porcupine tactics" weapons from US like landmine spreader, javelin and other crap. It sure will scare Japanese public a little bit. But I am not sure how much Japanese public have a say in foreign policy. Yoshida just increase the military spending without much input from the public.
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Jan 11, 2023 14:53
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My favorite Japanese pre world war trivia is the upper class pivoted hard to the western aristocrat dress code to fit in the Western club. There are many black and white photos of educated aboard Japanese in top hats and monocles. To this day Japan is still considered part of the "western" grouping but not so much for South Korea.
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Mar 28, 2023 13:01
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I never consider "JRPG" a bad word in the gaming world, much less so than the word "anime" or "animu" in the regular american vernacular. However I just want to point out there aren't many JPRG around in the last 2 console cycles. You get Sqeenix final fantasy stuff once every 5-7 years that's about it. I wouldn't call the souls game or any of the Capcom game "JRPG". Oh yeah there is one souls game set in Japan I almost forget. Currently the biggest Japanese asthetic inspired game is Genshin Impact, it even has fake Japanese naming scheme that doesn't follow the Chinese spelling rules. Are you going to call it a JRPG?
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Mar 28, 2023 14:28
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They totally should have wore JRPG costumes. Like buckles and zippers everywhere. Fail!
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Mar 28, 2023 14:38
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Tesseraction posted:It's already part of the "Gacha Games" subcategory which is generally called a "Lootbox Game" when made in the west. I have some friends call it a "waifu game".
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Mar 28, 2023 15:34
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Does the Japanese big corporations have any LGBT friendly policies ahead of the law? Like offer health benefit to your same sex partner or something like that?
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May 31, 2023 14:07
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Tesseraction posted:I was always under the impression that the JSDF can do basically anything as long as aren't involved with an active invasion. Weren't they present in Afghanistan but only as part of the medical teams? A Taiwanese political commentator professor I follow explained that during Abe's time, they basically re-interpret the law to such an extend that the Japanese army (whatever the name) basically can do anything during a war. There is no further legal collar they need to unlock. So basically the amendment they are pushing for is purely ceremonial. You are still figuratively wearing this "peaceful" collar. So if LDP wants to take off the collar in board daylight that's already unlocked; further increase the military spending; officially change the name to "army", and a bunch of other stuff, they want to change the law officially. So really from the Chinese and Korean POV, they don't care if Japan want to change the law themselves. The Chinese never buy Japan want to be peaceful. You want to change it, go right ahead.
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Jun 16, 2023 14:32
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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. Supposedly the Abe faction didn't want to do it and they got kicked. I am not a finance guy so I don't know whether this rumor is true. But we will know in a few months.
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Dec 19, 2023 19:12
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Lammasu posted:Also, most conspiracy theories about American machinations assume no other country has any agency. No, the commentator said the Abe faction was the one against more pro US, pro Feds policy, that's the surprising part to me. That's why I repost it here.
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Dec 20, 2023 12:30
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The yen being low would benefit Japan if iti's still a net export country, but Japan has trade deficit for 2011-15 and also drop off the cliff after covid/Ukraine war. I can't find a chart that go back to the 80s.
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Tesseraction posted:Crikey, what caused that import spike after covid? Something unable to be produced domestically due to lockdown? Among other things, they have to pay the "pro US hiked up gas price" instead of "pro Russia discounted gas price". Also lost the top auto export spot to China.
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