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I didn't even really mean corruption, I meant that wining and dining your supporters is a universal thing for politicians, whether or not the local laws support it. It doesn't become a thing as long as you stay friends with the right people, but if you have a falling out with one of them then suddenly the watchdogs are interested.
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ErIog posted:"We have concerns about foreign nurses being hired."
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Madd0g11 posted:IIRC the first few batches of nurses that have went through the program only like a single digits percent passed. And of those even less stayed. A lot of people went back home fully trained.
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ErIog posted:I agree with this, but the way you've phrased it is funny since a lot of old Japanese guys pay a lot of money to be "doted on" by non-Japanese ladies at various upstanding establishments that are legitimate places of business which follow all labor laws and treat their workers with respect.
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Protocol 5 posted:From what I can gather having read discussions by actual medical professionals, a lot of the resistance is from Japanese nurses who don't want the competition which will bring down wages. There are a lot of incentives being offered right now for going through nursing training (educational subsidies, etc.), and they aren't going to give those up without a fight.
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whatever7 posted:Robot nurse, hurry the gently caress up Japan.
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Are there going to be any politicians left in Japan after they get everyone who wined and dined someone at a hostess bar?
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Reverend Cheddar posted:The Smile Party.
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Darth Walrus posted:i'd like to learn more about Imperial Japan. Anyone know any good books on the subject, please?
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In that case I misunderstood, I thought he merely meant the time when Japan had an emperor, which includes now. If you mean history from the 1860s to 1945 or so, I'm afraid I've forgotten the name of the textbook I read.
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hadji murad posted:It's obvious when someone asks about Imperial Japan what they mean not a contest about who knows more. This isn't Reddit.
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I'm glad someone remembers this stuff better than me. All I remember is that there was a brief time in the early 20th century when it looked like Japan might become the first completely self-made liberal democracy in Asia, but those dreams were quickly dashed. Making a stable democracy when you're only a few decades away from feudalism is...hard.
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Kenishi posted:Its that time again! Time for the courts to tell politicians they are in office illegally.
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pentyne posted:Good news! Check this out, a party in Hokkaido calls itself "support no party" (so the ballot reads "socialist party, democratic party, support no party....") and gets 100,000 votes, more than two other parties. I guess they didn't set any rules about the name of your party... Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Dec 15, 2014 |
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Also, is the lowest voter turnout in Japan yet really a similar turnout to usual elections in America? That is to say, even though they appear to be apathetic as hell compared to us, that doesn't translate into fewer people voting?
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Zo posted:
This thread gets really smug sometimes.
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US "disenfranchisement" A is not a good yardstick. In fact it is
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Are there Japanese people who actually like their government and would be shocked if they hosed something up? To the few Japanese people I know who care about their politics at all, it's all just the same poo poo with sometimes different names and faces attached to it.
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My boss back in Japan was always bragging to us that he was working 80+ hours a week. Bragging.
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Berke Negri posted:This is increasingly common in the West as well. Now of course whats working 80 hours a week, and what's working hours a week is another thing.
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What I don't understand is, if the LDP is run off of old man rural votes and that's why they ended up so conservative, how does the mayor of the biggest, most cosmopolitan city in Japan ALSO end up so conservative?
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Yeah, if constitutional law mattered, they wouldn't be considering re-militarizing, and the diet would have been re-districted years ago. edit: Oh and women wouldn't be discriminated against. Anyway I guess this is what happens when another country writes your constitution for you. Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 04:05 on Feb 18, 2015 |
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hadji murad posted:Social norms are followed much more than laws are. In class today, a Japanese student noticed gum stuck under her desk and freaked out a bit. Every non-Japanese person in the class was like "of course there's gum under the desk, there's gum under every desk of every school everywhere". I'm talking students from China, Taiwan, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, and Korea here. Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 05:26 on Feb 18, 2015 |
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