Why is Japan so damn good?

High Fidelity wrote:

Damn good at what? At raping the Chinese and trying to take over the world and then making the world forget about this by eternally playing the victim bc they were bombed?

That's true. All most of them know about WWII is that they were bombed. There is no collective guilt about their actions. They have no idea why the Chinese and Koreans hate them.

not very old sac joaquin guy wrote:

High value placed on hard work and efficiency, and they don’t handicap themselves with failed western ideas such as diversity and inclusion. They get a pass for being “racist” because they got blown to smithereens by the evil and bad US almost a century ago.

As I said they don't value efficiency at all. They value the appearance of working hard not the results.

Yes, gun control is one of the positive aspects of Japan. You can go anywhere you want at any time and never feel any danger.

Jeff Wigand wrote:

Just Another Hobby Jogger wrote:

Three decades of economic stagnation?

Declining birth rate and population?

Japan cannot attract enough workers from SE Asia because the wage gap has become smaller.

The whole planet would benefit from having Japan’s birthrate.

The reason they have a low birthrate is that they can not afford to have children. Wages have actually decreased in many fields from 30 years ago.

They own Ohio.

Japan is so damn good because there aren't people that look Japanese, but really aren't, undermining their country. If only the U.S. was so damn good.

Jeff Wigand wrote:

Just Another Hobby Jogger wrote:

Three decades of economic stagnation?

Declining birth rate and population?

Japan cannot attract enough workers from SE Asia because the wage gap has become smaller.

The whole planet would benefit from having Japan’s birthrate.

This is actually true.

The “greens” who yell about global warming and what not are missing the most obvious problem.

There are simply too many humans on earth. The international birth rate needs to be around 1 to 2 (at most) children per woman.

2500 Bro wrote:

Japan is so damn good because there aren't people that look Japanese, but really aren't, undermining their country. If only the U.S. was so damn good.

Do they speak English in your country?

Good luck if you are born with a physical or mental disability in Japan/China. You are shunned and kept in the shadows to die.

Only Japan that invested human capital, and poured Yen, and by the tens of millions in-country worked like hell since the 1890's to create education, infrastructure, economics, wealth, prosperity, and happiness in the Pacific Islands, South East Asia, China, Mongolia, and North East Asia. Thank you to Japan!

Without a doubt the most racist country I've ever visited. The people are very dishonest with their opinions and emotions, everything is a front to keep their honour.

Precious Roy wrote:

There is no word for "right" in Japanese (as in First Amendment Rights). The closest word in Japanese is the word for "duty". Japanese society has a very strong collective spirit. When people see themselves as part of a larger fabric of a society, they tend to have societies that are more cohesive and egalitarian. Same goes for the Nordic countries.

Sweden is one of the most individualistic countries in the world, This is not the 1970s. Every individual in Sweden is the center of the world.

Old Swede wrote:

Precious Roy wrote:

There is no word for "right" in Japanese (as in First Amendment Rights). The closest word in Japanese is the word for "duty". Japanese society has a very strong collective spirit. When people see themselves as part of a larger fabric of a society, they tend to have societies that are more cohesive and egalitarian. Same goes for the Nordic countries.

Sweden is one of the most individualistic countries in the world, This is not the 1970s. Every individual in Sweden is the center of the world.

Land Mass peoples such as Swedes are rich with ethnic diversity from the ages of race mixing with neighbors, invaders, conquerors, conquered, etc. In the the UK where my parents were born you can also see the wealth of heritages in the wide variety of faces of the people.

I've had the pleasure of travelling to Japan for work about 12-13 times over the last 7 years and have quite a few Japanese friends.

I would say that a lot of both the positive and negative things in this thread are true. Tokyo is an amazing place, it's clean, safe and easy to travel around. People in general are courteous and the food is delicious.

Having worked for a Japanese business though, there is definitely a culture of appearing busy by doing unnecessary work. There is also a culture of promoting people because of their length of service so you have a lot of uninspiring middle aged men in management positions.

But, Japan and the Japanese are changing - the younger generations don't want to live in the same culture as their parents.

energeticlotuseater wrote:

Jeff Wigand wrote:

The whole planet would benefit from having Japan’s birthrate.

This is actually true.

The “greens” who yell about global warming and what not are missing the most obvious problem.

There are simply too many humans on earth. The international birth rate needs to be around 1 to 2 (at most) children per woman.

We must not slide into ecofascism or Malthusianism which will become commonplace as climate change becomes undeniable. It inevitably leads to eugenicist arguments.

The global birthrate has collapsed and is already 2.4 children, with the replacement number 2.1 in developed nations and as high as 3.5 in less developed ones.

Also, the population and birth rate are not the same as if age skews younger the population will still be increasing in absolute numbers for many years even with a sub replacement birth rate. So if you look at population against carbon emissions it's easy to think that's the cause but if you look at the birth rate, it's inverted - it coincides with a decrease in human fertility.

So the seeds have been sown for a population decline in the 22nd century. That might seem a long way off but babies born today will easily live to see it and there's even some college graduates from this year who'll get to see New Years Day 2100

The challenges of demographic aging is with us already and will be just as problematic as climate change.

Things like

Christianity and

Islam

Haven't held them back

Precious Roy wrote:

There is no word for "right" in Japanese (as in First Amendment Rights). The closest word in Japanese is the word for "duty". Japanese society has a very strong collective spirit. When people see themselves as part of a larger fabric of a society, they tend to have societies that are more cohesive and egalitarian. Same goes for the Nordic countries.

b-b-based?

I agree with what you said. I visited Tokyo once and I was amazed by that big city. It was a lovely city. My children and I did yoga at Tokyo park. They used kids yoga mat