Yeah they make great stuff, but is it really all that amazing to live there, I doubt it
Yeah they make great stuff, but is it really all that amazing to live there, I doubt it
Why is Jamin so damn good? Because he posts a lot here maybe makes a lot of money and got pretty near 15 for the 5K. No hot girlfriend but two out of three isn't bad.
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.
For a while, but after a few years there wouldn't be anyone left.
The Japanese live longer because they are not insecure
and paranoid about losing their 'privilege'.
Tatar... wrote:
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.
There is not a single developed country at or above the replacement level. France at 1.87 has the highest rate, according to World Bank. (US is at 1.71, UK at 1.65, Germany at 1.54 and Japan at 1.36.)
Some of the largest developing countries are already below the replacement level. Vietnam at
2.05, Bangladesh at 2.01, China at 1.70, and Brazil at 1.65. Mexico (2.10), India (2.20) and Indonesia (2.29) are not far away from getting there. I used to joke how Japan needed to import more young people from China. Now they have to compete with China to find enough young people from Philippines.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependencies_by_total_fertility_rateAnd this is how Japan's population pyramid would look like in 2050. 40% of people will be 65 and over. If you think we have a serious problem with SS and Medicare, look how much worse it will be in Japan.
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Japans-Predicted-Population-Pyramid-in-2050_fig2_282122404Japan's not quite as good as some think. The leaders of the first two stages of the Hakone Ekiden (Day 2) were 29:24 runners. So much for Brett Larner's claim that all sixteen of the Aoyama Gakuin team were sub 29 guys.
Toyota just took 31 position in the US car market.
Japan is so good because they had some incredible musicians in that band. Mick Karn was a brilliant, unique fretless bass player and Richard Barbieri had some really innovate keyboard work. I don't care for David Sylvian too much - he's a bit pompous self-serving a**hole - but you can't deny his voice sounded great on the later records.
Gentlemen Take Polaroids was the big turning point. A classic combo of New Wave, Synth Pop, Experimental, and New Romantic sounds. Tin Drum was the pinnacle, and they broke up right after that.
Oh, wait...you are talking about the country Japan? My bad.
30 year Japan veteran wrote:
up the ante wrote:
White foreigners scorned behind their backs. Non-white foreigners scorned openly.
High cost of food promotes healthier eating and lower healthcare costs.
Very true. Most white foreigners think they are loved but in reality they are considered sub-human.
Really? I know a few Jewish men who think it is the be all end all to have a Japanese wife because of their docility. In 2019, I happened to be in Osaka on business: I met another of those guys at breakfast who was there to find said wife.
Uhh ohhh wrote:
Yeah they make great stuff
1) reliable cars
2) consumer electronics
what else? They hit a wall around the same time the Koreans muscled into those markets in the 1980s. Now the Chinese are in consumer electronics big time.
When do we get Chinese cars, I wanna know. They could make them dirt cheap.
At least there is no Japanese Privilege in Japan.
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.
There is also no word for 'snowball'.
Blessed life. wrote:
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?
Not relevant in 2020, but yeah they did do this.
I think it is relevant for anyone that grew up without grandparents because of WW2. They are only middle aged, but I know that seems irrelevant to the majority of people on this board.
Look up what happened if you don't believe me. People like to revere other cultures, but they are just as evil as western societies. There is evil amongst all of us.
douglas burke wrote:
At least there is no Japanese Privilege in Japan.
You mean like being blackballed from renting most apartments if you are not Japanese? Make no mistake non-Japanese are second class citizens.
Tatar... wrote:
energeticlotuseater wrote:
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.
Demographic aging will hurt the oldest but it will help save the planet.
Older people will probably have to work longer and not have social security benefits in the future— they will have to fund their own retirement. However, after initial growing pains of about 25 to 50 years this will become the “new normal.”
I’m not saying I’m necessarily in favor of this solution but the obvious fact is that the over abundance of humans on this planet are contributing to pollution. More humans inevitably equals more waste- “green power” can eleviate this but it does not get to the root issue.
douglas burke wrote:
At least there is no Japanese Privilege in Japan.
You may want to ask Chinese and Korean people in Japan about this.
red room wrote:
douglas burke wrote:
At least there is no Japanese Privilege in Japan.
You mean like being blackballed from renting most apartments if you are not Japanese? Make no mistake non-Japanese are second class citizens.
Maybe but they don't have schools and Universities teaching about the evils of Japanese Privilege and large protests in the street about Japanese Privilege.
Just Another Hobby Jogger wrote:
douglas burke wrote:
At least there is no Japanese Privilege in Japan.
You may want to ask Chinese and Korean people in Japan about this.
The Koreans and Chinese in Japan who are teachers, should teach about the evils of Japanese privilege in Japan.
NYDCRunner1 wrote:
30 year Japan veteran wrote:
Very true. Most white foreigners think they are loved but in reality they are considered sub-human.
Really? I know a few Jewish men who think it is the be all end all to have a Japanese wife because of their docility. In 2019, I happened to be in Osaka on business: I met another of those guys at breakfast who was there to find said wife.
The only people who thin that Japanese women are docile are those not married to them. When they are single they are very cute and docile. But as soon as they have the first child they take off their mask and show their true personalities. In the marriage they Japanese woman is the boss. She controls all the money and once the baby making is finished so is the sex. The docile Japanese woman act is just an act to snare the man.
douglas burke wrote:
red room wrote:
You mean like being blackballed from renting most apartments if you are not Japanese? Make no mistake non-Japanese are second class citizens.
Maybe but they don't have schools and Universities teaching about the evils of Japanese Privilege and large protests in the street about Japanese Privilege.
I don’t know, seems like teaching that Japanese today treat non-Japanese as second class citizens and that they shouldn’t do that would be a step in the right direction. It is weird you would oppose that, being non-Japanese yourself and all.