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ijustwannatalklol said:
There's no way they don't just import a bunch of immigrants and have a huge culture shift
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The Media is already hiding the nationalities of criminals.
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Sinner's Sandwich said:
Have you seen the eldritch abomination that is the Expo 2025 monster? Even japanese people think it's hideous.

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I'd buy a plushie of it.

Actually am still considering going to the Expo since I'll be in Japan when it's happening. It's kind of an annoying system though, you have to buy a ticket but then you can only get into the pavilions if you make separate reservations that are determined by lottery. They say it's so there are no lines at the pavilions but it does mean you can't really be spontaneous about going. A lot of the news I was reading though are basically all speculating that the Expo is gonna be massive financial disaster and preliminary ticket sales are no where near what their expectations were.
 
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This Japanese guy made a vid on why he doesn't like 日本.

"Why I Don't Like Japanese People or Culture"

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Learn Japanese with Taiki said:
0:00 Intro
1:04 Facial Expressions
2:34 Addiction to Wearing Masks
3:38 EYE CONTACT (They Don't Treat You as a Human Being)
5:53 Your Way of Talking Isn't Welcomed in Japan
8:23 Lack of Compassion
10:11 BS about Tattoos
14:27 What's Your Story?
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BTW, that part about the way of talking is on Japanese talking with enthusiasm while Westerners don't usually do that, so talking without enthusiasm can be seen as "scary".
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
This Japanese guy made a vid on why he doesn't like 日本.

"Why I Don't Like Japanese People or Culture"

- Learn Japanese with Taiki


BTW, that part about the way of talking is on Japanese talking with enthusiasm while Westerners don't usually do that, so talking without enthusiasm can be seen as "scary".
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I hear these complain (and more) about Japan from japanese people really often. And it's completely true. But this guy claims to be autistic (which I think is overdiagnosed also he is complaining about lack of eye contact which makes no sense) so he has an even harder time.
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
How far along is mass immigration in Japan now?
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Almost 3% of residents in Japan do not have the Japanese nationality.
Almost 5% in Tokyo.

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It's not so much when you compare to countries that have been pozzed for a long time, but it's shocking when you remember Japan from twenty years ago.
Nowadays the treacherous government is facilitating a lot of immigration from SEA and South Asia, like Vietnam, Nepal, India, etc. More often than not you'll have some SEA monkey or dirty Pajeet working at your konbini, to the chagrin of his Japanese coworkers that have to deal with his lack of professionalism.
 
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Claude Sigma said:
not so much when you compare to countries that have been pozzed for a long time
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From a stat I saw, France has double the population of migrants alone, at around 10%.

Claude Sigma said:
it's shocking when you remember Japan from twenty years ago
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Wasn't that population of migrants something like ~1% around then? Either way, the more migrants flood into Japan, the more Japan may become a bland "multicultural melting pot", and the more crime or tension there can be. Especially for a place with such homogeneity.
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
How far along is mass immigration in Japan now?
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Claude Sigma said:
It's not so much when you compare to countries that have been pozzed for a long time, but it's shocking when you remember Japan from twenty years ago.
Nowadays the treacherous government is facilitating a lot of immigration from SEA and South Asia, like Vietnam, Nepal, India, etc. More often than not you'll have some SEA monkey or dirty Pajeet working at your konbini, to the chagrin of his Japanese coworkers that have to deal with his lack of professionalism.
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Tons of chinks and viets working retail/service/food, jeets in IT and flips in nursing. And it's growing year on year.
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
No wonder newer media seems to be losing "edge" -- Japan seems to be evolving into some typical Current Year Western European nation.
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Absolutely, a lot of Japanese media and a large part of the government and NGOs are pozzed. "SDGs", Sustainable Development Goals from the UN is basically the mantra being shoved down everyone's throat now.
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
How long has this been pushed hard? Like since Reiwa began?
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Disclaimer, I wasn't in Japan prior to the 2000s but SDGs began to be pushed heavily across media and schools from 2016 with the creation, by the government, of an SDG-promoting department. It's as horrifying as it sounds. Thanks globohomo-bucks, I guess?
 
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Sinner's Sandwich said:
Rice prices are rising, how to save money?

Give your children less rice to eat!
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Also that chaotic chart. :story:
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Reminder that the only reason why rice is so expensive here is because the agricultural lobby paid politicians to pass the Cropland Act, which prevents corporate ownership of agricultural land.
As a result agricultural land, including for rice, can only be owned by individual owners.
Tons of fertile land is not exploited because it takes years to make new land produce enough to not be in the red and private citizens cannot afford that, only a corporation would, but it's illegal.

So old farmers retire, reduce their production because they're old and tired, or die, and the land often goes abandoned.

Oh and of course they also made politicians pass a law to prevent import of rice from overseas. Chinese rice or Vietnamese rice would be dirt cheap, but you can't find it in stores.

So in a misguided effort for mom and pop businesses and national protectionism and tariffs, they are making a staple food expensive. We even have shortages sometimes because they aim at meeting demand, not exceeding it.

Typical socialism stuff.
 
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