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ToroidalBoat said:
More legal insanity out of Japan: if you criticize publicly and damage reputation (defame), you can get in trouble. Even if it's true.


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(If a yen is about a cent, then 500,000 yen is about $5000 USD.)
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Doesn't Worst Korea also have a similar law like that too? And with the shit that China does to people that make criticism that would offend Chinese companies or the CCP, shit's all fucked in East Asia.
 
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Thiletonomics said:
shit's all fucked in East Asia
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I read somewhere that in a "shame-based culture" like in East Asia, whether or not someone really did something bad is secondary to one's reputation if one did that thing or not. In other words, if someone is falsely accused of wrongdoing, that can be as bad as if the bad thing was really done. And at least in Japan, there's the concept of honne (本音, "true sound": true self) and tatemae (建前, "facade": public face). No wonder there's those '90s Western jokes about honor and dishonor being fixations of East Asians.

Japan is definitely not exactly that free-spirited utopian paradise that "Wapanese" "weeaboos" "weebs" may think such is from animu...
 
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Is Japan or Good Korea better?
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
More legal insanity out of Japan: if you criticize publicly and damage reputation (defame), you can get in trouble. Even if it's true.
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Oh yeah, and those possible maximum penalties are very disproportionate.

Being locked up for 3 years is far worse than having to shell out $5000.
 
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's approval rating has dropped to a record low of 27.4%, with a 5.2% decline from last month. / Archive

Now I know that approval rates usually don't tell the story of what a President or PM is doing, but what else is going in Japan, aside from the rice shortages that are still happening?

And I don't know how often approval rates get this low. IIRC, South Korean President Park Geun-Hye's approval rating dropped to SINGLE DIGITS at one point, before she was Impeached and then expelled from office.
 
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Thiletonomics said:
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's approval rating has dropped to a record low of 27.4%, with a 5.2% decline from last month. / Archive

Now I know that approval rates usually don't tell the story of what a President or PM is doing, but what else is going in Japan, aside from the rice shortages that are still happening?

And I don't know how often approval rates get this low. IIRC, South Korean President Park Geun-Hye's approval rating dropped to SINGLE DIGITS at one point, before she was Impeached and then expelled from office.
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approval rates don't mean that much because voting participation is low and people would rather agitate for a internal leadership change within the only party that matters than let the retards in the opposition get another chance to steer the ship.

ishiba is in a very strange position right now because he has more enemies within his party but the internal factions against him don't seem to want to step up and take any blame.

he's getting a lot of hate for being a gross otaku charisma black hole and an inept negotiator but he hasn't been in power for long enough to actually do anything yet. the one thing he has going for him is being stubborn enough to not resign over whatever scandal will inevitably happen, which makes him better than most.

policy wonks can't win without a charismatic figurehead with good hair who can inspire the populace to get on board with changes.
 
Men of Rice, how do you feel about your ‘honorary white’ status? There are many articles, almost all of them nigger-lover horseshit, about the practice in South Africa. It seems that the Boors considered Japanese, Koreans, and Taiwanese ‘white’ and cast the chinks down with the rest of the subhumans. I just thought you guys would get a kick out of that.
 
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I walked through Shibuya today and had the unfortunate luck of having to deal with the fag parade, palestine retards, and the combo of the two in the form of Queers for Palestine (insert Chickens for KFC joke here). Most of the fag parade was organized not by individuals, but by corporations. Whoever said that Japan is culturally 10 years behind the US is 100% on the money.
 
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Radovan Karadžić said:
I walked through Shibuya today and had the unfortunate luck of having to deal with the fag parade, palestine retards, and the combo of the two in the form of Queers for Palestine (insert Chickens for KFC joke here). Most of the fag parade was organized not by individuals, but by corporations. Whoever said that Japan is culturally 10 years behind the US is 100% on the money.
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So in 2035, the troon menace in Japan will finally start being wiped out? Good to know.

When I lived in Kansai, there was a group of Palestine fans who'd be protesting right next to JR Osaka Station in Umeda. It was always really tiny and there were always at least a couple of foreigners (typically southeast Asian Muslims) present. Most people in Japan don't seem to actually care about the conflict.
 
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NoBueno said:
I was never interested in Japanese Pro Wrestling, but after a few pics came into my feed one time I can see the appeal
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I don't know much about it tbh, but I do remember watching a documentary ages ago called Gaea Girls which is about female trainees trying to break into the Japanese Pro Wrestling industry and how punishing their training is. They get physically and emotionally abused and it's tough to watch. You can see the whole documentary if you google it, but here is a quick overview


The documentary was made like in the late 90's though, so maybe this kind of harsh treatment is frowned upon nowadays
 
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