Japan’s Stagnation - What caused Japan’s lost decades? Plaza accords? US bans on Japanese semiconductor sales? Or Japan’s own misguided policies?

What even are these "Plaza Accords" you guys keep bringing up? I would Google it, but I expect the answer I get from Wikis to be highly technical and make no sense without having to click five other hotlinks.
Basically Americans wants to depreciate their currency against the Deutsche Marks and Japanese Yen. In theory, it makes the US weaker economically, therefore less favorable for both countries to export tons of quality goods (car, electronics, etc.) and makes the US more competitive, kinda like what China does to its currency these days. In practice, the Japs moving elsewhere, mainly other asian countries to do business with them while influencing them with Japanese culture. You can read this if you want to learn more. Apparently, there's another agreement that made because Americans realized what they have done and wants to backtrack.

EDIT: it also create a lot of economic bubbles in Japan, primarily the housing market (2008-ish level of calamity), causing them to lose everything when 90's came.
 
I think Japan's lack of entrepreneurship as mentioned in the op is a biggest reason. It's the same in Korea. Starting new companies and going of fon your own is seen as dishonorable. Society wants you to wageslave at the same company you join out of college for the rest of your life. The government also has no problem killing competition and always favors big companies legally. Honda almost didn't exist because the Japanese government forbade new car companies as part of a government program to modernize their automobile industry. What ends up happening is after the companies peak, they get lazy and start churning out shit. For example, Samsung used to make the best SSD, but other companies have caught up, and their QA is dogshit now. Their home appliances are garbage tier. The only thing they have going for them is that the brand had a lot of clout in the past.

Also I know in Japan at least, a lot of newer stem occupations aren't seen as real career path yet. All Japanese websites are garbage because they have no software industry. Engineers shit wages compared to other countries.
 
This post will show the dark truth about Japan which will be very black pilled at first but will ultimately explain the beauty of them that is hidden in the darkness that is hidden in the perfect facade as Japanese people are still genuinely natural humans horrendously tainted by their ever increasing urban surroundings. If not people in Japan are the most complex people you'll ever know.

Japan has been an overly glamorized shithole growing up in an equally overly glamorized shithole ruled by Fidel Castro's brother. There is this misconception that Japan is an amazing place and that is because they have never been there or spent way to little there. Now that I have been to Japan. I can truly see the other side of Japan people are way too naive about and Japan is probably overly glorified because of Anime which was ultimately a wasted potential. But the sooner the masses realize this, the sooner they'll understand you can't maintain your sanity in an Urban hellscape no matter how much you polish it with nature and Japan is probably the very worst example of this.

There is this misconception that Japan is a very nice and respect place and although that would be true for the last remaining rural areas of Japan. Although Japanese people do a good expression of a nice refined person, they're only telling you the bright side of them. In reality, Japanese people are extremely disturbed people who always cling to their shy personality, and although they do a good job at it, they can't keep it in and when that shyness bursts, it gets extremely ugly very fast and I observed it happening in Tokyo twice. So even if respect is a virtue in Japan, in reality, they're actually really horrible at it.

Speaking of Tokyo being the worst example of an urban city, I am not kidding when I am saying this, going into the very most urban area of Japan I was both astonished and intimidated by the monumental nature of it, something that not even Los Angeles has given me and Los Angeles is one of the very worst places to live. Living in the center of Tokyo completely removes all aspect of living in nature and makes you feel disoriented like you're in a maze. The transit system is extremely confusing, It has gotten to the point we're so sick of it we ended up missing our stop in Kobe and went all the way to Okayama. The air is so light polluted it is literally impossible to find a single star in the night sky. The only star I have ever seen in Japan is Vega where I was at in my hotel in Osaka and I never even seen the moon a single time in Japan. So that fact someone could possibly photograph Canopus in Tokyo astonishes me about it's technological advancements. When I visited the Tokyo Tower on my last day is when I realized the urbanization of Japan was only just recent so a sudden flash of Urbanization was something the Japanese population couldn't keep up with.

I literally had to cut ties with so much that had to do with anime due to it's mutilated and demoralized nature of it although Japanese projects don't appear as demoralizing as Hollywood projects in the mainstream scale but when you visit a porn shop in Japan, This drastically changes everything. Just because a hentai appears based to some naive connoisseur doesn't make it a project to change the trajectory rather it shows how a weeb fails to imply how importing erotica completely destroys the project's every right to call itself pure and wholesome despite any attempts to make up for it and that they completely ignore the ever so limitless brutal temptation of lust. Japan is the contributor to some of the very worst pornography to have ever existed to laws that have only attempted to minimize it and not outright ban it has completely failed to contain the immoral nature of it in the most humiliating way imaginable. Hentai has become a fairly recent term but you'll be hard pressed to find signs of Lolicon and other horrifying things in it's earlier works before Japan completely gave in to finally being honest that their population consists of degenerates. In fact, Japan in the 1970s looks like a decrepit hellscape comparable to that of Blade Runner. Walking into a porn shop in Japan feels like you're in the marketplace of the underworld. This explains well it's extremely low fertility rate and extremely high suicide rate. They try to compensate this by putting vending machines everywhere and making automated restaurants but that completely goes against the nature of human interaction in favor of convenience that provides only short term euphoria. None of this could combat the ever brutal wage slave nature Japan has been mired into.

Being in Japan, I feel as if I am the farthest from nature as possible. It took half an hour to land there and another half an hour to board the airport after hitting the runway. The airports are overly decorated with Nintendo property which comes to show the brand loyalty to one of the worst gaming companies in history with the biggest contempt for it's customers and some of the most draconian copyright policies rivaling Disney. Japanese people are also some of the most emasculated people rivaling western soyboys. As much as I love many of the aesthetics Japan provides me, Japan is doomed to show it's true colors in the near future and you can see it's signs showing up in it's more crime ridden cities such as Kumamoto.

On the bright side I have seen many people in Japan who are genuinely great people and are still in touch of it's roots on the Japanese renaissance days before Emperor Hirohito's unconditional surrender but I fear their efforts will be horrendously trumped by the brutal nature of western demoralization. And because of this ever so rapidly increasing rate of urbanization and lack of honesty. In a few decades. I can see Japan become the dystopia it has been envisioned in the past with a murder rate comparable to that Medellin, Colombia in the early 1990s and civil unrests even worse than the United States in 2020 over the death of a drug addicted nigger. Japan will ultimately manifest itself into an absolute nightmare. It's economy would ultimately crumble and we will eventually see Japan then as we have seen Yemen in recent times. All of this would have been prevented if Hirohito hasn't been pressured to surrender. South Korea is also condemned to fall under the same path Japan is as well.

On the bright side, those countries are not entirely condemned to the worst case scenario and in fact could be prevented by observing what was happening in the west and apply factual evidence about the horrors of fake capitalistic democracies. Although the urban landscape hinders it by a lot, it is still possible to prevent it if Japanese people are more honest about their emotions, make efforts to break their habits and ultimately cutting ties with the NATO overlords who demoralize, pressure and intimidate them at the worst extent (I know Japan is not a NATO country which does help them a lot but Japan is still part of G7), as well as to not be ashamed of their past based on false allegations regarding Unit 731 and the Rape of Nanjing to make a few examples, and finally make efforts on banning pornography and LGBT and finally proving that anime is not longer the cesspool it was never intended to be. I still have hope for people in Japan especially that disasters unfolding in the United States, Germany amongst many western countries have manifested and NATO has shown it's true colors but Japan needs to make efforts to cut ties with NATO, completely if not also destroy it. Maybe China can learn something from this.

Japan's renaissance can be attributed to the 80s like how oldheads always brag about their dark 90s nihilistic American renaissance where Political Correctness was starting to become amped up. This only remarks a bright chapter to Japan's hellish era and thus proves any bright period in an era of globalist kikes having a stronghold on a country has lost all rights to be considered a renaissance. A true renaissance lasts longer and can be attributed golden ages after European countries kicked out the jews as well as Christians reclaiming Europe after the conquests. People always have fond memories of Cream Lemon completely ignoring the temptation that lies in it. Japan has actual renaissances but the 80s is not one of them. A kikes stronghold of a country also plays a role on Japan's financial issues, if this continues. Japan could have a hyperinflation that could make the 2008 Zimbabwe Hyperinflation look tiny in comparison.

Fortunately the initiates still have a stronghold in the mainstream but are constantly under threat by the degenerates who constantly tried to invade it. This could suggest we have a huge amount of people in Japan who are still in touch with their roots and need this sort of medium in the desperate attempt to maintain traditional values to avoid the worst case scenario Japan has a good chance of being condemned to go through. There was a notable power vacuum on the mainstream in Japan where a monopoly wasn't established unlike the United States and along with the lack of laws silencing speech has given them liberty with creating the source material. However, the easing of pornography rules still threaten the initiates who warn the world. Some initiates are still misguided and addicted to porn but have been open to their own problems but still fail to deliver the message in a better way creating a problem they may have not intended to create. However is very questionable but you'll be surprised of the amount of Japanese porn artists who openly admit they have problems and even want to break their own habits. Nintendo despite being a shitty company is still surprisingly based.

Japan still has a lot of shitty people and when they're bad, they're horrendous. However despite Japan being one of the worst countries in the world full of people with extremely unnatural behavior. Most Japanese people are genuinely really good people whose problems took a massive toll on them. So many Japanese people are completely isolated from the rest of the world refusing to go outside and over interact with people and are basically the loneliest people. The perk of living such a hellish lifestyle gives you every right to speak from experience. I pray for the people in Japan. Japan was once one of the best countries in the world and there are so many Japanese people dedicated to destroy western powers who have a stronghold on it to have this country return to it's glory days. This could also explain why despite being a pornographic cesspool. Cream Lemon is still regarded by many with reverence from people who have lambasted modern Hollywood. As much as Japan is extremely good at handling western values they can still make mistakes in the most embarrassing way possible. Japanese people look intimidating in it's weakness but best chances despite it's shortcomings you can have the most heartfelt conversations with Japanese people even if their innocence look like a facade. They are extremely open minded but will only be honest if you elaborate yourself to them. We're always afraid to present our own ideas but Japan is a very interesting one when it comes to it. Japan literally fits the definition of an artificial world desperately wanting to return to nature.

Lastly, Japanese people despite being stripped from nature are extremely intelligent rivaling that of it's massively demoralized and extremely rude people of China. A majority of Chinese people are completely hopeless and a majority of Japanese people are extremely hopeless but filled with a spark that will make them turn their lives around for the better. Like China, Japan adheres to the virtues of being able to function in their complex society by unlike China, Japanese people are not demoralized by their teachers although Chinese people are not demoralized to become faggots. Japan has a massive faggotry problem that the masses try their damnedest to destroy even if they are deep into their own addictions. China does not have a faggotry problem but serve as soldiers for their totalitarian government that is openly very honest on not being a free country. Except for important buildings, China's infrastructure is horrendous and aren't meant to last. Japan despite having extremely demoralizing architecture has some of the best infrastructure in our world.

This has went through many revisions because I wanted to correct my mistakes, fix it's sentence structure to not make it a horrifying wall of text and provide some white pills to my worst case scenario theory. I might make a documentary on this. In the end. Japan is a country that has basically taken a step further in fighting the devil and the devil tries much harder to destroy the Japanese than any other country but Japan never backs down. Despite being a terrible country to live in and it's extremely emasculated population. Japan is surprisingly the biggest chad country in the world rivaling that of Libya and Russia. They fought on the worst shape imaginable and never backs down. This is why I think Japan will be condemned to be the worst hellscape one person will step into that will be extremely hard to recover from, but Japan will overcome this dark age over it's phenomenal yet flawed resilience and Japan will be a renaissance even faster than it's western counterparts.

Yes, Autistic reactions are warranted become Autism tries to hold a person back so badly but they sometimes come back stronger despite being misguided to overcome it.
 
Last edited:
After writing this severely autistic husk of walls of texts about hyperbolic scenarios of Japan that may be hilariously off key did I truly realize why severely autistic people end up being losers who take advantage of the developing technology way too much. I may have found the real answer to autistic nature of Japan and I ended up like them. I'm gonna book a plane ticket to the Central African Republic and live with the nigger tribes. They understand it much better but aren't autistic enough to be solitary losers.
 
  • Like
Reactions: AstaSilva
It comes down to Japanese culture and face.

Japan's economy got kneecapped in the 1990s due to idiotic real estate speculation and "zombies companies" aka companies that should have gone bankrupt but we're instead propped up by the Japanese banking system to avoid layoffs and managers/executives losing "face".

So now it's harder for Japanese men to become salary men. This means it's harder to be respectable and monetarily successful for marriage, and in Japan.... No marriage= no kids for 90% of people.

Add in a ridiculous lack of daycare and an unwritten law that mothers should be fired or driven out of work after childbirth AND that a daughter in law should become her mother in laws servant mean that a lot of Japanese women say "fuck that shit" and never marry or have kids.

So, Japan was 127 million people in 2010, it's 125 million in 2023, and expected to drop to 78 million by 2060....
 
I now look at these diarrhea of walls of texts with mindless sperging with such awe on how fucked I could be. But I want to be real here. Japan seem like the lost brother on the other side of the ocean that could guide the west out of this hellhole while telling us about the demons they fought with.

Not being submerged into extreme LGBT and SJW faggotry (just vanilla lust faggotry) allowed Japan to foresee the horrors the west goes through. Going through a bunch of extreme limitations of loathesome globalists kikes has allowed the masses in Japan observe the sheer lunacy of SJW culture in the west, already tormented by the effects of massive urbanization leaves them wanting to connect with us more and more and try to put the pieces of a renaissance shattered by rancid child raping kikes who tried to taint their aesthetic of anime with faggotry.

In a way, This picture feels like how Japan communicates with me. It will put the pieces together and break out of the bondage to be stronger than ever, then it will liberate us. It would be beautiful.
FVSsvoJUYAAcdKf.jpg


So as lost as they are (and the same could be said about South Korea). They're carrying us on their backs with whatever intimidation they have imposed on them. And the west needs to not fail them either.
 
Klaus Schwab argues in The Great Reset that Japan is actually fine. Since he's the elite in charge of the economy or whatever he probably knows what he's talking about.
I find it weird he's so pro their relatively conservative culture while being so willing to manipulate everywhere else to his own gain. Maybe he just appreciates their work-the-plebs-to-death economy so much it overshadows how much he hates the rest of it?
 
  • Thunk-Provoking
Reactions: Flaming Insignias
It is a very complex phenomenon, and requires a fairly decent understanding of the intricacies regarding economics and finance.

I would probably start with considering Japan's economic situation post WWII to present with respect to GDP & GNP, inflation rate, and economic growth. In addition it would be helpful to familiarize oneself with a few concepts such as a "liquidity trap and a "balance sheet recession". One of the largest factors that acted as a trigger for the situation was the effect of the Bank of Japan suddenly and sharply increasing what is generally called the "interest rate" (technically known as the "inter-bank lending rates") to try and temper inflation. Another critical factor was Japan being the first modern national economy to experience the "Too Big To Fail" phenomenon (which we Americans learned absofuckinglutely nothing from and managed to repeat the same damn mistake as part of the economic and financial disaster that occurred in 2008).

The bottom line is that the cause and nature of this phenomenon is still actively debated to this day. Much of it has to do with which perspective one takes on finance and economics, but there is also some factors that could never be truly elucidated for one reason or another.
 
It is a very complex phenomenon, and requires a fairly decent understanding of the intricacies regarding economics and finance.

I would probably start with considering Japan's economic situation post WWII to present with respect to GDP & GNP, inflation rate, and economic growth. In addition it would be helpful to familiarize oneself with a few concepts such as a "liquidity trap and a "balance sheet recession". One of the largest factors that acted as a trigger for the situation was the effect of the Bank of Japan suddenly and sharply increasing what is generally called the "interest rate" (technically known as the "inter-bank lending rates") to try and temper inflation. Another critical factor was Japan being the first modern national economy to experience the "Too Big To Fail" phenomenon (which we Americans learned absofuckinglutely nothing from and managed to repeat the same damn mistake as part of the economic and financial disaster that occurred in 2008).

The bottom line is that the cause and nature of this phenomenon is still actively debated to this day. Much of it has to do with which perspective one takes on finance and economics, but there is also some factors that could never be truly elucidated for one reason or another.
Any recommended reading?
 
When was the last time you saw any japanese consumer products that were better than the rest?

Thats why

The only mass industry where japs still have a big share are cars and now they are struggling to keep on with the EV shift just like they struggled to keep up with consumer electronics, smartphones, the internet, the PC, etc, who knows if they'll make it this time or if in the future having a toyota car will be like having a sanyo tv now

Remember when olympus cameras were the shit? thats back when olympus actually made new shit instead of stagnating, same with hundreds of other jap megacorps

Japan megacorps got big mostly thanks to the miti which was the government coordinating projects so those companies wouldnt get stuck making low value shit like the chinks do, and move into more valuable exports. For example they forced every major electronics company to have a CMOS project, else they wouldnt invest shit, and like 40 years later those companies are still reaping the benefits of what they were forced to do because they didnt want to

But when the megacorps went big the miti had no power anymore and coincidentally thats when the stagnation began. I think the first signs were no jap megacorp bothering to make a domestic microprocessor that could go against x86. Even later on they didnt even bother to for example buy cyrix which had reverse engineered that tech and use it to compete again intel, even tho japan had a huge advantage in chip production and couldve crushed amerilard processors like it crushed memory chips

Another great example of jap stupidity is sony which created almost every tech we use now but refused to market it because it would affect their existing products. They missed on flatscreens, the ipod, mp3s, streaming, nerfed minidisc, everything but the psx and they almost killed that project twice! now sony its literally the playstation company, the only thing keeping it afloat

They also had a massive advantage in cellphones during the early 2000s but got too lazy to export it, too content living off the domestic market. Had they exported those camera phones where you could check your email, browse the web, download apps, pay for all kinds of shit, buy tickets and even watch TV in fucking 2001 they wouldve dominated the phone market, period

Its missed opportunity after missed opportunity, everything that could go wrong went wrong
 
Another great example of jap stupidity is sony which created almost every tech we use now but refused to market it because it would affect their existing products. They missed on flatscreens, the ipod, mp3s, streaming, nerfed minidisc, everything but the psx and they almost killed that project twice! now sony its literally the playstation company, the only thing keeping it afloat

They also had a massive advantage in cellphones during the early 2000s but got too lazy to export it, too content living off the domestic market. Had they exported those camera phones where you could check your email, browse the web, download apps, pay for all kinds of shit, buy tickets and even watch TV in fucking 2001 they wouldve dominated the phone market, period

Its missed opportunity after missed opportunity, everything that could go wrong went wrong
I wouldn’t say Jap stupidity but rather the Bubble and structural reforms causing a cutback on Japanese innovation.

You’re wrong about Sony though; Sony is now manufacturing electric cars in collaboration with Honda. Ever heard of AFEELA? It’s a new Japanese electric car brand made by Sony with assistance by Honda engineers.
IMG_0902.jpeg
Sony still owns many major music records, and film studios too, and make a profit off that. While their electronics lag behind Samsung’s, I heard Sony smartphones aren’t shitty they’re just poorly marketed.

But that’s the thing - PlayStation and other Sony divisions have all shifted from Japan to the US, with PlayStation’s global HQ in California. So maybe you have a point here, but I do see some sparks of innovation on rare occasion in Japan.

Here’s ispace a new Japanese space and lunar company seeking to eventually extract resources from the moon one day. Maybe the Japs will recover eventually but for now they’re stagnating
 
  • Informative
Reactions: George Geef
Ever heard of AFEELA?
Yeah its disappointing to say the least, they spent years to show a cookie cutter EV that any chink corp couldve made and its still years away from release
I heard Sony smartphones aren’t shitty they’re just poorly marketed.
Its not shitty just meh for the insane prices they are charging, they think they are apple but dont do the r&d apple does or have their own dedicated platform its just same old android
Sony still owns many major music records, and film studios too, and make a profit off that.
Those divisions are why the company is the way it is now, the minidisc was killed by recordfags crying about people doing mixtapes, then crying about people using them for mp3, then crying about mp3s instead of allowing the engineers to make an ipod, then crying that apple had the ipod and were selling songs at $1 instead of forcing people to buy an entire cd full of shitty songs for the one or two good ones

Same with the film studios, they couldve done streaming years before netflix and basically dominate that market because they own the studios and the playstation could be used as a platform for the app, but then "who gonna buy our shitty dvds and blurays?"

Back in the miti days they wouldve been told to gtfo with the old jap shit and compete before the amerilards cornered that market, but the miti is literally gone, got disbanded over 20 years ago, and jap industry has been aimless ever since
but I do see some sparks of innovation on rare occasion in Japan.
Thing is there used to be more, way more
 
Yeah its disappointing to say the least, they spent years to show a cookie cutter EV that any chink corp couldve made and its still years away from release

Its not shitty just meh for the insane prices they are charging, they think they are apple but dont do the r&d apple does or have their own dedicated platform its just same old android

Those divisions are why the company is the way it is now, the minidisc was killed by recordfags crying about people doing mixtapes, then crying about people using them for mp3, then crying about mp3s instead of allowing the engineers to make an ipod, then crying that apple had the ipod and were selling songs at $1 instead of forcing people to buy an entire cd full of shitty songs for the one or two good ones

Same with the film studios, they couldve done streaming years before netflix and basically dominate that market because they own the studios and the playstation could be used as a platform for the app, but then "who gonna buy our shitty dvds and blurays?"

Back in the miti days they wouldve been told to gtfo with the old jap shit and compete before the amerilards cornered that market, but the miti is literally gone, got disbanded over 20 years ago, and jap industry has been aimless ever since

Thing is there used to be more, way more
Your assessment is fair but I would wager that AFEELA might be of better quality over Chink quantity.
 
Your assessment is fair but I would wager that AFEELA might be of better quality over Chink quantity.
Oh for sure specially compared to shit like byd, but japs from 30 years ago would have beaten tesla to the market like they did a bunch of amerilard and yuro carmakers with all kinds of other tech

Thats the problem, japs dont innovate anymore, all they do is catch up to others or giving up
 
Like many countries, Japan had the mistake of having a single advantage to lean on, and once that advantage eroded/became irrelevant their economy imploded. In Japan's case it was their salaryman - bureaucratic supermen that became irrelevant once computers could do their job better and faster.

Modern Japan economic ability is dictated by few too big to fail corpos that are even more corrupt than American ones (literally, they had hired Westerners that seen the books and immediately reported on how they did illegal shit).
 
View attachment 5441952
If Japan's population decline isn't debilitating enough. They've recently been trooning out more and more.
They mostly don't believe in it from what I've heard and are basically doing it because they think it's what Western investors want to see. Japan desperately needs more foreign investment.
 
I lived a few years in Japan and it has this really weird feeling that in the 80s and 90s it was ahead of its time, but it never moved on from there. Things feel like they're stuck in a timeloop some time between the years of 1990 and 2001. Economically I'm not really sure how they'll fix it, but I made a lot of Japanese friends and they're a good people at heart, even if their society is a bit soul-sucking.

I wouldn't ever live there permanently on my own terms, though. The economic stagnation doesn't bother me as much as the literal police state that it is. Quite scary, actually.
 
Back