2017-01-29, 01:57 | Link #402 | |
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As for the culture against working mothers, it is always interesting when ever a government's practical needs smash against their ideological cornerstone. I feel the Japanese government say they wanted more working mothers, but couldn't bring themselves to actually believe this is what they should do.
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2017-01-29, 02:44 | Link #403 |
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I feel the idea that men aren't interested in dating is actually the same reason women refuse to quit working. Namely both sides no longer see their traditional gender roles as appealing.
Women don't want to throw away their careers, and men don't see why they had to work themselves to death supporting a family with just a single income. It really isn't about a lack of sex. It isn't really about a lack of marriages either. It is about raising children being far more difficult for both parents to deal with. And times are tough enough that men and women just throw their hands up and decide it is easier to stay single. One element, amongst many, is that Japan lost its job security it had in the past. People used to be impossible to get fired, and that kind of reliable income makes it possible for full time housewives to keep the family together. The "social contract" is broken now.
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2017-02-01, 22:39 | Link #404 |
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"Japan rejects Trump accusation of devaluing yen in currency war"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...P=share_btn_tw Trump's trade war on Japan is starting up it seems
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2017-02-02, 12:33 | Link #407 | |
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If Japan's economy was that weak, then I keep myself the right to ask how and why the extreme vast majority has not been able to get past Japan despite 2 decades of slowdown. I guess one would then say that the economy in the likes of Australia, France, Canada, and the UK absolutely suck based on that "standard". |
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2017-02-02, 13:04 | Link #408 | |
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China is also a big currency manipulator and it's the second biggest economy so no idea what you mean by weak. |
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2017-02-02, 14:01 | Link #409 |
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I should have quoted the post by Key Board, my apologies. I don't think he meant that, but it's probably what some people might think when accusing some countries of doing this or that with their currency. Even the US can try if they want. Anyway, I just cannot make any sense of Trump's criticism of Japan's actions in economics; it's insane to say something like that if one is well versed into economics for a long time.
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2017-02-02, 14:10 | Link #410 |
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Both the US and Japan have kept interest rates low for the past few years in hopes that it will stimulate economic growth. In the case of the US, monetary policy was the only tool available to the Obama Administration since the Republican Congress refused to enact any type of fiscal stimulus after 2009. I don't know enough about internal Japanese politics to know whether the same scenario applies there. However I don't think either country engaged in these policies as a strategy for "currency manipulation."
The bigger issue when it comes to US exchange rates is the general worldwide preference to hold dollars compared to local currencies. That has resulted in a relative strengthening of the dollar compared to other currencies. As the Japanese official in Key Board's quotation indicates, "Foreign exchange rates are led by the markets." Trump and his buddies see all such international events as driven by dastardly foreigners and not simply as the result of impersonal market forces. It's a ludicrous perspective, but sadly one which will drive American foreign policies for the next few years.
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2017-02-02, 16:19 | Link #411 | |
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2017-02-02, 17:38 | Link #412 |
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At the moment, I like the yen being low compared to the dollar, as it makes importing BD of anime cheaper than it was around 2012. Instead of costing around $700 for all of Yamato 2199 like it would have then, it will probably cost less than $500 to import all of Yamato 2202.
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2017-03-03, 02:25 | Link #413 |
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Kindergarten ‘crossed line’ by teaching pupils to cheer for Abe.
Saw the video today in Japanese TV. Must say it is a bit creepy how those little kids are made to chant stuff like that. Reminds me of ideological indoctrination in totalitarian countries.
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2017-03-03, 04:17 | Link #414 | |
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Indoctrination of children isn't new. And USA certainly isn't innocent of that. American Pledge of allegiance is similar to what Taiwan does in the education system. Same with the outright worship of Founding Fathers. I am pretty sure most Americans have never studied their founders as actual real people, but instead only heard the mythological version.
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2017-03-08, 04:29 | Link #416 |
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Actual steps, though not quite as far reaching as needed, are being taken to get proposed first revisions to Japan's 110 year old sex crime law approved. Passed Cabinet.
Bill incl. Remove requirement for victim to press charges for prosecution to proceed in cases of rape and sexual molestation. Expanding to sexual acts beyond vaginal penetration, changes in terminology. Male victims recognised. Expansion on domestic sexual abuse, involving parents or guardians of children under 18yo - incl. sexual acts without force or threat of force, intimidation in these cases (but not others) Raising minimum sentence. |
2017-03-14, 22:49 | Link #417 |
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It's an idle question that I wish I have more Japanese insight to inform me about. But I've been curious about how Japan would fare both domestically and internationally for the next 5 to 30 years. From what I see is that Japan, or at least the current Abe administration is trying to push some kind of domestic reform in order to prepare Japan to enter China's new imperialism game and go wild, since I see his effort to revive Imperialist ideology as a way to mobilize Japanese public into nationalist hivemind the way mainlanders are today. Will this pass?
How about their geopolitical outlook, especially with the decline of America under Trump as well as the rise of RCEP and Jakarta Concord initiatives that has shifted global balance of power and geopolitical rules? Will they see the benefit of balancing their economic ties to the US with that of Indian Ocean Rim and Global South?
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2017-03-14, 23:13 | Link #418 | |
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2. America is no longer a reliable ally, Japan can't tell what USA is going to do day by day. So it makes perfect sense to relying on America for defence. As for "imperialism"? Japan really isn't into that. They know how much imperialism costs. I have made it clear in several posts how low Japan's military spending is compared to their GDP. Unless one argues that the Japanese are inherently evil, there is no reason to argue that Japan can't get their military back. I mean, modern Germany got an army. Why not Japan?
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"The Japanese" aren't inherently evil but some of "their" ideas are. Unlike you, apparently, I'm not entirely certain "they" have learned the lessons about the costs associated with "their" revisionist courses, and I mean "they" and "their" to be read as "Abe". Personally I was hoping that you wrote this: Quote:
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2017-03-15, 00:08 | Link #420 |
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I don't think Japan is inherently evil, but their establishment does seem to be wholly unimaginative in their vision of statehood.
And no, I'm not positing Japan cannot get their military back. In fact the opposite. To be honest I don't even think US will mind all that much of them going batshit as long as they're PC about it and have China as target.
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