2018-05-27, 10:03 | Link #3641 | |
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Statistics on the tourism boom (article cited today by Fareed Zakaria on CNN)
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2018-06-03, 04:59 | Link #3642 | ||
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Why are marriages in decline in East Asia?
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1) When Asians don't marry, they tend not to have children. In Britain, close to 50 per cent of new babies are now born out of wedlock. The figure is just 2.3 per cent in Japan, 1.9 per cent in Korea. On point (1), I'd say it's not as though single East Asian men and women aren't indulging in casual sex. They're no different from people in other urbanised and industrialised countries. But I'm amazed that so many more children are born out of wedlock in Britain, which either means contraceptives are being used more regularly in comparable East Asian countries (I doubt that), or that the rate of casual sex in East Asia is dramatically lower than I'd imagine. On point (2), this passage on a single Japanese mother reminded me of Hana of Wolf Children: Quote:
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For asian societies on the other hand, you get your answer to this right on the article you linked: Quote:
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2018-06-12, 08:17 | Link #3644 |
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I'm curious about the case of this Japanese single mother. If the numbers cited there are accurate, that means she is being paid less than half of the minimum wage. I have to assume that there's something else going on in that situation, otherwise...I don't know, it's just a baffling scenario to deal with.
Not that in her case bumping her to the minimum wage would solve the problem. I could certainly make do where I am now on $1600 a month by myself, but with two kids? That might be pushing it a little. I could see that plus government assistance being manageable though, if not particularly luxurious. |
2018-06-14, 22:35 | Link #3647 |
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Prize-Winning ‘Shoplifters’: Japan’s PM Hates
This Movie Because It’s Just Too True: "Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda won the Palme d'Or at Cannes for "Shoplifters,” a critically acclaimed family drama about a poverty-stricken quasi-family that manages to eke out a living via petty larceny and fraud. The film is now playing widely in Japan, but there were moments when it looked like it wouldn’t. Japanese film distributors often shun anything with political connotations, and the government here just hates this movie. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been working for years to promote “Cool Japan” and anything Japanese or anyone Japanese, that does well. Everyone expected the director would at least get a congratulatory call from the ever-opportunistic Abe. Instead, Kore-eda has been more or less snubbed by the prime minister and reviled by Abe’s cronies and ideological allies. What is it about this heart-warming film that gets the cold shoulder from the ruling class?" See: https://www.thedailybeast.com/prize-...-true?ref=home |
2018-06-19, 12:42 | Link #3648 | |
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Japan hands Colombia a loss at the World Cup
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2018-06-21, 09:12 | Link #3649 | |
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2018-06-23, 01:58 | Link #3650 |
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Quarter of Japanese workers confess they want to kill their boss:
"More than one-quarter of the Japanese workers taking part in a survey admitted that the thought of killing their boss had crossed their mind on at least one occasion, underlining the stresses that employees here are often under. Fully 27 percent of the 1,006 men and women aged between 20 and 69 who responded to the recent survey by Shirabee confessed to having had homicidal thoughts towards a superior - with younger people in particular expressing sympathy for the frustrations and anger that are apparently bubbling just beneath the surface in many Japanese companies. “I would never kill anyone, but I can understand why so many people are driven to the brink by the way they are treated by their companies”, said Mayao Shibata, a translator from Tokyo. “I worked part-time in a high-end bistro in central Tokyo for a while and the manager was himself a frustrated 30-something employee who simply did not like me because I was at a good university and going places”, she told The Telegraph. “He made my life miserable; nothing I ever did was good enough. “If he treated a man like that, then I can imagine things could get violent”, she added." See: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...ant-kill-boss/ |
2018-06-24, 14:48 | Link #3652 |
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Me, too.
So by my understanding, if Senegal goes on to beat Colombia in Group H, then Japan will get through even if they lose to Poland. Senegal will have seven points, Japan four, and Colombia three. If Senegal and Colombia tie, then Japan has to tie Poland to guarantee an advance. If Japan loses, then some kind of tie-breaking process would happen, right? Colombia is currently +2 in scoring, to +1 for Japan, though that could easily change at the end of the round. Is that how it's decided? Does it matter that Japan beat Colombia head-to-head in their match? Why is it "samurai blue?" I know I can look this stuff up And now for ten minutes of Japanese people cheering and jumping off bridges.
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2018-06-24, 18:10 | Link #3653 |
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I was in a top sports bar in Montreal today, and I would say that 75% of the place was filled with Japanese fans. It was incredible to see that many people of Japanese descent in Montreal when one might think they are not that many in town.
With the way Colombia have played against Poland today, I think they can and will defeat Senegal by at least 2 goals. If that's the case, goal difference would be lower for Senegal than Japan's. With the way Poland have played, they are probably crushed right now. My guess is that Poland will send its reserves against Japan, and Japan can actually beat them if they keep attacking as often as they did today while scoring when it matters. |
2018-06-25, 21:34 | Link #3654 |
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I assume you've probably found your answer by now, as it took only 5min of Googlefu on my part.
The interesting answer is that no one knows why the Japan men's football team stuck with a blue-and-white uniform. They apparently adopted those colours after the Second World War, and stuck with it by tradition. Someone speculated that it's possibly because of an aversion to a red jersey, as red in immediate post-war Japan was associated with communism. The Samurai Blue tag came more recently (the women's team are Nadeshiko Japan, despite also wearing blue-and-white; the nadeshiko flower is pink). If I remember correctly, I first heard of "Samurai Blue" during the World Cup jointly hosted by South Korea and Japan in 2002 (which, incidentally, was when the international media first became aware of the Japanese penchant for cleaning stadiums after matches), but it may have been used even before then. South Korea under Dutch coach Guus Hiddink were an exciting team to watch during the 2002 tournament (they ended up fourth overall). Japan did not fare as well — they made it past the group stage, but were knocked out in the round-of-16. Still, as it was the first time Japan ever played in a World Cup final, they were a regional team to root for during the first and only "Asian" World Cup so far. |
2018-06-30, 13:28 | Link #3655 |
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Nasa blasts off!
Nineteen-year-old Hataoka Nasa clobbered the competition in last weekend's Ladies Professional Golf Association tournament in Arkansas picking up a cool $300,000 in the process. She shot -21 over three days and won by fully six strokes. A couple of weeks earlier she made a hole-in-one and won a car as a prize. Nasa has earned over $600,000 so far in 2018; last year she won about $35,000. Not bad for a nineteen-year-old.
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2018-07-25, 22:52 | Link #3657 |
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Sex robots being blamed for turning Japanese
people into ‘endangered species’: "According to experts, popularity of love dolls and sex robots might be to blame for Japan's declining birth rate with one scientist even claiming that Japanese people had become "an endangered species" as the nation falls in love with silicon women. The worrying trend of sex doll addiction has been revealed in an RT documentary called Substitutes that focuses on how life-size love dolls – fake versions of women with silicon vaginas—are fuelling “a national mood of loneliness and alienation.”" See: https://deccanchronicle.com/lifestyl...-endanger.html |
2018-07-28, 07:58 | Link #3659 | |
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Japanese young adults more content than preceding generations, but perhaps too content?
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2018-07-29, 06:26 | Link #3660 | |
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The Surprisingly Short Life of a Japanese House
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