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No Babies in Japan
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2017-02-12, 15:02 | Link #3582 | |
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2017-02-13, 09:09 | Link #3583 | |
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From Paul Krugman's column in this morning's New York Times:
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2017-02-25, 11:34 | Link #3584 | |
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The Long-Standing Ties between the New York Times and the Asahi Shimbun
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2017-03-10, 11:12 | Link #3585 | |
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Radioactive boars thwart return to Fukushima
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2017-03-14, 19:25 | Link #3586 |
AS Oji-kun
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Getting pretty lonely here in this thread
Today's bit of Japanese culture concerns former Boston Red Sox slugger Manny Ramirez who just signed with the Kochi Island Fighting Dogs. Manny's contract includes not only a salary, but this array of special goodies: A Mercedes car and a driver Optional practices His own hotel suite during road trips and the most important item, Unlimited sushi all season long Guess he developed a taste for sushi while growing up in the Dominican Republic! http://nesn.com/2017/03/manny-ramire...onal-practice/
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2017-03-15, 06:39 | Link #3588 |
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Ok, here's one.
Why Is Incest Such A Common Topic In Anime? Short answer: Incest was normal in Japan in the past before the post war era made it unpopular and taboo.
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2017-04-04, 11:20 | Link #3589 |
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One iconic feature of anime is its preoccupation with power lines and power poles. In my experience this goes back to Evangelion with its lingering shots of poles and wires. As the Tokyo Olympics looms, however, those poles may be a thing of the past. The Japanese government intends to put all the overhead cables in Tokyo underground by 2020 and is forcing the utilities like TEPCO, NTT, and DoCoMo to pony up a share of the costs.
Only seven percent of Tokyo's power lines are underground with an even smaller share in Osaka. For Jakarta and Seoul the figure is 35-40 percent; in London and Paris, 100 percent. When I'd see these shots of power poles in anime, I thought the rapid postwar development of Japan after World War II was one likely reason. It was faster and cheaper to put up poles and wires if you're trying to expand utility services as quickly as possible. The video in the Bloomberg article below makes that same point. The governor of Tokyo, Koike Yuriko, has been a particularly outspoken critic of the Japanese power grid, less for its unsightly appearance and more for the threat it poses should a major earthquake hit her city. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...task-for-tepco
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2017-04-04, 11:46 | Link #3590 | |
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That is terrible....those power lines are iconic not just of Japanese towns but East Asian ones everywhere. Just like neon bill boards and old electric trains. They have been vanishing everywhere and now Japan too...? if it's not a safety threat, they should stay IMO (like in smaller towns and such with less people)
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2017-04-04, 14:47 | Link #3591 | |
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That's just an example that came to mind, I'm sure there are other reasons.
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2017-04-05, 00:27 | Link #3592 | |
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2017-04-10, 10:57 | Link #3595 | |
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Japanese Pay Tribute to America in Sand
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“One attraction of the sand sculptures is their frailty,” said Yoshihiko Fukazawa, the mayor of the city of Tottori, the capital of the prefecture. “All the forms will eventually disappear or degrade or collapse.” Treasuring that impermanence, he said, is “a Japanese virtue.” The Times shows these artists' works in one of its 360 degree movies: https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/...pans-sand.html
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2017-04-30, 17:34 | Link #3596 |
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Japan has turned its culture into a powerful political tool:
"Much has been made of Japan’s recent turn away from pacifism and growing military muscle, but Tokyo is also extending its global reach in more subtle ways. Japan is especially serious about increasing its soft power, the ability to win over global partners with cultural and diplomatic affinity rather than coercion and sheer heft. Tokyo has long busied itself building a national “brand”, an image that combines the supposed uniqueness of Japanese language, cuisine, and traditional hospitality with its postwar pacifism and reputation for technological prowess. The latest iteration of this project is the Cool Japan initiative, which capitalises on the international popularity of manga and anime to project the Japanese brand around the world. But while this might all sound like very 21st-century stuff, the idea of packaging national culture into a political brand is a familiar one, and Japan has been doing it for decades – albeit in very different ways." See: https://theconversation.com/japan-ha...cal-tool-72821 |
2017-05-15, 04:58 | Link #3597 |
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Forced into porn: Japan moves to stop women being coerced into sex films
That is disturbing to read.
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2017-05-16, 10:50 | Link #3598 | |
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The disturbing world of JK
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2017-05-16, 16:53 | Link #3600 |
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The age of consent in Japan varies across the country. Local regulations can increase the age; this source suggests that the effective age of consent in Tokyo is 18.
Frankly I don't care what the law says. Few if any thirteen-year-olds have the mental and emotional capacity to give consent, particularly while being pressured by an older man. I assume you'd agree that receiving compensation for sex acts constitutes prostitution.
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