It's usually got a lot of expats mixed in, primarily if it's in Tokyo. There's a shit ton of people who's main draw for things like streaming or youtube videos is they're in Tokyo Japan, so they make videos on the subject and can get loads of views from people who try to live vicariously through them with it. They have an abundance of free time, and usually are the type of people to talk about the "problems" of Japanese society and advocate for it's change despite the fact it's someone else's country they're just squatting in. They were also a large part of the blm protests in Tokyo after the Fentanyl Floyd incident, many of them tweeting about it on Japanese twitter as well. There's a whole leech-net of them on Youtube you can find who just hype and feed into each others audience.
Sometimes it makes sense if the protestors are trying to reach an international audience for whatever reason. The 2011 protests in Egypt come to mind since they wanted the West and the US in particular to drop their support for Mubarak. But yeah, it's absolutely manufactured in this case. It's about pushing an agenda here rather than giving a shit about people in Japan.
Japanese mask wearing is a bit different to other parts of the world. They've been doing it for years and only because it was more convenient than using scarves. A lot of Japanese people take public transportation which results in them being packed into trains like sardines and the Japanese work ethic means that taking a day off isn't something that really happens. So, it's really just to avoid hocking a loogie on the back of someone's head. There's also hay fever being much more common in Japan and the culture of politeness means you don't want to sneeze on someone.
There's also a cultural taboo regarding snot. There's a Japanese term for it that translates as "nose shit." Being caught with an uncovered runny nose would be really embarrassing for a Japanese person.
Ehhhh... a lot of Japanese people know a functional amount of English. Like, not enough for fully, grammatical questions but enough that you could ask "Where bathroom" and get a proper answer. With that in mind, the English language is honestly the language of the world and, when you want your protests to be seen by the world, it would make sense to include English words. Not to mention that kanji takes up less space than English words to mean the same thing, so you really couldn't have a large banner.
Sounds like Japan is trying to up its birth rate. Too little effort though. As pointed out in the book Bio History the only way to a keep a people going is full on patriarchy. Half assed measures don't work.
Japan never had a labor movement like the west did. They have relatively little work that needs doing, but they spend a whole lot of their day signaling their loyalty to the company so they can even have a job at all. It's fucking pathetic and it's very much a sign of late stage capitalism.
South Korea is in the same boat. They've embraced a lot of modern technology to make jobs easier, but this means the competition for remaining jobs is so fierce that kids have to sacrifice their entire childhood or they're not good enough to for one of the few entry level positions.
An attempt to claim that 'capitalism has failed' and a demand for more government regulation while, ironically, pointing to issues that could only exist thanks to government regulation.
Perhaps you forgot what capitalism did in the 1920. Do you think repealing Social Security would benefit this country? Or even be possible?
Capitalism is great for growing markets. Agriculture stopped being a growth market in the early 20th century and this was choking the world economy. Returning that industry to pure capitalism would be a disaster. We're in the same situation today where there's little room for industry to grow and competition is becoming cancerous.
The simple solution would be a shorter workweek, like the very socialist 40 hour workweek we already have.
Do you think repealing Social Security would benefit this country?
Social Security is a pyramid scheme that is slowly starting to fall apart.
Or even be possible?
No, because any politician that even suggested the idea would be voted out in the next election by old people.
Capitalism is great for growing markets.
And socialism is great for markets that aren't growing... wait...
Agriculture stopped being a growth market in the early 20th century and this was choking the world economy.
You realize the STAGGERING amount of subsidies that go into agriculture, right?
We're in the same situation today where there's little room for industry to grow and competition is becoming cancerous.
The reason there is "very little room for industry to grow" because the amount of government regulations strangulates anyone out that can't afford to have everything done overseas. Regulations which, funny enough, are promoted by existing corporations.
The simple solution would be a shorter workweek, like the very socialist 40 hour workweek we already have.
No, the solution would be to start cutting back the amount of regulations. Governments mucking around in the economy is what made The Great Depression last as long as it did. It's pretty much agreed upon by histories and economists alike that the government ended up extending it. Yes, there will be some growing pains, but being able to finally run outweighs the pain of not having been able to use your legs for decades.
And they work from dawn to dusk trying to find the optimal font choice for a spreadsheet and have no time to court women. Japanese companies have some strange sense of duty to employees and will give a burned out employee a window watching job just to get him out of the way.
The gap between the rights and responsibilities of women versus men with respect to children is absolutely insane. Basically all birth control short of condoms only works for women, effectively giving women complete reproductive control over both themselves and men in long term relationships, abortions only exist for women, child support might as well only exist for men, and being unable to pay it lands you in prison unless you absolutely win the lottery and get a family court judge who is even willing to consider the possibility that men don't have limitless money and job opportunities. Women are acting like limits to abortions mean they're being treated like cattle, but the fact is they still have tremendously more rights and less responsibility than men ever have or ever will.
This. And it's simple to see with the whole abortion decision.
Woman is pregnant for 9 months. Gets to choose to tell the man, not tell the man, keep the baby, not keep the baby, etc. And if she unilaterally decides to keep the baby, dude is on the hook for ~2 decades of child support payments.
If you even suggest that the guy should have the ability to do a financial abortion, though - waive all parental rights and contact with the woman and kid in exchange for not being locked into child support payments - you'll have a bunch of harpies screaming in your face faster than if you said "free cake!"
I don't know if you forgot to mention or just don't know, there have been efforts to develop male birth control that were shut down because that would give men more control over when to have a child.
And that's just Western society in general. Japanese culture has its own quirks. They went the "men can go their own way" route when it comes to child support, so a guy can just be a sperm donor if he wants, with no obligation. BUT women still have all the rights when it comes to raising that child. If the guy WANTS to be a father, the woman has to give permission. She is allowed to keep sole custody herself or raise the baby as another man's child without consent from the biological father. So I was surprised by this interpretation of the abortion law.
There had been controversy for years (when news actually covered these things instead of fake controversies) about parent "abductions" where the Japanese mother of a mixed baby would break up with the father and no longer let him see the child. Japanese law is ok with this. So occasionally the American father and his family will kidnap their baby and bring it back home with them. Japanese law is NOT ok with that, but American law is. So it was kind of an international disagreement. I'm not sure but I think US law finally cucked to the Japs and agreed to go after the men. Someone would have to confirm.
i always find it funny when these type of protests are in countries that dont speak much English , yet have English protest signs there . How strange.
No foreign interference at all. Nope. Totally organic. * sarcasm*
It's usually got a lot of expats mixed in, primarily if it's in Tokyo. There's a shit ton of people who's main draw for things like streaming or youtube videos is they're in Tokyo Japan, so they make videos on the subject and can get loads of views from people who try to live vicariously through them with it. They have an abundance of free time, and usually are the type of people to talk about the "problems" of Japanese society and advocate for it's change despite the fact it's someone else's country they're just squatting in. They were also a large part of the blm protests in Tokyo after the Fentanyl Floyd incident, many of them tweeting about it on Japanese twitter as well. There's a whole leech-net of them on Youtube you can find who just hype and feed into each others audience.
WAITO PIGGU, GO HOME
Sometimes it makes sense if the protestors are trying to reach an international audience for whatever reason. The 2011 protests in Egypt come to mind since they wanted the West and the US in particular to drop their support for Mubarak. But yeah, it's absolutely manufactured in this case. It's about pushing an agenda here rather than giving a shit about people in Japan.
Its either a psyop or a bunch of foreigners trying to force degeneracy upon the Japanese.
Theyre all wearing masks and some of them look a bit... African.
Japanese mask wearing is a bit different to other parts of the world. They've been doing it for years and only because it was more convenient than using scarves. A lot of Japanese people take public transportation which results in them being packed into trains like sardines and the Japanese work ethic means that taking a day off isn't something that really happens. So, it's really just to avoid hocking a loogie on the back of someone's head. There's also hay fever being much more common in Japan and the culture of politeness means you don't want to sneeze on someone.
There's also a cultural taboo regarding snot. There's a Japanese term for it that translates as "nose shit." Being caught with an uncovered runny nose would be really embarrassing for a Japanese person.
Ehhhh... a lot of Japanese people know a functional amount of English. Like, not enough for fully, grammatical questions but enough that you could ask "Where bathroom" and get a proper answer. With that in mind, the English language is honestly the language of the world and, when you want your protests to be seen by the world, it would make sense to include English words. Not to mention that kanji takes up less space than English words to mean the same thing, so you really couldn't have a large banner.
It's this one.
Sounds like Japan is trying to up its birth rate. Too little effort though. As pointed out in the book Bio History the only way to a keep a people going is full on patriarchy. Half assed measures don't work.
If they wanted to fix the birth rates, they would actually start with pulling back on the idea of literally working yourself to death.
Japan never had a labor movement like the west did. They have relatively little work that needs doing, but they spend a whole lot of their day signaling their loyalty to the company so they can even have a job at all. It's fucking pathetic and it's very much a sign of late stage capitalism.
South Korea is in the same boat. They've embraced a lot of modern technology to make jobs easier, but this means the competition for remaining jobs is so fierce that kids have to sacrifice their entire childhood or they're not good enough to for one of the few entry level positions.
What's that?
A term faggots use
An attempt to claim that 'capitalism has failed' and a demand for more government regulation while, ironically, pointing to issues that could only exist thanks to government regulation.
Perhaps you forgot what capitalism did in the 1920. Do you think repealing Social Security would benefit this country? Or even be possible?
Capitalism is great for growing markets. Agriculture stopped being a growth market in the early 20th century and this was choking the world economy. Returning that industry to pure capitalism would be a disaster. We're in the same situation today where there's little room for industry to grow and competition is becoming cancerous.
The simple solution would be a shorter workweek, like the very socialist 40 hour workweek we already have.
Social Security is a pyramid scheme that is slowly starting to fall apart.
No, because any politician that even suggested the idea would be voted out in the next election by old people.
And socialism is great for markets that aren't growing... wait...
You realize the STAGGERING amount of subsidies that go into agriculture, right?
The reason there is "very little room for industry to grow" because the amount of government regulations strangulates anyone out that can't afford to have everything done overseas. Regulations which, funny enough, are promoted by existing corporations.
No, the solution would be to start cutting back the amount of regulations. Governments mucking around in the economy is what made The Great Depression last as long as it did. It's pretty much agreed upon by histories and economists alike that the government ended up extending it. Yes, there will be some growing pains, but being able to finally run outweighs the pain of not having been able to use your legs for decades.
Capitalism is a competition right? Eventually someone wins the competition.
Youth unemployment in SK and Japan is lower than the US
And they work from dawn to dusk trying to find the optimal font choice for a spreadsheet and have no time to court women. Japanese companies have some strange sense of duty to employees and will give a burned out employee a window watching job just to get him out of the way.
"Soft patriarchy" is how we got here man. The 50s weren't magic, they were part of the decline.
Protest born of American influence.
I'd have more sympathy if these whores didn't baby trap dudes for child support money.
The gap between the rights and responsibilities of women versus men with respect to children is absolutely insane. Basically all birth control short of condoms only works for women, effectively giving women complete reproductive control over both themselves and men in long term relationships, abortions only exist for women, child support might as well only exist for men, and being unable to pay it lands you in prison unless you absolutely win the lottery and get a family court judge who is even willing to consider the possibility that men don't have limitless money and job opportunities. Women are acting like limits to abortions mean they're being treated like cattle, but the fact is they still have tremendously more rights and less responsibility than men ever have or ever will.
This. And it's simple to see with the whole abortion decision.
Woman is pregnant for 9 months. Gets to choose to tell the man, not tell the man, keep the baby, not keep the baby, etc. And if she unilaterally decides to keep the baby, dude is on the hook for ~2 decades of child support payments.
If you even suggest that the guy should have the ability to do a financial abortion, though - waive all parental rights and contact with the woman and kid in exchange for not being locked into child support payments - you'll have a bunch of harpies screaming in your face faster than if you said "free cake!"
Easy to avoid if you don't randomly fuck around with women.
Tell that to Nick Olivas.
I would if I met him. The guy thought it was cool to fuck his teacher. Even at that age you know should know better.
Had sex with a 20 year old when he was 14
Didn't press charges
Unfortunate
Only if you ignored the warning signs to get with the hot chick. We all know what we're getting into deep down.
I don't know if you forgot to mention or just don't know, there have been efforts to develop male birth control that were shut down because that would give men more control over when to have a child.
And that's just Western society in general. Japanese culture has its own quirks. They went the "men can go their own way" route when it comes to child support, so a guy can just be a sperm donor if he wants, with no obligation. BUT women still have all the rights when it comes to raising that child. If the guy WANTS to be a father, the woman has to give permission. She is allowed to keep sole custody herself or raise the baby as another man's child without consent from the biological father. So I was surprised by this interpretation of the abortion law.
There had been controversy for years (when news actually covered these things instead of fake controversies) about parent "abductions" where the Japanese mother of a mixed baby would break up with the father and no longer let him see the child. Japanese law is ok with this. So occasionally the American father and his family will kidnap their baby and bring it back home with them. Japanese law is NOT ok with that, but American law is. So it was kind of an international disagreement. I'm not sure but I think US law finally cucked to the Japs and agreed to go after the men. Someone would have to confirm.
There are still physicians all over the West who will refuse to give a man a vasectomy unless his wife consents to it. I don't see the issue here.
foreigners out
And I believe in neither