Is this really even a popular belief anymore? Akihabara hasn't been known for cutting-edge electronics for a while. And just a couple years ago some people's personal info was revealed due to a lost floppy disk.
Because of population density, social and technological trends would often show up there before trickling down to other places, but social media has reduced the effect of that since new ideas and lifehacks go viral and can be everywhere at once. At least IMO that contributed more to the belief than specific technologies did. (On the contrary Japan has always been stagnant in certain technological areas because of the Galapagos effect.)
And some people still use dot-matrix printers, because they're the only ones that can print on carbon-copy paper. That's the ones with the white, yellow, pink, etc. sheets all in one.
Why do people believe Japan's suicide rate is some statistical exceptionality?
It's similar to the suicide rate of several European populations that didn't get this stereotype brodcasted everywhere.
It was likely promoted to craft some narrative about work conditions to push Leftist policies.
Like the myth that ''it's akshualy illegal to be fat in Japan, so opressive!''
No. Japan has targets for corporations to set up health initiative to encourage their workers to improve themselves and lose weight if they are fat.
There are financial penalties for the companies that fail to meet their targets.
Only the most hysterical Western landwhale would reeee that this is ''illegalization of fat bodies''.
Same for the apocalyptic narratives about Japans' birth rates. They are the same or above levels of almost all White nationalities. Floating around 1.2 - 1.4 child per woman.
It's not sustainable long-term, but it's not exceptional. Yet no mainstream publication would publish article after article about Europeans non-breading themselves into population collapse.
Europeans are though, because no mainstream Western politician will adress the problem and prefer to simply pretend the problem dosen't exist by mass-importing different peoples. Demographic suicide then replacement, and sunken cost fallacy means it's not stopping untill the number hits zero.
And who would adress this 20% - 55% into the population replacement process, depending on country and age group? Demographics is destiny.
I wonder how the average japanese feel if they look outside of their own social media bubble and see all this foreigners' non-stop criticism of your country and their preachy demands on how to "fix" your culture. I can understand the growing nationalist mentality when you have non-japanese demanding japan to flip their culture to conform to western standards.
how they treat women? you mean like how the men give all their money to their wives to control?
"The population decline is a very complex problem."
Men working 80 hour weeks so women don't have to work don't gave time for anything else.
Are you saying that a typical Japanese household is a working man with a childless housewife?
You need 2.1 kids per family to break even.
Wait until the find out how the Muslim people they love so much treat women.
Is this really even a popular belief anymore? Akihabara hasn't been known for cutting-edge electronics for a while. And just a couple years ago some people's personal info was revealed due to a lost floppy disk.
Because of population density, social and technological trends would often show up there before trickling down to other places, but social media has reduced the effect of that since new ideas and lifehacks go viral and can be everywhere at once. At least IMO that contributed more to the belief than specific technologies did. (On the contrary Japan has always been stagnant in certain technological areas because of the Galapagos effect.)
the floppy disk is less because they cant change that and more because they dont want to lol. Some companies still use fax machines ffs
if it ain't broke don't fix it
And some people still use dot-matrix printers, because they're the only ones that can print on carbon-copy paper. That's the ones with the white, yellow, pink, etc. sheets all in one.
Why do people believe Japan's suicide rate is some statistical exceptionality?
It's similar to the suicide rate of several European populations that didn't get this stereotype brodcasted everywhere.
It was likely promoted to craft some narrative about work conditions to push Leftist policies.
Like the myth that ''it's akshualy illegal to be fat in Japan, so opressive!''
No. Japan has targets for corporations to set up health initiative to encourage their workers to improve themselves and lose weight if they are fat.
There are financial penalties for the companies that fail to meet their targets.
Only the most hysterical Western landwhale would reeee that this is ''illegalization of fat bodies''.
Same for the apocalyptic narratives about Japans' birth rates. They are the same or above levels of almost all White nationalities. Floating around 1.2 - 1.4 child per woman.
It's not sustainable long-term, but it's not exceptional. Yet no mainstream publication would publish article after article about Europeans non-breading themselves into population collapse.
Europeans are though, because no mainstream Western politician will adress the problem and prefer to simply pretend the problem dosen't exist by mass-importing different peoples. Demographic suicide then replacement, and sunken cost fallacy means it's not stopping untill the number hits zero.
And who would adress this 20% - 55% into the population replacement process, depending on country and age group? Demographics is destiny.
Oh, wow, that sounds bad, wonder what the US is though?
I wonder how the average japanese feel if they look outside of their own social media bubble and see all this foreigners' non-stop criticism of your country and their preachy demands on how to "fix" your culture. I can understand the growing nationalist mentality when you have non-japanese demanding japan to flip their culture to conform to western standards.
What is with NPCs and the skull emoji? What is it even supposed to signify? It seems to be used as a generic "end of statement" marker.