The weebs are going to be mad at me : The case that "based Japan" is not as good as it seems.
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I had this thought when I was reading the anime post and l want to make a sort of "pilot" before I waste my time doing further research than what I've stumbled upon over my time of reading ESG reports.
Based Japan is a lie. People who think Japan is less bad than our culture either have a bizarre focus on race and "no black people in Japan lol" or they are massive weebs.
Allow me to explain
The systematically important financial institutions in Japan are :
Mitsubishi UFG
Mizuho Financial
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group. (pictured)
Below them is Nomura Securities, which is considered only locally important. I won't be talking about them.
What's interesting about Japan's banks is that they are disproportionately woke compared to systematically important banks in other countries.
Both SMFG and MUFG are active in the US markets, dealing in ESG loans, particularly those around gender based hiring. Trimble Inc's loan based off reducing male hiring is secured by both institutions.
That's two out of only three institutions in Japan considered systematically important that are dealing heavily in ESG.
Even Australia has only Commonwealth Bank and Westpac engage in these, out of their four institutions.
Is there enough interest for me to dig deeper?
I've been accused of weebery more than once and that's exactly why I'd read whatever you find out. Why would it make me mad? I was actually going to agree with you before when it comes to Japanese women, but it's difficult when you do your schtick of arguing generalities and ridiculously extremes like "Based Japan is a lie. People who think Japan is less bad than our culture either have a bizarre focus on race..." - There are degrees of "basedness" on various issues, and some things we call Based you call TERFism.
I thought about this even before this post, while watching recent videos discussing the LGBTQ law in Japan (including that Fox & Friends interview posted here) and reading the comments from Japanese people. I collected several of them and was thinking of posting a collage here because these Japanese are absolutely based, more so than Americans. Some of the comments wouldn't even be allowed if they were in English. It was refreshing and kind of a white pill.
That said, going through them there was an annoying streak of "protect the womenfolk" throughout, particularly when it comes to the bathroom issue. A few were even like "What's wrong with lawmakers? Mixed bathrooms? At least mandate bathrooms for Female AND Mixed." Outside the dying off ultra-nationalists, the conservative dialogue there seems stuck at the CPAC-level of "the Right needs to uplift women's voices!" It's far from the stereotype of macho right-wingers keeping women at home and out of politics. I don't see a beachhead to even start an anti-feminist dialogue with them on, but they don't have an analog to FOX News there so we take what we can get, no? I'm genuinely curious what you discover, though I don't have any interest in banking or finance so you'd have to make it easy to read otherwise.