Japan vs wamen. and some other shit.

Ah good to see Yoko is still making videos, she was a victim of my subscription purge when I unsubbed to everyone who’s political commentary is not mainly related to the entertainment industry like G+G, Mecharandom and YoungRippa do it.

Nobita though I unsubbed earlier when he kinda bent the knee and apologized.

But yeah japan is a common sense civilization, of course they are not perfect and have their own issues like overworking and the reliance on other countries to protect them, but I’d rather have those than the issues we have in the west.

That’s cool. When you live in the West you forget that there are stories that don’t fall within the narrative.

Cool but she isn’t a single mother – she’s just the one responsible for managing the money and raising the kids. That barefoot guy is her husband but because in Japan the man works all day and the woman stays at home looking after the children and cooking/cleaning etc. she is the focus of that report. Also in the beginning it’s their situation eight years ago when they only had three kids, but the rest of the report is present day and they have five kids now.

Isn’t Abe one of the weirdos trying to deny all the war crimes Japan did during WWII?

He was widely respected more than any of his five predecessors since he first became PM, but he was not without criticism from the left-leaning Japanese media. although under him over the last eight years (actually the first few years of his incumbency) sales tax went up twice from 5% to 8% to now 10%, an unpopular tobacco tax was imposed and just recently he went full authoritarian with a very strict anti-smoking law.

He never had any major scandals although some of his cabinet members had to resign over the years but not to a greater extent than is the usual and he was never found to be involved in anything. All that is pretty trivial as Japanese people care more about the character of the PM and the stability of the government and the country than any concrete policy issues. I did hear some Japanese people criticize him mainly for two reasons – his fiscal liberalism with raising taxes was the most common criticism, and a few people thought that he was too much of a divisive figure and not respected enough in the world and that for that reason someone else should lead – however this changed with him becoming best buddies with Trump, since Trump is seen as being very cool and on the side of the Japanese people against communist China which is universally disliked even among many liberal democrats in Japan. So that gave him a big popularity boost.

One of the major internal issues was his importation of foreign workers on temporary work visas to fill some laborious positions that fewer Japanese people were willing to do as they are a population that’s increasingly becoming overqualified. There isn’t much love for migrants in Japan though so that didn’t help his popularity, but at the very least Abe’s policy made it impossible to stay permanently in Japan if on a temporary work visa (unless they married a Japanese citizen which some immigrants do and some others overstay and become illegals, working in prostitution etc.) Japanese people fear that migrants who move to Japan will have to resort to criminal activity once their visa expires if they refuse to go back to their country.

The vast majority of Japanese people I’ve known, didn’t care who the PM or the ruling party were, but they were happy that they had steady leadership rather than change PMs every year like they went through a slew of different PMs in the late 2000s – one of whom was Abe in his first term in that role which only lasted a year. For better or for worst it’s a country that favors stability and strength of leadership as well as how it’s seen around the world – to internal affairs – by and large.

As I have some libertarian proclivities he wasn’t my ideal pick for PM, but Japan could do far worse! At least he wasn’t being being controlled by the CCP. I hope he recovers. This also speaks volumes of how responsible Japanese politicians are – putting the welfare of the country first. He said in his speech something like “I have caused you (the people of Japan) great trouble (by becoming unwell) and I don’t deserve to continue to be in this role any longer” and he bowed. I can’t imagine a US or an Aussie politician (or possibly a politician of any country) saying something like that to the media. Biden probably knows he has mental health issues and yet I don’t see him bowing out of the race for the presidency.