Comments by "Voryn Rosethorn" (@vorynrosethorn903) on "The Japan Reporter" channel.

  1. Honestly the fact that she would do this for kicks while having a husband and child says more about her than anything else. Also the I didn't tell my husband but I knew he would understand because he's a logical guy is a hell of a take, I am usually opposed to divorce but I'd say this would be a justifiable cause for one. Frankly something is telling me that it is an extremely dysfunctional family, and practically everything she says raises red flags. Pretty disturbing all round.
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  2. The issues around the cost of education in Japan are probably a major motivating factor for many of the younger people in entering the industry (especially for university students) but just as much for married women entering it (cram schools aren't free after all nor is their husband's job necessarily as stable as in prior decades). I imagine a lessening of the burden of education fees would lead to manpower shortages in the sector as well as raising the birth rate by making the pooling of resources in fewer children less necessary.
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  3. Youth poverty is hitting worldwide. My country has similar but different problems.
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  4. What a surprise. Next we'll be hearing that birds have wings. All the best to the lady, but she should never have married him in the first place.
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  5. It is important to note that Japan is not an outlier among developed countries with its birth rate, Europe has very similar one's. The thing that makes it distinct is that it does not engage in mass immigration and then pretend the problem doesn't exist. Let's be clear immigration is not a long term solution to demographic issues but much like bringing people into a ponzi scheme despite the fact that it's what western experts generally recommend to Japan, as birth rates are falling worldwide becoming a demographic black hole will only work so long and could be considered immoral for siphoning off skilled people from countries that desperately need them for any hope of internal improvements as well as having been the ones funding the education that western countries will take advantage of. On top of this a lot of the cover in a paper thin veneer, here in Britain living standards are declining rapidly but immigration (notably including illegal) are encouraged in order to pump the GDP figures and give the illusion that we aren't in a major recession, we also have the problem of cheap labour being used in place of technological advancement. This in not going into the many many other negatives. In short solutions at the ground level are vital and only real solutions will be able to fix such difficult issues. Personally I would recommend getting rid of government pensions as all they do is hide the fact that people need children to pay for them in old age. Likewise the modern dating system is not fit for purpose and indeed in the Japanese context seems to conflict badly with the culture and attitude of the population. Ideology which promotes and justifies family will also likely be necessary, in Japan this was traditionally fulfilled by Confucianism and the the West Christianity, people after all tend to act off what they believe in.
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  6. Too be fair the behaviour of many westerners even within their own country isn't great, in a country with higher trust and standards like Japan a lot will be guilty. As for non-westerners, let's just say the the exponential increase in every kind and severity of problem within the West as been fuelled by something other than the zoomer generation receiving a useless education. Honestly I'm not sure it's wise to be influenced but any foreigners, but you should avoid letting some in at all costs.
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  7. In terms of daughter, I would first want to know why and if I had raised them so poorly, but if they couldn't give a good reason I would disown them. In terms of wife there are almost no excuses, the lies would be the nail in the coffin of it, I am not typically one to support divorce (especially ones so flippantly undertaken as many seem now) but in such a case I not sure other options are open. If one has financial problems you discuss it together otherwise why call yourself family. This might sound old fashioned but I would rather the people I care about don't go to university than pay for it in such a way. People who act in such a way without pay I might as well add are to my mind worse, they demean themselves the same without even asking for recompense, in my country such most university students are in such a category (and yes both sexes, manwhores are if anything worse, as they must put effort into their actions or else have standards such that they are demeaning themselves to an even greater degree).
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  8. Half of many developed countries GDP is made up of government spending, it's taxes, as well as immigration and women entering the workforce driving down wages, financial inequality has got worse sure but not at a scale large enough to explain the shift in living standards. Things like interest rates are also basically hidden taxes.
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  9. Interesting guests, the first lady was a narcissist most likely given her many odd comments, I have a feeling that she didn't only get a lot of work done on her face. The other two seemed very nice and gave quite insightful commentary and a real look at the experience. I have heard that back exercises are beneficial. Interestingly medieval Europeans disfavored large breasts (or even middling ones really) due to them being associated with a lack of virtue. This lead both to a lot of chest binding and also a likely genetic disfavoring. Ironically the opposite seems to be happening now. As for the morality of such channels, I'm not 14 anymore and if I was then youtube wouldn't be my port of call. I frankly don't see the point, though I imagine that for the content creator at least the point is monetary. However if a women wants a health long term relationship then a certain exclusiveness will be a part of the bounds of that relationship, something rather difficult when you have already commercialised yourself.
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  10. No. Not really a complicated one, that.
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  11. Bloody interesting, and I hope the increasing awareness of these problems along with the increasing accountability of the companies involved for dodgy sourcing methods leads to a decline in the industry. Personally despite you're discussion of social issues your videos have given me an overwhelmingly positive view of Japan, my country along with many other western countries has many similar issues however they are in both degree and number a lot worse and there is little awareness of them or room for civil dialog about them and increasingly any discussion of anything is merely part of a larger dogmatic ideological war and not a issue in it's own right. I'm currently training to become a teacher and your videos have made me think about moving to Japan once I've finished as it's become very clear that I don't want to raise children in the political and social culture that currently pervades nor in a state with institutions that fundamentally won't protect them if needed.
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  12. Let's be honest, the focus on love is a big part of the issue, it is heavily pushed by advertisers, probably because it sells tat without delivering but really a large part of it is the social conditions and norms which allow two people to make a relationship work as well as the kids. Relationships are something that must be built or maintained, but like everything our society seems to tell use we can buy, neglect or abandon them at will with no real consequences or responsibility, really it is to the point of saying we should and holding moral evil as a moral good. People need to have less options frankly, if you say some bullshit about falling out of love when you have children then frankly you need to grow up and stop being self-centred, you are not the centre of the relationship, your children are. There are unhealthy relationships but to often they are such by lack of effort and a sense of entitlement rather than anything more irreconcilable. As for getting into a relationship working out what you want is fine, if they don't want that then right there you have saved years of potentially dancing around it. To be fair relationships aren't about self-actualisation, that just comes about once you get into a rhythm, they are about children, all the rest is a later product largely out of very Christian concepts about consent and the enjoining of humans into one flesh (and yes that is most certainly a reference to the literal as well as the spiritual), unless you are counting political alliance, which is ancient by probably not terribly relevant. The main issue today is that the culture and legal framework is not accommodating of marriage, there is a rampant individualism, almost to the point of farce, and an overreliance on taking from the state without acknowledging that costs are a universal and people will be needed in the next generation to support you no matter what. It is best that the obligation is relational as frankly in current conditions it is a race between the finance departments and the younger generation to scrap pensions. People are happy to look after their own, but an old market principle the Soviets proved is being unearthed, farmers will let the cities starve if they don't get paid, and young people will prefer not to work than to have all of their money taken towards people too irresponsible to have children of their own.
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  13. Same everywhere, Japan at the very least has less issues with drugs.
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  14. People have literally done studies on this, the vast majority regret not having kids, and of the current women who either aren't able to have them or are likely not to most wanted kids, they left it too late. There is a reason why IVF has exploded.
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  15. I have a feeling he's never going to go to her for relationship advice.
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  16. Here in Britain we wish we had a media that cared about the concerns of the population.
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  17. Grim if this is becoming a norm at any level of society.
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  18. Church social groups, also local community events and lots of touching grass.
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  19. It is ultimately cultural, it is about the values people hold, liberal individualism is sterile while the more traditional dogmas like Confucianism and Christianity are intensely pro-natal as traditions which aren't died quickly just as liberal society is dying. It ends up that welfare will not fill in what has become morally degraded and economically inconvenient. The state wants to have its cake and eat it too, they want thriving families, but each member of said family to be the private serf of a corporation for the sake of the precious GDP. Thus they talk about giving women money to not see their children rather than questioning if increasing women's work hours is a good solution to an aging population.
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  20. So Japan teaches about LGBT curriculum but not it's religious and cultural heritage or about worldwide religions to the point of them becoming widely misunderstood. Seems like they have the wrong priorities.
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  21. Being a decent person is pretty high up the list, personally a desire to have a large family is also a must.
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  22. I definitely think double eyelids is prettier. The examples shown didn't look unnatural which is one of the big issues with plastic surgery. Many plastic surgery operations push people into uncanny valley and they end up looking worse off for it. The funny thing is that I don't know a single man who doesn't find plastic surgery outputting or ugly and I have a feeling that the benefit to women from it is coming from an improvement to self esteem rather than looks. I have also noted that beauty standards are very much internalized among women themselves which leads to very misinformed assumptions about how pretty they are seen as by men. I think it's important that Japanese women know that they are quite beautiful already (but I do wonder how such a message could be sent, I certainly would be in no place to spread it) as they seem to have severe and, from an outsider perspective, puzzling self confidence issues which no doubt hinder them in the rest of their life. It would be worthwhile for women focus less on the cultivation of idealised beauty and instead cultivate their personality, or better yet if they want to benefit society and pursue fulfilment rather than fleeting happiness; get married and have 15 kids.
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  23. Yes, this is correct. Social degradation makes life difficult. Community building is probably something to be investing in as an actual thing and not just a corporate buzz word. The number one investment is time, as social relationships are built on the social stuff, not government grants, even if grants are measurable.
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  24. He still does good stuff but unfortunately he has financial difficulties and seems to get sponsored to do publicity for porn companies, at least if I am understanding correctly what he said in the comment section of a video a good while ago. From how he frames the questions it is obvious that he is very socially conservative if not reactionary but my impression he has kids so it is quite likely that putting food on the table is the priority, personally I think he should set up a patreon and make the sort of good content he seems to want to make.
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  25. Profile pic checks out.
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  26. Younger as well, onlyfans is pretty notorious for not caring about cp unless it becomes a pr problem.
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  27. Not sure she does like it, the whole thing is very sad.
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  28. They took the gothic elements a bit seriously, on top of this Christianity has a mostly aesthetic presence as the Catholic church will be given a heavy symbolic presence and then the author will make it known that he has no idea that Catholic priests take vows of celibacy, can't marry and don't burn people alive on Saturdays.
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  29. If you are talking to the commenters then we don't control government fiscal policy, nor do we control nature, resources are finite. The number one thing to do it to change social contexts and the perspective of people on life. The declining birth rate has hit countries irrespective of wealth. It is about much more than it, even if of course people would feel better with more in the bank.
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  30. The likelihood of that massively goes up past 35, which is when women with such a mentality typically have kids. But I can sympathise with the feelings of a lack of security. Though I doubt that is a cause, wars cause baby booms.
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  31. No, the culture existed for thousands of years, social liberalism has been around for much less and has the same effect everywhere. Look at the west, are Italian birth rates due to Japanese cultural traditions.
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  32. Cope.
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  33. This is basically an ad unfortunately. These ones with pornstars always are, not only is it how you get them to talk but also he has said before that he's paid by the company to do these.
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  34. If I am wearing an SS uniform and spend my days taking pot shots at minorities from my lawn then my claim to be a social and political progressive are not to be taken as fact, self-identification is not the be all and end all. While there are plenty of groups in contradiction with their principles there is a point at which they are such basic fundamental principals and so many that the organisation may be said to be it's own thing and any attempt at association merely an attempt at cloaking themselves in part of the legitimacy and reputation of the other group. This group is one that is in violation of many basic Christian teachings and is offensive to Christian morality, they are very much like a scam email that tell you that they are from a legitimate company and are treated with similar contempt even by very unorthodox groups of Christians (though perhaps not all as Christians are not nearly good enough at gatekeeping), academia also categorizes such groups separately.
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  35. The Japanese military desperately needs to expand, but it should have as much industry as possible within Japan. Total self-sufficiency is not possible due to a very weak resource base, but as much of the supply chain as possible must be local, as if there is a war America will not only have to produce for the world, but will be able to dictate prices. The British empire was bankrupted by business with the Americans, for whom the intention was very much to destroy the British economy and steal all their wealth. America is not a friend even of its own people, it benefits a small influential class, some of rich, but mostly the management class, who run the actual systems. The whole insulting Japanese self-preference is merely pressure to conform, Japan has become a model for western politically opposition, they say 'a slow economic decline due to low birthrates is better than destroying the nation, people and society with immigration ', this worries those who are benefited by low wages or are motivated by animus towards civilisation. The Japanese should not have US military bases, American influence is undoubtedly bad, while they remain Japan is stuck within a westernized political framework at a time of western decline and it's cultural, social and political degradation. Japan should think about another period of isolation, and possibly reinvigorating Confucianism as a way to strengthen social bonds and reform the system of social life which has proved infertile and depressing.
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  36. Someone always has to pay.
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  37.  @jamilgonzaga7081  Exclusivity is an important component of a relationship. There are open relationships and the like but in such things there’s usually one party who comes home at night to cry into the pillows of an empty bed.
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  38.  FIGHTFANNERD10  She makes it abundantly clear that she did it for herself. I doubt her son will gain any benefit considering that she was not suffering any financial hardship in the first place.
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  39. Obvious bait is obvious bait.
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  40. From what I have seen westernized Japanese import western social problems and actively make the culture worse, is citizenship rules a matter of importance however, probably not. It is the definition of a minority concern, there are much bigger issues for the Japanese government to focus on.
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  41. That was literally not in the terms of the question and was probably edited out even if they said it for use on a different video on a more relevant topic.
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  42. I think arranged marriage will probably make a comeback in the future.
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  43. She basically said she did it for kicks.
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  44. Such is a social death spiral, there is a reason Confucianism and Christianity assign a social structure in which the young look after the old and have children to look after them. In a sense the social structures and norms have to be designed to combat these issues and it is only natural selection that those which did became dominant. This in large part seems like a justification for dewestisfication, many of the social structures and norms adopted by Japan are simply not functional in perpetuating society, if Japan is to succeed they should look west for errors rather than models. As to solutions social pressure to marry, a prioritization of prestige for large families over career progression, a robust legal and moral strengthening of successful family structures and possibly a reintroduction of arranged marriage are likely to work. Whatever is done however the dating system, liberal social attitudes, norms and legal protections and an obsession with corporate professions are proven failures. Japan does not need economic growth, it needs people.
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  45.  @anananana5366  These people typically want to have children in their 30's, find it too late in the late 30's and grieve it for the rest of their life. They don't wake up at 75 and wish they had a family.
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  46. What is a 'good' person. Is it the same as being a patriarch or matriarch. I see a lot of weak parenting that is meant to be nice, and a lack of responsibility from parents as much as their children.
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  47. You are getting people from a newly low trust society, who are coming to gawk at a high trust one, let's be honest, most tourists have an entirely superficial interest in the culture, they aren't going to conform to a new set of behaviours for the sake of a few days out of their life, no matter if doing so is easy or hard, they are driven by convenience, not care.
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  48. A couple of things, one the guy at the beginning might be handsome but he's not what most people with serious relationships in mind are looking for, indeed he does not at all seem like someone even looking for something serious in the first place also his personality will be an impediment if it has any crossover with the online persona he has. Two, shy guy's find rejection painful and have doubts about whether someone likes them just as much, not trying is a lot easier than either meanwhile women who are too aggressive come off as not taking things seriously (one issue is that is actually the case with a lot of men who do "well" at dating), ultimately friend groups might be the most important in solving such issues as they can confirm interest without upsetting the status quo, that said friends often don't want to involve themselves incase things don't turn out well so as to not be responsible for starting a failed relationship or having to take sides in the fallout. The fact that such conversations are even contemplated however is a very good sign, one that many western nations markedly lack.
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  49. 'I've never cheated because I've never been loyal', ok then, not sure that scales well though.
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  50. Stephen Shaw (who is japan based), has pointed out that mothers have As many children as ever. The problem is people who don't get or stay married, basically the old social structures of arranged marriage and courting, as well as large but close family and community structures served a purpose. Capitalism has It's place but it is a consuming force, if you put all your crops into the fire it will burn ferocious but you will have nothing to plant; it will go out and you will be both hungry and cold. Ultimately the national, social, ethnic, cultural and human existence is worth continuing over GDP figures or short-term prosperity. The real trouble is uncertainty, if people feel like they will be supported in having kids they will have them, this is not in child care, which has serious detrimental impacts on children and costs a bomb, this is in community support structures, reliable work and a feeling of purpose. There is a reason that fertility is heavily tied to religion. Likewise Japan should learn to decouple from western innovations, many of these are hardly good, and only become worse when made more efficient in the hands of the Japanese. Also if you have immigration limit it to native European families and Chinese and Koreans who speak the language, even that would be a struggle, but it would not destroy the Japanese people. Also your politician is mad, and ignorant, and I say that as someone to the considerable right of him.
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