Comments by "Jordan, inside-outsider in Japan" (@Jordan-inJapan) on "A Japanese politician's worst nightmare" video.

If you didn’t know anything about Japanese political strategy before, that was basically the 101 level course for free. 😆
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MIXI??! 😂 Dogen-san, I didn’t realize you’d been in the country that long. (For those of you who haven’t been around as long, MIXI is Japanese Facebook from 20 years ago.)
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@OmarLivesUnderSpace I think it’s just that, even after coming up with a lot of new ideas, the inevitable decision is just to just do the same thing as before with a slight variation. It’s really a joke about Japanese society as a whole (at least when conservative old men are in charge)… not just about politics!
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@GustafUNL You’re right. The problem isn’t actually the older generation. But the ‘don’t rock the boat’ culture (in business as well as politics) does happen to be beneficial to those currently entrenched in positions of power…who are mostly all old men. (And they DO tend to resist change, as it doesn’t benefit them.) My wife works at Honda, and it says that there’s often serious discussion of progressive change or innovation in the company, but the guys at the top just veto everything at the last minute, presumably because it sounds like too much work…or just change makes them nervous.
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@AmodeusR ahhh that would make more sense. (He’s not THAT old…)
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@corvus2735 Right. Well, the functionality was probably closer to Facebook. But yeah.
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@OmarLivesUnderSpace I don’t know… any Toyota employees among us?
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@qwmx Congratulations! (But how this post got 1000 likes I’m not quite sure. 😂 )
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