Comments by "kageyamareijikun" (@kageyamareijikun) on "Behind Asia" channel.

  1. Oh please, if you think this debt is huge you haven't looked at Japan's. Almost triple of GDP. And Japan's GDP is third largest in the entire world. Imagine the size of THAT debt.
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  2. Singapore GDP per capita - 84k USD. Japan/Taiwan/S Korea - 33k USD.
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  3. except there is no one to pay the collapsing pension fund and the LDP is increasing taxes on pensioners again. Tax keeps increasing across the board and salaries for young people are the same or decreasing after tax/pension/health insurance deductions. Prices are increasing slowly because of inflation. Labor shortage is very severe in almost all industries. See 2024 problem. immigration is a non-starter because the locals are extremely against it even with it at only 2% currently. They won't allow it to rise beyond 3%.
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  4. I'm early! Finally a video that is not Japan
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  5. 🇩🇪>🇯🇵
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  6.  @WinterGK  he tried to paint Europe like a pitiful poor-stricken place so I went along with him. Since Japan is a lot poorer than many Asian powers now like Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore and even Taiwan, by implication, Europe is far below Asia since Japan now is the dead economy of Asia.
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  7. You can tell who truly lives in Japan from the wannabes because those who don't live here are the ones in the greatest denial of the truth.
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  8. Poor countries rely on tourism. Thailand tops that figure easily. 30 million a year is nothing. So Japan is on the path to becoming a SEA country?
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  9. 所得税最高税率：45%（シンガポールー22%） 相続税最高税率：55%（シンガポールーなし） 債務：GDPの3倍に近い（シンガポールーゼロ） 一人当たりGDP：33,000 USD（シンガポールー88,000 USD） 旅券所持率：2割以下（シンガポールー9割以上）
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  10. You can form a poor people club together 😂
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  11.  @catgirlsmoe  it was reported in local Japanese media too about the sex tourism industry and how foreigners now make up majority of customers. Foreigners from China, Hong Kong and other Asian countries.
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  12. 円ベースにしても貧乏。特にシンガポールと比較したら。
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  13.  @Kopefulfill why you describe me :(
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  14.  @thelastdefenderofcamelot5623  You both lose. Singaporeans are the undisputed wealthiest Asians. Easily by three times over Japan and maybe 10 times of a Chinese. Just accept defeat.
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  15. Comparing to Europe? What a low bar. How about start with developed economies of Asia?
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  16.  @JL-yt5hy  because gdp size doesnt matter? China and India (soon) GDP size are bigger than Japan no one wants to go or live there and i dont see you being a cheerleader for them too.
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  17.  @missplainjane3905  easier said than done. And no you need to finish and fulfill the terms of your contract you can’t just job hop willy nilly like a fresh graduate. Why not ask your fellow Filipinos in Japan how much they are earning? Haha.
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  18.  @hermitpurple3  except there is no innovation here, and with a ballooning fiscal debt due to increased social insurance burden. Not enough skilled foreign professionals due to low pay, visa bureaucracy, language barrier, racial, cultural barriers and xenophobia. Japan can only attract technical interns and short-term low-skilled foreign labor that leads to those social problems and public safety issues you cited, like Kurdish, etc. All the top Asian talent is now in Singapore, Dubai and Hong Kong where salaries are triple and taxes maybe less than half of Japan.
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  19.  @missplainjane3905  You can ask the Japanese homeless in the net cafes and parks around Shinjuku then. Plenty of them there sleeping on cardboard.
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  20.  @hermitpurple3  Japan is the only G7 country to not have something as simple as separate surnames for married couples and also the only G7 country without same-sex unions. The latter is controversial but surely the former shouldn't be taking 20 to 30 years+ to discuss?! And Japan is also the only G7 country to have not revised the constitution since WWII. In comparison, Singapore has had more than 30 constitutional amendments since its independence. I don't think this is a healthy development. The Japan of the past was a rising dynamic power from feudalism to the Meiji Restoration, rivaling Western powers, and then the economic miracle after WWII. Today, it can't even effect the most administrative of changes, bound by decades-old redtape, inertia and resistance to any change. It is paralyzed, dominated by old folks and stubborn and still seeing itself as the preeminent Asian power. Yes, China is unpopular among Southeast Asian nations but we can't feel confident about Japan's future either. Thank you for sharing your native perspective though!
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  21. @ how is NOT having separate surnames “moral”? What is so moral about? How does allowing women to keep their surnames after marriage threatening safety and security and public order? Yes I know Japan maintains harmony through conformity and social pressure/norms rather than strict laws. But laws are still important in any society and laws need to be updated from time to time. The fact is Japan is becoming ossified and fossilized if they refuse to implement any changes not just in law, but other government policy and business, etc. The demographics and economy, productivity and innovation etc. will only continue to tank. Already GDP per capita is less than S Korea, Taiwan, and about only one third of Singapore. Total GDP drop below Germany and California and next year, India.
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  22. @ sorry I misunderstood. No I only visited America once as a tourist. Not really a fan. I prefer Asian societies (except China). Japan and Singapore are more similar in that sense but where there are differences, the differences tend to be 180 degrees. After working in Tokyo for many years, I will probably retire in Thailand or somewhere in Southeast Asia. I wish Japan all the best in the years ahead.
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  23.  @INDIANSARESICKMENOFASIA  is that why Canada now resembles India? Lol
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  24.  @isaacchai5660 Japanese are staunchly against immigration. Even when they barely form 2% of the population like now. There are very fierce protests. They will not compromise any further.
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  25. There is also Temasek Holdings but it's not mentioned here. The government is also very secretive about its reserves and till date no one really knows the true figure, not even the president.
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  26. Japanese will not accept immigration policy. Sorry but that's a fact.
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  27. Are you serious?! A singles tax?!
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  28. You can visit maid cafe in akiba 😂
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  29.  @thalmoragent9344  the economy has been in the dumpsters since 1989 so it will be the lost 4 decades soon.
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  30.  @JL-yt5hy  GDP per capita however, as the video stated, thats where Japan is lower than those Asian countries (we are not even talking G7 or EU or the US)
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  31.  @LimaSierra609 no one wants to go to China, everyone wants to go to Singapore. That’s where the money’s at. Japan has no money.
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  32. @ we don’t get to choose our expat assignments miss Philippines.
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  33. @ we don’t always get to have a say in where our work takes us
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  34.  @missplainjane3905  yes please don’t go to Singapore, it’s already full. Come to Japan and see how “nice” the locals are to SEAsians like you.
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  35.  @missplainjane3905  still better than your country
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  36.  @missplainjane3905  dont go to singapore. Enough filipinos there. Come to Japan and see how nice the locals are to you
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  37. @ so you have lived in neither Singapore nor Japan but you saw yourself fit to pass judgement on both countries and peoples haha. Ok. Visiting Japan is ok, but if you stay then you will find out how they really feel about Filipinos.
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  38. @ and you seem poor and ignorant
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  39.  @missplainjane3905  ignorant
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  40. @ you seem clueless
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  41. @ and so you think Japan is some utopia and by coming here from Philippines all of that will go away.
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  42.  @missplainjane3905  too bad you will never be able to live here so your arguments carry no weight. Bye.
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  43.  @missplainjane3905  Japan has problems that are highly unique to it so saying “its the same everywhere” is just disrespectful and downplaying the issues
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  44.  @missplainjane3905  lol you are the one who said that not me. Ignorant
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  45.  @missplainjane3905  you dont live in Japan and you dont speak Japanese
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  46. @ you dont even speak Japanese
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  47.  @missplainjane3905  you dont live here you dont even have N1 and you want to comment like an expert lol. Go be a maid or technical intern
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  48.  @missplainjane3905  you cant because you are from an inferior nation
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  49.  @missplainjane3905  and have you done anything yet? All talk no action and most importantly no ability or talent
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  50.  @hermitpurple3  I am pure blood Singaporean living in Tokyo and the worst insult you can call a Singaporean is to call him a “mainland Chinese”. Singapore has 50% foreigner population (which some locals feel is too much) but Japan only has 2% which is practically nothing for a country of 128 million. Everywhere I go there’s nothing but old people. I don’t agree with Japan taking in refugees like Kurds or evacuees like Ukrainians but at the very least make it more attractive for Asian talent or Western expats. Right now it’s a bureaucratic nightmare for gaijin. Low pay, high taxes, racism, xenophobia, red tape. Also, we Singaporeans are not communist.
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