Comments by "belstar" (@belstar1128) on "Brokenomics | Japan" video.

  1. All of these "problems" yet japan is still one of the richest countries in Asia. and also democratic unlike the other rich countries in Asia. only Taiwan and south Korea are on par but they have similar issues but slightly worse actually. you also got rich countries in the middle east but they are authoritarian. their lives are just as good as in western Europe and north America but are not having their recent problems with high crime and bad politics and censorship .and compare it with all the south east Asian countries they have come a long way but they got much bigger problems and can't reach first world levels some are rich but dictatorships. it seems like those countries are cursed and always have bad luck .when i say i think the west has gone down hill i always have to mention that japan is doing things better than western europe .because if i mention Poland or Thailand they just say i am crazy because they are not as rich as my home country .
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  2. japan doesn't look so bad lol i can think of worse scenarios
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  3. Seems like japan was starting to take over but then they didn't capitalise on the internet fast enough and now most of the tech giants are American .and another strange thing was that Japan's best products often didn't even come out in other countries or came out way later .like the old computers from japan were very good but they were different from systems used in the west and not compatible. so they usually didn't bother realising them here since after 1985 most people only wanted to use ibm or apple computers. and some company released a better computer in the late 80s that was more powerful and cheaper .but people in America back then didn't buy it because the good graphics were considered unproffeional (i know i misspelled it i don't care )and people didn't see a use for it and kept calling it a games console . later on in the early 2000s japan had smart phones before the west. but these were ,ot your modern smart phones they were devices with a little keyboard and other experimental features .most of them never came to the west and those that did came late or couldn't use all their features on western phone networks. then the i phone came out and a lot of western companies tried to create systems similar to ios .while in japan they were still focussing on older style phones and in the end only apple and android remained. and Japanese companies didn't even try .some west European companies did try but lost the format war so that is also something they lost on Japanese companies make android phones but they run android made in the us so they are no different than any other country and have little influence. but right now japan is doing well on things people used to think japan wasn't good at .like movies just look how much Japanese stuff is popular nowadays. a lot of my friends love anime and actually watch in Japanese not English and there are a lot of Japanese references all over the place .when i was a kid it was much rarer i did watch anime and play Japanese video games .but anime was considered as something for kids and everything had to be very westernised. not only language but they even did things like replace rice with doughnuts or ninjas with cowboys. and keep in mind i am from Europe so what is really the difference between replacing 1 foreign thing with another. so in a way its kind of like blade runner since i do see billboards in Japanese walking around town .not many ofcourse and mixed in with many other cultures but its real .
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  4. it is a bad thing for sure but its not going to be the end of the world
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