Comments by "Voryn Rosethorn" (@vorynrosethorn903) on "The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters" channel.

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  5. Unfortunately the current Japanese government are neo-cons and the American ngos have been taking quite a lot of ground, indeed a lot of the hate for Japan comes directly from them in order to pressure out of touch Japanese politicians to do what they want (basically all the rest of the hate Japan gets is from nationalists in South Korea and mainland China and subversives within the domestic politics of Japan, basically the communists, westernized Japanese and the boomer liberals). Part of this is opening the country up, starting with tourism, and it should be stated that Japan is so peaceful and well ordered that western Europeans are 10x or more likely to be causing whatever kind of trouble than the Japanese are, especially the younger generation who are much less used to what a high trust society even is and act accordingly. For non-western Europeans it is much worse, there have already been signs of German style policing and from what I can glean Rotherham type stuff has already started. Previous to this plague of tourists the Japanese have a contentious relationship with the US bases, the soldiers of whom have a poor reputation and a very bad history towards Japanese civilians. The Japanese thought that tourism would boast the economy, this as it happened was GDP brain, the costs in infrastructure do not scale when dealing with people how have a disposable mindset towards their own things let alone others, also they need a major infrastructure redevelopment to deal with these people, and the profits don't flow through the economy much, also they have staff problems as even many Japanese would rather be on welfare than dealing with tourists, since covid many in the sector have not come back. Most Japanese do not speak a second language, they were taught English in school but it is to the level where you could consider it a government jobs program for people who took English in university, other languages are basically in the realm of high level academics or the book translation industry. Also the people showing up are largely the anywhere types, which culturally does not fit with Japan even slightly, once the exorcism wears off these people are like Californians in red states. Japan is great in a lot of ways, but the people they need are rural, conservative and at least 110 iq or so just for them to hold their weight. Unless the Japanese wise up politically, kick out American influence, realign slightly more towards China, or more likely India (who they have very good relations with), and start being extremely discriminating about who they let in, then they will basically good the way that much of eastern Europe currently is, in that they held out longer, but not enough. In the more likely situation of them being politically inept, they should at least preserve the people by blocking all immigration and anything that becomes immigration the moment they can slip away from having to comply with the term on the visa. Japan has a lot good about it, namely that they have a culture (even if one not great under the hood), they have a functioning state (even if a liberalized one) and they have cheap rural property (which honestly might be worth it under basically any circumstances if you can get the opportunity, a second hand home is in the tens of thousands of dollars range, and the livings costs are low as well).
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