Comments by "Voryn Rosethorn" (@vorynrosethorn903) on "Japanese Women | Reasons to Work in Prostitution [ENG CC]" video.

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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@borrico1965 Don’t think it should be based on income, really you want the most successful people in society to have the most kids and pass the success on to them (though if its anything like my country they’ll get sent to private school anyway), plus wealth being split between heirs is one of the most effective ways of curbing dynasties and stopping large parts of the elite from becoming trust fund kids who never contribute anything to society. I would have thought that scholarships would already be common, the more you know I guess, my country doesn’t do them much because they think its unfair on stupid children. Do you mean Shinto by pagan? What is the belief or tradition it stems from? Isn’t it possible that people just haven’t thought about it much, after all more control over the education your child receives is something any parent would support and funding your kid is the role of a parent. I only bumped into the problem because it would be something to effect me personally if I ever moved there from my country and I already knew I wanted lots of kids, and was researching living costs towards that end anyway. If I was local I would probably never have questioned it, though on the whole I think foreigners have a lot less useful stuff to say about Japan than they think they do and some of the their suggestions seem straight up malicious when you take into account how well they’ve worked in western countries.
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@RonJDuncan Thats fascinating, I’ll try and take it into account in the future. The way they do loans is different and university is just the last in a long line of educational institutions with fees attached. University and supplementary education are probably the least important ease the burden on as japan has less of a shortage of professionals that a shortage of people so if that was solved the other would be a lot easier. Though it would be expensive to remove state school fees it would remove a principal inhibiter to size in family planning as the income is only able to support a certain number of children in the first place, without what is in essence a number cap based on income people try to do more with less and thus a lot of children have high expectations placed on them when Japan is short of farmers and doctors alike. The reality’s of parenting in japan mean that parents will likely use some of the saved money from prior education to pay university costs for the kids in the future anyway. I can imagine the move causing all sorts of other minor problems but the population issue is so major that it quite overshadows any ramifications if chipped away at even a bit. I could think of a dozen other proposals for reforms which is fun because in my country such an easy approach is rather less possible.
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From what I’ve seen the logic and values in Japan are more Christian than in many western countries. But it seems like there is little awareness of the fact and tradition is viewed as tradition whether meiji, edo or earlier in origin. If it doesn't seem very christian thats because the bar when comparing to western nations is very low other than the US most western countries are about as christian as China is Buddhist. Any influence is influence on the ideological assumptions that make up the key circles of thought but thats on the same level as calling Christians greek pagans because they built off their logical foundations.
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@aabb-zz9uw Japanese buddhism is largely notable for its militarism and they have the death penalty, they executed 3 people in 2019 and 15 in 2018. Korea meanwhile released Cho Doo-soon who’s crimes are such that youtube would delete my comment for going into detail on it after only 12 years and Korea seems very poor in dealing with similar crimes. The only Korean state I know of the that is brutal or medieval is the northern one though considering the actual medieval era that would be considerably underselling how bad they are.
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