Comments by "Voryn Rosethorn" (@vorynrosethorn903) on "PolyMatter" channel.

Typical Home Office claiming they fear anti-immigration sentiment....meanwhile right wingers are seething about their perceived mistreatment of fellow citizens (the fact is that the right wing in the UK is pretty outspoken in the opinion that the Hong Kongers were British to start with), British servicemen of foreign nationality and military interpreters (which came to the fore for a while again recently thanks to Afghanistan but has been a campaign for decades at this point). The claim of anti-immigration sentiment thus smells like bull, there is a good deal of anti-immigration sentiment in Britain however very little of it is tied to people viewed to have a shared cultural history or could more cynically be viewed as being intrinsically linked to right wing revanchist sympathies. The home office also have a history of attempting to subvert criticism by claiming the the right wing were somehow involved in really stupid or immoral internal decision making, the fact that such decisions tend to only ever make the home office's life easier (like deporting the mothers of British children) and their opposition to the right wing follows the same line (them not deporting criminals who've had their citizenship revoked is probably less about human rights for example than it is about said criminals access to legal aid and idiotic humanitarian organisations to draw out the out or increase the costs of the whole process, so mothers and the like are much softer targets for farming numbers for their reports to the government), it doesn't help that they are only accountable to considerable public anger and even then hardly.
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America controls the sea, Japan knows it can't beat a blockade, in WW2 they had a famine due to it when the population was heavily agricultural. Rice is fairly advanced in cultivation and allows for high population density, it just is not like wheat farming at all, which means most westerners, who are not terribly well informed about any farming, misunderstand most of it even further. This was a silly video, the true discussion would be about Japanese social and family structures and the societal norms and expectations linked them, how that has shifted to create these circumstances and what can be done in response. Not every video needs to be about international conflict, domestic problems are much more important than speculation.
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The British citizenship test isn't very hard at all so long as you remember that the correct answers aren't necessarily the true one's and the nation's true bias are very different to the one's they tend to mythologise. It's rather that the British education system is quite poor.
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If China becomes the main power Japan can just switch allegiances, historically they were heavily Sinocentic. This is going to decided in policy that plays out over decades, the urgency put on it all is not very serious really.
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Ok, number of things. The reason for the budget problems in the first place are the rankings, facilities and other irrelevant things get counted leading to a type of unofficial monopoly where less expensive options are deliberately pushed out of the market, this has been a problem since the 70's, it's not just some existential capitalist problem. Where I am the mass of Chinese students is leading to a cultural shift as Chinese run businesses catering to them have popped up and it is true that most stay in a bubble. Personally I have no issue with it as the Chinese students a world apart from the local students, who make me worry about the future. The Chinese are also right to worry about cultural influence, you don't want to pick up the kind of culture offered at university over here. They are right to think western civilisation is in a state of collapse, however there are plenty of indications that China might well collapse first, it's just likely going to be able to get up again.
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Rice growing is labour intensive, it can be mechanized somewhat, and is, but mostly with stuff the Victorians would think was neat. The reality is that it is not like wheat farming, at all, it is both already highly efficient (rice gives much more food by area of land, and always has which is why east asia always had such a high population) and can not be industrialised with the model of western industrial farming. This video could have been a lot better with more research, as there are serious problems but few were fully covered.
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There is a blog called Acoup, it has a whole article on rice farming very much from the angle you are looking for, read it. Much of the information in this video isn't relevant, growing rice and growing wheat is not the same at all.
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It's not profitable, which is why they are in this situation to start with. And Japanese communities are tightknit, the don't appreciate outsiders, nor should they, as has been shown amply in the West immigration is invasion.
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Japanese people are small and Americans are fat. It's not a sign of undernutrition, if he had looked it up he would know that that was an issue in Japan due to a lack of diversity in diet but has not been a problem since the 70's. Japanese people today are one of the most healthy populations in the world.
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