Comments by "Seven Proxies" (@sevenproxies4255) on "The Japan Reporter" channel.

  1. I really feel for this girl. She knows she has access to a sizeable portion of money thanks to everyone who generously donated. But at the same time, she want's to do "right" by everyone who donated, and so stays frugal with the funds. It must feel like a great responsibility. It's sad that it doesn't fix the situation right away, but at the same time it is a good sign that she takes this generosity of strangers very seriously. I wish I could "coach" her on a regular basis. Help her with paperwork and all that. It comes easy to people without these mental disorders but can be really challenging for someone in her situation to do it alone. :(
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  2. You're a good man Nobita-San, as is everyone who donated to help this woman. It's very sad that she haven't been able to arrange some accomodations yet. But these donations have NOT been in vain. Mental health problems take time to adress and will be a struggle for her. It's important to be supportive of her efforts right now. Going to the clinic for counseling is a huge step in the right direction.
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  3. I guess bike theft is a very high priority crime in Tokyo
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  4. I was always curious about the evolution of single eyelids and double eyelids. I don't really feel concerned about the aesthetics of it since both look fine to me. What intrigues me is why some humans developed single eyelids overtime while others developed double eyelids. Certain physical features in humans aren't present merely by accident after all. They exist because there was some sort of natural benefit to it. I also think that this biological perspective makes it easier for me to appreciate the uniqueness of different physical features in different ethnic groups. To me it's like these features are trying to tell a story of where these ethnicities come from and what enviromental and biological factors shaped them into how they look today.
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  5. I never understood the "immature = attractive" thing. Even from anime and hentai you could find female characters who were both mature and sexy at the same time. On a personal note I always found them more appealing than the immature "kawaii" female characters. They would just come across as annoying to me.
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  6. Nobita-san, you're talking to her in a very constructive manner. Reinforcing the point that she shouldn't feel pressured. It really goes a long way with people struggling with manic depression and ADHD.
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  7. Nobita-san: As a foreigner, my impression is that aspects of Japanese culture are very conformist and collectivist. While it must certainly have served a purpose of creating social harmony, would you say that maybe it is a bit excessive? I can't help but think that the overbearing conformist values, being so prevalent might be a root cause of the problem. And it's not just affecting children in schools, but also adults in the workplace. Reputation seems very important to Japanese people. Maybe it would be prudent to ask them: do they really wish their country to be seen as a place where overbearing conformity serve to make children and adults unhappy and miserable to the point of comitting suicide? It would be interesting to hear more Japanese people talk about conformity and expressing how it affects them in their daily lives, and if it really helps them to feel happy or not.
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  8. With the risk of sounding like a presumptuous foreigner, I hope Japan can change in this regard. If you can be friendly and helpful to a foreigner without much personal sacrifice, surely such charity can be extended to your fellow Japanese as well.
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  9. That's why you need labour unions with connections to the government. If any HR person said ANY of those things to me in my country, the Union would be so far up their ass that I'd have them begging on their knees for mercy. But in america, "the free market" is the utopian ideal. Well HR workers like that are a natural consequence of free markets, sadly.
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  10. The problem in Japan is that people are too accepting of commercializing social interaction in ways that other cultures wouldn't dream of. In which other countries do you "rent" friends, grandparents, a girlfriends/boyfriends, womens laps to rest your head on and so on? It's way past common prostitution at this point.
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  11. It's really unfair how single dad's who are really doing their best are met with such prejudice. Any single parent really. They have a big challenge in front of them as it is. It's so unecessary to add to their troubles by being prejudiced towards them. Help them if you can. Give them some praise or words of encouragement if you can't. It's really not that difficult.
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  12. This is why people should be encouraged to break out on their own. "Agencies" are becoming a thing of the past due to the fact that internet platforms offer people the means to publish and promote themselves. Without slimy agents or their shady contracts.
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  13. @Ann Nifödova Communism is no solution. In fact it will make it worse. HR workers might be stupid. But your government boss in a communist state will be legally allowed to beat you and throw you in a gulag if you don't comply.
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  14. You should've seen that coming. Maybe if the woman in her 40's already have kids from a previous marriage, then she might just be looking for something fun and temporary. But a single and childless woman without a husband... Yeah she's most likely looking to settle down. And at age 40 her biological clock isn't just ringing, it's screaming. So unless you are prepared to marry and settle down, then you shouldn't waste her or your own time and just call it quits early.
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  15. People don't take a seat right next to strangers in my country as well if there are other seats available. We value personal space here. If the train or bus is packed and there is nowhere else to sit, we'll take a seat next to a stranger. But if there are plenty of seats available, it would just be awkward to purposefully take a seat right next to someone that you don't know.
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  16. Uh no, I never assumed it to be an awesome job. I assumed it to be a pretty disgusting and degrading job that eats away at the mental health of it's workers and that the job itself sould be discouraged as harshly as possible. I don't feel sad for anyone in the industry. If they expected glamour and wealth for simply being born with genitals and using them in front of a camera, they thought wrong.
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  17. It's not unreasonable that South Koreans would take a dim view of the Empire of Japan. But I think we can all agree that Japan is a different country today compared to it's imperial days. So it makes sense that Koreans have a positive view of Japan today.
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  18. A friend of mine had the custody of her children contested and the custody was eventually handed over to the father. She had no criminal history whatsoever, but the father had. Yet the courts considered the father to be the better parent. She had visitation rights, but the father constantly stalled and refused to cooperate so she barely got to see her children at all, and the courts did nothing to help her. Eventually, the father stabbed her to death and almost stabbed the present social worker to death too, and is now serving time in jail. This is the man with a prior history of both assault, robbery and dealing drugs, which the courts considered the "better parent" of the two. This is what courts to to children and their parents in the world.
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  19. I dated a couple of MILF's when I was younger. I was in my early twenties and the ages of the women I dated ranged from 32-42. But I can't say it had anything to do with "motherly affections" or anything like that. Nor that I did it out of having some sort of MILF-fetish. In my case it was more seeing the women my age and how annoying, neurotic, insecure and self-absorbed they all were. So I just couldn't find anyone interesting or who I could connect with well through conversation. I had a much better connection with older women I met online.
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  20. I don't think foreigners should be entitled to tax payers money being spent on teaching them their history or culture. You live in Japan, therefore you should be learning primarily about Japan in school. If you want your children to learn history and culture of Korea, you should move there.
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  21. To be fair: american police don't have the luxury of dealing with polite and well mannered Japanese citizens most of the time. They have to deal with suspects that are very likely to pull a gun on them.
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  22. Got nothing against gyaru. Sometimes the make-up can be strange or too excessive for my taste. But I like how they seem to be pretty up-beat and expressive in general rather than overly shy, timid and polite like most regular japanese girls seem to be. I imagine that you'd definitely have a good time with gyaru.
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  23. Insane people can act with premaditation though. They may be perfectly normal in every other regard, except for their mental illness. Like shizophrenia, where it doesn't really afflict the individual person in sucj a way where they can't think or plan actions at all. It's just that they're plagued with extremely realistic hallucinations that will influence their actions and behaviour. That said, I don't really believe that the arsonist is insane. Sounds more like an extremely disgruntled employee.
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  24.  @ian_s7481  Uh no? It doesn't disprove evolution at all. It proves that evolution take different pathways depending on what enviromental influences look like.
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  25.  Your Majesty,  Dude, the Finnish completely yeeted a numerically superior soviet force that had more tanks, artillery and planes than the finnish did. "Wrecked" is definitely appropriate in this context.
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  26. The definition of a NEET seems to also exclude entrepeneurs/business owners. If you start up your own company, you are neither an employee, in training or in education. You are an owner. It seems insane to dismiss company owners as "lazy" to me.
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  27. One question that may be worth asking in this context is this: how many Japanese people would the Americans need to kill to win the war if they hadn't used nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? While these bombings are some of the ugliest days in human history which the entire world has to work really hard to avoid repeating, the american military command saw no end to the killing had they stuck to conventional warfare for the rest of the pacific war. There are estimates that the Japanese casualties would've been tenfold had americans stuck with conventional weapons, and it would not just have been Japanese soldiers dying as a result, because civilians will always perish in war. It is important to remember that Imperial Japan enforced a very harmful and dangerous fanaticism which put an extreme amount of civilians in danger. EVERYONE, man, woman, child, old or young were expected to lay down their lives in defense of the empire. And conventional bombs, artillery and machine guns were not enough to make Hirohito or the japanese generals to think otherwise. It's not an excuse or a comfort in any way. But perhaps it is a way to understand why the Americans did what they did.
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  28.  @CarrotCakeMake  No it wouldn't for me. After all, it wasn't the employees who hypothetically stole his work, but executives. So if he had, for example, brought a gun to work and shot the executives of the company guilty of the theft, I might've changed my opinion a little, even if murder would've been an extremely rash action. But he doused the entire place in gasoline and lit it on fire, not caring about whether guilty or innocent people would get hurt. That's unforgivable.
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  29. If you only make 770 dollars per month working in Japan, then it's not the fault of tourists. You're working for a really bad employer. But I doubt many Japanese people demand higher wages, considering their strict adherence to hierarchies.
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  30. Cheating is greedy. It means you're too lazy to accept the inconvenience of filing for divorce before dating other people while still indulging in extramarital affairs. Even if you don't love your spouse anymore and the marriage makes you unhappy, at least be respectful of your spouse and the happy parts of the marriage you once had and say that you want to file for a divorce. And for goodness sake, make damn sure to tell your children that it's not their fault that you want to divorce your spouse and that you still love them unconditionally.
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  31. What kind of STD was it? The reason for asking is that a few STD's lay dormant without any outward symptoms for years, so a person can be a carrier for it without knowing about it and infect a current partner with an STD contracted from a previous relationship. I'm not saying your ex didn't cheat on you. I'm just saying that contracting an STD from a spouse isn't always definitive proof of infidelity.
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  32.  @pirotess2  What you do is, you tell the Japanese companies that you don't do charity, and your time is to be handsomely compensated.
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  33.  @Qtipz123  Nobody in here did. And I for one wouldn't blame someone for wanting to get rich. What I do is to blame people who think they can get rich while not working towards it. And no, having sex in front of a camera does not qualify as work.
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  34.  @emmanuelarevalo2018  Not to the same extent as in Japan. You can see this statistically. Conformity in schools exist to a degree all over the world. Thr suicide cases seem to correlate with the level of conformity in society.
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  35. ​ @robertchandler2063 Nothing wrong with parents ensuring that their daughter isn't shacking up with some deadbeat loser.
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  36. Honestly, Japanese people have massive communication problems in general. The entire culture is steeped in it. The path to a happy relationship requires open and honest communication. But good luck trying to get a Japanese person to open up about their true feelings and wants.
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  37.  @OllamhDrab  Trust me, it's better than the opposite. If your cops, doctors and nurses mostly just sit around at their jobs with little to do, and having to actively look for something to do, then your society is pretty well off.
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  38. Yeah, or make up a "bogus" employment. Maybe Nobita could "hire" her as an assistant or reporter. She has donation money for the time being, so he probably wouldn't have to pay her in reality. In many cases like this, landlords are happy as long as everything looks good on paper. And for her sake, she'll probably be in a better position to get and hold down an actual job when she has a place to live.
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  39.  @japanlifestory  I don't see a lack of globalization as something negative. In fact, resisting globalization is only healthy for a society. A country should strive towards being independent and provide for it's own.
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  40. @Ceasarsalate I'm not leaving. Whatever taxes are paid in Japan should serve the public interests of Japan. Not fund the special interests of a small foreign minority. ESPECIALLY NOT when it only serves indoctrinating people into resenting the country they live in. Multiculturalism should be abolished on all fronts.
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  41. Hehe, well you're about to have something much worse than tourists to worry about i'm afraid. The Japanese government has recently jumped aboard the "inclusivity" and "pro-immigration" train, with a program aiming for importing almost 900.000 foreigners to work in Japan each year.
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  42.  @Black.Spades  The fact that you can make an income of a hobby does not make it a job. "All those people" you're refering to are a tiny nearly insignificant minority compared the millions of people who do acting as a hobby. Calling acting a "job" is like saying that your average garage band is "working for a living" when they practice for their next dive bar perfomance which will pay them nothing but beer and peanuts. There's a reason why smart parents tell their kids to stay tf out of pursuing "art careers" and going to "acting school". It's because hardly any of the graduates will have the luck and connections to get a paying job where their education will be of any importance. A job is something you can educate yourself for and get. When only a tiny minority of graduates actually get the job they pursued through education, and mostly did so out of luck and knowing the right people, then it's no longer a job. It's just a person being priviliged enough to be able to earn an income through their hobby/passion.
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  43. ​ @nate6045 Xenophobia is healthy. We've seen what rampant multiculturalism always lead to: chaos, destruction and internal conflicts.
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  44. I have no sympathy whatsoever for the women getting scammed. They should know better than trying to make money off other peoples failed marriages or lonelyness.
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  45.  @klaudinegarcia8932  Don't get me wrong: immature/dumb can certainly be cute. Like when kids or even dogs or cats do something silly and not too clever, it's endearing and heartwarming. But what I have a hard time relating to is how some Japanese seem to view "cute" as sexually arousing :S When I try to think of arousing things, then "cute" is nowhere near the first thing that spring to mind for me. In fact, it's more of a turn-off. And if an adult woman run around acting "cute" as a way to come across as sexually appealing it only has the complete opposite effect for me.
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  46. ​ @Capt.Steele Take a look what has happened to Paris in France and Stockholm in Sweden or why not London in England. London is now minority english. Only 37 percent of it's population consist of native englishmen with the rest being foreigners.
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  47.  @pirotess2  If cubans are so happy with communism... Why do so many of them FLEE to the U.S?
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  48.  @pirotess2  Yeah, probably. You have to compete with millions of Japanese people with a slave-mentality. But this slave mentality is going to be disastrous for Japan in a very short while, as the young people become a minority and they all have to financially support the elderly who can't work.
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  49. @Ann Nifödova Ok Mr. Tinfoil hat. Make sure to be careful of the mind reading 5G rays used by the lizard people who secretly control the world...
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  50.  @kristoffer8609  It's not that close to zero. There's IVF and other procedures that do allow women in their 40's to have children.
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  51. Walking inside someones house with your shoes on is more of an american thing to be honest. One that I can't really understand either. It's a filthy practice. Considering how things like human feces and used needles are found in the streets of some american cities, why would you be so disrespectful as to drag that stuff onto the floor of someones house by not taking your damn shoes off at the door? I don't want to run around cleaning my house of drug addict feces just because you don't feel like taking your shoes off, american.
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  52. In relation to the english speaking girl's sentiments, part of the reason why the Japanese economy is crashing is BECAUSE foreigners have been denied entry into Japan. Japan has a pretty huge tourist industry after all. But during the lockdown-like periods, many restaurants, hotels and tourist destinations have fallen on really hard times or have been forced to close shop permanently.
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  53. @Ann Nifödova And communism has killed more people than even Hitler himself did. ;) Tell me, why did the Kulaks have to die?
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  54. It's sad to see that people still believe that the masks actually make a difference. If you're outdoors, the enviroment is well ventilated already, so the mask doesn't really do anything that the ambient air current isn't already taking care of. And if you're indoors, the masks simply do not help because you still exhale out the sides and the back of the mask and after an hour or so, whatever room you occupy will be filled with virus particles anyway. The masks are basically like carrying a rabbit's paw foe good luck. It's superstition with no rational effect whatsoever.
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  55. Of course the pay is getting lowered. It's how markets always works. Increase supply above demand and the monetary value of any commodity drops. It doesn't matter what the commodity is.
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  56. Spread your bullshit, multi-cultural SJWism somewhere else. Japan does not need mass immigration like you globalist peddlers try to claim.
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  57. One thing to note about the "horrors of declining birth rates". Can anyone name a single country that has been destroyed or dissolved and ceased to exist as a result of declining birth rates? Declining birth rates can cause problems for a society. Potentially quite macabre ones (like senior citizens not being able to live off pensions and social services because the working population is simply too small to support them). So worst case scenario, the elderly and infirm might perish in large numbers as a result. And that would certainly be a terrible result for sure. But will it destroy a country? Personally I don't think so. The elderly would perish, their property would be inherited by the younger generations and the country and the economy would eventually adapt and balance itself to the new population levels accordingly. It would of course be ideal to avoid such a scenario, but there are some key questions that should be asked about it too. Namely: how sustainable is it, long term to structure a society like a giant pyramid scheme that essentially requires ever increasing birth rates to financially support an ever increasing group of elderly retired citizens? Can any society really do this long term without courting disaster? Can out planet and natural resources support such a development? Despite our best intentions, we have to adress the issue at some point that we all live with a finite number of resources, yet governments do nothing to ensure that populations stay at levels adapted to this finite number. All of them just push for us to grow ever more numerous, because it leads to short term wealth gains for a select few people. It is a very irresponsible policy that has been made a norm.
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  58.  @lordsavior8034  Not gonna debate this with you.
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  59. Strange detail perhaps, but I really like Sayaka's voice.
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  60. I believe him when he says he was tired. Especially in Japan with it's crushing work culture, it's no wonder people simply don't have the energy for sex. And it's going to be a hard lesson for Japan if the country keeps up this destructive work culture, which will increase the elderly population who can't work having to be supported by an ever dwindling young population. I live in a country where the work culture is more lenient, and I too can attest to the fact that after some workdays I end up being so spent that I'm physically unable to do much more than eat dinner and go to sleep by the time I get back home from work.
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  61. Nobita: is it possible for this woman to register a home adress at your place? Even if she's not living with you physically, maybe it could help her get a proper ID?
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  62. Maybe she would have better success with a remote job. And since the Covid pandemic, a lot of countries have warmed up more and more to people working from home.
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  63. I wouldn't use Germany as a good example, since German schools basically teach students self-hatred and everyone is expected to constantly apologize for and atone for the deeds of their ancestors. Even to the point where German politicians celebrate the eradication of the German ethnicity and nationality. It's really scary to visit Germany and see this happen first hand.
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  64.  @Trey5S5S  Yeah I agree. It's also one of those things that kinda make you ashamed to tell normies that you watch anime sometimes. Like, how could you introduce anime to a friend with a straight face, who knows little about anime going into it, and one of the characters is supposed to be an adult woman with huge boobs, but she sounds like she's speaking like a 4-year old kid throughout? As someone familiar with Japanese animation, it's different because you know about the tropes and can casually dismiss the annoying ones in order to focus on the good parts of the show. But for someone who doesn't know much about anime it's going to be very off-putting to say the least.
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  65. I disagree with banning or limiting hairstyles. But I agree with school uniforms, albeit not to the point where all girls should be forced to wear skirts as a part of the uniform. If boys can wear pants, then so should girls be allowed to, so long as they adhere to the school uniform.
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  66.  @pirotess2  Vietnam is a communist state though, so it's pretty much the same as with China. The only labour unions "allowed" are the ones under government control. When the communist government want the industry to flow, they don't give a rat's ass about how well the workers are faring.
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  67. That woman is wrong about biology. Men and women have different reproductive strategies. Men produce millions of sperm cells every day, women do not produce millions of eggs but a limited number throughout their lifetime. Pregnancy is also a vulnerable state for women. So the female reproductive strategy is concerned with careful sexual selection and trying to make sure that a father sticks around and supports her during pregnancy. A man on the other hand could reproduce very effectively by sleeping around with as many women as possible, while not investing himself or his resources with any of the offspring.
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  68.  @CarrotCakeMake  Not really. But i'd argue that the crime was not entirely unprovoked. Provided that the crime took place the way I described it and not by the arsonist setting fire to the entire building.
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  69. Jeez, just slamming the door in your neighbours face when he comes over to give you a present sound extremely impolite to me. I usually don't interact with neighbours either. But if someone rang my doorbell to give me a gift as a way of saying Hello and introduction, I could never just turn it away, because it would be so impolite. You'd accept the gift, exchange some pleasantries and then not really "meet" again, except for if you cross paths in the hallway or the elevator where you say hello or good morning before going about your business. And this is what I would do DESPITE being rather introverted and not a very sociable person.
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  70.  @klaudinegarcia8932  Sure, that's fair. It's not like everyone prefers to have a crush of theirs be completely invulnerable. Some vulnerability and inability is fine. Like, i'm not saying it's bad if the woman i'm dating can't open a jar and needs my help to do it. Men and women have natural biological differences which complement eachother as a couple. And it's always nice when you get to feel like you're being the one who's complementing your partner with something that they aren't as capable of doing themselves. It reaffirms the notion that you're bringing something to the table so to say, by virtue of being the opposite sex. But the childlike behaviour in the "kawaii" trope doesn't speak so much to adult male and female gender roles in the same regard. With childlike behaviour it brings up more paternal or maternal feelings instead. Which feels natural when you're dealing with a child. But strange and annoying when dealing with an adult who put on the mannerisms of a child.
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  71. I'd also like to add: don't choose your partner based on the reputation you think you'll get or what your family will say. Which might be a pertinent lesson to a Japanese guy. Family is important, yes. But you can't have your family, your friends, your co-workers or your boss running your whole life. You are the one who have to actually LIVE with your partner every day after all. So go for someone that makes you happy and interested. The wrong mindset is thinking "I like this gyaru, but what would my parents say if I introduced her to them?" It doesn't matter what your parents say. If they are good parents they will want you to be happy and they will try to support you, even if the girl you are with make them skeptical at first glance. If they are bad parents they might try to sabotage your relationship or forbid it. But if you want to really impress your father, you must show him that when you are an adult, you are your own man and you make your own decisions in life. And if the girl they disapprove of is the one who makes you happy, you stick by her regardless of what they say. Parents rarely stay mad forever, and if they see that you form a long lasting relationship with a gyaru, they will come around eventually. Trust your own instincts rather than relying on the first impressions and opinions of other people. It's your life, and you only get one.
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  72.  @Black.Spades  Acting is a hobby, not a legitimate job. And if your acting skills don't even go beyond pretending to enjoy sex with a random stranger, then don't expect me to feel sorry for you if your "job" didn't make you as rich as you hoped to be.
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  73.  @OllamhDrab  Again, take a look at the attitudes of foreigners towards the societies in Sweden, France and Britain.
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  74.  @NateROCKS112  "But that wasn't REAL communism!" The age old mantra used by Marxists to defend their moronic, dysfunctional and reality-incompatible ideology from every single example of when communism has been put into practice and failed miserably.
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  75. So Japan permit zainichi koreans special education and hereditary permanent residency status despite the fact that they carry korean passports. While south Korea treat zainichi koreans like dirt whenever they try to return to the country they see as their true home. Yet somehow Japan is the bad guy here? 🤔
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  76. Might I suggest that tourists don't have to avoid touristy areas completely, but instead try to only make smaller visits to these locations? Like you don't have to stay in Tokyo for 3 whole weeks or more when visiting Japan. You could instead find a hotel or hostel further out and maybe have a daytrip or two to Tokyo or Kyoto while using the remainder of your stay exploring the nice spots that are a bit off the beaten path? I think this could help a lot.
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  77.  @thegamethemovie9605  Clearly you're an edgy, antisocial neckbeard
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  78. Well that was disturbing...
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  79. @Ann Nifödova Capitalism has done nothing wrong. Whereas communism has only resulted in failures or hypocrisy. ;)
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  80. The english speaking man is completely right. The "preventative efforts" to stop the spread of the corona virus has killed more people than the virus itself has. If the "cure" is killing more people than the disease, it seems foolish to enforce the cure to begin with.
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  81. I care about possible negative foreign influence in Japan. While Japan has problems of it's own that needs to be a dressed, it has a very strong cultural society without much political extremism undermining the social fabric. But it seems that some Japanese people idealize the west, even though western societies are increasingly wracked with political extremism and polarization, creating societies of very low trust. There's a reason why Japanese people can leave their laptops at the tablr in a café while going to the bathroom, and expect the laptop to still be there when they return. Doing something like that in a western country you're likely to have your laptop stolen. Trust is nearly non-existent in western societies. You don't want Japan to go down the same route by taking too much influence from western ideas and political debates.
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  82.  @qee540  Clearly you don't know what evolution means
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  83.  @piotrmalewski8178  I wish you the best of luck in your endavours, and I'll be rooting for you in dealing with it.
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  84. It begs the question: how is the distinct and unique characteristics of an ethnic group and their native culture supposed to survive, if the ethnic group in question isn't allowed to make a distinction between themselves and people from other ethnic groups and their cultures? When you tell a Japanese person he or she can't refer to a foreigner as gaijin, you're essentially telling them that they don't have the right to preserve their own cultural and ethnic identity. This probably is in stark opposition to the modern and perverse globalist ideals but people aren't interchangeable and blank slates that can become natural members of different ethnic and cultural groups as they wish it. The only standard way of doing this is through marriage and having children with this ethnic group. For example a gaijin marries a japanese person and they have children. Their children would be half-gaijin. If these children then go on to have children of their own with other Japanese people, then their children would be quarter gaijin and so on. After the 1/8 mark and onwards, even natives will usually consider them natives even if the family line has a small influx of foreign born heritage. This system of ethnocultural recognition has been a functional norm for thousands of years. It's only in our tiny timeframe of our current day where ideologues with malicious intent has seen fit to bring this model into question and seeks to dismantle it.
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  85. Is incorporaring war crimes into their national identity doing germany any favors though? Things aren't going so well in germany at the moment, and large parts of that can be attributed to the self-hatred that young germans are indoctrinated into in school. It's not fair to japanese or germans today to forcefully brand them with the sins of their ancestors. If you're born today you have no control whatsoever over the deeds of your ancestors. So why should they be forced into apologizing for events that happened long before they were born?
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  86.  @Owjdnskoakansbskk  That takes vetting. If you're an immigrant to Japan today, you probably got vetted in some way. The process probably took some time as well. Because there are finite resources in handling the vetting process. Importing almost a million people a year WITH sufficient vetting is going to require a gigantic bureacracy, something I seriously doubt the Japanese government has included in the budget.
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  87. @Ann Nifödova Nothing in Russia is run by Soviet legislation or Soviet officials anymore.
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  88. @Ann Nifödova "He who does not want the Soviet union restored has no heart. He who DOES want the Soviet union restored HAS NO BRAIN" -Vladimir Putin (current ruler of Russia) So your president basically calls communists brainless.
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  89. Are there any online chat services trying to target hikikomori? I've found that with people who are very introverted or depressed, they tend to find it easier to start talking to people through an online chat where they don't have to start out being face to face with the other person, but can exert some control over the interaction. So maybe if the mental health services had an online chat service and advertised it to let hikikomori know that they can reach out to get help without having to physically meet with a counselor, you could start treating their issues from there and then work towards getting them out of the house and start meeting with people.
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  90.  @maureenfathimath5248  I suppose they could've tried. But they had reached a point in the war when threats and intimidation may not have worked. It's not like the U.S had direct means of communication with the Japanese Emperor or any of the generals.
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  91. Awesome video Nobita! You seem to love your country, but still aren't afraid to ask critical questions and talking to people that Japan has wronged with the hopes of getting people to talk and improve things. An admirable patriot.
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  92. I don't think it would be right for the arsonist family to be forced to pay for compensation. They didn't commit any crime. So it's a good thing that the arsonist is held solely responsible. As for the company having to pay for all the losses, surely they must've had their building and equipment insured?
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  93. Why do you assume it's a problem? It's a business transaction between consenting adults. Nobody is harmed by it. I'd like to turn the issue around and ask: maybe it's MARRIAGE that is the problem? Marriages contain so many legal incentives against a divorce because divorce means that lawyers get involved and both parties try to screw eachother over like in regards to child custody or splitting of assets, enforced alimony and so on. Maybe it's the institution of marriage that needs to change? Maybe marriage shouldn't just be a financial mealticket for women to easily exploit?
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  94.  @adavis1129  2,2 % of a nations GDP is pretty huge actually. What you have to understand is that in this regard, businesses have an impact on eachother. They're not isolated little islands where if only 2 % falls in hard times, all other businesses go unaffected. The hotels and the restaurants for example, they usually order foodstuffs from somewhere. If they see a massive drop in customers, then their orders for foodstuffs will go down as well. Meaning that fisheries, farmers and other food producers get affected. So that "mere" 2,2 percent of GDP which tourism might represent, probably affected adjacent businesses that represent closer to 5-6 % of GDP negatively. And you don't need much more than that for an economy to start going in a downward spiral.
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  95.  @GoopyDuperdaughter  No, my wording is entirely correct. Nothing EVOLVES at random. But MUTATIONS occur randomly. Evolution = mutations that survive and spread over several generations. Mutations happens in individuals. Evolution is something that happens in groups only. Meaning that such mutations must either have a neutral impact on the sexual reproduction of the subject, or it consist of a benefit for the subjects survival and sexual reproduction.
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  96. Don't listen to Biden. He just want your country to be absolutely destroyed by mass immigration just like the U.S.
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  97. Stay Racist, Japan. The alternative is far worse. I live in an "anti-racist" country and it has turned this country into a hellhole.
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  98.  @japanlifestory  I replied to you but my posts keeps getting deleted by youtubes bots. That's globalism for you. Increased censorship of any and all opposition to it.
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  99.  @Sup_D  It's just creepy though. Gives me pedo-vibes.
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  100. Well that was disturbing...
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  101. Happy to live in a country without tutition fees. All higher education is sponsored with taxation. Students can and often do apply for student loans, but that money is mainly for paying for your living and cheap student apartments, as well as paying for books for the classes you take. But the teaching and admission to colleges is free of charge and the only barrier is based around pre-requisites (you need certain grades in certain subjects from high school to be eligible to take certain courses in college).
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  102. Is there any way to make a donation to this girl?
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  103.  @pirotess2  Dude, they risk drowning in the ocean to get away from Cuba. That's not a mere "disagreement with the govt." that's desperation.
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  104. @Ann Nifödova To be a traitor you have to pledge allegiance to something first. Seriouslu doubt any of those people pledged allegiance to communism. ;)
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  105.  @NateROCKS112  Communism is fascist in it's very core because it doesn't respect property rights. Just like fascism.
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  106. Nobita, you should seriously consider running a tourist firm. I think you could be very successful acting as a tour guide or managing a team of tourguides helping foreign tourists to both be able to see the sights and places they are curious about, as well as helping the tourists understand and adopt the manners expected by other japanese people. It's the kind of service I would want when visiting Japan. A native Japanese person, proficient in english that I can travel around with, asking questions, going to restaurants and bars with and so on. I know i'm not alone in finding Japan a little bit intimidating as a travel destination. So a forthcoming and helpful Japanese tourguide would really help.
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  107. While the intent might be good, looking at how the western world has developed in recent years, I'd say that the word gaijin should continue to be used. As soon as you relent to people who demand to ban words, they will never stop making demands. They will never stop at a "context matters" level but will demand that words be censored and edited even in dictionaries.
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  108.  @ehtishamamin5601  So don't waste the 40 year old woman's time just because you have some creepy mommy fetish then. Is that so hard?
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  109.  @xcforce9067  Doesn't matter if you have pavements. Ground is still filthy since people let their dogs piss and shit all over it... Or in the case of the U.S, letting drug addicts piss and shit all over it. My floors staying clean is far more important than you are as a guest. Can't respect the rules of my home, then don't bother showing up. It's really that simple.
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  110. No, you do not need to let the gaijins in. You need to do what Hungary did: government subsidies for starting families. Immigrants are not necessary to fix a population shortage. Never have been, never will.
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  111.  @RealJohnnyDingo  Then clearly you've never been that tired.
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  112. Body building is beyond health though. And not without it's problems. You can build muscles to great size, but the capacity of your heart and lungs is pretty static. And with some training regimens that some of the gym junkies do, it really strains their bones. They won't feel it at a young age. But they'll notice it quite accutely in their 50's and 60's.
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  113. Diet might also be an issue. Seafood seems very common in Japan. I know plenty of doctors over here do not recommend that pregnant women eat a lot of seafood since most fish caught in oceans have a lot of heavy metals in the flesh, like mercury and lead from pollution, which cause things like miscarriages.
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  114.  @bobmclovinelectricboogaloo  What do you think the term "loser" mean in this context? Hint: it's not about losing at boardgames a lot. 🙄
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  115. I was being sarcastic
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  116.  @Capt.Steele  And they're resorting to the wrong method of solving it. Mass immigration has pretty much destroyed the European countries that advocated for it. Paris in France looks like a warzone. Stockholm in Sweden is a literal warzone with criminal migrants setting off bombs in residential areas where families live and even shoot at eachother outside of kindergartens. This is what Japan is setting itself up for. If Japan wanted to solve it's demographic problems, it ought to take more inspiration from Hungary where the government subsidize families and especially mothers with financial incentives like cheap mortgages and tax cuts.
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  117. @Ann Nifödova He rules the country. Your little communist minority does not. In fact, the communists LOST the power over Russia and the entire Soviet union, like the losers they are. ;)
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  118.  @redpandaz5146  No, in fact communism also ends up being far worse than the USSR. Like Cambodia, North Korea, Venezuela etc. Communism is an inherently dysfunctional ideology that won't ever fulfill the promises it sets out to fulfill. That's just fact.
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  119. How do you drive up your salary in Japan if you don't often change jobs? I mean pay raises tend to always be small. So you need to look for jobs elsewhere while working at one company and then get the next employer to pay you MUCH more than your current employer does. Once you find the one willing to pay the bigger salary, you quit your current one. Simple as that.
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  120. Yes, I think modern Japanese culture has accidentally creared hikikomori. There is a darker side to the culture with issues that do not get adressed properly, which make some people feel forced to retreat from society in general.
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  121. You definitely should not live to work. And the NEET's who reject this mindset are doing the right thing. It's time Japanese employers are forced to change their harmful and destructive work ethics they impose on employees.
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  122. Well, western women are generally awful. Entitled feminists who think they deserve the world for no effort.
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  123.  @xcforce9067  We do in my country.
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  124.  @xcforce9067  No, it's far more civilized than the barbaric nations where stomping inside people's homes with your fecal matter encrusted shoes is the norm. You only get hospitality by first respecting the host and his or her home. Not very respectful to drag filth from the streets inside to their carpets and floors like you do.
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  125. ​ @MrTobi013 Yeah, fellow Koreans rejected them. While Japan has accepted them and even given them special priviliges. So which country is really the bad guy here? Korea with it's massive racist population? Or Japan who tolerate zainichi koreans even to the point where they don't need Japanese passports?
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  126.  @tizi087  It's because germans maintain the stigma. Whereas Japan tried to move on. Germans really need to stop dedicating their lives and the lives of their children to apologize for WWII. It's very cult-like and creepy.
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  127.  @tizi087  No, but you shouldn't run around apologizing for actions made by some of your grandparents and great grandparents, and always let your ideology be dictated by thinking "What would Hitler do?" and always choose the extreme opposite from that. That's the problem with you germans in general. You have no concept of doing something with moderation. You always resort to extremism in everything. During WWII, you were extremely far right. Today you are extremely far left.
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  128.  @tizi087  To showcase an example of the ridiculousness of the german mindset. Angela Merkel was confronted a year or so ago by the fact tjat german women were being subjected to a ridiculous level of sexual assaults by african and midddle eastern migrant men. Her reply was basically "Well what about Hitler?" As if germans living today should just accept being subjected to sexual assault by foreigners, because Hitler did bad things in the past. That's why you have to stop going on this idiotic self-imposed cultural penance for WWII. You're not helping anyone by doing it, and you're only hurting yourselves and turning your society into something twisted and depraved. The lesson from WWII should be "Let's not engage in wars of conquest and ethnic cleansings again. That was a mistake." But instead you're engaging in cultural self flagellation with some strange hope that the world will "forgive you" for the sins of your fathers if you hurt yourselves enough.
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  129.  @tizi087  Yeah, how "middle" it is to open all the borders and just anyone flood inside, and then give them free money taken directly from the taxpayers, while also allowing them to commit heinous crimes in germany unopposed. Go anywhere else in the world and nobody will call that a "centrist" policy. They will call it extreme left wing policy. And yeah, those countries demand reparations from Germany because that's what countries do: they always try to get free money out of other countries by playing victims and moralists. Russia did that against Finland too. Forcing the Finns to pay "war reparations" because the soviet union lost a war against Finland which the soviets themselves started. It's hard to respect you germans until you stop kowtowing to every ill spirited actor who constantly drag up the ghost of Hitler to browbeat you with. Grow a spine please.
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  130.  @Greenforrest7342  Doesn't matter. Japanese men are still human. They need to retain some energy after a workday to be up for sex.
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  131.  @Alexander-dg8sh  This is complete bullshit. Marriage is very much a man-made an unnatural institution and no child is entitled to growing up with a married couple.
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  132.  @maeulrich4851  I'm not familiar with that part of their legislation. But over here, it's literally just a matter of informing the correct authorities that your current home adress is "over here" by putting in some paperwork. The only thing that would happen for the person who actually lives there is that they'd get the mail adressed to the "live in", which she can probably pick up on her own. So she's not physically living there, she would just have the adress as her listed place of residence that's all. I didn't mean to suggest that he'd actually take her in to stay (although I'd certainly applaud it if he did), I was just trying to think of some way to help that would mean the absolute least amount of trouble for him. And it's not like it has to be prolonged either. Once she's gotten her valid ID, passport etc. Those documents will be valid for a few years before needing to be renewed, but by that time she should've been able to open a bank account and get some aid from the social welfare office and may be able to find a place to live in that way.
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  133. @sanserif It's really dumb though. Again, not saying that you need to be best of friends with every other tenant in your building, floor or hallway. But it's good to know who they are and where they live and so on. Adds some security to the situation since everyone will be able to know if strangers come into the building and keep an extra eye out of what they're doing. Having every tenant being atomized from the others is a surefire way of enabling burglaries and other crime.
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  134. Yeah, and look at how you germans become when being subjected to an indoctrination of self-hatred like that. You're probably one of the least confident, nervous and neurotic people in Europe. You even have politicians who can openly say that the native german population is declining and that it is a GOOD thing that you are getting replaced by foreigners. And this sort of hateful speech is tolerated by your mainstream society, celebrating the gradual extinction of Germans. So maybe being bombarded with messages about the holocaust since the moment you're born isn't a very good thing after all? Maybe it's actually hurting you culturally and spiritually?
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  135.  @richardwhatever3231  Sweden
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  136.  @GeorgeMonet  Yes they were. But the fathers lawyers made some bleeding heart liberal argument about how the father had "turned his life around" and similar bullshit, and the naive idiots presiding over the custody court just swallowed it all, hook, line and sinker. Custody courts are trash in general and never know what's best for the children.
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  137.  Your Majesty,  Have you even checked the casualty ratio of the winter war?
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  138.  Your Majesty,  Doesn't matter who is the attacker or defender. You can still "wreck" an attacker.
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  139.  @Saltcrystalis  No, but winning one is.
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  140.  @Saltcrystalis  Of course you can. By crushing your enemies.
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  141.  @Saltcrystalis  That's where you're wrong kiddo. To the victors goes the spoils. Usually in the form of new territory, but also captured military technology. Also nothing spurs technological and medical innovation as much as war does. Without war and the preparatiob for war: you would not have personal computers. Nor would you have the internet. Nor would we have several medical treatments for things like hypothermia and various diseases and parasites. Many of these technologies are derived from research that originally came from the defense industry. And it makes sense that war makes such innovators of people compared to peace time. The reason is that during peacetime, not being as innovative as your rivals only means you risk losing what... Market Shares? Whereas during a war, not being more innovative than your rivals means risking to lose your very life, your society and culture. The incentives to perform are far stronger during war than during peace. This is also proven through history where the more warlike regions of the world (like the European countries since ancient times) ended up developing their technology much faster than more primitive and less war-ridden tribal communities like in Africa and the Americas.
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  142.  @Saltcrystalis  That's just your opinion. I got the facts on my side. You just "assume" these inventions would've been created without war, with nothing to back it up.
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  143. This is what feminism does to women
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  144.  @fistandantalasmajere1671  What an ignorant and illogical remark. If she was such a successful con artist, she wouldn't be living on the streets.
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  145.  @greod1006  But according to the Japanese mindset, being "self-employed" is also not considered to be a stable and reliable job
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  146.  @Gogglesofkrome  They don't have to do health research because the required knowledge is already available in physics. The radiation emitted from 5G repeaters just doesn't have enough energy a few meters away to pose any health hazards. To cause cancer you have to have enough energy to knock parts of your genetic code out of sequence. The energy of those radiowaves just decrease far too much to be able to do anything.
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  147. @Ann Nifödova Communism is slavery and death. Communism has killed far more people and brutally conquered and ravaged far more countries. Capitalism is inherently more free since capitalism protects the property rights of the individual. You are ENTITLED to that which you own. Communism would take everything you own if some upper echelon of "The Party" decides that they want to, and you'd have zero legal protections against it.
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  148. @Ann Nifödova What "protection" did Communism offer to the Kulaks? What "protection" did communism offer to the victims of the Holodomor? What "protection" did communism offer to the people who needed glasses to see in Cambodia under Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge?
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  149.  @feliph64  Why do you ask?
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  150. Exactly. It's just a shame that germans are taught in school to blame themselves for what their ancestors did. I've lost count of how many germans I've spoken to have wanted to express their regret for WW2. Some are so indoctrinated that they even got angry with me for telling them that I don't think they have any reason to apologize for anyones actions other than their own. Hitler is dead. The third reich is dead. There is no point in blaming germany for what past germans did. They deserve to build their country up with enthusiasm and pride just as everyone else does, rather than perpetuallt apologizing and making concessions to everyone else all the time.
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  151.  @jhonhoppins522  and by "acknowledge", you mean indoctrinate kids to hate their country and themselves, don't you?
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  152.  @cottoncandykawaii2673  whataboutism
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  153.  @JosueC730  If your socioeconomic situation is terrible, then how does it imporve by wasting your hard earned money on "renting" friends and girlfriends? 🤔
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