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The nazi party is funded by Russia btw and there's so much propaganda in Japan rn its insane. One major piece still making news is that foreign tourists dont pay their hospital bills and losing "Japan so much money". The amount of unpaid bills was 400k usd that year and foreign tourists revenue was 58 BILLION usd. That's 0.00069% loss of total revenue.

This constant propaganda around the world is so depressing and not because its there but because truth is right next to it and nobody's looking.

In December 2024, there were 3,768,977 foreign residents in Japan, representing 3.04% of the Japanese population.

Fucking foreigners sucking up all the jobs and destabilizing a country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Japan#Foreign_residents

When I was growing up too many people I knew wanted to move to Japan because of the technology sectors and the “modernity”. Turns out both are a lie, and after learning about Japanese work culture, it’s even worse than the USA. I can’t imagine why anyone would choose to work in Japan over an EU country outside of family reasons.

Japanese people are extremely racist. They genuinely put republicans to shame.

Japan will be the test case for declining populations. They will be the first to show us the consequences and the right and wrong ways to deal with the issue.

Short of Malthusian disasters, I don't think any sort of economy in human history has had to deal with this.

... and just like the USA, it's all populism, rage baiting and ZERO actual solutions

My wife and I loves Japan and we visit quite often prior to having kids. Once we had kids, the people's attitude changes towards you. Suddenly my crying kid is annoying everyone and throwing shade. Elevators and seats clearly designated for strollers is often filled to the brim and nobody getting off/out.

It's a culture of hating kids.

Fun fact. Women who have kids must give up their careers. Grandparents is culturally not allowed to help with the grand kids. Like, you pop them out, you take care of them yourself, often without even help from the father.

that headline brilliantly conveys the absurdity of the situation

I keep hearing racist nationalists say stuff like this worldwide, and not matter how hard I squint it remains a non sequitur.

I mean, "we have a population crisis" and "don't let people come here" seem entirely contradictory unless you are... well, a supremacist.

Which they are, it's just the leap that gets me. So obvious, so rarely called out and never addressed.

Japanese people are being fed the same kind of propaganda as UK citizens and Americans. People say ridiculous things like "What if the number of foreigners increases to 20% of the total population? Then women will be sexually assaulted." Instead of immigrant gangs taking over apartment buildings and eating the pets it's foreigners buying up all the land to build compounds for foreigners to live in and pooping in the streets.

But there is also a feedback loop where nationalists in Japan make the news, and it's repeated by right wing foreigners who don't know Japan but admired their idealized, racially pure Japan where everyone is polite and orderly and this would never happen, and then that gets repeated to Japanese people as if it were large numbers of foreigners warning them not to let immigration ruin Japan as it has ruined those other countries. Most of the Japanese people in this loop don't understand English, and the right wing foreigners don't understand Japanese. The reality isn't always faithfully translated in either direction, and the language barrier makes it harder for people to realize the discrepancy.

At any point they can start giving people a UBI and they will have the option to quit their jobs and raise a family.

The old ways of systemic slavery will not work as human societies progress, especially in our post scarcity world.

Is there nowhere in the world now that fascist racists are not on the rise?

It feels like we are barreling towards another world war.