Groping

[Lordstar]

For a thread titled groping there aint a whole lot of discussions about fondling one another.

Why don't you go get gay w/ your DJ software.

BECAUSE ITS NOT FUCKING HERE YET! You just trying to get a rise out of me you bastard.

[GaijinPunch]

A few things will have to happen if Japan is going to use immigration to get them out of this very deep hole they are in. I've named them a few times:

1: Abolish the entire guarantor system (let adults be adults please).

Not sure what this is about. Do you mean the kohai/sempai system?

Needing a guarantor to rent an apartment in Japan. It's part of this whole "coupling" system Japan has where you're not allowed to take responsibility for yourself. My theory is it's a part of their shame-inspiring punitive system. Can't pay your rent? You get the embarrasment of your guarantor being harrassed.

BECAUSE ITS NOT FUCKING HERE YET! You just trying to get a rise out of me you bastard.

If you don't downoad PSN/XBLA games, then I see your point. If you do, I don't know why you insisted on buying the package software of something you generally just stick on the computer once and never touch again.
EDIT: You getting the Mac or Win version?

[Obiwanshinobi]

The humanity as a whole keeps ageing, not just the rich societies. Third world isn't an unfailing human resource either. The fastest ageing nations had better do something about it as soon as possible if they want to thrive on in the future.

The stopping of all shitting on gaijin at every level of society. I don't think a gaijin has ever won a court case here (and I know a few that have gone).

Good luck with that. While we're at it, it'd be nice if Romani people let all of their children attend schools and choose their own spouses, and if Jews in Israel treated Palestinians with utmost respect of human rights and freedoms.
Even in the US xenophobia isn't uncommon, is it? Closed societies (those using words like "gaijin" on a regular basis) - nomads, islanders, highlanders... - are stuffed way deeper up this anus and probably thinking of their xenophobia as a perpetual struggle against the cultural violation.

Lower cost of infrastructure across the board isn't going to hurt. This is the main reason the birth rate is so low: it's just too pricey to have kids, especially in the city.

I don't know much about economy and maybe I can't express myself in right terms, but doesn't Japan being so pricey have something to do with the phony employment? They employ more people than really needed, thus aren't cost-effective and this policy burdens the society with hidden taxes all over the shop, am I right? Uncompetitive economy is a price they pay for the social tranquility, but there are hidden costs, like everything beyond daily bread and booze being jolly expensive. I haven't studied this matter diligently, but relations of people who lived there gave me this picture.
Having said that, the Japanese have radically changed their society a couple of times, in more bleak circumstances than today's economic climate to boot. When they start changing things, they mean business.

[GaijinPunch]

Good luck with that. While we're at it,

Haha -- yeah, I know. It'll take time. The racism here is actually somewhat light, but seeded into the culture I'm sure most Japanese don't even think it's racist. It's a hard culture & society to penetrate though, b/c of it.

I don't know much about economy and maybe I can't express myself in right terms, but doesn't Japan being so pricey have something to do with the phony employment? They employ more people than really needed, thus aren't cost-effective and this policy burdens the society with hidden taxes all over the shop, am I right?

Some economical historian could tell you which came first. I don't know. But yes, cost-effectiveness here is unheard of. Well, I take that back. Some things are cost effective... that's b/c Japanese companies pay shit. That's the side effect of having so many worker bees going through the motions instead of allowing some of them to be rock stars. It seems like a total anti-unemployment measure. Every construction site in town (and there are many) have a few guys making sure people don't fall in the holes they're digging in the ground.

Uncompetitive economy is a price they pay for the social tranquility, but there are hidden costs, like everything beyond daily bread and booze being jolly expensive. I haven't studied this matter diligently, but relations of people who lived there gave me this picture.

Seems right to me. Their uncompetitive (or anti-competitive I should say) practices have fucked them as well. NTT took a financial ass-reaming when one of their execs quit, sued them for anti-competitive actions, won, and literally brought ADSL to the country all on his own. They apparently made about 20% back on their ISDN investment, wanting to wait X years and go straight to fiber. Later the government divested below the 50% mark when they tried to buy a US internet backbone and the Federal Government told them to go fuck themselves. They said it was national security, but everyone knew it was payback for NTT not letting foreign competition in. I've continuously tried to find these storie on the internet, but to no avail. I was following local tech news pretty closely as the events unfolded though.

When they start changing things, they mean business.

They haven't done this since right after the war though, and that's their problem.

[GaijinPunch]

Look at how much they gave for Katrina relief.

Considering the size of their economy, that's a bit of a joke. I like the fact that it took one Japanese individual to pay five times as much as the actual government.

Yes. Japan was ranked 2nd "cheapest" in terms of donations in relation to it's GDP. I believe in the last 25 years it has it has given out less than 2000 asylum visas (you can Google that probably). As I've stated many times, it is an unsympathetic culture.

[greg]

It seems like a total anti-unemployment measure.

I now defer everyone to one of my favorite websites on Japan, the Quirky Japan Homepage. There's an entire section devoted to useless people. The first example hits home with me, since I lived in Himeji and I know exactly the intersections that the guy is talking about. There are some intersections in the downtown area that get very little traffic, yet they would have one or two crossing guards to help people across an empty street that already has a traffic light displaying the "walk" sign.

What's funny is that some useless people have been replaced by mannequins or whatever. For road construction on the highways, the guy who waves the flag to get everyone to merge over has been replaced by a friendly-looking robotic mannequin that waves the flag. At least there's a small sign of trying to be efficient.

I donated one example to this website of the door-to-door mop head replacement salesman. Talk about an exciting life.

[GaijinPunch]

What's funny is that some useless people have been replaced by mannequins or whatever.

Ironically I've had to do a double take many times to confirm that it's indeed a mannequin. That's how lifeless the real guys doing the same job are.