Low crime rate, yet women are encouraged to stay as far away from men as possible. To say nothing about how the police react when you report a rape or any other kind of assault. Hmm…
-Extremely high suicide rate
-Among the most repressed societies in the world
-One of the biggest demographic crises on earth
Yeah, you can keep your consumerist utopia
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This is actually why the court system in the game Ace Attorney is how it is. The creator intended it as social commentary about Japan’s courts.
Yeah, I’ll stick to my Russian doomerism, the Japanese one is too much for my fragile heart.
Yeah, you can keep your consumerist utopia
Don’t forget the economy crisis ongoing for over 30 years now and only being desperately staved by exploitation of both global south and their own workers. All courtesy of their dear ally.
Also pedophilia is extremely normalized. I don’t know how fanboys can see constant sexualization of fictional children out of Japan and then say “Oh that doesn’t mean anything, maybe that one author is just a weirdo”
“its totally ok bro, shes like 5000 years old”
-Westoid puppet
-Nazi government
-WW2 war crimes denial
-Ultra capitalist
-Occupied by bases from country who nuked it twice
-Terrible for women
-Monarchy
-Suicide rates
-Only good thing from it in period from WW2-today: anime, Godzilla, Sonic, Kirby, RE and Silent Hill
I would say that all the good entertainment that came out of Japan were by-products of the drab corporate hell that Japan is/was and the population’s collective desire to indulge in some form of escapism.
Oh and the soldiers on those bases reguarly fuck with the natives. It’s basically guaranteed that anytime a US ship ports in Japan, someone from that ship is going to go fucking berserk and terrorize the community.
What about Metal Gear Solid?
Literally nothing of it is entirely true though. Especially not true considering what will happen if he show his white weeb ass in there. There’s tons of stories floating how starry-eyed weebs went to Japan only to met with cold hard reality of disdain.
It’s only considered crime if the police care enough to report on it. So statistically, Japan is very safe for women!
“Japan is very safe” are words that should be etched onto Abe’s tombstone.
Hey, 100% conviction rate at least! I’m sure they all did it, and the torture-esque interrogation techniques are sure to bring the truth out!
Japanese crime stats are the biggest fucking lie and it makes me so annoyed when people try and seriously use them as reasons that Japan is a perfect utopia. Japan’s criminal justice system is based around the cops just not investigating shit further, or harassing people who try to make reports. But you know what, even looking through that lens, that is exactly what the fascist right wants: A society where women and minorities are treated as playthings and then ignored by the police when they try to get some justice.
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I remember a story about how a Japanese person came to the US to teach Japanese, and had to quit because he couldn’t stand the weebs.
doesn’t seem surprising
"The survey also found that only a handful of sexual abuse cases are reported to police or brought to court – shedding light on latent cases.
Just 10.9% of all respondents consulted experts or support groups over the abuse, and only 15.1% contacted police. Furthermore, victim reports were accepted by police for only 7% of all respondents, while merely 0.7% reported that their attackers were indicted and found guilty in lawsuits."
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20201123/p2a/00m/0na/024000c
It’s not homogenous by a long shot. Not culturally, not ethnically. And the lens through which you have to view Japan to think it’s homogenous in any respect is pretty telling.
Care to go into more depth?
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Adding to the afellowkid post about minorities, Japan also still have the problem of remains of caste system inside their own society. Burakumin discrimination is still an issue despite the caste and its segregation was abolished formally 151 years ago (!).
afellowkid answered for the Ainu in the North, but I’ll add to that the Ryukyuans in the South.
While (I think) they are content to be a part of the Japanese nation, their language and culture is markedly distinct, to the point that the government’s decision to not recognise them as a distinct group is absurd by any standard - it’s as stupid as when France would insist ‘Algiers is France’, and only gets further mileage in the anglosphere because unlike the Algerians, Ryukyuans and Ainu get tarred with the insipid Western ‘looks the same = is the same’ thought.
What I mean by “And the lens through which you have to view Japan to think it’s homogenous in any respect is pretty telling” is that for someone to claim Japan is a monoculture means they’d have to either be parroting the government’s official stance (which is a deliberate effort to erase those cultures), or they have no idea what they’re talking about. Or both, in that their entire conception of Japan is constructed by exported Japanese media that largely sticks to the monoculture narrative.
To add to this Japan’s court system is fucked beyond belief which so much stock being placed in the status quo and the infallibility of the system that if a court case is found later to be false and that the person was wrongly convicted (even with direct proof), the courts will not overturn the conviction as it reflects badly on the courts meaning if you are wrongly convicted in Japan you are going to prison regardless. No overturn etc apparently.
The “low crime rate” is mostly because much isn’t reported or solved under the hand via the Yakuza.
Also anime, which sort of cancels anything else out
