Is Japan really the hyperaliented hypercapitalist dystopia that it's sometimes portrayed online as
Are there really otakus who never leave thier home probably accounting for the 1/4 of adult men reported to never be in a relationship. Are there really extreme workaholics who basically live at the office and often die from overwork. Are there really all these business that take the place of things that were once free and offer a way to buy them like people who you rent to be your family, cuddle cafes and gfe/bfe galore.
Is that really what Japan is like? Is it a snapshot of our future as well?
Japan can be pretty bad for a lot of people. There is of course different varying levels of alienation at every strata of society, but there is none so rigorous than Japan. Anime and its consumerist nature is merely a proportional reaction to the massive alienation that people feel each day. I see countries with similar work cultures to be somewhat similar one day perhaps but not everywhere yet.
Anthony Morgan
Japan is a western obsession because it is a bourgeois fantasy. A tranquil congruence of consumerism where nobody bothers each other, where your job is your life mission, where your identity is a subcultural costume you dress up in on saturday, where every aspect of the human condition is marketized.
if the jcp ever gets into power the first actions they should take is the destruction of the anime industry.
Ethan Gonzalez
Anime is only way we can escape the post-modern milieu. Deal with it.
Joshua Wilson
I've lived in Japan for four years. I've learned the language, I've had gfs. I'm moving away because the work culture is too spooked and class solidarity is nonexistent.
Jonathan Martinez
There are all of those things.
They're not a majority or representative sample, just the parts that stand out.
You could argue it's genuinely and uniquely innovative when it comes to ways of dealing with the circumstances of modern life, which coupled with enough cultural importance and attention allows it to set some world-wide trends in escapism. But it's not different from all the other hellholes we live in. It's not a snapshot of our future. It's a snapshot of our present, filtered by sensationalism and romanticization of the exotic.
Julian Jackson
God why the fuck can’t I have a Japanese gf
Connor Wood
I briefly visited my sister who lives with her family in a small country town. I hated the place. No wonder they kill their communists. That being said, they have commie parties that have some influence, so potential is there.
Evan Wilson
The JCP is fully socdem, and most people think they're laughable. They associate communism with china and they hate china.
Mason Taylor
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Angel White
The JCP got slaughtered in the last election. The most-hyped opposition and third largest party is also a conservative party. The LDP is now so powerful it can govern without a coalition partner.
I can assure you that socialism is not happening in Japan anytime soon, especially among young people. The JCP's voter base is all starving pensioners.
Jackson Flores
this
Anthony Perez
is that J^p^n in the second webm?
John Martinez
Go back to r/Socialism.
Lucas Nguyen
Move to the least populated country/area you possibly can if Capitalism just gets worse. I assume small town America isn't all its cracked up to be but it beats becoming a suicidal ant person.
Nolan Morris
Theyre literally cucked by their own culture
Too spooky for me
Luke Rivera
Because they're not attracted to you just like the women in your own country aren't attracted to you.
Camden Long
This is what happens when you let the USA have control over occupied territories in WW2, it creates these literal killer work cultures. See also, (where West) Germany (used to be), South Korea, Taiwan.
Isaiah Allen
exact reasoning for going to Greenland
Christopher Jones
I don't have other writers for you, comrade Polikarpov
From the outset, he was a maoist in his youth. It's more about documenting just how shitty it is at the bottom of the Japanese pile.
Robert Brown
I lived in Japan for a while and yes, if you want to see what happens when you let the neo-liberals do what they want, you should have a trip there. The country have many redeeming qualities, but the hardcore consumerism and the work culture is sickening.
I don't think you should call them workaholics, most people just fart around all day long waiting for the boss to leave and don't know what to do outside of work anyway. Some would even stay at the office to avoid their families.
Like in most Asian countries, people don't believe (or don't understand) democracy. For the common folks, politics is just about money and power and it cannot be anything else, so why bother paying attention to it.
Now i'm talking out of my ass, but I think the fact they are trapped in the machine from a young age (feels bad to see the kids leaving school around 9 PM…) just kill their will to do some extra effort and try to be an informed citizen.
If someone can explain to me how they aren't beyond saving, I'm all ears.
Daniel Evans
The country itself is beyond saving, but some of the most woke people I've talked to have been Japanese. I guess if you pass through that gauntlet and come out with your identity intact you're basically guaranteed to be extremely cynical and full of piss. (To be fair, they were all marginals and pariahs from a young age by nip standards so it's not like they really had the option of submitting either.)
Jason Morris
I was reading about the homeless in japan. A lot of them actually spend most of their day in internet cafes, and sleep in the woods in tents or a car. Japan actually had a notorious communist party that hijacked a plane i think
March 31, 1970: nine members of the JRA's predecessor, the Red Army Faction (whose leaders had been a part of the Communist League before they were thrown out), conducted Japan's most infamous hijacking, that of Japan Airlines Flight 351, a domestic Japan Airlines Boeing 727 carrying 129 people at Tokyo International Airport. Wielding katanas and a bomb, they forced the crew to fly the airliner to Fukuoka and later Gimpo Airport in Seoul, where all the passengers were freed. The aircraft then flew to North Korea, where the hijackers abandoned it and the crewmembers were released. Tanaka was the only one to be convicted. Three of Tanaka's alleged accomplices later died in North Korea and five remain there. According to Japan's National Police Agency, another accomplice may also have died in North Korea.[18] May 30, 1972: the Lod Airport massacre; a gun- and grenade attack at Israel's Lod Airport in Tel Aviv, now Ben Gurion International Airport, killed 26 people; about 80 others were wounded.[19] One of the three attackers then committed suicide with a grenade, another was shot in the crossfire. The only surviving attacker was Kōzō Okamoto. It has been claimed that the PFLP was behind the attack. July 1973: Red Army members led the hijacking of Japan Air Lines Flight 404 over the Netherlands. The passengers and crew were released in Libya, where the hijackers blew up the aircraft. January 1974: the Laju incident; the JRA attacked a Shell facility in Singapore and took five hostages; simultaneously, the PFLP seized the Japanese embassy in Kuwait. The hostages were exchanged for a ransom and safe passage to South Yemen. September 13, 1974: the French Embassy in The Hague, Netherlands was stormed. The ambassador and ten other people were taken hostage and a Dutch policewoman, Joke Remmerswaal, was shot in the back, puncturing a lung. After lengthy negotiatons, the hostages were freed in exchange for the release of a jailed Red Army member (Yatsuka Furuya), $300,000 and the use of an aircraft. The hostage-takers flew first to Aden, South Yemen, where they were not accepted and then to Syria. Syria did not consider hostage-taking for money revolutionary, and forced them to give up their ransom.[20] August 1975: the Red Army took more than 50 hostages at the AIA building housing several embassies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The hostages included the US consul and the Swedish chargé d'affaires. The gunmen won the release of five imprisoned comrades and flew with them to Libya.
August 11, 1976: in Istanbul, Turkey, four people were killed and twenty wounded by PFLP and Japanese Red Army terrorists in an attack at Istanbul Atatürk airport.[21] September 1977: The Red Army hijacked Japan Airlines Flight 472 over India and forced it to land in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The Japanese Government freed six imprisoned members of the group and allegedly paid a $6M ransom. December 1977: a suspected lone member of the Red Army hijacked Malaysian Airline System Flight 653.[22] The flight was carrying the Cuban ambassador to Tokyo, Mario Garcia. The Boeing 737 crashed killing all on board. May 1986: the Red Army fired mortar rounds at the embassies of Japan, Canada and the United States in Jakarta, Indonesia.[23] June 1987: a similar attack was launched on the British and United States embassies in Rome, Italy.[10] April 1988: Red Army members bombed the US military recreational (USO) club in Naples, Italy, killing five.[10] In the same month, JRA operative Yū Kikumura was arrested with explosives on the New Jersey Turnpike highway, apparently to coincide with the USO bombing. He was convicted of these charges and served time in a United States prison until his release in April 2007. Upon his return to Japan he was immediately arrested on suspicion of using fraudulent travel documents.
Easton Roberts
more then just that some of the members of the communist post-punk band les rallizes denudes where involved here is one of there songs
To those who have lived in Japan what is the bets left-wing group or groups? Can we help them in their struggle to declasscuck the Japanese people?
Dylan Torres
I wonder how naoki is doing these days
Elijah Mitchell
Why even live?
Thomas Watson
Surely you mean that like most Asian countries, people understand precisely what the so called liberal democracy is?
Angel Morales
I'm pretty sure that at the height of popularity and power of leftism in Japan while being one of the two major parties, they were fanboying over China and the leader wore a Mao suit.
Xavier Lewis
facebook.com/love.and.hate.naoki He is recovering from cancer and they are not together anymore. If you message him on fb he'll respond.
Gabriel Rodriguez
I don't think anyone in the West idolizes Japan's work culture. People like Japan because they export some of the best means of escapism via media
