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Former Tokyo resident, current teacher/Japan watcher with a modest reform agenda: ✔️Make Kako-sama the emperor ✔️Use Japan's special forces to apprehend Carlos Ghosn ✔️Retake the Kurile Islands ✔️Aggressively pursue Fully Automated Luxury Communism
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Complaints that Japan's government finances will be battered by expanded defense spending usually don't factor in the fact that Japan already pays for 75% of the cost to host the Americans. A just policy would simply switch that budget over to SDF and gradually usher out US forces

Silly yakuza movie, animals don’t wear shoes!

yo this game

What if we kissed at the newly opened basketball court in Beijing, transformed from the former cooling towers of Capital Steel and Iron Company

Our reality is an Ito Junji scenario come to life. AI slop is taking over the world, we are powerless to stop it (in fact the government is spending $500+ billion to help it along), and no one can even trust their own eyes anymore. Deeply despairing

They should make a live action Cars reboot

Now that Megumi's mom is the only abductee parent activist left alive, it's past time for Japan to raid Pyongyang and bring back Megumi's daughter and granddaughter

rip but im different

NHK poll shows majority want a much higher threshold for payroll taxes, only 9% oppose changing the rules at all. The 9% are correct, however. Flooding the market w part-timers will depress wages for main breadwinners and force households into the dual-income trap. Why support US-style precarity?