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NHK made an announcement on whether the cabinet will allow collective self-defense. So far, no decision is made yet.
Opposition groups have suggested putting the matter in a vote.
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Good for them.
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I feel very bad for Vietnam right now.
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Could they have just mis-read the question?
Because I am totally surprised that they even have the concept of "Jewish".
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South Korea has some weird fundamentalist Christian groups, like the supposed 3 million followers of self-proclaimed messiah Sun Myung Moon
. It's possible there is some level of familiarity with fundamentalist conspiracy theories about Jewish people through that influence.
edited 15th May '14 8:27:16 PM by editerguy
Also South Korea has a higher percentage of population of Christians than pretty much anywhere else in East Asia. Probably amplifies the signal a bit.
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The immigration thing is a very big question to Japan (and I suspect South Korea too) since they're getting an aging population year after year and they want to keep the Japanese gene pool in a homogenous way. I remember that it became headlines there when the Ministry of Justice offered to Brazilians of Japanese origin a one-way ticket back to South America free of charge on the condition that they can't come back for a few years.
edited 16th May '14 7:07:46 AM by Ominae
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How many Brazilian Japanese are there in Japan?
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Five. Two of them are arseholes, but the other three are good lads. 
edited 16th May '14 5:58:56 AM by Achaemenid
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Considering that there are about a million and a half of them in Brazil...
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As of 2012 stats: 210,032 residents.
Most are concentrated in Nagoya, Hamamatsu, Toyota & Ōizumi. You may find the occasional one in Tokyo if you bump into them. Don't be surprised if you see a Brazilian/Japanese community near a city/area where there's an auto manufacturing facility since it's the first place they find work. This is because most Japanese don't want to work there, only except as a last resort.
A lot of Brazilian-Japanese are discriminated by full-blooded Japanese because of their family origins or because they can't be fluent in the language (A majority of them aren't this 'cause they migrated to Japan in the 1980s to be contract worker before the economic miracle plummeted, except for those who come from upper/middle class families).
On the other hand, a lot of Japanese are studying Portuguese, being the sought after language in 3rd place after Chinese and Korean due to the efforts of Brazilian-Japanese groups to promote their heritage to ordinary Japanese. Oizumi, in fact, has 15% of its population that can speak fluent Portuguese.
edited 16th May '14 7:10:38 AM by Ominae
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Here's a video made by the AFP on Brazilian-Japanese nationals who are suffering from problems in adapting to Japanese life.
edited 17th May '14 7:47:05 AM by Ominae
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Interesting to know.
Japan: Limited use of collective self-defense right essential for nation’s existence.
The dilemma of anti-China sentiment.
edited 17th May '14 11:01:47 AM by Quag15
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The video appears to be blocked now.
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@de
- Weird. It worked a while ago before I placed it here.
@Quag
- Looks like the collective self-defense thing may be hard for the LDP to work things out with...
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Looks like Abe specifically mentioned being able to help with "collective security" of Southeast Asian nations.
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That might be problematic. How many people in East Asia still have problems with the Japanese from WWII? I know China and Korea, even SK do, but I'm wondering about Vietnam, Philipines, Indonesia etc.
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I'd be very surprised if Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Indonesia, and Malaysia didn't have suspicions about Japan when it comes to military affairs in the region.
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Vietnam and Japan actually get on surprisingly well; Tokyo pumps a lot of money and tech in the Vietnamese economy. Vietnam seems rather magnanimous towards their former oppressors in general (possibly because they beat them allnote ) in fact. Hanoi-Washington relations are extremely good, all things considered.
edited 18th May '14 7:39:33 AM by Achaemenid
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Truth is, anti-Japanese sentiment is completely unfair by now. The question is, who do people in SW Asia fear more, the Japanese or the Chinese?
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Why China doesn’t want the crown of No. 1 economy.