No need to be euphemistic, they're fucking terrible.
I mean, China is probably worse than most, but still, an ongoing genocide fully backed by the goverment is about as horrible as it can get.
China's issue is fullblown reactionaryism and the CCP encouraging a return to old-fashioned values. Whereas Korea and Japan's issues social issues stem more from a refusal to shift from the status quo despite a lot of pressure from the youth, as opposed to forces actively encouraging them to shift rightward. Though not for lack of trying from the LDP's nationalist elements.
Oh, bother.
It seems to have gotten particularly bad thanks to Xi Jinping.
Guy's really hellbent on Making China Great Again.
Disgusted, but not surprised
Does Japan tends to have the same swinging from progressivism to conservatism and back that seems so rooted in the US?
No the LDP has only lost power once in decades, and given the disaster that followed few are willing to try repeats.
Also wouldnt consider Abe quite as bad as Trump, womens rights have expanded significantly under him, the same can not be said about modern republicans.
Edited by Imca on Apr 17th 2019 at 12:16:29 PM
Oh, bother.
Yeah, Shinzo Abe does seem to respect his wife Akie Abe at least, and together they've helped improve women's rights in Japan.
Improved doesn't necessarily mean good of course, but it's better than it was.
Edited by M84 on Apr 18th 2019 at 3:23:20 AM
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True that. She's a well-known reformer even before she got married if I recall.
"Exit muna si Polgas. Ang kailangan dito ay si Dobermaxx!"
Honestly thats always a thing that concerns me whenever calls to replace Abe happen, the LDP isnt going to loose power, so any of the replacement pool arent really going to be all that much better, and we would loose Akie's voice having power in the process...
As much as I wish we could just cut the middleman and have her.
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Oh, bother.
That's good for Chinese gamers I suppose. Though they will almost certainly be getting a heavily restricted list of available games compared to other markets.
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So how many games are going to make it through that don't shill the CCP?
Completely serious.
I hold the secrets of the machine.
They don't have to shill them at all, just avoid taboo subjects.
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Isn't that a pretty big list regardless?
I mean, I've read somewhere China censors almost everything with supernatural elements in it.
Certain things like skeletons, as seen with World of Warcraft, but I wasn't talking about cultural ones. Political taboos are pretty easy to stamp out, considering they make sure that everyone knows what they are.
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Oh, bother.
Strong quake hits Taiwan's Hualien, shakes buildings in Taipei
Strongest one this year at 6.1.
I haven't really felt anything so far in Hsinchu, but there are probably going to be aftershocks of 5.0 or so in the coming days.
I think I might be getting too used to earthquakes living in Taiwan (especially since before moving here I was living in California).
And yes, the place that was hit, Hualien, was the same place that was hit by a 6.4 earthquake last year.
On the bright side, it doesn't seem like there were any fatalities caused by this quake so far.
Edited by M84 on Apr 20th 2019 at 3:22:19 AM
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This came after the day the CEO of Foxconn declaring his running for the KMT nomination to be President by claiming that the Goddess of the Sea visited him in a dream to tell him that she was on his side. ![[lol]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lol2v12_4863.png "[lol]"){kind=small}
Oh, bother.
Yeah, if I was the superstitious sort I'd consider that a sign too.
Disgusted, but not surprised
I am pretty sure the number of superstitious people is large enough that it might actually matter in an election...
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
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Keeping an eye on this mostly from NHK:
A revised immigration law now allows more foreign workers to enter Japan amid a severe labor shortage. And with many of them hoping to bring their children, specialized schools are opening to ensure they get a proper education.
When 15-year-old Sahani Chandra moved from his native Nepal to join his parents in Japan in October, he was hoping to settle into normal life and, like other children his age, enter high school.
The problem was that he couldn't speak Japanese well enough to enter a public school. His parents looked into private education, but it was too expensive.
"Chandra was depressed when he thought there was no school for him to attend," recalls his mother.
Sahani Chandra is 15 years old.
Then, in April 2019, a school opened in Chandra's neighborhood specifically for people like him.
The Yoshun branch of Shiba-Nishi Junior High School is one of the early results of a 2016 law. Every prefecture in Japan is now required to have at least one middle school that's open in the evenings and caters to students who have fallen behind.
The idea dates back to the post-war years, when there were many adults whose education had been disrupted by the conflict. They worked in the daytime and joined remedial education at night. The schools have also served those who failed to attend regular schooling for other reasons, such as bullying. More recently, though, they have drawn students like Chandra. As more and more workers from abroad come to Japan, the government decided to ensure that their children get a proper education.
At the Yoshun branch school, 47 of the 77 students are from abroad. The school is located in the city of Kawaguchi, just north of Tokyo. The city has a foreign population of about 35,000 — the third-highest in the country — and the figure is rising.
The Yoshun branch school in Kawaguchi is one of two evening middle schools to open in Japan for the first time in 18 years.
Principal Akira Sugita says the school is a place where anyone who wants to study can feel safe and learn, regardless of age or nationality.
But it represents a challenge for teachers like Chieko Koike. Some of her students speak some Japanese, while others speak none. For Koike, that was a shock.
"I thought they would speak better Japanese," she says. "I think we'll need to give them individual support."
The freshmen will be assigned to different classes according to their Japanese-language proficiency and other abilities.
Currently there are 33 evening middle schools in Japan, spread across nine prefectures.
But demand for places is expected to soar. The government estimates that recent changes to the immigration system, aimed at supplementing the dwindling workforce, will bring in almost 350,000 workers over the next five years, many with families in tow.
As for Chandra, he says he can't wait to get studying. "I'm looking forward to studying at school," he says. "I'll never miss a class!"
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Seems pretty nice, is there any catch I'm not noticing?
Not really. We need to see the practical results of the effort.
There's a lot of grey and black economy work that goes into the cheap labour market in Japan. So a lot of work still needs to be done to ensure rights to those workers who have always been largely invisible.
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Well, the fact that steps to fix the problem are being taken is something to celebrate.
The Japanese government have noticed this problem is a big improvement compared to how they respond to it in the past. Their previous responses are pretty much ignoring it and hope that it'll go away on its own, hoping that they can invent robots that'll solve it for them (a literal deus ex machina!), or telling young people to fuck like rabbits and make children for the greater good.
I'm being a bit facetious there, but this is indeed a big improvement over the past. The Japanese government reluctance to face this problem in the past have allowed the so-called black companies to exploit those foreign labor with impunity.
Edited by SteamKnight on Apr 23rd 2019 at 6:17:17 PM
I'm not as witty as I think I am. It's a scientifically-proven fact.
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Two JGSDF officers are leaving to join in the MFO:
These two are likely from the Ground Component Command, the successor of the Central Readiness Force.
From NHK.
This will be the first time for Japan to take part in such an operation outside the UN framework. Security legislation that was enacted in 2015 enables the country to do so.
A lieutenant colonel and a captain will leave for the Sinai Peninsula on Friday.
They will work at the headquarters of the Multinational Force and Observers, an organization that monitors the ceasefire between Egypt and Israel.
They will help facilitate communication between the two countries.
The lieutenant colonel, Naoto Kuwahara, said he has heard that the situation in the region is generally calm, but they will remain on guard.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-48133701
I heard of pro-Republican groups in Japan (some were communist), but not this one.
Edited by Ominae on May 2nd 2019 at 10:55:38 AM
"Exit muna si Polgas. Ang kailangan dito ay si Dobermaxx!"
The racism and xenophobia of course are things that East Asian conservatism has in common with other cultures' conservatism.
East Asian race relations are...not great.
Disgusted, but not surprised