General Japanese Culture Thread

Assuming the evidence is being presented accurately, it's certainly as plausible a theory as any other given the limited information, and the academic study of history is all about connecting the dots using evidence. Although, one has to be careful not to assume correlation equals causation. It's still possible the timing and effects on European morale were a welcome coincidence of more standard hegemonic motives.

That’s true, fair assessment on your part

But yeah, just get ready for assholes going for the totally justified invasions opinion

For student councils in Japan, what year do the members have to be in? To be specific, are first-years allowed to be in student councils?

Yes, they are.

But do the elected members keep their positions until they graduate or does it change every school year?

As a rule of thumb, last year students are the ones that dont participate in any extra activities, they are too busy craming for entrance exams.

So, no, not up until graduation.

Heard something today along the lines of six members of Aum Shinrikyo having been executed recently for their culpability in the Tokyo metro sarin gas atrocity.

Yup, the remaining 6 of the 13 were executed yesterday, after the first 7 we talked about the other day.

How many are left of the bastards outside these 13?

Those were all on death row, I think the rest were released way back in the late 90's and early 2000's. The off-shoots Aleph and Hikari no Wa still operate, with the former still under surveillance until the end of this year. Their membership numbers are a bit of a mystery, but Wikipedia at least puts the official number in 2011 to 1030.

Edited by TerminusEst on Jul 26th 2018 at 1:46:44 AM

All of the ones on death row are dead.

An article about Sally Amaki and her journey of being a virtual idol.

I was quite surprised that Japanese record labels now starting to pay serious attention to foreign fanbase. In fact, her character, Sakura Fujima of 22/7, has a few videos in her YouTube channel speaking mostly in English. Perhaps the slow decline of domestic market is the main reason?

However, to say that Showroom is an idol-centric Livestream website is untrue. While a lot of idols Livestream there, a majority of them are regular people, either singing or just talking.

Another thing that I noticed is that idols are starting to revolt against the industry's shady practices. This is a good start, but the road is way too long.

Edited by murazrai on Aug 4th 2018 at 9:17:49 PM

That’s pretty interesting

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/02/health/ossan-renting-middle-aged-men-in-japan-intl/index.html

So basically, this is a service for hiring out ‘ossans’ or middle aged professional men who can cater their services for consultation, talks, or manual work and the like. The dude who started this wanted it to bring attention to this demographic that’s fallen behind or so in Japan and for it be a healthy way to bring respect mutually.

It’s really interesting to me

https://japantoday.com/category/crime/Tokyo-riot-police-finally-allowed-to-carry-drinks-on-duty-during-summer

Article on how Japanese netizens are viewing the disparity with TMPD officers not allowed to carry their refreshments with them when a Japanese visitor took a photo of two VPD officers getting refreshments from Starbucks IIRC.

When I read "ossan renting", I thought it was the inverse of Compensated Dating — instead of middle/high school-aged girls offering dates with themselves to older men in exchange for money, it's older men that are doing the offering.

If this Japanese article is correct, Comiket will be held for 4 days starting from next year, citing low acceptance rate as a reason.

I'm not sure if this is a good idea, but at least for doujin circles this would increase their chance to exhibit there. Hopefully the expansion construction of Tokyo Big Sight would be completed by then, because the current building will be fully closed starting next year for Olympic renovation works.

Edited by murazrai on Aug 12th 2018 at 7:12:24 PM

Huh, that's an interesting decision. Low acceptance rate as in a highly limited pool of tables versus applying circles, I assume?

It'll make the timing a bit more complicated for people who like to go all three days, but I guess if you're already taking a day off on Friday, doing the same on Monday too isn't too much more of a stretch.

..... oh from MORE than 4 days, not FEWER THAN.

They're using that building for the Olympics?

Edited by kyun on Aug 12th 2018 at 7:45:23 AM

No there raising it from 3 days to 4 days, because there are too many people and not enough booths.

And in a way, the Big Sight is used for like, all kinds of stuff, so it is being renovated for the olympics, because of the tourist influx.

I wonder, considering Japanese Media's popularity keeps growing more and more witch each year this decade, will the Tokyo 2020 olympics be the year that Japanese media's popularity becomes even more popular. And how do you think mainstream media personalities will react to the Japanese mascots that will be ambassadors for the olympics?

I hope the 2020 Olympics will only bring great fortune to Japan.

I mean, the event usually wracks up immense public debt, so...

It will be interesting to see if what way it does it, and if there will be any lasting effects. I hope the anime industry gets a boost too!

People really need to stop pretending hosting the Olympics will be good for a country's economy.

It is the nation-state equivalent of holding a wild teen party at your parents' house. Except with more unruly behavior and a higher chance of people shitting in your pool. And a lot more drugs.

It's like getting a white elephant, except with people actually bidding for the "privilege" of getting it.

Edited by M84 on Aug 14th 2018 at 4:27:57 PM

How good is it for big business though? Considering the advertisement opportunities the Olympics usually open up.