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The US isn't the only one having recruitment problems: 'Not proud at all': Japan struggles to recruit for Self-Defense Forces (www.japantimes.co.jp)
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Nobody wants to be the mindless foot soldiers of global capitalism, who woulda thunk it

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[–] axont@hexbear.net 50 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

"Many join up hoping to help during natural disasters, but are dismayed to find themselves doing military tasks.

"Most soldiers weren't thinking at all about national defense (when they joined)," said Kohei Kondo, 25, a former sergeant."

Oops I joined the national army and they got me doing pointless soldier stuff even though Japan's constitution doesn't allow warfare, I wonder what that's going to do to rampant alienation. I like the idea that even soldiers realize there's no one they need to fight. Tsunamis are a bigger threat.

[–] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 37 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Many join up hoping to help during natural disasters

Militaries should be dismantled, and Natural Disaster Corps should be formed in their place.

[–] huf@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

with the world as it is, that wouldnt change a thing, they'd just start calling wars natural disasters...

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 36 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Is Japan realizing they're becoming tools of the anglo-burn Empire?

[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 30 points 2 years ago

Nah, Japan is fucked

[–] GaveUp@hexbear.net 29 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

No they're just depressed like everybody else and who the fuck wants to do shit like get woken up at 3AM to run laps and constantly be mentally abused when you're depressed

[–] axont@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yeah no way, there's a ton of anti-China and anti-DPRK sentiment among Japanese people and it plays directly into western imperialism

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

anti-DPRK sentiment

Let's be real, it's anti-korean sentiment.

And the feelings mutual

[–] axont@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Younger Japanese people seem like they're into Puppet Korea's kpop and TV shows

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

That'd because Japan's TV fucking sucks lmao

[–] charly4994@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

back over a decade ago when I lived in Japan as part of an exchange program one of the first activities my host family and I did was going to a local natural park with some nice waterfalls. We walked past a bunch of people doing the same thing when my host mother leaned over to me and whispered that there was a group of Chinese people behind us. I literally had no clue how to respond. Even at 17 and my most conservative I just didn't understand what the problem was. For as much as Japan loves using their cultural history with China, they also despise China to a degree that they'll just tell the foreign kid living with them on like their third day living with them with zero shame.

[–] axont@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

My first trip to Japan I was telling a Japanese person at a bar the places I had been. I mentioned Asakusa in Tokyo. He immediately laughed and said it would be a nice place but there's too many Chinese people always there. I felt stunned too

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

Not at all. They’re just overworked to death, abused at work, and then go home and get yelled at by the government for not having a family

[–] Ericthescruffy@hexbear.net 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Many join up hoping to help during natural disasters, but are dismayed to find themselves doing military tasks.

Maybe I'm naive but...fuck man...this bit right here gives me some real genuine honest to gods hope for the future. Like young people are seriously looking around and going "Who the fuck do you think my enemy is old man? China? Fuck that shit...my enemy is the weather, the lack of drinkable water, the earth crumbling everywhere. I don't need a rifle. I need a shovel."

Even if we actually reversed course tomorrow on climate change: natural disasters are gonna keep ramping up....but Imagine a world where young people enlist and get trained and deployed to the aftermath of hurricanes and droughts and their mission is to rebuild reinforce infrastructure and get people to shelter and running water. Can you imagine such a world?

[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

Just replace militaries with new civilian conservation corps. Imagine what could be done if even a fraction of the military's resources were used to construct and maintain infrastructure, respond to natural disasters, and generally build instead of bomb

[–] Teekeeus@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago

Why would anyone want to fight for international-community-1international-community-2

[–] bigboopballs@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago

great. hope everyone keeps up the good work not joining the military world wide.

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

All you had to do was have the damn sex, Satoshi

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

Shinzo Abe died for this

[–] GriffithDidNothingWrong@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

Japanese youth are so black pilled many of them struggle to go outside, you think they consider this a society worth defending?