“The Japanese people all live in one place but are spread out everywhere”
And who said that? Or are we just being dishonest and not actually trying to have a discussion?
osarusan
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So you're saying the act of handing a person a knife is equal to the act of stabbing someone with a knife.
I don't think you actually believe that, because it's ludicrous and illogical. I think you're just making up cute sayings in order to avoid actually addressing the subject.
This kind of dishonesty is tedious, to be frank. If this is all you're willing to contribute, then you can waste your own time.
Are you saying that you can't see any difference between, for example, farting in an elevator vs stabbing a mother's eyes out in front of their children? Or are you just being dishonest and contrarian?
If you have to choose between two evils, and you don't choose the lesser one, then you are an absolute knobhead.
The main jobs that the Japanese are happy to allow foreigners to have is mostly around teaching English.
This is not true by any stretch of the imagination, my friend. Foreigners do all kinds of jobs over here, including jobs in manufacturing, healthcare, and service. If there were a pie graph of all the jobs foreigners do, teaching English would be a teeny tiny slice.
The top five origin countries of foreign residents coming to Japan are Vietnam, China, Korea, the Philippines, and Indonesia. These people are not being employed in teaching English. The US is next, but Americans work in a lot of industries--especially IT--and not just English teaching. After that comes Thailand, Brazil, Taiwan, and Nepal to round out the top 10. Also not English teachers.
Japan’s population density is around 340/km^2 about the same as Massachusetts.
What you’re describing is a lack of sprawl, which is a good thing unless you try to cram cars into it.
The only real problem you’ve identified is an increase in car ownership. This takes massive amount of space away from people and makes infrastructure like sidewalks necessary where previously people could just walk along the road safely.
This is like "Tell me you've never been to Japan without saying you've never been to Japan."
I suggest coming here and seeing for yourself before you say Japan is like Massachusetts or that there is a lack of urban sprawl. This is so far from an accurate description of reality.
Bingo. This is the problem we should be working to solve, rather than trying to convince women to squeeze out babies they don't want to have or can't afford to have. We need to come up with plans to address the changing facts, not desperately try to salvage a status quo that no longer exists.
Japan is massively overcrowded. This population decline is only a bad thing if you look at population in terms of capitalism: growth growth growth!
Houses here are tiny, people don't have yards, most places don't even have sidewalks. Parking is a huge issue, especially as more families own multiple cars. Newly constructed houses often have more parking space than floorspace.
Instead of trying to come up with newfangled ways to raise the population, what we should really be doing is preparing for a future with a smaller population. The population decline is not a permanent trend; it is a correction resulting from overpopulation.
grumble grumble Look at this big pharma scheme that allows people to live longer! grrrr I'd rather die from cancer than let big pharma take my hard-earned dollars!
It helped that Discovery was such garbage, and the Pike/Enterprise plotline showed us what could have been instead of what was. SNW was the show we wanted when all we had was Discovery. And now it's great to see that they seem to have recovered that lost magic.
People wearing the mask of "moderate" are usually carrying a shield for the alt-right.
Very true. Whatever we can say about Discovery, they did give this one to us.