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Thats better sounding than I thought but change will never come from the top and will never last when global capitalism exists. Sustainable socialism is only possible through revolution. Libertarian Socialism is really the only form of socialism consdiering socialism is workplace democracy and worker ownership.
It's worth noting who founded the LDP. After selling out Tojo and other militant leaders, men like Kishi Nobusuke (Abe Shinzo's grandfather) formed the party and have basically ruled and violently squashed democratic movements.
The funny thing about anime and some games coming out of Japan is that they’re critiques of Japanese society. Even something like One Punch Man has messages about the failure of Japanese society
I know... and i dont even watch that much animé, it's just sooooo obvious, like you say. But hey, just try to explain that to a north American nionalist weeb.
@@andrewsmith8715 They have to pretzel themselves to defend it, like John Doyle on "NeoGastonism," and Tim Pool's attempt to explain why he liked "Don't Look Down."
All americans see is "good animation, funny reaction faces, and boobs" while seeing none of the critiques of society. Same with shows like Gurren Lagann (the villains embrace stagnation), Dragon Maid (same-sex families), or Assassination Classroom (the ruthless nature of the education system).
It’s so weird that people like Jontron advocate against multiculturalism and immigration when he wouldn’t be living in the United States if we didn’t have those things, considering he’s Iranian and his family migrated fairly recently. Maybe he should put his money where his mouth is and move back to his Iranian homeland if he wants homogeneous societies.
Its kinda sad whenever I see immigrants from any background (especially latinos because I'm Mexican) not want other people from their country to be give the hope to their lives better that they were given
Its so obvious in the Metal Gear series the creator (Kojima) is an anti-capitalist. To the point, as a young kid playing the game & not yet a leftist. The plot sometimes made me uncomfortable as it very much pointed out American imperialist policy and its detrimental effects on the world. Edit: Yes, he is foremost anti-imperialist.But the game SPECIFICALLY is centered around American imperialism which revolves around capitalism. Which is why i say he is also anti-capitalist
My first exposure to the Metal Gear series was Twin Snakes in 2010 I know the fans don't like that version. But I was not prepared for Nuclear deterrence, MUF, Black Projects, Genetic Engineering, gulf war syndrome. This game was ahead of its time in story telling.
"The unenlightened masses They cannot make the judgment call Give up free will forever Their voices won’t be heard at all Display obedience While never stepping out of line And blindly swear allegiance Let your country control your mind (Let your country control your soul) Live in ignorance And purchase your happiness When blood and sweat is the real cost Thinking ceases, the truth is lost Don’t you worry You’ll be told exactly what to do I give my people the lives they need The righteous will succeed" Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, 2013
@@MrLFJ7 absolutely amazing storytelling and theme/plot from the jump. I'm old so I go all the way back to the very 1st edition on NES, way back! Still my favorite one lol
Anti-capitalist? More like anti imperialism, Imperialism is notwhere exclusive to the capitalist west, as it has been also practiced by socialist powers, namely USSR, Cuba, East Germany and China now.
"Low crime rate" -> Yeah, legal processes in Japan used to be so cumbersome and tedious, it was easier to settle disputes by hiring the yakuza. Also in a society that is heavily focused on personal shame, people often would not go to the police and press charges.
Also if you get accused, your ass is certainly going to jail (the Persona 5 line of 99% success rate for prosecutions is not a bluff, it is in fact what inspired the Phoenix Wright series).
You also need to consider that the conviction rate is like in the 90% tier. Ergo, it is an unjust system that practically find everyone guilty. Specially foreigners accused of "something". If you are White, for example. Getting arrested is a bit harder in Japan, but if you get arrested. Which doesnt come down to the minor offense done, but more of how one behave around the police (which is NOT just being submissive and such, rather the middle ground of such). You give a "wrong vibe" according to them. You get arrested. You get arrested you are found guilty regardless.
Like there's abunch of english speakers who are currently living in japan who have started youtube channels that have outline how bonkers the system is, how hard it is to get something to qualify as sexual harassments in japan and how much the gov just "looks away" from alot of the issues to look good There's this loli meme that is always posted by (totally not pedoshitters guys) loli twitter users that keeps being shared around, where it depicts stats in japan to the uk regarding pedophilia (you can guess which is depicted as a shithole) in a political comic form. and occasionally someone from japan will always point out that western countries have far stricter laws regarding what qualifies as sexual harassment , yes even if that involves underage girls. Reading non-natives talk about japan while in japan is quite enlightening, most of them aren't concerned playing PR for the country
Japanese Twitter users quite literally weaponized cancel culture until Hana Kimura was forced to commit sewerslide over her being slightly disrespectful to one of her fellow actors on live TV Edit: damn it Susan you're really not going to let me say the real word aren't you
I think it's interesting how much anime and manga influence the way Westerners look at Japan. While those media do a good job of portraying Japanese culture in a whimsical and attractive light, they also feature a lot of criticisms and subtle commentaries on Japan that are lost on the average Western viewer. In a way, it's similar to how foreigners view America through the lens of Hollywood movies. Everything looks cool and exciting, until you actually go to America and see for yourself how broken the politics are and how dysfunctional the society is.
Yeah as a Canadian kid watching Hollywood movies and American TV shows, I was sometimes jealous of Americans and wished I lived there. Now I am very glad I didn't grow up in the US and would never want to live there.
Psycho pass is pretty critical and dystopian, but then the director isnt afraid to go there. But still has to be a dig, and th reason why i ffind th way the chinese social score system, is terrifying. Bu its likely digging at japan too. There is shimoneta which is probably to real in th u often, but about how 1984 in a high school in sex ed, and trrsts, there i also the relative common having sympathic trrsts in general in anime that ar reasonable for the most part. Yeah a lot of creators arent that subtile either.
As a leftist weeb it's been kind of... obnoxious lately because i've seen a lot of westerners finally become aware of the JCP solely because one of them commented on regulating lolicon and right wingers have pushed this idea that they want to destroy and censor art and it's become painfully widespread
It's funny how the right accuses the left of being pedophiles and sexualizing children, when this is an example of the left taking a much harder stance against pedophilia.
This isnt a surprise, isekai is a format that really puts japans horrendous views of women on display, with many protagonists deciding that its ok to make women their slaves because it would be rude to not follow the customs of this strange place, or an older protagonist being "forced" to marry a 13yr old, and lets not forget 'hareme' a whole genre dedicated to the opposite sex serving you unconditionaly with quite servere differences in power dynamic between female harems and male harems. And who do we think are the first westerners to jump to the defense of these ideals? The same people who not a few comments later will display nationalistic repressive alt right opinions.
@@atomosvrial1708 I would disagree with the harem take, most of more popular manganimes of that genere are about the protagonist being a sucker to a bunch of women (Love Hina first example that comes to mind), unless if the protagonist is a woman or gay in which case tends to be the other way around.
The Communist movement in Japan is no joke. It has a very radical and strong Communist students' organisation called Zengakuren who made the Antifa look like the Hare Krishnas. Back in the 70s and 80s, Zengakuren along with the peasants engaged in literal battles with the Japanese police over the building of the Narita airport and the agrarian conflict that arose from it (It is known as the Sanrizuka Struggle). In the 1970s, they literally erected a fortress, dug tunnels and built towers on the airport land as a defense mechanism and engage in medieval-style battles with the police. They also managed to storm the actual airport itself, ransacking the ATC tower. That was in the 1970s. In 1985, another battle broke, this time the students managed to broke into the police barricade by making a charging line with logs. It was crazy. A documentary about the Sanrizuka Struggle: ruclips.net/video/pe2JrZDDdNI/видео.html The 1985 riot: ruclips.net/video/eXjd7GkHKfU/видео.html
Didn't their leader got killed on television somewhere around the 80s followed by a chain of attacks from the Yakuza which the government conveniently turned a blind eye and eventually died out as a political parties?
Western right-wing groups that view Japan as a perfect model country is just so laughable to me, this is coming from a Japanese person who moved out of that hellhole. And Hideo Kojima is viewed in Japan as left-wing, so much so that he's insulted by local nerds as embracing gaijin culture when he's simply educated in western progressive politics.
japan: "hey guys let's do 12/7!" most normal people: "bro wtf :/" right-wing western weebs: " it sounds PERFECT!" sidenote: wikipedia says NOTHING about this problem, makes it sound like since the law is: "8 hours, 5days" that's what happens...
@@kelkil79 You realize there were BLM protests in Japan right? Ngl its kinda funny watching nationalistic americans bend over backwards shit on their country just to spite minorities lol
@@kelkil79 You think riots make or break a country? How about lack of rights for women? Rape and sexual violence aren't reported? If a woman fights back against her rapists, she can get charged for assault? Low pay for a 12 hour job 7 days a week, no vacations? Corporate hierarchy are so strict here that your boss is entitled to abuse you? Criminals are guilty until proven innocent, so false arrest percentages are high? But sure, to answer your question, YES riots DO happen. Just because you don't see it in mainstream media doesn't mean it's not happening. Just last year we had ultrantionalist racists who rioted and want to drive Chinese, Korean, Filipino immigrants out.
I live in Japan, the Communist party is fairly social democratic rather than communist. They’re also the only party in Japan under surveillance by the Japanese secret service (public security intelligence agency). Even the fascist parties don’t get that treatment here. There’s a coalition between the opposition party and the Communist party but the LDP gets too many votes from vast elderly population. The left is rising in votes very very slowly though.
Brittany the supposed "left-wing host" from politically provoked praised Japan for it's homogeneity in a debate with xanderhal the other day. She completely capitulated with the slightest push back but it's true that all these groypers have anime profile pictures and are obsessed with Japan in general.
And anime is progressive you have many type of LGBTQ+ representation even back to sailor moon or high school DXD one of the characters is a trans got introduced in S2 or S3 and cowboy bebop have a very diverse world and it of kind of woke and you see harem protagonist in anime sometimes where a guy or girl get surrounded by multiple people who are interested in them and in while anime still problem yeh right ignore the more woke or leftist as aspects of anime
A lot of it is straight up misconceptions. People used to have all these racist stereotypes about Asians that made them seem stupid and dangerous. Then they switched up for a new set of nicer sounding racist stereotypes that make them all sound like geniuses who created utopia
They all need a soulshattering scolding, beat up and then heartful, welcoming hug afterwards.🔥 Would be nice if it was that easy but Social media pushes our society into extreme directions.🙁
@@johannesstephanusroos4969 The actual point of 4 chan was discussing anime stuff but because the community festered with instable and kinda scummy people and was largely(there are actually decent people on 4chan because they regulated themselves) kept unchecked. That's why their communities became a horrific toxic Mutant which will always seek validation through faulty means. It's a breathing tragedy.
@@novelty_thief All I heard was that you can't take humour with a pinch of salt, and get more out of being unhappy/bitter/triggered. Please correct me if I'm wrong
As a Japanese person, I want to shed some light on this topic a bit. Firstly, I am a first-generation born and raised in Japan. My parents immigrated from Bangladesh. I now live and work in the US, so in a lot of ways, this relates to me. "Japan is ethnically homogenous." This is absolutely not true. So firstly, the 98% stats isn't about ethnicity. It's about nationality and citizenship. There is no such thing as the "Japanese ethnicity" and the Japanese census does not keep data based on ethnic backgrounds. This is really important for a few key reasons. This means that if someone like my parents become a citizen, then they would be counted as part of that 98%. So under that definition, I would be part of that 98% even if I am not of Yamato, Ryukyuan, Ainu, or any other ethnicities typically associated with Japan. This would be like saying America is ethnically homogenous because 93% of people living in America hold American citizenship. This is why when right-wingers attempt to mention the 98% stats it's important to counteract that and debunk such a claim. If citizenship is the metric for homogeneity then almost every country on the planet would be homogenous. But right-wingers seem to think that one, "Japanese" is an ethnic group, and Two, that the stat measures ethnicity. Both of these claims are false. The concept of Japanese and what it means is literally written into the constitution. Specifically the Article 14. Japanese is not an ethnic group but rather a nationality. In terms of ethnic groups, the majority ethnic group in Japan is Yamato but even within Yamato, there are sub-ethnic groups, and the gathering of all mainlanders as Yamato is also somewhat arbitrary. Today, besides the Far-Right, no one uses Yamato and Japanese interchangeably, and ironically enough, I see more foreigners outside of Japan do this more than Japanese people themselves. Japan also does not keep stats on immigrants the same way as other countries do. For instance, in the US you will still be counted as an immigrant after you get American citizenship but in Japan, the two categories we have to this topic are "Foreign Workers" and "Native Workers". Once you have Japanese citizenship, you are counted as a "Native Worker" rather than a foreign worker. This also contributes to the myth of Japanese homogeneity because Western Media will often conflate the "foreign workers" variable with immigrants or use those terms interchangeably and this leads to the idea that Japan has very few immigrants as well. In terms of the actual data. Japan does not keep official data on immigrants or how many immigrants become citizens themselves. But I can talk about my anecdotal experience here and please keep that in mind that this is an anecdote rather than a statistical claim. I grew up in a fairly average Japanese town. Not too small and not too big. Even then 5 of my classmates out of 25 classmates either were immigrants themselves or had immigrant parents. This was in the early 2000s when Japan's immigration was much more strict as well. In bigger cities like Tokyo, Osaka, or Kobe, you will find far larger immigrant communities. Most of whom are either in the process of going through naturalization or already have gone through naturalization. Of course, if you go to rural areas, it tends to be far less friendly towards immigrants but the idea that even smaller cities and towns are unfamiliar with immigration is no longer true (if it was ever true in the first place. At the very least, Japan has made a huge stride in terms of immigration and immigrant acceptance.
Does that mean that Japan is more heterogeneous than the US or Canada? No, I don't think so. At least not yet but we are steadily catching up over time if the country continues with the current trend. But I guess it also depends on how you define heterogeneity. Firstly, Japan was never homogeneous, to begin with as there are multiple ethnic groups with their own languages, traditions, and customs already. Secondly, even among the mainlanders, Japan is extremely diverse in terms of culture and language. For instance, certain dialects of Japanese are unintelligible to each other even today. Most Japanese people outside of the Kanto region have to learn at least two different dialects. One for their local dialect and one that is the standardized Japanese often spoken in Tokyo and the surrounding regions. Standardization of Japanese was also a pretty recent phenomenon as well, as, before that, the vast majority of people spoke in their local dialects. For example, I speak the Kansai dialect because I grew up in the Kansai region but I also speak standardized Japanese as that is the Japanese that we used in school. But generally speaking, people from Kansai (especially people in my generation) are more comfortable with their local dialect when speaking to each other. Another argument that I hear is the "Japan is more united than (insert country here)" and once again, this is just wrong, depending on the county you are talking about. I can just compare with the US because I'm familiar enough with the US to make this comparison. In the US for example, people are a lot more patriotic. People unironically think that America is the best country on the planet and there are American flags everywhere. But Japan isn't like that at all. Firstly, I've only seen the Japanese flag in Japan twice in my life. And the vast majority of normal Japanese people (I mean normal in the sense that they aren't politically far-right or far-left) don't think Japan is the best country. In fact, they're largely neutral to Japan. This is once again very different from the US where I think Americans are expected to be patriotic by default. The Japanese flag ironically enough does not have a good reputation in Japan as a lot of far-right groups like Uyoku use them in their marches. In contrast, I think that most Japanese people of immigrant background are proud to be Japanese (though I admit, I am using my anecdotal experience for this one. You see, unlike the US, Japan does not offer dual citizenship. So when an immigrant is naturalized, they have to make the decision of denouncing their old citizenship. As such. most immigrants do feel attached to Japan in my experience. Japanese people, especially in the communal sense are also far more community-oriented than the US. In that, we don't really think about the federal government but rather are too occupied with local issues. Part of that is because Japan is far more communal than the US is and part of that is because most people in Japan tend to stay in one area unless they really have to move to another place because of work. Japan also has had a history of fighting over each other and that rivalry is still present today. For instance, people in Kansai feel very strongly about their Kansai background. All in all, it's misleading to say that Japan is more united than the US or any other country. For one, I don't even know how to measure that and for two, in my anecdotal experience, there is as much disunity among Japanese people as there are among Americans. I think politically America is more polarized but in terms of cultural variations, I don't know if Americans are more or less united than Japan. Of course, I'm not saying that America doesn't have cultural diversity. Of course, it does. I'm just saying that I don't know if one can in good faith argue for more or less cultural diversity in the US. In reality, Japan is almost every other first-world country out there. It's not some homogeneous exception to rule, it's not a country that outright rejects people of different ethnic backgrounds. It's a country with a lot of problems. It's a country that is still very racist in many areas but it's a country that has made significant strides in social rights in the last few decades, including immigrant rights, LGBTQ rights and etc. Japan has the reputation of being racist and monocultural because, for the longest time, Japan has kept its ethnic minorities as second-class citizens. This is a part of history the country has to contend with but Japan has come very far from its past yet, that reputation still remains among the far-right that idolize and romanticize Japan. As for the crime rate argument, this is a little bit more complicated to explain. Japan is indeed one of the safest countries out there. It's so safe in the fact that many people don't even lock their doors and most communities (before COVID) did not have curfews for children. Children as young as 6 years old can be seen going to school with other children without adults and kids will often travel by themselves everywhere. Japan also has an extremely developed transportation system and most people don't drive because it's just easier to use the public transportation available. This is relevant because it's not uncommon to see kids just travel places by themselves or go to any part of their town or city by themselves without adult supervision. But the reason why people can do this has to do with a bunch of complicated factors. One, as previously mentioned, Japan is extremely communal. Most Japanese people, grow up with the same people from kindergarten to high school I have personally known most of my friends in Japan since kindergarten for instance. During that time, we pretty much do everything together. From going on regular trips to even live together, bathing together in public baths, knowing each other's parents as our own families, these are all things that are true for most people growing up in Japan. For instance, both of my parents were blue-collar workers and they worked long shifts but even without my parents, I'd just often go to school by myself, pick up my brother from school, cook, clean, and do all of the housework since I was like 8 years old. Japanese schools also promote these types of practices as we have home ec classes, from elementary school and onwards where we learn to cook, clean, sew, and do other important life skills from the beginning of our childhood. As a result, we grow extremely respectful towards the community we group up in while being self-sustaining at the same time. These are things that prevent criminality in Japan. After all, why would you commit a crime against someone, if you know them as you would a family member? I know a lot of Americans say that they are close to their neighbors or something but it's nothing like the levels we experience in Japan. And this is pretty much the default in all communities. This communal reliance combined with Japan's systemic policies that are great in teaching life skills from early on does absolutely contribute to our lower crime rate. And as a fairly well-traveled person, I haven't seen many nations adopt similar policies as Japan. And the other factor is that when crime does happen, Japanese people are far more reluctant to report that crime. All of which has nothing to do with ethnicity. You can replicate this system with any ethnic group and you would have the same effects. I know because I and many others are a result of that system and we were equally attached to our communities. For example, when my parents had a problem with their citizenship our whole town came together to protect my parents. Of course, this doesn't mean Japan isn't racist. Outside of one's community especially if the community is rural, you will face far more racism. The one thing about Japanese racism is that it's the subtle kind where you can't really tell that people are being racist towards you unless you know the language and culture so lots of foreigners think Japanese people are being nice when they are being racist as well. I faced racism, not within my community but once I visited the larger cities where I didn't know people. And ironically enough, I also faced racism from Europeans and American far-righters who keeps insisting that Japan won't ever accept me when in fact, Japan has since my birth. I don't want to give the wrong impression of Japan. But Japan is a complicated country with complicated problems. In terms of immigration, even the right-wing majority party has been supportive of more immigration reforms over time. This isn't because they are trying to be nice to immigrants but because even they understand that Japan isn't sustainable without immigration.
@@user-vu7ls1vm9h You should make videos or blogs discussing these topics. Way too good of interesting and useful information to just leave in a RUclips comment.
Please define alt-Right. Seems like Leftists define plain Conservatives as far- or alt-, when we just want to be left alone. The overwhelming majority of Right folks are not extreme or reactionary, just sick of being pushed around, or in a direction
@@ExtremeMadnessX You're missing the point (and didn't even answer my question...), if you push Conservatives, they will become radicalized. You are creating the alt-Right, we just want to be left alone
@@johannesstephanusroos4969 words have meaning and he said 'alt-right', although the republican party overwhelmingly supports the 2nd amendment they don't overwhelmingly glorify japan asaik.
@@johannesstephanusroos4969 also most leftists also just want to be left alone and not have some crooks decide that our futures are directly tied to our zip codes, go in huge debt to not die and have religious zealots take away our bodily autonomy by outlawing abortion.
Yes Japan looks good on a surface level but a lot of people don’t realize how brutal the work culture is let alone the hard core anti individualist ideology Japan has.
hate to say it, but we could use a bit of that in america for the pandemic at least..not the work culture (because that is one of the few reasons i wouldn't live, at least as a salary man in japan) but jeezes christ we need the collectivist nature of working together
I always wanted to become a mangaka when I was a young weeb but when I saw the work schedule of a jump mangaka I was beyond shocked. And that they also stigmatize mental health issues and of course the bullying problem (Ijime) which continues even at work places. So yeah...
The work culture looks bad even in the most positive and romanticized videos cause there's always talk about being respectful to superiors and maintaining the hierarchy.
Being a left wing weeb gets pretty tiresome when you encounter the worst, and often loud, parts of the wider anime and manga community as described in the vid. Also, kinda related side note, but the UK con scene has a serious problem with grooming that hasn't really been addressed. I've seen convicted sex offenders get into cons by just wearing a mask and even without that. It's beyond fucked up.
Tbh, for me nowadays a weeb by default is right wing. Even among my own friends, they are otherwise left or center, but then when it comes to an anime issue, like Uzaki Chan they take right wing stances.
@@Drownedinblood we must run in different circles then, because all my weeb friends are either left wing or left leaning, including not making allowances for dodgy shit.
The hard line communists in japan are extremely awesome for their commitment towards pacifism. The german left during the 50s and 60s had similar concerns in that regard. (The history of the left in japan and in germany has some rather fascinating parallels.) Sadly, during the 80s, here in germany, US secret services and some thinkers from american universities tried to change the pacifist stance of the german left and many parts of it became pro war. (The most extreme case is the german green party which started as a pacifist party and now advocates for an almost neocon foreign policy. And this former pacifist party was the one which started the first military involvement of germany in another country since the second world war.) In the party of "Die Linke" (the most left leaning party in the german parliaments), there is an ongoing struggle between older more pacifist communists and stupid pro USA/pro NATO goons. The most famous person vocally opposed against these pro NATO goons is Sarah Wagenknecht. Her faction also wants to close US military bases in germany. Especially Ramstein (like the band name, but with only one "m"). The US Military bases in germany also hava special significance because they are on a lattitude which makes it possible to access the satellites controlling the drones in the middle east. Thus, much of the drone war in the middle east is controlled via germany. This is another reason why the real left in germany (and portions of the german new right) want the US army to leave, but sadly, pro nato goons on both the left and the far right prevented that. Because of that situation in germany, the japanese far left pacifism is extremely admireable.
while it is admiral that they want to be pacifist imo that a bit a privilege position to have when you are not the main target of capitalism imperialism. As far as land dispute that something they going to have to work out. North Korea is concerned they need the nuke Otherwise without china being next door and having nukes south Korea along with US and NATO would have invaded a long time ago that the benefits of having a powerful ally and WMD
Pretty much all. I mean, there are still a lot of women fundamentalist christians or muslim and advocating for their fantasies to be submitted to by all because letting someone else do the thinking for you and having no equal rights is good, somehow, so I'm told. So, apparently, being a victim is sometimes a reason to tell others to become one as well, instead of for warning against it, which would be the loving and non abusive thing to do.
introduction of women into the workforce literally destroyed Japan's living standard and birthrates. Courtesy of Beat Sorita, MacArthur's appointee. Do you know what happens when you double the workforce? Wages are cut in half, just like what has been happening in the US since the 60s. No one in Japan can afford to raise kids or has the time for it because of the insanely long work hours and poor salaries. It doesn't help that most women are career women and have the same exact issue as men. Obviously, women in the workforce are not the only issue, things like the Plaza accord have to do with it too, but its undeniable. What do corporations and employers love more than anything? Obedience. They have taken note of this and have favored women recently due to their submissiveness and will less likely demand fair pay and strike out.
@@user-pn3im5sm7k Does it bother you that you are no longer the main source of income for the companies, that they have decided that to move away from what you want and now do these woke things because they have seen that you have shrunk and the other has grown in size?
@@jay7568 Also why there are so few anime based on adult life except the oldschool ones, even anime based on college life are few and far between. Their lives as an individual ends after highschool.
Some people like to forget what JonTron said and did, but I'm not one of those people. He's funny, talented but probably a fascist who wants an ethno state.
Yeah that's why I can't watch his videos. I haven't watched any of his new stuff in a long time, but knowing his political opinions sucks all the humor out of his writing for me. He IS talented at what he does, he's always been a funny guy, but goddamn I can't stomach watching an ethnonationalist's youtube videos
I think people are confusing anime with real life Japan. Maybe they do this intentionally maybe they aren't maybe they're doing it for nefarious reasons. To be fair I used to also fantasize about Japan until I started learning about Japan lol They have awful work-life balance and we often see articles about how people in their twenties die after working 100 hours a week or something crazy. They embody the 996 model popularized by Jack ma of Alibaba fame. Their work-life balance is why they are disappearing as a country with I think one of the highest rate of young adults who are not having children. I think their population even shrunk from 128 million to 120 million not that long ago There is also some intense undercover mental health issue around Japan where there are a lot of teens and Young 20-year-olds who commit suicide in Japan. Chris broad who does Abroad In Japan even talked about how when he was a teacher he went to a doctor feeling a little depressed the only thing the doctor told him was to not feel so depressed lol. There was even a documentary done a couple of years back about expats who live in Japan and one of the expats..... immigrants.... Talked about how in Japan was shifting into more fascist country. They have an insane 99% conviction rate from what I heard. It was either 99% or something crazy high over 90%. Asian boss even did an interview with a beauty pageant contestant to one miss Japan and competed in Miss World and she was half Indian half Japanese and she talked about how she'd get bullied in school in Japan. And let's not even forget about Japanese refusal to apologize to Korean and Chinese woman who they used as pleasure woman during World War II What I find with the most homogeneous countries is that their happiness is fake or it's put on. Behind that's smiling mask is a very depressed population.
Also, Japan's "solution" to the population decrease is to either fill up the empty jobs with robots or to try giving an incentive to women to stay home and have kids; however, many interviews with women have shown that they either get bullied or shamed out of their workplace or that their household requires them to work due to benefits or need for extra income to stay afloat
Yeah japan has its huge problems, probably isn't a place i could live unless its in the country side..but I still do want to visit Japan, and few things from Japan I wished USA can adopt...first of all the restrooms..I suffer from paruresis, and I wish USA could adopt the public restrooms from japan..Japan seems like a godsend for Paruresis (sufferers like me..and finally, the use of masks, they actually have the decency of using masks when they get sick..its an everyday item..not just for a pandemic..You surely would not get frowned upon earing a mask in Japan or in any of the countries around asia..Are those all worth maybe living there, probably not..but boy do I still wanna visit.
_"To be fair I used to also fantasize about Japan until I started learning about Japan lol"_ Haven't we all? Strong, disciplined, wise people. Amazing ancient trees that seemingly blossom 365 days a year. And the woodwork! Amazing craftsmanship and style. And then we learn things. Never meet your hero, I guess :p
Japan is nicer to visit than to live in. Though the things I found better than where i live by far are the low crime. Cleanliness and low entry level rent. There is definitely an air to not offend or to be polite but you learn that this is kinda fake and you can't tell if some people are genuine or not. This is not actually exclusive to Japan but I think with media emphasizing their politeness it became something foreign people expect and assume is exclusive.
Truthfully speaking, there is one side of the circlejerk treating Japan as this based and perfect utopian society that can do nothing wrong and another side treating Japan too much as this right-wing war-crime-glorifying authoritarian state (they are exaggerations of course). People can make a lot of claims about Japan, but the one thing they are forgetting is that Japan is not a hivemind; 100 million people still have their own individual thoughts.
Sure. Though there is something very unsettling about a country where children have to have certain hair cuts mandated by their gender category and even forced to have dark, straight hair, and if they're naturally disposed to having wavier or curlier hair, they must carry a medically certified exemption. It is *extremely* authoritarian in many fundamental ways that many in the West see as their basic day to day liberties, and often take for granted. The problem here is that both the right and the left just see it for its eccentric anime and media culture, which is heavily dominated by left leaning/anti-orthodox values that don't actually apply to life in general in Japan. What these people see as background culture in their favourite anime shows, video games and other forms of Japanese media, are a far cry from the otherwise suffocating social conditions of conformity in Japan.
@@ordohereticus3427 I mean tbh if you actually take the time out to go a bit deeper into whatever Japanese media you consume to still tend to learn a lot. You aren't lying about the almost obsessive regulation of people's bodies in schools down there. That's why, I think, the subcultures that tend to come out of Japan are so out there. Especially visually. There's a lot of micromanagement in the Japanese society that I'm super glad I don't have to navigate as an American that's for sure.
@@maybemablemaples2144 Sure, we are in agreement here. Their media cultural output is likely, at least in good part, a response/reaction to the stifling mainstream conditions with the nation’s cultural status quo. For what it’s worth, I think Japan has great things to offer when it comes to that alternative culture. It’s just a bit grating when various people in the West begin to fetishise life in Japan in general (often based off a shallow read, rather than an in-depth one, of media and entertainment culture), which is certainly not something ideal, least of all for relatively individualistic people.
It's funny because Japan is not a homogenous society like people claim. There are indigenous people of japan like the ainu and okinawans who don't even consider themselves culturally or ethnically japanese. There are also korean (zainichi) and han Chinese among other minorities in Japan. They are all discriminated against because Japan only wants to be homogenous and they have a strict culture of assimilation to the point of borderline social fascism (not quite but it's close).
I highly recommend Salari and his video about Japan! First time I watched it it made me cry... Japan is trapped in their own traditions and prejudices and the people are suffering for it! .. another thing: I just don't get how all these people seem to have this romantisized anime/manga-videogame-version of Japan but not recognizing just how often their culture is (openly or indirectly) critisized in these artforms. But on the other hand: when were right-wingers ever good at interpreting art?!?
I never understood gamers views on Kojima being a nationalist...given Metal Gear has always been on country's betraying their people with MGS3 being the big on that with the Boss on how America treated her horribly all her life and then finally betrayed her after she was loyal to America though all of it. Note: Bit of a simplification as Boss also sought Peace and changing of times but was always on the side of helping American politics.
As far as I know, this is particularly true in Japan, which has had a "one-and-a-half party" system for the past seventy years. The LDP is so huge and entrenched that it warps the entire system into apathy.
@@arskakarva7474 Apathy is a huge part of it but the LDP also benefits from structural advantages. Japan has a dominant party system because the opposition is fragmented and fractious, split between liberals, communists, and right wing breakaways from the LDP that often directly compete against each other. This is made all the more worse by Japan's electoral system, in which most seats are FPTP. So while the opposition parties frequently win more total votes, the LDP almost always sweeps the single member districts and wins a majority. It's also blatantly rigged in a way that rivals the electoral college, in that there is a huge degree of malapportionment such that urban districts have as much as twice the popukation as the rural ones that the LDP dominates. The Japanese Supreme Court has ruled this to be unconstitutional but nothing has ever been done about it.
From what I've read most Japanese, especially the youth, are very depolicized and aren't encouraged to learn about politics. I think there's even a law that curtails political organizing in universities. So the results are low turnout elections that favor the status quo.
I don't see any hope for left wing politics becoming consensus in Japan, sadly. Even with the current ethnic homogeneity, the right is firmly on top. Then once the inevitable immigration does finally begin to happen, that will only benefit the political right. They will weaponise Japanese ethnic identity as a means to destroy class solidarity. Consider how the US South used to all vote Democrat until the Civil Rights movement enfranchised Black Americans. That instantly saw white identity become the only concern for Southern whites and they all switched to voting Republican. Consider too, the "Gammon" in England, former Labour voters who switch to Tory due to ethnic identity and their neuroses over immigration. I fear this phenomenon will repeat in Japan.
Sarah Jessica Farter The US South used to vote Democrat because that was before the massive *Political Realignment* which had Dems and Reps bases switch sides. It's important to not forget that detail of American history when comparing today's political landscape with yesteryear's.
@@donnydogpiss4533 I was describing post-WW2 history. Working class Southern Whites were heavy Democrat voters during the New Deal Era but they switched to voting Republican after the Civil Rights Act was passed. The Republican party actively promoted white identity with their "Southern Strategy" and their "States' Rights" counter to Civil Rights.
@V. S. Werejester many educated people warned the children, but there they go. I don't give a damn anymore, they reap what they sow and I have no sympathy left now that COVID struck and they refuse to listen. Not voting for him (and actually voting) is going to be my badge of service to my nation.
I think what pisses me off the most is these right leaning weebs think anime is not political. Some how in there heads they think Japan is some neutral country or not even a country but some land except from societal issues like they don’t have individual people with their own thoughts. I think honestly it makes me sick because first if you aren’t stupid you can tell anime has crap ton of philosophy and social commentary even down to the slice of life and then second I almost feel like they view Japanese people not as people.
It is pretty obvious that one of the most prominent Japanese doujin developers, ZUN, is left-wing and hardcore progressive and even the author of JOJO, Hirohiko Araki, shows some elements of progressivism in his work. And that's before getting into all of Japan's anti-war works. There are just a lot of prominent left wing figures from Japan. Hell, even some conservatives over there have some left wing leanings like Yoshiyuki Tomino for instance even if some of his other views are rather toxic (though he has gotten better with it over the years). And of course, right wingers love to ignore this. Of course, even they have their rotten apples like Koichi Sugiyama, the composer for both Dragon Quest and several anime. Suffice to say, I shed no tears the day he died. As well as that author for GATE (don't know his name nor do I care, it is kinda crap even without all its right wing posturing). And seriously, what were they thinking when they let a prominent right wing and pro war figure write an entry in the heavily anti-war Gundam series.
@V. S. Werejester If you look at Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia, there are hints of his personal views via irony and satires: >The whole magazine has a staunch anti-immigration undertone, which even gone as far as extending to the several inhabitants of Gensokyo whom stayed there for a long time ·Stating that the Eientei staff is very dangerous because they are from Lunar Capital. ·Trying to defame Sumeriko for being the "frequent flyers" Outsider as well as Reimu for not being "doing her border control job" ·Wrote a conspiracy theory where Yukari is accused for plotting a "Great Reset" of Gensokyo just because there are many Outsiders going into Gensokyo. ·Purposefully twisted the narrative where the Human Village inhabitants really hated Clownpiece and Hecatia with the word "This is not Gensokyo!", despite there is no such thing happening. >There are also a few times that the newspaper hilariously made extremely conservative views that can be logic-defying and jaw-dropping in-universe: ·Literally treated Hydrogen Water as "Flammable Water" by wrongfully equating it with Petrol. ·Told readers to exterminate "Phone Neck Sickness" patients with Sekibanki as an "Evidence Pic",but in fact she is just twerking around her neck like a snake while reading a book. ·Incite readers to being hostile on the "immigrants",like distrusting or shunning them despite them being living there for some time and actually doing nice things. >Exposes the hectic workstyle in Gensokyo (well RL Japan is kinda the same so....) ·Kasodani's monthly overwork time is about 140 hours, which is 4-5 overwork time per day, if we add it to the 8 hour worktime, that means she works 12-13 hours every day. ·It is implied that the Tengu Community's work is also very hectic. _In the present day, where these readers have a routine of complementing their own thoughts through this practice, there is a widespread trend toward the repeated spread of exciting, negative news stories. Flooding an online post with comments is just one example. So, we are frequently drawn down the emotional, reactionary path. It feels like nowadays, this is influencing us not just on an individual level, but on a country-wide one._ -----excerpt from ZUN's afterword in AFiEU.
@Joseph Krystek-Walton Naw, the dude that wrote Gundam Unicorn writes right-wing nationalism novels, here is a quote from a new york times article on him that best describes his stuff. "Now 36, Mr. Fukui has to his name a handful of best sellers whose common themes -- postwar Japan's mistaken path, its wounded pride, the sense of stagnation today and the need for a virile military -- resonate in a country shedding its pacifism and rearming itself."
I've been living in Japan for almost 2 decades and it's absolutely hilarious seeing far-right weebs and their comically bad fantasies about how Japan is, vs how it really is.
This is from someone whose never been to Japan but has interacted with the local Japanese community quite a bit, but through that interaction it has always seemed at least to me that Japan is super conservative and super capitalist, kinda like current day South Korean. So wouldn’t that actually be appealing to far-right weebs?
@@Zom13y I agree with what you just said, zomby. They are conservative but it’s odd because conservatives don’t tend to be the greatest artists and I think Japanese are creative af for being conservative.
@@Zom13y It's hyper-capitalist, but that's the main reason Japan is so miserable: they're pushed to be hard-working, unquestioning workers that get treated like doormats by their bosses.
@@thejapanarchocommunist Sure. However communism in any variety is not a Japanese ideology, and neither is Western capitalism. Be courteous as a foreigner/guest and don't try to change the host's home. This is how we got into this mess in the first place.
@@user-pn3im5sm7k First off, I hate this "you're a guest" mentality; I'm not a guest, I've been living here for years. Also, the Ainu predate the Japanese by a LOOOOONG time, yet I never hear people saying the Japanese referred to as "guests" to the Ainu, or that they should conform to Ainu standards. Second off, while it *is* a Western idea, its one that the JCP and other strains of leftists decided to adapt. No one forced that idea onto them, and the history of communist/anarchist thought in Japan is both rich and interesting. This idea that we shouldn't try to improve people's lives and instead stick with harmful social institutions is so ridiculous it doesn't even warrent a proper response.
They have a huge labor crisis because their immigration policies are so strict. Like they have crazy deficit spending and MMT policies. Other states in America have tried restrict immigration policies and it ended up crippling the economy because like chapelle said, “Americans don’t wanna work that hard for low prices”
True, but the flip side is that immigrant labor drives wages down - why hire a local for a job when a desperate immigrant will do it for half the price? The reality is that wages have been stagnant since the 1970s while the cost of living has skyrocketed - address this issue and you will have no issues filling jobs (with or without immigrants).
@kiwikemist 'enslaves the youth to work all day everyday in exchange for a hole in the wall studio apartment while also expecting them to magically dupe their $ and create families' nice one capitalist nationalists
@@wilberwhateley7569 the data for immigrants driving wages down or keeping them stagnant is very scant, what has been more strongly linked is actually rates (and political representation) of unionisation, with low rates being linked to lower wage growth, and higher rates with stronger wage growth.
@@HaloDrwhoSG1SGASGU 1. There’s plenty of evidence for immigration driving down wages - just look at who’s filling all those agricultural jobs that pay less than minimum wage: were they not there, agricultural companies would be forced to raise wages to attract labor. Keep in mind that many of those immigrants are undocumented and thus won’t unionize (they don’t want to risk being deported). 2. I am not blaming the immigrants themselves for this situation - they are just acting on their best interests in a labor market that’s stacked against them. I blame the corporate entities that exploit them for cheap labor and a corrupt government that stirs up foreign conflicts that ruin the economic structures of foreign lands (forcing large segments of the population to immigrate)!
Hi Kavernacle. Hope you get to read this. I am an oldie leftie (69) living in Japan. Liked and subscribed to your channel for a while now. Because of my age I don't understand some of your cultural references e.g. about computer games. I just want to thank you for your section about the Japanese Communist Party. It is easy to stereotype Japan as being conservative and right wing. I have lived here since 2012 and I can tell you that the truth is more nuanced than that. There is certainly a gender gap and a generation gap. As in other countries most people who vote are older and more conservative. The trouble here as in other countries is that most young people don't bother to vote. The voting rate here is pathetic, not much over 50%. If voting here was compulsory, as it is in Australia (a successful multicultural society) the results would be quite different. My Japanese wife always votes for the Japanese Communist Party. Japan is definitely not an economically libertarian society. In some ways it is even socialistic, with its government funded health system, excellent public transport and free, clean public toilets everywhere etc. Japanese society is slow to change but recently they have opened up their immigration acceptance a little. I myself today have just had my partner visa accepted (up until now I was on a professor visa) so this evening I am celebrating!
what these people do not understand is that in japan you can't really be an individual, you have to blend in as one of the normal people. Etc. Basically, there's no freedom there. As far as I know. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Yes we most definitely can. Also did you know Mads is a Slavboo. He just watches nothing but Balkan memes and I'm pretty sure that's all they talk about.
Funnily enough the Yakuza are apparently on their last legs and are getting replaced by more violent and more scattered groups, Let's ask Shogo made a really interesting video about, I'd also recommend watching the videos about chikan and the treatment of minorities.
@@Finnboy-ml5jv I'm not that far into the Yakuza series, so I don't know. Interestingly Yakuza zero and like a dragon actually touches upon quite a few of Japan's societal issues, but without actually glorifying the Yakuza.
@@justinbremer2281 Your reply is funny, not because of how likely some of these folks will say that, but also that at least 1000 people in Japan CAN speak proper English. I mean, there's over 100 million people in Japan, no doubt a fair bit of them speak English. They're HEAVILY inspired by the American media that came before AND after WW2.
On topic of japan and immigration. Japan has extremely harsh border controls and you need to submit a lot of personal data and make yourself trackable for the authorities to be even allowed into the country. ( One interesting fact which is rather funny in hindsight: In 2018, me and other tourists entering the country also had to undergo a certain test which might indicate wether you are infected with a Coronavirus.) There were tons of policemen in the room monitoring all. Compared to japan, the border controls here in germany are ridiculously lax. There were more migrants than right wingers often claim. Many from sub saharan africa. Interestingly, when I went to japan, I almost never saw migrants from muslim countries (just once). Many migrants I saw worked in Kabukicho (If you are a gamer, you know this neighborhood under the name Kamarucho in the Yakuza games). These were my impression.
3:42 Japan still discriminates against Burakumin (they’re “ethnically Japanese”) and that doesn’t even get into how they treat the Ainu, native okinawans, established korean descendants, “hafus”. Part of the reason they had their own BLM solidarity marches was because police beat a Kurdish man.
Just in the Jontron part, and right off the bat, you know you're making the exact wrong argument for them, right? Bringing up xenophobia and anti-immigrant sentiment is an obvious red flag for a lefty, but a righty absolutely revels in those two aspects. If you want to debate a righty, you would go along the lines of Destiny. Show how their severe homogeneity and cultural isolationism/exclusion leads to an aging population, "herbivore males," and the loss of freedom of expression. Their ultranationalist parties may seem appealing to freaks and "a bit much" to those who don't understand their ideals to be nazi-adjacent, but bring in the shit where part of that identity is absolute submission to hierarchy. The lack of free expression and submission to elders due to social concerns leads to the highest suicide rates in the world. Nationalist, far right-wing conservative politicians calling for war in conquest (seriously, read the lyrics to the first Attack on Titan opening... I knew that artist was a nationalist for years before having it comfirmed just last month). You need to give them negatives that impact THEM. Lack of diversity is a GOAL to the right, so don't use that in rebuttal. Instead, tell them about black companies and 13-hour workdays, six days a week, and the competitive nature of their rigid job structure (complete with only being able to take college entry exams or job hunt during annual "seasons," like some kind of football draft). Tell them about monthly salaries, rather than weekly. Talk about how the society generally accepts everyone to be two-faced, as no one should offer dissenting opinions, nor express their real opinions. *Japan is the **_ultimate_** PC culture.* Because your regular-ass, "lazy" American would be given pause by all that shit. They might fall back and "well, that's why we're saying this is the greatest country on Earth! You'd rather live here, right?" And then you could say "hey, *you* were the one that brought up Japan as a model and didn't know anything about it... other than the race makeup."
Sean Darbe _"Show how their severe homogeneity and cultural isolationism/exclusion leads to an aging population, "herbivore males," and the loss of freedom of expression."_ Well, except they aren't really all that homogenous of a society; that's a massive, popular misconception/mischaracterization being extrapolated by people who don't really know what they're talking about or are just confused. To be fair, only in the last few years was I made acutely aware of the fact that it's actually just a popular misconception and in no way tells the full story. Japan's population/society is much more complex than some people (especially Right-Wingers with an agenda fueled through confirmation bias and ignorance) will have you believe. We shouldn't meet them halfway on ignorant arguments/points that have little factual merit. Just because these Right-Wingers personally *think* that Japan is severely homogenous, doesn't mean it's true. "Japanese" isn't an ethnicity, but rather it's a nationality (much like "American" isn't an ethnicity) and the Japanese government counts their citizenry is actually full of numerous ethnic divergences between different peoples. Here, I'll just share an actual Japanese commenter's insight: "Japan is ethnically homogenous." This is absolutely not true. So firstly, the 98% stats isn't about ethnicity. It's about nationality and citizenship. There is no such thing as the "Japanese ethnicity" and the Japanese census does not keep data based on ethnic backgrounds. This is really important for a few key reasons. This means that if someone like my parents become a citizen, then they would be counted as part of that 98%. So under that definition, I would be part of that 98% even if I am not of Yamato, Ryukyuan, Ainu, or any other ethnicities typically associated with Japan. This would be like saying America is ethnically homogenous because 93% of people living in America hold American citizenship. This is why when right-wingers attempt to mention the 98% stats it's important to counteract that and debunk such a claim. If citizenship is the metric for homogeneity then almost every country on the planet would be homogenous. But right-wingers seem to think that one, "Japanese" is an ethnic group, and Two, that the stat measures ethnicity. Both of these claims are false. The concept of Japanese and what it means is literally written into the constitution. Specifically the Article 14. Japanese is not an ethnic group but rather a nationality. In terms of ethnic groups, the majority ethnic group in Japan is Yamato but even within Yamato, there are sub-ethnic groups, and the gathering of all mainlanders as Yamato is also somewhat arbitrary. Today, besides the Far-Right, no one uses Yamato and Japanese interchangeably, and ironically enough, I see more foreigners outside of Japan do this more than Japanese people themselves.
@@kevinmclarkey621 I am fully aware. But in this context, he is taking a left position against Jon. I'll bet that's why he garners a bit past basic respect.
@@donnydogpiss4533 I understand, but it's irrelevant. There are things you cannot help, even when completely assimilating to the culture that will naturally make a decent chunk uncomfortable, such as having _any kind of tattoo, or being black OR white._ Dude, I've been following, chatting with, watching, reading and listening to expatriots from other countries... for more than a decade, now. Japan can be even worse than the US in quite a few regards. I mean shit... part of how the very society is set up is fuckin systemic abuse towards it's own people, because "it can't be helped" had been made an acceptable answer you're supposed to tell yourself as to why you're bent over a barrel.
@@Sgt-Wolf Not quite. If you can speak decent English no one will question your nationality as an American. No matter how well you speck Japanese or how much you've mastered local customs you will never be Japanese in the eyes of locals
Can you do a video on trad wives and their association with the far right aka Mrs Midwest, Robyn Riley etc. I find them super interesting/sinister😋 In particular, Mrs Midwest, as she tries to hide her extreme views and pull young women in by talking about “softer things like skin care.” She has a strange obsession with Japan and South Korea too. Xx
Yes, it's very sinister, especially when they're obsessed with East Asia (except China because 'China Bad' therefore 'Chinese Culture and People Bad'). We already have a long history of Asian women being seen by foreigners as being the apex of femininity and fetishising us that way, and these tradwives are just next in line to perpetuate it. Beauty norms and gender roles among East Asian cultures are so horribly strict, that the pressures Anglo and Euro cultures and nations are under (to that end) honestly pale in comparison.
The idea of Kojima being a nationalist is wild. Like seriously if you've paid any attention to a single thing his games have ever said that is just a wild thing to believe.
It is in part due to several reasons. Firstly, Japan worked with the Nazi's during the Second World War, this, combined with Japan's refusal to teach about the conflict until one reaches the university level, leads to a number of Japanese people being unaware of exactly what the Nazi's are, meaning they are ignorant of their crimes and thus, have no problem using Nazi symbology. It doesn't help that Japan's refusal to teach World War 2 history comes from the atrocities they committed, which reached the point if the Nazis weren't committing the Holocaust, then Japan would have been the worst of the Axis powers. The second is their own general lack of knowledge and understanding of literary themes. Tayna the Evil is a good example of this, as the person who wrote the story is an avowed Communist. The whole point of their work is to show that the military-industrial complex and Japan's overbearing and crushing corporate system are closely related things, if not one and the same, something that flies over most American readers' heads. Attack on Titan is another example of this lack of understanding of literary themes. Many in the alt-right cheer on Eren's genocide plan, but pay absolutely zero attention to how this isn't painted as a good thing. It literally causes an enemy mine between Eren's best friends and some of his worse enemies in an attempt to stop him from causing a mass extinction event. In one of the final chapters, another character states that the only reason this has happened is because of the hate that existed for Eren's people. That the hate they had for them ultimately created a monster ready to return that hate. The third is just simply fanservice. Not really nuanced, but it is what it is.
Funny that most weebs Nazis even tho most of popular anime is insanely left wing cowboy bebop fullmetal alchemist trigun mgs and oh yeah evanglion and Metroid
But the word has changed in the west. It’s not the original meaning about someone obsessed with Japan but more along the lines of an otaku. It’s like how people don’t use literally correctly anymore.
They also ignore the INSANELY high suicide rate in Japan. Is it still the highest in the world, or just up there? And, ironically (maybe not ironically?), some of the absolute worst sex education on the planet. Japan has a TON of issues.
@@TheNoraa890 It's just very low quality. It's not quite abstinence only, but in most cases it's close. A literal lack of information, boys are rarely taught how girls work, and girls how boys work, etc. Basically the awful depictions of hentai really are how many of those artists think it works. None of that even covers consent, which alone has issues there. Obviously I haven't gone myself, so I do not have specific details, but... yeah.....
Also they ignore the fact Japan has immigrants, Chinese, Filipinos, one of their star athletes Is half black Japanese. The fact they imported Brazilians and Peruvians of Japanese ancestors but are culturally South American, not to mention a community of ethnic Koreans who are not citizens and live in their own bubble.
I'm a huge fan of Edo period and/or feudal Japanese society, but I don't know much about modern Japan. They're still pretty damn racist, so they're not role models by any stretch of the imagination
I like some stuff from Japan, but I laugh at the idea of it being perfect. They were a brutal imperialist power that destroyed millions of lives and used "soft power" through kawaii culture to seem harmless in the present day, never apologizing for their actions. They are a xenophobic country that is so against the individual they cause people to become seriously mentally ill, and leave them to fend for themselves. I like some things from Japan, but Japan itself is horrifically imperfect.
@@Warsie that was not an apology. Unless they start paying for what they did to other countries and openly admit/teach about their real past (like the about "comfort girls") then I would consider it a decent first step.
@@sillycookie You know the Japanese government sent reparation money to comfort women right? And they do show WWII war crimes in Japanese textbooks right? Also you said "apologize" not "pay reparations or publishshit in their education system" which are two different things.
@@theangryholmesian4556 Japan offered and did provide reparations to comfort women. Also Japan dealt with all that shit in a treaty with the ROK in the 1960s. The DPRK won't negotiate with Japan (and does such fun things as abbducting Japanese to make movies for them or training spies lmao)
If anyone here is interested in more japanese left wing stuff, I would suggest you to read Kisetsu Morita manga like Black magic industry or 300 years old witch (recently made into anime).
There's not "one" Indian communist party. There are at least 3 Communist Parties of India (CPI) that I know of: CPI, CPI-M(Marxist) and CPI-M (Maoist) which is a successor of Marxist-Leninist parties and is currently a banned party engaged in guerrilla warfare against the Indian state. Additionally, there are many socialist aligned regional political parties
I am ethnic Japanese and Japanese citizen. (God I have to explain this since there are some ex-foreigner naturalized Japanese these days) We don''t want either far-left nor far-right foreigners... All we want is just to be left alone. We don't wanna get dragged in the political division happening in the western countries.
@@bootyspoon4675 yeah and most people hate socialism because it sucks. and no, I don't like capitalism either but in comparison to socialism, I would rather have capitalism. not crony capitalism or corporatism. jusst simple pure capitalism with zero government intervention, minus of course when it comes to national security and not allowing foreign rich people from questionable corrupt countries to buy private businesses or property on free democratic countries. unfortunately this is what is happening in the West. Chinese, Russian and Arab olygarchs own lots of assets in Western Europe, Australia and North America.
@@LevisH21 lmao "cronyism" and "corporatism" are just the inevitable outcome of late-stage capitalism. And then you go on to immediately describing government intervention like dude, wtf do you actually believe in? The US is far from free or democratic. You're living in a fantasy world.
Please do an episode about Polish far right politics, what happens on the border of Poland and Belarus and the 11th of November Fascist Parade in Poland
not only to me as a human, but especially to me as an austrian who is well aware of their country's history, the idea of striving towards or promoting an ethnically homogenous society is deeply disturbing
I am from Spain and I am SO interested about hearing your thoughts on the situation here, both historical and current, but of course i also hope you like it here! =^_^= have safe travels.
When I was in japan, I witnessed a left wing demo, but sadly, they were not hard line communists but what americans call liberals and they were pretty embarassing. Their leader was actually drunk during the demo (and dressed in clothing which made him look like a wannabe hitler. no joke.) They had signs with campaign slogans written in english, but full of spelling mistakes. And their campaign flyers/handouts were written in a style which was for small children. And they wanted to illustrate that japan has a racism problem by showing data, but the data about how prevalent racism was, was not about racism in japan. (And interestingly, according to their flyers, they were sponsored by the Open Society institute.)
The JCP turns 100 this year so happy Birthday Japanese Communist Party! As an American with Japanese ancestry and as a Japanese historian with far-left political leanings, of course they would be my party of choice if I ever could vote in Japanese Federal elections and I always try to talk about them whenever I can, much to the chagrin of my grandmother who is an LDP supporter and big fan of Shinzo Abe (*Barf*) Sad part is I do more to avenge her father's sacrifice than she does. (He was drafted into the army for World War 2 and died in action.) Specifically he starved to death because his superior officer hoarded all his regiment's food for himself.
Another funny thing about japan is that, during the chilean alection of december, most of the japanese voters supported the leftist candidate Gabriel Boric lmao.
And one other thing I have noticed with right wingers is that they have this weird double standard when it comes to laws and things. Like for example, Japan have very strict laws when it comes to assault then they go "that's just the way they are". Meanwhile if we go by lets say, any of the Scandinavian countries given that they are their favorite punching bag, then it is "SJW Feminist controlled communism! Arghhh!" or something to that effect.
The Communist Party of Japan is sadly unremarkable in that. It is technically a communist party but that openly opposes socialism past and present, and outright claims that only electoralism is correct and whose policies are essentially just socdem AT BEST. Like that is half the communist parties of Europe. There is a reason they, like many countries, had a Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) though it folded in 1999. One of the best examples is in Canada, with their CPC being revisionist as fuck, with a very prominent and early anti-revisionist/Hoxahist party the CPC-ML. This shit is common,Brazil has two communist parties that claim to be the oldest communist parties in their country. The Communist Party of Brazil, and the Brazilian Communist Party
I mean what you expect when they cant even grasp the message of western media either, theres still people that idolize Walter white (Heisenberg) as a genious badass that didnt settled down with a mediocre life, without grasping the toxic displays of pride, ego, agression and pettyness that led to His downfall, an obvious critic about men behaviour and mindset when It comes to family, work, etc
I hate these kinds of arguments because Far-right vs Far-Left can mean completely different things depending on the context of culture you are talking about.
The "Against Japanism" podcast is a pretty good leftist show. I especially like the "Solidarity with Palestinian Resistance" episode. You should give it a listen.
I legit expected to hear about how Westerners love Japan because they love anime. Then I was struck with the revelation that they just want to live their lives without ever seeing a non-white person again. 😐
Honestly I just automatically 👍 every time I click on your videos even before I watch it (so I don't forget). I figure the odds are in my favor I'll like it anyway lol.
Tbf the Communist Party of Japan has long since turned into a socdem party. Their founding generation was extremely close with the CPC, and fought at their side against the KMT and the japanese. Many of them were POWs at first. But as time went by the later generations were bought off the revolutionary path. Or just murdered by reactionaries. Btw. great of you to use the actual acronym of the CPC!
This has always been weird to me. Code Geas, my fav Anime, is literally based on the multi-racial, multi gender main cast waging an Anti Fascist, Anti Imperialist struggle against 'Britania'. The National Liberation movement (Black Knights, and the Japanese Liberation Front) are labeled Terrorists, while the population are crushed by Britania's Colonial, racist, extractive regime. Idk how right Wingers see this and think 'Yeah, this totally validates my politics'. Ghibli films notoriously have a Green, anti industrial/anti war message. Idk how right Wingers watch Ghibli and come away re-enforced in their beliefs?
I think they’re just really, really bad at media analysis. I’ve seen so many other things titled ‘why right wingers don’t understand ____’. And it’s always them thinking it’s a right wing message when it’s the opposite.
@@TheKavernacle he was a communist at some point. I've read that in several sources and probably Wikipedia. Although, I clearly recall he wanted to make a movie about a red soldier, but he didn't go through with it. Perhaps his pacifism conflicted with portraying a warrior protagonist? Anyway, I learned he became disenfranchised long ago and no longer identifies as one.
@@TheKavernaclealso Japan can't be compared to any Western country especially Western countries In the New World continents North America South America Central America Caribbean Islands Australia New Zealand since these countries where settlement Colonies established by The Spanish Empire French Empire Dutch Empire Portgual the Brtish Empire and to a lesser extent Sweden.
@@TheKavernaclefor example Mexico when it was colonized by the Spanish Empire was called New Spain. It was a of Spain a settlement colony. America the orginal 13 states that where orginally 13 Colonies where Brtish settlement Colonies. Look up New Jersey its named after a area in England. New Hampshire named after a place in England. Boston named after a place in England. The entire New England region. Connecticut Rhode Island New Hampshire Massachusetts. That area is named New England after England. Because the colonizers imperialist wanted a Another England in North America. There is no colony of New Japan. Like Mexico was called New Spain or New England In America etc
There is currently 99% mask usage in Japan, no guns and extreme work culture. Wonder if they will adhere to any of that? Also socialized healthcare... Hmmmm.
People have such a strange view of Japan in the west, I'm an Ainu who studies in Europe and for some reason people thinks Japan is the best place ever but it isn't lol
I just find it really really REALLY weird anytime I see someone who isn't significantly indigenous complain about immigration. . . and I find it super weird when a guy with an Iranian background talks about not accepting immigrants from countries that have problematic relations with his. . . cognitive dissonance through the roof. Like I'm pasty, I know I didn't get that from the like 2% Iroquois in my blood, and I wouldn't dare talk s*** about people coming into "my country" because I know it's my hunk of land.
@@KingOfInsanity777 because their hunk of land was turned into a war zone - often due to both direct and indirect interference of the country they're going to.
@@sayastra Great, now tell those same people from Iraq and Syria who have a natural love for their country, heritage, and culture that it was all just "a hunk of land." I hope you have running shoes lol.
My ojisan, who is a descendant of the daimyo Mōri Motonari through the Kikkawa clan, confirmed that Japan is nowhere near conservative, and it is true that Japan has a huge communist party and ofc a feminist movement.
@@nikolamilicevic1040 Sure but in his career he has made zero games that are set in Japan outside of Tokimeki memorial of all things but thats not his choice. Just saying if you said an American patriot film maker based all his movies in Europe I'm sure everyone would think its weird.
You got to remember that The JCP has long sought to represent the ethnic minorities present in Japan and in its membership they're overlap in Ainue Civil rights activists, union activists, and local members of JCP in Hokkaido and the Kurils where the home of Ainue.
I recently read about how a bunch of conservative Christians got upset upon learning that Take Me To Church was a song about homosexuality and the Catholic Church's attitude toward it rather than just a guy asking to be taken to church. Being conservative might just be a symptom of some kind of mental disability that prevents someone from understanding the basic concept of subtext.
In the process of watching RUclips in English-speaking countries, I was surprised to find many foreigners claiming that Japan is right-wing. My personal opinion is that Japan has only recently become right-wing; in the 1970s and 1980s, there was a very large left-wing movement, especially among university students. ただこの左翼運動の後に反動は結構強くなっちゃったかな。それが理由なのかな？？
Me thinks people got scared when the elected leader of the socialist party got murdered. In front of a live studio audience. With a katana. Soooooo yeah. :/ Hope people wake up.
Since you commented, you are leftist in Japan. If you look at Japan's neighbors, do you really think it is a good idea for Japan to go further left? And the 70-80s, do you mean that in a good way? I hope not...especially the jra, what a wonderful time...
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Thats better sounding than I thought but change will never come from the top and will never last when global capitalism exists. Sustainable socialism is only possible through revolution. Libertarian Socialism is really the only form of socialism consdiering socialism is workplace democracy and worker ownership.
@shavey mcravey I don't think you can read lol.
@@soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342 I don’t think you have a functional brain either dude. Stop whining
@Azarello lmao
It's worth noting who founded the LDP. After selling out Tojo and other militant leaders, men like Kishi Nobusuke (Abe Shinzo's grandfather) formed the party and have basically ruled and violently squashed democratic movements.
The funny thing about anime and some games coming out of Japan is that they’re critiques of Japanese society. Even something like One Punch Man has messages about the failure of Japanese society
I know... and i dont even watch that much animé, it's just sooooo obvious, like you say.
But hey, just try to explain that to a north American nionalist weeb.
Yea but nationalist right wingers don't really understand the media they consume.
@@andrewsmith8715 They have to pretzel themselves to defend it, like John Doyle on "NeoGastonism," and Tim Pool's attempt to explain why he liked "Don't Look Down."
I think the last season of Psychopass was critical of their society, as well.
All americans see is "good animation, funny reaction faces, and boobs" while seeing none of the critiques of society.
Same with shows like Gurren Lagann (the villains embrace stagnation), Dragon Maid (same-sex families), or Assassination Classroom (the ruthless nature of the education system).
It’s so weird that people like Jontron advocate against multiculturalism and immigration when he wouldn’t be living in the United States if we didn’t have those things, considering he’s Iranian and his family migrated fairly recently. Maybe he should put his money where his mouth is and move back to his Iranian homeland if he wants homogeneous societies.
It's the old story. The former immigrants become "natives" and then hate the new immigrants and so on and so on...
@@theangryholmesian4556 I saw a video about Brexit and immigrants were voting for Brexit and they were afraid of immigrants coming to the UK.
Its kinda sad whenever I see immigrants from any background (especially latinos because I'm Mexican) not want other people from their country to be give the hope to their lives better that they were given
A lot of upper class types move to America or get kicked out so they're not gonna share the same views as most of their original population
@@Arjava. Exactly.. hate when people think that an immigrant (from upper class family in their own country) represents their whole country politically
Its so obvious in the Metal Gear series the creator (Kojima) is an anti-capitalist. To the point, as a young kid playing the game & not yet a leftist. The plot sometimes made me uncomfortable as it very much pointed out American imperialist policy and its detrimental effects on the world.
Edit: Yes, he is foremost anti-imperialist.But the game SPECIFICALLY is centered around American imperialism which revolves around capitalism. Which is why i say he is also anti-capitalist
"Nanomachines, son"
My first exposure to the Metal Gear series was Twin Snakes in 2010 I know the fans don't like that version. But I was not prepared for Nuclear deterrence, MUF, Black Projects, Genetic Engineering, gulf war syndrome. This game was ahead of its time in story telling.
"The unenlightened masses
They cannot make the judgment call
Give up free will forever
Their voices won’t be heard at all
Display obedience
While never stepping out of line
And blindly swear allegiance
Let your country control your mind
(Let your country control your soul)
Live in ignorance
And purchase your happiness
When blood and sweat is the real cost
Thinking ceases, the truth is lost
Don’t you worry
You’ll be told exactly what to do
I give my people the lives they need
The righteous will succeed"
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, 2013
@@MrLFJ7 absolutely amazing storytelling and theme/plot from the jump. I'm old so I go all the way back to the very 1st edition on NES, way back! Still my favorite one lol
Anti-capitalist? More like anti imperialism, Imperialism is notwhere exclusive to the capitalist west, as it has been also practiced by socialist powers, namely USSR, Cuba, East Germany and China now.
"Low crime rate" -> Yeah, legal processes in Japan used to be so cumbersome and tedious, it was easier to settle disputes by hiring the yakuza. Also in a society that is heavily focused on personal shame, people often would not go to the police and press charges.
Also if you get accused, your ass is certainly going to jail (the Persona 5 line of 99% success rate for prosecutions is not a bluff, it is in fact what inspired the Phoenix Wright series).
@@shis1988 Also if you hate Twitter cancel culture Japan is cancel culture squared
You also need to consider that the conviction rate is like in the 90% tier. Ergo, it is an unjust system that practically find everyone guilty. Specially foreigners accused of "something". If you are White, for example. Getting arrested is a bit harder in Japan, but if you get arrested. Which doesnt come down to the minor offense done, but more of how one behave around the police (which is NOT just being submissive and such, rather the middle ground of such). You give a "wrong vibe" according to them. You get arrested. You get arrested you are found guilty regardless.
Like there's abunch of english speakers who are currently living in japan who have started youtube channels that have outline how bonkers the system is, how hard it is to get something to qualify as sexual harassments in japan and how much the gov just "looks away" from alot of the issues to look good
There's this loli meme that is always posted by (totally not pedoshitters guys) loli twitter users that keeps being shared around, where it depicts stats in japan to the uk regarding pedophilia (you can guess which is depicted as a shithole) in a political comic form. and occasionally someone from japan will always point out that western countries have far stricter laws regarding what qualifies as sexual harassment , yes even if that involves underage girls.
Reading non-natives talk about japan while in japan is quite enlightening, most of them aren't concerned playing PR for the country
Japanese Twitter users quite literally weaponized cancel culture until Hana Kimura was forced to commit sewerslide over her being slightly disrespectful to one of her fellow actors on live TV
Edit: damn it Susan you're really not going to let me say the real word aren't you
I think it's interesting how much anime and manga influence the way Westerners look at Japan.
While those media do a good job of portraying Japanese culture in a whimsical and attractive light, they also feature a lot of criticisms and subtle commentaries on Japan that are lost on the average Western viewer.
In a way, it's similar to how foreigners view America through the lens of Hollywood movies. Everything looks cool and exciting, until you actually go to America and see for yourself how broken the politics are and how dysfunctional the society is.
Not always. Just look at Paranoia Agent. It's basically nothing but dysfunction
Yeah as a Canadian kid watching Hollywood movies and American TV shows, I was sometimes jealous of Americans and wished I lived there. Now I am very glad I didn't grow up in the US and would never want to live there.
Psycho pass is pretty critical and dystopian, but then the director isnt afraid to go there. But still has to be a dig, and th reason why i ffind th way the chinese social score system, is terrifying. Bu its likely digging at japan too.
There is shimoneta which is probably to real in th u often, but about how 1984 in a high school in sex ed, and trrsts, there i also the relative common having sympathic trrsts in general in anime that ar reasonable for the most part. Yeah a lot of creators arent that subtile either.
@@pmester228 That's not true. I'm pretty sure that show was about mental health and consumerism in Japan.
@@WhateverArtist terrifying global neoliberalism needs to die
As a leftist weeb it's been kind of... obnoxious lately because i've seen a lot of westerners finally become aware of the JCP solely because one of them commented on regulating lolicon and right wingers have pushed this idea that they want to destroy and censor art and it's become painfully widespread
Right wingers defending pedofilia, I'm sooo shocked.
It's funny how the right accuses the left of being pedophiles and sexualizing children, when this is an example of the left taking a much harder stance against pedophilia.
its ironic when fascists complain about censoring people and destroying art
This isnt a surprise, isekai is a format that really puts japans horrendous views of women on display, with many protagonists deciding that its ok to make women their slaves because it would be rude to not follow the customs of this strange place, or an older protagonist being "forced" to marry a 13yr old, and lets not forget 'hareme' a whole genre dedicated to the opposite sex serving you unconditionaly with quite servere differences in power dynamic between female harems and male harems.
And who do we think are the first westerners to jump to the defense of these ideals? The same people who not a few comments later will display nationalistic repressive alt right opinions.
@@atomosvrial1708 I would disagree with the harem take, most of more popular manganimes of that genere are about the protagonist being a sucker to a bunch of women (Love Hina first example that comes to mind), unless if the protagonist is a woman or gay in which case tends to be the other way around.
The Communist movement in Japan is no joke. It has a very radical and strong Communist students' organisation called Zengakuren who made the Antifa look like the Hare Krishnas. Back in the 70s and 80s, Zengakuren along with the peasants engaged in literal battles with the Japanese police over the building of the Narita airport and the agrarian conflict that arose from it (It is known as the Sanrizuka Struggle). In the 1970s, they literally erected a fortress, dug tunnels and built towers on the airport land as a defense mechanism and engage in medieval-style battles with the police. They also managed to storm the actual airport itself, ransacking the ATC tower. That was in the 1970s. In 1985, another battle broke, this time the students managed to broke into the police barricade by making a charging line with logs. It was crazy.
A documentary about the Sanrizuka Struggle:
ruclips.net/video/pe2JrZDDdNI/видео.html
The 1985 riot:
ruclips.net/video/eXjd7GkHKfU/видео.html
Holy shit unfathomably based
Talking about antifa they have them in Japan too.
@@klubpingwina4336 Good. Maybe they can learn from the Zengakuren
That wild
And i love it
Didn't their leader got killed on television somewhere around the 80s followed by a chain of attacks from the Yakuza which the government conveniently turned a blind eye and eventually died out as a political parties?
Western right-wing groups that view Japan as a perfect model country is just so laughable to me, this is coming from a Japanese person who moved out of that hellhole.
And Hideo Kojima is viewed in Japan as left-wing, so much so that he's insulted by local nerds as embracing gaijin culture when he's simply educated in western progressive politics.
japan: "hey guys let's do 12/7!"
most normal people: "bro wtf :/"
right-wing western weebs: " it sounds PERFECT!"
sidenote: wikipedia says NOTHING about this problem, makes it sound like since the law is: "8 hours, 5days" that's what happens...
When was the last time the "Hell Hole" of Japan saw anything like the continuous riots like we have in the Multicultural Paradise of the USA?
No riots to speak of but there have pro nationalists marches protesting other Asian ethnicities.
@@kelkil79 You realize there were BLM protests in Japan right? Ngl its kinda funny watching nationalistic americans bend over backwards shit on their country just to spite minorities lol
@@kelkil79 You think riots make or break a country? How about lack of rights for women? Rape and sexual violence aren't reported? If a woman fights back against her rapists, she can get charged for assault? Low pay for a 12 hour job 7 days a week, no vacations? Corporate hierarchy are so strict here that your boss is entitled to abuse you? Criminals are guilty until proven innocent, so false arrest percentages are high? But sure, to answer your question, YES riots DO happen. Just because you don't see it in mainstream media doesn't mean it's not happening. Just last year we had ultrantionalist racists who rioted and want to drive Chinese, Korean, Filipino immigrants out.
I live in Japan, the Communist party is fairly social democratic rather than communist. They’re also the only party in Japan under surveillance by the Japanese secret service (public security intelligence agency). Even the fascist parties don’t get that treatment here.
There’s a coalition between the opposition party and the Communist party but the LDP gets too many votes from vast elderly population. The left is rising in votes very very slowly though.
I hope one day you will the take your country back from the Kishi(t) clan of fascists. The people of Japan deserve better.
@@andro7862 I’m not Japanese, I just live here. Although, I agree with your sentiment.
That's fucked. You need to honor your elders, but you may need to let them go...
@@andro7862 everyone deserves exactly what they get, unless they were a people exploited by outside influence.
Due to too many old people and less young people the war on young people is to keep their power
"Weren't you supposed to move to Spain?"
"Yes..."
"So why are you still in bed?"
"Too many chocolate oranges..."
XD
Brittany the supposed "left-wing host" from politically provoked praised Japan for it's homogeneity in a debate with xanderhal the other day. She completely capitulated with the slightest push back but it's true that all these groypers have anime profile pictures and are obsessed with Japan in general.
And anime is progressive you have many type of LGBTQ+ representation even back to sailor moon or high school DXD one of the characters is a trans got introduced in S2 or S3 and cowboy bebop have a very diverse world and it of kind of woke and you see harem protagonist in anime sometimes where a guy or girl get surrounded by multiple people who are interested in them and in while anime still problem yeh right ignore the more woke or leftist as aspects of anime
I just like my trans anime character :(
(im jk I know what you mean)
All those groypers want a whte ethnostate country. They see Japan as an example of ethnostate.
@@Soulweaver0 Who's gonna tell them that Japan has both immigrants and indigenous minorities.
I think these right wing weebs just want to fuck the fictional characters.
(because god knows no real women will)
"I think Japan is a model society"
Tell me you don't know anything about Japan without you telling me you don't know anything about Japan.
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It's the same mindset as people who say Hawaii is a great place to live. They see the numbers without context and think "wow that's amazing"
@@brandonspencer5594 why are you typing like a serial killer?
A lot of it is straight up misconceptions. People used to have all these racist stereotypes about Asians that made them seem stupid and dangerous. Then they switched up for a new set of nicer sounding racist stereotypes that make them all sound like geniuses who created utopia
4chan is a personality disorder warehouse.
They all need a soulshattering scolding, beat up and then heartful, welcoming hug afterwards.🔥
Would be nice if it was that easy but Social media pushes our society into extreme directions.🙁
That's... that's the point of 4chan. They're trolls, ignore them, and they'll stop
@@johannesstephanusroos4969 The actual point of 4 chan was discussing anime stuff but because the community festered with instable and kinda scummy people and was largely(there are actually decent people on 4chan because they regulated themselves) kept unchecked.
That's why their communities became a horrific toxic Mutant which will always seek validation through faulty means. It's a breathing tragedy.
@@novelty_thief All I heard was that you can't take humour with a pinch of salt, and get more out of being unhappy/bitter/triggered. Please correct me if I'm wrong
@@johannesstephanusroos4969 The problem is they didn't stop
t. 4chan regular of 2009-2012
As a Japanese person, I want to shed some light on this topic a bit.
Firstly, I am a first-generation born and raised in Japan. My parents immigrated from Bangladesh. I now live and work in the US, so in a lot of ways, this relates to me.
"Japan is ethnically homogenous."
This is absolutely not true. So firstly, the 98% stats isn't about ethnicity. It's about nationality and citizenship. There is no such thing as the "Japanese ethnicity" and the Japanese census does not keep data based on ethnic backgrounds. This is really important for a few key reasons. This means that if someone like my parents become a citizen, then they would be counted as part of that 98%. So under that definition, I would be part of that 98% even if I am not of Yamato, Ryukyuan, Ainu, or any other ethnicities typically associated with Japan.
This would be like saying America is ethnically homogenous because 93% of people living in America hold American citizenship.
This is why when right-wingers attempt to mention the 98% stats it's important to counteract that and debunk such a claim. If citizenship is the metric for homogeneity then almost every country on the planet would be homogenous. But right-wingers seem to think that one, "Japanese" is an ethnic group, and Two, that the stat measures ethnicity. Both of these claims are false.
The concept of Japanese and what it means is literally written into the constitution. Specifically the Article 14. Japanese is not an ethnic group but rather a nationality. In terms of ethnic groups, the majority ethnic group in Japan is Yamato but even within Yamato, there are sub-ethnic groups, and the gathering of all mainlanders as Yamato is also somewhat arbitrary. Today, besides the Far-Right, no one uses Yamato and Japanese interchangeably, and ironically enough, I see more foreigners outside of Japan do this more than Japanese people themselves.
Japan also does not keep stats on immigrants the same way as other countries do. For instance, in the US you will still be counted as an immigrant after you get American citizenship but in Japan, the two categories we have to this topic are "Foreign Workers" and "Native Workers". Once you have Japanese citizenship, you are counted as a "Native Worker" rather than a foreign worker. This also contributes to the myth of Japanese homogeneity because Western Media will often conflate the "foreign workers" variable with immigrants or use those terms interchangeably and this leads to the idea that Japan has very few immigrants as well.
In terms of the actual data. Japan does not keep official data on immigrants or how many immigrants become citizens themselves. But I can talk about my anecdotal experience here and please keep that in mind that this is an anecdote rather than a statistical claim.
I grew up in a fairly average Japanese town. Not too small and not too big. Even then 5 of my classmates out of 25 classmates either were immigrants themselves or had immigrant parents. This was in the early 2000s when Japan's immigration was much more strict as well. In bigger cities like Tokyo, Osaka, or Kobe, you will find far larger immigrant communities. Most of whom are either in the process of going through naturalization or already have gone through naturalization. Of course, if you go to rural areas, it tends to be far less friendly towards immigrants but the idea that even smaller cities and towns are unfamiliar with immigration is no longer true (if it was ever true in the first place. At the very least, Japan has made a huge stride in terms of immigration and immigrant acceptance.
Does that mean that Japan is more heterogeneous than the US or Canada? No, I don't think so. At least not yet but we are steadily catching up over time if the country continues with the current trend. But I guess it also depends on how you define heterogeneity. Firstly, Japan was never homogeneous, to begin with as there are multiple ethnic groups with their own languages, traditions, and customs already. Secondly, even among the mainlanders, Japan is extremely diverse in terms of culture and language. For instance, certain dialects of Japanese are unintelligible to each other even today. Most Japanese people outside of the Kanto region have to learn at least two different dialects. One for their local dialect and one that is the standardized Japanese often spoken in Tokyo and the surrounding regions. Standardization of Japanese was also a pretty recent phenomenon as well, as, before that, the vast majority of people spoke in their local dialects. For example, I speak the Kansai dialect because I grew up in the Kansai region but I also speak standardized Japanese as that is the Japanese that we used in school. But generally speaking, people from Kansai (especially people in my generation) are more comfortable with their local dialect when speaking to each other.
Another argument that I hear is the "Japan is more united than (insert country here)" and once again, this is just wrong, depending on the county you are talking about. I can just compare with the US because I'm familiar enough with the US to make this comparison. In the US for example, people are a lot more patriotic. People unironically think that America is the best country on the planet and there are American flags everywhere. But Japan isn't like that at all. Firstly, I've only seen the Japanese flag in Japan twice in my life. And the vast majority of normal Japanese people (I mean normal in the sense that they aren't politically far-right or far-left) don't think Japan is the best country. In fact, they're largely neutral to Japan. This is once again very different from the US where I think Americans are expected to be patriotic by default. The Japanese flag ironically enough does not have a good reputation in Japan as a lot of far-right groups like Uyoku use them in their marches. In contrast, I think that most Japanese people of immigrant background are proud to be Japanese (though I admit, I am using my anecdotal experience for this one. You see, unlike the US, Japan does not offer dual citizenship. So when an immigrant is naturalized, they have to make the decision of denouncing their old citizenship. As such. most immigrants do feel attached to Japan in my experience. Japanese people, especially in the communal sense are also far more community-oriented than the US. In that, we don't really think about the federal government but rather are too occupied with local issues. Part of that is because Japan is far more communal than the US is and part of that is because most people in Japan tend to stay in one area unless they really have to move to another place because of work. Japan also has had a history of fighting over each other and that rivalry is still present today. For instance, people in Kansai feel very strongly about their Kansai background. All in all, it's misleading to say that Japan is more united than the US or any other country. For one, I don't even know how to measure that and for two, in my anecdotal experience, there is as much disunity among Japanese people as there are among Americans. I think politically America is more polarized but in terms of cultural variations, I don't know if Americans are more or less united than Japan. Of course, I'm not saying that America doesn't have cultural diversity. Of course, it does. I'm just saying that I don't know if one can in good faith argue for more or less cultural diversity in the US.
In reality, Japan is almost every other first-world country out there. It's not some homogeneous exception to rule, it's not a country that outright rejects people of different ethnic backgrounds. It's a country with a lot of problems. It's a country that is still very racist in many areas but it's a country that has made significant strides in social rights in the last few decades, including immigrant rights, LGBTQ rights and etc. Japan has the reputation of being racist and monocultural because, for the longest time, Japan has kept its ethnic minorities as second-class citizens. This is a part of history the country has to contend with but Japan has come very far from its past yet, that reputation still remains among the far-right that idolize and romanticize Japan.
As for the crime rate argument, this is a little bit more complicated to explain. Japan is indeed one of the safest countries out there. It's so safe in the fact that many people don't even lock their doors and most communities (before COVID) did not have curfews for children. Children as young as 6 years old can be seen going to school with other children without adults and kids will often travel by themselves everywhere. Japan also has an extremely developed transportation system and most people don't drive because it's just easier to use the public transportation available. This is relevant because it's not uncommon to see kids just travel places by themselves or go to any part of their town or city by themselves without adult supervision. But the reason why people can do this has to do with a bunch of complicated factors. One, as previously mentioned, Japan is extremely communal. Most Japanese people, grow up with the same people from kindergarten to high school I have personally known most of my friends in Japan since kindergarten for instance. During that time, we pretty much do everything together. From going on regular trips to even live together, bathing together in public baths, knowing each other's parents as our own families, these are all things that are true for most people growing up in Japan. For instance, both of my parents were blue-collar workers and they worked long shifts but even without my parents, I'd just often go to school by myself, pick up my brother from school, cook, clean, and do all of the housework since I was like 8 years old. Japanese schools also promote these types of practices as we have home ec classes, from elementary school and onwards where we learn to cook, clean, sew, and do other important life skills from the beginning of our childhood. As a result, we grow extremely respectful towards the community we group up in while being self-sustaining at the same time. These are things that prevent criminality in Japan. After all, why would you commit a crime against someone, if you know them as you would a family member? I know a lot of Americans say that they are close to their neighbors or something but it's nothing like the levels we experience in Japan. And this is pretty much the default in all communities. This communal reliance combined with Japan's systemic policies that are great in teaching life skills from early on does absolutely contribute to our lower crime rate. And as a fairly well-traveled person, I haven't seen many nations adopt similar policies as Japan. And the other factor is that when crime does happen, Japanese people are far more reluctant to report that crime.
All of which has nothing to do with ethnicity. You can replicate this system with any ethnic group and you would have the same effects. I know because I and many others are a result of that system and we were equally attached to our communities. For example, when my parents had a problem with their citizenship our whole town came together to protect my parents.
Of course, this doesn't mean Japan isn't racist. Outside of one's community especially if the community is rural, you will face far more racism. The one thing about Japanese racism is that it's the subtle kind where you can't really tell that people are being racist towards you unless you know the language and culture so lots of foreigners think Japanese people are being nice when they are being racist as well. I faced racism, not within my community but once I visited the larger cities where I didn't know people. And ironically enough, I also faced racism from Europeans and American far-righters who keeps insisting that Japan won't ever accept me when in fact, Japan has since my birth.
I don't want to give the wrong impression of Japan. But Japan is a complicated country with complicated problems. In terms of immigration, even the right-wing majority party has been supportive of more immigration reforms over time. This isn't because they are trying to be nice to immigrants but because even they understand that Japan isn't sustainable without immigration.
@@user-vu7ls1vm9h You should make videos or blogs discussing these topics. Way too good of interesting and useful information to just leave in a RUclips comment.
I second that opinion, I would love to watch videos of you talking about Japan
so their lying.
@@ddjsoyenby What do you mean?
Um....has anybody explained Japan's gun laws to the Alt-Right??
Please define alt-Right. Seems like Leftists define plain Conservatives as far- or alt-, when we just want to be left alone. The overwhelming majority of Right folks are not extreme or reactionary, just sick of being pushed around, or in a direction
@@johannesstephanusroos4969 Conservatives deserved being "pushed" around.
@@ExtremeMadnessX You're missing the point (and didn't even answer my question...), if you push Conservatives, they will become radicalized. You are creating the alt-Right, we just want to be left alone
@@johannesstephanusroos4969 words have meaning and he said 'alt-right', although the republican party overwhelmingly supports the 2nd amendment they don't overwhelmingly glorify japan asaik.
@@johannesstephanusroos4969 also most leftists also just want to be left alone and not have some crooks decide that our futures are directly tied to our zip codes, go in huge debt to not die and have religious zealots take away our bodily autonomy by outlawing abortion.
Yes Japan looks good on a surface level but a lot of people don’t realize how brutal the work culture is let alone the hard core anti individualist ideology Japan has.
hate to say it, but we could use a bit of that in america for the pandemic at least..not the work culture (because that is one of the few reasons i wouldn't live, at least as a salary man in japan) but jeezes christ we need the collectivist nature of working together
@@UNSTABLE111 agreed a little bit of it we could use, also what I see with America and Japan is two unhealthy extremes.
@@UNSTABLE111 USA has a similar work culture but they hide it better than japan
I always wanted to become a mangaka when I was a young weeb but when I saw the work schedule of a jump mangaka I was beyond shocked. And that they also stigmatize mental health issues and of course the bullying problem (Ijime) which continues even at work places. So yeah...
The work culture looks bad even in the most positive and romanticized videos cause there's always talk about being respectful to superiors and maintaining the hierarchy.
Being a left wing weeb gets pretty tiresome when you encounter the worst, and often loud, parts of the wider anime and manga community as described in the vid. Also, kinda related side note, but the UK con scene has a serious problem with grooming that hasn't really been addressed. I've seen convicted sex offenders get into cons by just wearing a mask and even without that. It's beyond fucked up.
Tbh, for me nowadays a weeb by default is right wing. Even among my own friends, they are otherwise left or center, but then when it comes to an anime issue, like Uzaki Chan they take right wing stances.
@@Drownedinblood we must run in different circles then, because all my weeb friends are either left wing or left leaning, including not making allowances for dodgy shit.
@@GallowglassVT I mean like I said they are left or center on damn near everything, but once it's anime, it's ranting about SJW ruining anime.
@@Drownedinblood ah fair does.
Me and my GF are left wing anime fan.
My girlfriend also is interessed by Japanese society and see the many problems that it face right now.
The hard line communists in japan are extremely awesome for their commitment towards pacifism. The german left during the 50s and 60s had similar concerns in that regard. (The history of the left in japan and in germany has some rather fascinating parallels.) Sadly, during the 80s, here in germany, US secret services and some thinkers from american universities tried to change the pacifist stance of the german left and many parts of it became pro war. (The most extreme case is the german green party which started as a pacifist party and now advocates for an almost neocon foreign policy. And this former pacifist party was the one which started the first military involvement of germany in another country since the second world war.) In the party of "Die Linke" (the most left leaning party in the german parliaments), there is an ongoing struggle between older more pacifist communists and stupid pro USA/pro NATO goons. The most famous person vocally opposed against these pro NATO goons is Sarah Wagenknecht. Her faction also wants to close US military bases in germany. Especially Ramstein (like the band name, but with only one "m"). The US Military bases in germany also hava special significance because they are on a lattitude which makes it possible to access the satellites controlling the drones in the middle east. Thus, much of the drone war in the middle east is controlled via germany. This is another reason why the real left in germany (and portions of the german new right) want the US army to leave, but sadly, pro nato goons on both the left and the far right prevented that.
Because of that situation in germany, the japanese far left pacifism is extremely admireable.
I do see nato as a good thing for all involved. Partly because we need to have a counter balance to Russia
while it is admiral that they want to be pacifist imo that a bit a privilege position to have when you are not the main target of capitalism imperialism. As far as land dispute that something they going to have to work out. North Korea is concerned they need the nuke Otherwise without china being next door and having nukes south Korea along with US and NATO would have invaded a long time ago that the benefits of having a powerful ally and WMD
@@revolutionarydragon1123 I agree and I definitely understand the north korean position.
@@SSJKamui although if their party structure like I think they are idk how they can call them burocratic
@@revolutionarydragon1123 North Korea isn't a communist government. it's more like a fundamentalist government. Just like China is a fascistic state.
Wanna bet all the people simping for japan are not women cause womens rights in japan are pretty far back.
Pretty much all. I mean, there are still a lot of women fundamentalist christians or muslim and advocating for their fantasies to be submitted to by all because letting someone else do the thinking for you and having no equal rights is good, somehow, so I'm told. So, apparently, being a victim is sometimes a reason to tell others to become one as well, instead of for warning against it, which would be the loving and non abusive thing to do.
introduction of women into the workforce literally destroyed Japan's living standard and birthrates. Courtesy of Beat Sorita, MacArthur's appointee.
Do you know what happens when you double the workforce? Wages are cut in half, just like what has been happening in the US since the 60s.
No one in Japan can afford to raise kids or has the time for it because of the insanely long work hours and poor salaries. It doesn't help that most women are career women and have the same exact issue as men. Obviously, women in the workforce are not the only issue, things like the Plaza accord have to do with it too, but its undeniable. What do corporations and employers love more than anything? Obedience. They have taken note of this and have favored women recently due to their submissiveness and will less likely demand fair pay and strike out.
@@user-pn3im5sm7k Ya you have fun there mate, mmmmhm yep.
Also the fact that you think women are why our wages are shit, ya nothing crazy here.
@@engibones5948 get woke or stay broke
@@user-pn3im5sm7k Does it bother you that you are no longer the main source of income for the companies, that they have decided that to move away from what you want and now do these woke things because they have seen that you have shrunk and the other has grown in size?
Weeb: Watches anime and thinks it’s fantasyland
Flashes a surprised pikachu face after learning about its inhuman work hours
Exactly there is a reason why there are so many isekai animes
@@jay7568 Also why there are so few anime based on adult life except the oldschool ones, even anime based on college life are few and far between. Their lives as an individual ends after highschool.
Some people like to forget what JonTron said and did, but I'm not one of those people. He's funny, talented but probably a fascist who wants an ethno state.
Ugh, that's the worst part about him.
I used to like Jontron back in the day but this? It just leads a weird chilling in my spine and I’m black and he thinks All black people are criminals
Yeah that's why I can't watch his videos. I haven't watched any of his new stuff in a long time, but knowing his political opinions sucks all the humor out of his writing for me. He IS talented at what he does, he's always been a funny guy, but goddamn I can't stomach watching an ethnonationalist's youtube videos
JonTron fell off well before his debate with Destiny when he stopped doing game content. The beginning of the end was when he left Game Grumps.
I unsubscribed once that shit came out.
I think people are confusing anime with real life Japan. Maybe they do this intentionally maybe they aren't maybe they're doing it for nefarious reasons.
To be fair I used to also fantasize about Japan until I started learning about Japan lol
They have awful work-life balance and we often see articles about how people in their twenties die after working 100 hours a week or something crazy. They embody the 996 model popularized by Jack ma of Alibaba fame.
Their work-life balance is why they are disappearing as a country with I think one of the highest rate of young adults who are not having children. I think their population even shrunk from 128 million to 120 million not that long ago
There is also some intense undercover mental health issue around Japan where there are a lot of teens and Young 20-year-olds who commit suicide in Japan. Chris broad who does Abroad In Japan even talked about how when he was a teacher he went to a doctor feeling a little depressed the only thing the doctor told him was to not feel so depressed lol.
There was even a documentary done a couple of years back about expats who live in Japan and one of the expats..... immigrants.... Talked about how in Japan was shifting into more fascist country.
They have an insane 99% conviction rate from what I heard. It was either 99% or something crazy high over 90%.
Asian boss even did an interview with a beauty pageant contestant to one miss Japan and competed in Miss World and she was half Indian half Japanese and she talked about how she'd get bullied in school in Japan.
And let's not even forget about Japanese refusal to apologize to Korean and Chinese woman who they used as pleasure woman during World War II
What I find with the most homogeneous countries is that their happiness is fake or it's put on. Behind that's smiling mask is a very depressed population.
Also, Japan's "solution" to the population decrease is to either fill up the empty jobs with robots or to try giving an incentive to women to stay home and have kids; however, many interviews with women have shown that they either get bullied or shamed out of their workplace or that their household requires them to work due to benefits or need for extra income to stay afloat
Yeah japan has its huge problems, probably isn't a place i could live unless its in the country side..but I still do want to visit Japan, and few things from Japan I wished USA can adopt...first of all the restrooms..I suffer from paruresis, and I wish USA could adopt the public restrooms from japan..Japan seems like a godsend for Paruresis (sufferers like me..and finally, the use of masks, they actually have the decency of using masks when they get sick..its an everyday item..not just for a pandemic..You surely would not get frowned upon earing a mask in Japan or in any of the countries around asia..Are those all worth maybe living there, probably not..but boy do I still wanna visit.
_"To be fair I used to also fantasize about Japan until I started learning about Japan lol"_
Haven't we all? Strong, disciplined, wise people. Amazing ancient trees that seemingly blossom 365 days a year. And the woodwork! Amazing craftsmanship and style. And then we learn things. Never meet your hero, I guess :p
Japan is nicer to visit than to live in. Though the things I found better than where i live by far are the low crime. Cleanliness and low entry level rent. There is definitely an air to not offend or to be polite but you learn that this is kinda fake and you can't tell if some people are genuine or not. This is not actually exclusive to Japan but I think with media emphasizing their politeness it became something foreign people expect and assume is exclusive.
Also Japan's current issues with Africans or Blacks and it's past issues there cough blackface and outright comparing Africans to rappers etc
Truthfully speaking, there is one side of the circlejerk treating Japan as this based and perfect utopian society that can do nothing wrong and another side treating Japan too much as this right-wing war-crime-glorifying authoritarian state (they are exaggerations of course). People can make a lot of claims about Japan, but the one thing they are forgetting is that Japan is not a hivemind; 100 million people still have their own individual thoughts.
Sure. Though there is something very unsettling about a country where children have to have certain hair cuts mandated by their gender category and even forced to have dark, straight hair, and if they're naturally disposed to having wavier or curlier hair, they must carry a medically certified exemption. It is *extremely* authoritarian in many fundamental ways that many in the West see as their basic day to day liberties, and often take for granted.
The problem here is that both the right and the left just see it for its eccentric anime and media culture, which is heavily dominated by left leaning/anti-orthodox values that don't actually apply to life in general in Japan. What these people see as background culture in their favourite anime shows, video games and other forms of Japanese media, are a far cry from the otherwise suffocating social conditions of conformity in Japan.
@@ordohereticus3427 I mean tbh if you actually take the time out to go a bit deeper into whatever Japanese media you consume to still tend to learn a lot.
You aren't lying about the almost obsessive regulation of people's bodies in schools down there. That's why, I think, the subcultures that tend to come out of Japan are so out there. Especially visually. There's a lot of micromanagement in the Japanese society that I'm super glad I don't have to navigate as an American that's for sure.
@@maybemablemaples2144 Sure, we are in agreement here. Their media cultural output is likely, at least in good part, a response/reaction to the stifling mainstream conditions with the nation’s cultural status quo. For what it’s worth, I think Japan has great things to offer when it comes to that alternative culture. It’s just a bit grating when various people in the West begin to fetishise life in Japan in general (often based off a shallow read, rather than an in-depth one, of media and entertainment culture), which is certainly not something ideal, least of all for relatively individualistic people.
Big Boss praises Che Guevara
The right: Yeah, Kojima is one of us
To be fair, the MSX2 Metal Gear games were never localized other than the awful 360-PS3 ports for 2 and 3. And they don't seem very good.
Lot's of RW figures admired Che, Mishima himself was a big fan of Che
It's funny because Japan is not a homogenous society like people claim. There are indigenous people of japan like the ainu and okinawans who don't even consider themselves culturally or ethnically japanese. There are also korean (zainichi) and han Chinese among other minorities in Japan. They are all discriminated against because Japan only wants to be homogenous and they have a strict culture of assimilation to the point of borderline social fascism (not quite but it's close).
ainu too seem to have their own, horrible treatment of indiginous history.
You forgot the Japanese of Brazilian and Peruvian descent.
@@newbie1958 But are they not still ethnically Japanese? Are you referring to the descendants of Japanese migrants who moved to Brazil and Peru?
Japan is 100% Asian.
Moved to Brazil and Peru but come back to Japan
I highly recommend Salari and his video about Japan! First time I watched it it made me cry... Japan is trapped in their own traditions and prejudices and the people are suffering for it! .. another thing: I just don't get how all these people seem to have this romantisized anime/manga-videogame-version of Japan but not recognizing just how often their culture is (openly or indirectly) critisized in these artforms. But on the other hand: when were right-wingers ever good at interpreting art?!?
Link the video pls
@@sudevsen ruclips.net/video/sx3mQftSMSo/видео.html there you go ;)
Very well put
Weaboos who think Japan is a model of ethnonationalist harmony always have big "I'm not racist, but..." energy.
I never understood gamers views on Kojima being a nationalist...given Metal Gear has always been on country's betraying their people with MGS3 being the big on that with the Boss on how America treated her horribly all her life and then finally betrayed her after she was loyal to America though all of it. Note: Bit of a simplification as Boss also sought Peace and changing of times but was always on the side of helping American politics.
Feel like the Japanese voters are similar to USA where they aren't really educated on politics and just vote for the incumbents.
This is the situation in most countries
As far as I know, this is particularly true in Japan, which has had a "one-and-a-half party" system for the past seventy years. The LDP is so huge and entrenched that it warps the entire system into apathy.
And it doesn’t matter either way as corporate interests have purchased the political class…
@@arskakarva7474 Apathy is a huge part of it but the LDP also benefits from structural advantages. Japan has a dominant party system because the opposition is fragmented and fractious, split between liberals, communists, and right wing breakaways from the LDP that often directly compete against each other. This is made all the more worse by Japan's electoral system, in which most seats are FPTP. So while the opposition parties frequently win more total votes, the LDP almost always sweeps the single member districts and wins a majority. It's also blatantly rigged in a way that rivals the electoral college, in that there is a huge degree of malapportionment such that urban districts have as much as twice the popukation as the rural ones that the LDP dominates. The Japanese Supreme Court has ruled this to be unconstitutional but nothing has ever been done about it.
From what I've read most Japanese, especially the youth, are very depolicized and aren't encouraged to learn about politics. I think there's even a law that curtails political organizing in universities. So the results are low turnout elections that favor the status quo.
I don't see any hope for left wing politics becoming consensus in Japan, sadly. Even with the current ethnic homogeneity, the right is firmly on top. Then once the inevitable immigration does finally begin to happen, that will only benefit the political right. They will weaponise Japanese ethnic identity as a means to destroy class solidarity. Consider how the US South used to all vote Democrat until the Civil Rights movement enfranchised Black Americans. That instantly saw white identity become the only concern for Southern whites and they all switched to voting Republican. Consider too, the "Gammon" in England, former Labour voters who switch to Tory due to ethnic identity and their neuroses over immigration. I fear this phenomenon will repeat in Japan.
Facts 💯 I agree
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The US South used to vote Democrat because that was before the massive *Political Realignment* which had Dems and Reps bases switch sides. It's important to not forget that detail of American history when comparing today's political landscape with yesteryear's.
@@donnydogpiss4533 I was describing post-WW2 history. Working class Southern Whites were heavy Democrat voters during the New Deal Era but they switched to voting Republican after the Civil Rights Act was passed. The Republican party actively promoted white identity with their "Southern Strategy" and their "States' Rights" counter to Civil Rights.
@V. S. Werejester many educated people warned the children, but there they go.
I don't give a damn anymore, they reap what they sow and I have no sympathy left now that COVID struck and they refuse to listen.
Not voting for him (and actually voting) is going to be my badge of service to my nation.
I think what pisses me off the most is these right leaning weebs think anime is not political. Some how in there heads they think Japan is some neutral country or not even a country but some land except from societal issues like they don’t have individual people with their own thoughts. I think honestly it makes me sick because first if you aren’t stupid you can tell anime has crap ton of philosophy and social commentary even down to the slice of life and then second I almost feel like they view Japanese people not as people.
I used to want to immigrate to Japan when I was a teen. But I'm black so I grew out of it.
Yeah that'll do it.
It is pretty obvious that one of the most prominent Japanese doujin developers, ZUN, is left-wing and hardcore progressive and even the author of JOJO, Hirohiko Araki, shows some elements of progressivism in his work. And that's before getting into all of Japan's anti-war works. There are just a lot of prominent left wing figures from Japan. Hell, even some conservatives over there have some left wing leanings like Yoshiyuki Tomino for instance even if some of his other views are rather toxic (though he has gotten better with it over the years).
And of course, right wingers love to ignore this.
Of course, even they have their rotten apples like Koichi Sugiyama, the composer for both Dragon Quest and several anime. Suffice to say, I shed no tears the day he died. As well as that author for GATE (don't know his name nor do I care, it is kinda crap even without all its right wing posturing).
And seriously, what were they thinking when they let a prominent right wing and pro war figure write an entry in the heavily anti-war Gundam series.
This is the hot weeb tea 🍵 I was waiting for.
@V. S. Werejester If you look at Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia, there are hints of his personal views via irony and satires:
>The whole magazine has a staunch anti-immigration undertone, which even gone as far as extending to the several inhabitants of Gensokyo whom stayed there for a long time ·Stating that the Eientei staff is very dangerous because they are from Lunar Capital.
·Trying to defame Sumeriko for being the "frequent flyers" Outsider as well as Reimu for not being "doing her border control job"
·Wrote a conspiracy theory where Yukari is accused for plotting a "Great Reset" of Gensokyo just because there are many Outsiders going into Gensokyo.
·Purposefully twisted the narrative where the Human Village inhabitants really hated Clownpiece and Hecatia with the word "This is not Gensokyo!", despite there is no such thing happening.
>There are also a few times that the newspaper hilariously made extremely conservative views that can be logic-defying and jaw-dropping in-universe:
·Literally treated Hydrogen Water as "Flammable Water" by wrongfully equating it with Petrol.
·Told readers to exterminate "Phone Neck Sickness" patients with Sekibanki as an "Evidence Pic",but in fact she is just twerking around her neck like a snake while reading a book.
·Incite readers to being hostile on the "immigrants",like distrusting or shunning them despite them being living there for some time and actually doing nice things.
>Exposes the hectic workstyle in Gensokyo (well RL Japan is kinda the same so....)
·Kasodani's monthly overwork time is about 140 hours, which is 4-5 overwork time per day, if we add it to the 8 hour worktime, that means she works 12-13 hours every day.
·It is implied that the Tengu Community's work is also very hectic.
_In the present day, where these readers have a routine of complementing their own thoughts through this practice, there is a widespread trend toward the repeated spread of exciting, negative news stories. Flooding an online post with comments is just one example. So, we are frequently drawn down the emotional, reactionary path. It feels like nowadays, this is influencing us not just on an individual level, but on a country-wide one._
-----excerpt from ZUN's afterword in AFiEU.
@V. S. Werejester yes!!!! Any leftist touhou fans here?
@Joseph Krystek-Walton Naw, the dude that wrote Gundam Unicorn writes right-wing nationalism novels, here is a quote from a new york times article on him that best describes his stuff.
"Now 36, Mr. Fukui has to his name a handful of best sellers whose common themes -- postwar Japan's mistaken path, its wounded pride, the sense of stagnation today and the need for a virile military -- resonate in a country shedding its pacifism and rearming itself."
THEY WATCH TOO MUCH ANIME
I've been living in Japan for almost 2 decades and it's absolutely hilarious seeing far-right weebs and their comically bad fantasies about how Japan is, vs how it really is.
This is from someone whose never been to Japan but has interacted with the local Japanese community quite a bit, but through that interaction it has always seemed at least to me that Japan is super conservative and super capitalist, kinda like current day South Korean. So wouldn’t that actually be appealing to far-right weebs?
@@Zom13y I agree with what you just said, zomby. They are conservative but it’s odd because conservatives don’t tend to be the greatest artists and I think Japanese are creative af for being conservative.
@@Zom13y It's hyper-capitalist, but that's the main reason Japan is so miserable: they're pushed to be hard-working, unquestioning workers that get treated like doormats by their bosses.
@@thejapanarchocommunist Sure. However communism in any variety is not a Japanese ideology, and neither is Western capitalism. Be courteous as a foreigner/guest and don't try to change the host's home. This is how we got into this mess in the first place.
@@user-pn3im5sm7k First off, I hate this "you're a guest" mentality; I'm not a guest, I've been living here for years. Also, the Ainu predate the Japanese by a LOOOOONG time, yet I never hear people saying the Japanese referred to as "guests" to the Ainu, or that they should conform to Ainu standards.
Second off, while it *is* a Western idea, its one that the JCP and other strains of leftists decided to adapt. No one forced that idea onto them, and the history of communist/anarchist thought in Japan is both rich and interesting. This idea that we shouldn't try to improve people's lives and instead stick with harmful social institutions is so ridiculous it doesn't even warrent a proper response.
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They have a huge labor crisis because their immigration policies are so strict. Like they have crazy deficit spending and MMT policies. Other states in America have tried restrict immigration policies and it ended up crippling the economy because like chapelle said, “Americans don’t wanna work that hard for low prices”
True, but the flip side is that immigrant labor drives wages down - why hire a local for a job when a desperate immigrant will do it for half the price?
The reality is that wages have been stagnant since the 1970s while the cost of living has skyrocketed - address this issue and you will have no issues filling jobs (with or without immigrants).
@kiwikemist 'enslaves the youth to work all day everyday in exchange for a hole in the wall studio apartment while also expecting them to magically dupe their $ and create families' nice one capitalist nationalists
@@wilberwhateley7569 minimum wage laws sure are poggers.. make exploitation illegal lol wtf dude
@@wilberwhateley7569 the data for immigrants driving wages down or keeping them stagnant is very scant, what has been more strongly linked is actually rates (and political representation) of unionisation, with low rates being linked to lower wage growth, and higher rates with stronger wage growth.
@@HaloDrwhoSG1SGASGU 1. There’s plenty of evidence for immigration driving down wages - just look at who’s filling all those agricultural jobs that pay less than minimum wage: were they not there, agricultural companies would be forced to raise wages to attract labor. Keep in mind that many of those immigrants are undocumented and thus won’t unionize (they don’t want to risk being deported).
2. I am not blaming the immigrants themselves for this situation - they are just acting on their best interests in a labor market that’s stacked against them. I blame the corporate entities that exploit them for cheap labor and a corrupt government that stirs up foreign conflicts that ruin the economic structures of foreign lands (forcing large segments of the population to immigrate)!
Hi Kavernacle. Hope you get to read this. I am an oldie leftie (69) living in Japan. Liked and subscribed to your channel for a while now. Because of my age I don't understand some of your cultural references e.g. about computer games. I just want to thank you for your section about the Japanese Communist Party. It is easy to stereotype Japan as being conservative and right wing. I have lived here since 2012 and I can tell you that the truth is more nuanced than that. There is certainly a gender gap and a generation gap. As in other countries most people who vote are older and more conservative. The trouble here as in other countries is that most young people don't bother to vote. The voting rate here is pathetic, not much over 50%. If voting here was compulsory, as it is in Australia (a successful multicultural society) the results would be quite different. My Japanese wife always votes for the Japanese Communist Party. Japan is definitely not an economically libertarian society. In some ways it is even socialistic, with its government funded health system, excellent public transport and free, clean public toilets everywhere etc. Japanese society is slow to change but recently they have opened up their immigration acceptance a little. I myself today have just had my partner visa accepted (up until now I was on a professor visa) so this evening I am celebrating!
gratz
you're a professor? what do you teach! that's so cool.
Thank you for offering your perspective sir. ラブライブザレボリューション
what these people do not understand is that in japan you can't really be an individual, you have to blend in as one of the normal people. Etc. Basically, there's no freedom there. As far as I know. Correct me if I'm wrong.
*can't ? You may have made a mistake.
@@doughnutboyo6922 Oh thank you lol i'll fix that
Depends.
Is your concept of freedom muriKKKan or sane?
As a Japanese, you're not wrong. The western capitalist system has destroyed the country and has essentially turned us into a soulless casket.
@@user-pn3im5sm7k Aww that's not nice at all :( I wish it wasn't the case. I hope things will change eventually.
Can we just forget about Kojima's (based) politics and talk about how gay he is for Mads Mikkelsen (completely understandable though)
Honestly who isn't infatuated with Mads? He's real charming
Yes we most definitely can. Also did you know Mads is a Slavboo. He just watches nothing but Balkan memes and I'm pretty sure that's all they talk about.
or that his self insert canonically hooks up with big boss lol
Mads Mikkelsen is pretty great to be fair.
"low crime rate" Laughs in yakuza
Yakuza reference
Funnily enough the Yakuza are apparently on their last legs and are getting replaced by more violent and more scattered groups, Let's ask Shogo made a really interesting video about, I'd also recommend watching the videos about chikan and the treatment of minorities.
*Stares in Bill Murray*
@@freshFerdinand Is this what Kiryu’s and Someya’s fight was about?
@@Finnboy-ml5jv I'm not that far into the Yakuza series, so I don't know. Interestingly Yakuza zero and like a dragon actually touches upon quite a few of Japan's societal issues, but without actually glorifying the Yakuza.
If Japan is the model socitey then we need more maid boys and men trying to be kawaii.
I'm kawaii and masculine, get you a man that can do both
@@thotslayer9914 Me, or Meow nover?
Can't wait for them to head there and realize there are no subtitles.
You mean they're dubbed???
@@justinbremer2281 Your reply is funny, not because of how likely some of these folks will say that, but also that at least 1000 people in Japan CAN speak proper English. I mean, there's over 100 million people in Japan, no doubt a fair bit of them speak English. They're HEAVILY inspired by the American media that came before AND after WW2.
On topic of japan and immigration. Japan has extremely harsh border controls and you need to submit a lot of personal data and make yourself trackable for the authorities to be even allowed into the country. ( One interesting fact which is rather funny in hindsight: In 2018, me and other tourists entering the country also had to undergo a certain test which might indicate wether you are infected with a Coronavirus.) There were tons of policemen in the room monitoring all. Compared to japan, the border controls here in germany are ridiculously lax.
There were more migrants than right wingers often claim. Many from sub saharan africa. Interestingly, when I went to japan, I almost never saw migrants from muslim countries (just once). Many migrants I saw worked in Kabukicho (If you are a gamer, you know this neighborhood under the name Kamarucho in the Yakuza games).
These were my impression.
@@thotslayer9914 yes
3:42 Japan still discriminates against Burakumin (they’re “ethnically Japanese”) and that doesn’t even get into how they treat the Ainu, native okinawans, established korean descendants, “hafus”. Part of the reason they had their own BLM solidarity marches was because police beat a Kurdish man.
Just in the Jontron part, and right off the bat, you know you're making the exact wrong argument for them, right? Bringing up xenophobia and anti-immigrant sentiment is an obvious red flag for a lefty, but a righty absolutely revels in those two aspects.
If you want to debate a righty, you would go along the lines of Destiny. Show how their severe homogeneity and cultural isolationism/exclusion leads to an aging population, "herbivore males," and the loss of freedom of expression. Their ultranationalist parties may seem appealing to freaks and "a bit much" to those who don't understand their ideals to be nazi-adjacent, but bring in the shit where part of that identity is absolute submission to hierarchy. The lack of free expression and submission to elders due to social concerns leads to the highest suicide rates in the world. Nationalist, far right-wing conservative politicians calling for war in conquest (seriously, read the lyrics to the first Attack on Titan opening... I knew that artist was a nationalist for years before having it comfirmed just last month).
You need to give them negatives that impact THEM. Lack of diversity is a GOAL to the right, so don't use that in rebuttal. Instead, tell them about black companies and 13-hour workdays, six days a week, and the competitive nature of their rigid job structure (complete with only being able to take college entry exams or job hunt during annual "seasons," like some kind of football draft). Tell them about monthly salaries, rather than weekly. Talk about how the society generally accepts everyone to be two-faced, as no one should offer dissenting opinions, nor express their real opinions. *Japan is the **_ultimate_** PC culture.* Because your regular-ass, "lazy" American would be given pause by all that shit.
They might fall back and "well, that's why we're saying this is the greatest country on Earth! You'd rather live here, right?"
And then you could say "hey, *you* were the one that brought up Japan as a model and didn't know anything about it... other than the race makeup."
Sean Darbe
_"Show how their severe homogeneity and cultural isolationism/exclusion leads to an aging population, "herbivore males," and the loss of freedom of expression."_
Well, except they aren't really all that homogenous of a society; that's a massive, popular misconception/mischaracterization being extrapolated by people who don't really know what they're talking about or are just confused. To be fair, only in the last few years was I made acutely aware of the fact that it's actually just a popular misconception and in no way tells the full story. Japan's population/society is much more complex than some people (especially Right-Wingers with an agenda fueled through confirmation bias and ignorance) will have you believe. We shouldn't meet them halfway on ignorant arguments/points that have little factual merit. Just because these Right-Wingers personally *think* that Japan is severely homogenous, doesn't mean it's true.
"Japanese" isn't an ethnicity, but rather it's a nationality (much like "American" isn't an ethnicity) and the Japanese government counts their citizenry is actually full of numerous ethnic divergences between different peoples. Here, I'll just share an actual Japanese commenter's insight:
"Japan is ethnically homogenous."
This is absolutely not true. So firstly, the 98% stats isn't about ethnicity. It's about nationality and citizenship. There is no such thing as the "Japanese ethnicity" and the Japanese census does not keep data based on ethnic backgrounds. This is really important for a few key reasons. This means that if someone like my parents become a citizen, then they would be counted as part of that 98%. So under that definition, I would be part of that 98% even if I am not of Yamato, Ryukyuan, Ainu, or any other ethnicities typically associated with Japan.
This would be like saying America is ethnically homogenous because 93% of people living in America hold American citizenship.
This is why when right-wingers attempt to mention the 98% stats it's important to counteract that and debunk such a claim. If citizenship is the metric for homogeneity then almost every country on the planet would be homogenous. But right-wingers seem to think that one, "Japanese" is an ethnic group, and Two, that the stat measures ethnicity. Both of these claims are false.
The concept of Japanese and what it means is literally written into the constitution. Specifically the Article 14. Japanese is not an ethnic group but rather a nationality. In terms of ethnic groups, the majority ethnic group in Japan is Yamato but even within Yamato, there are sub-ethnic groups, and the gathering of all mainlanders as Yamato is also somewhat arbitrary. Today, besides the Far-Right, no one uses Yamato and Japanese interchangeably, and ironically enough, I see more foreigners outside of Japan do this more than Japanese people themselves.
destiny isn't left. he's a 2000s conservative. conservatism just left destiny behind is all.
@@kevinmclarkey621 I am fully aware. But in this context, he is taking a left position against Jon. I'll bet that's why he garners a bit past basic respect.
@@donnydogpiss4533 I understand, but it's irrelevant. There are things you cannot help, even when completely assimilating to the culture that will naturally make a decent chunk uncomfortable, such as having _any kind of tattoo, or being black OR white._ Dude, I've been following, chatting with, watching, reading and listening to expatriots from other countries... for more than a decade, now. Japan can be even worse than the US in quite a few regards. I mean shit... part of how the very society is set up is fuckin systemic abuse towards it's own people, because "it can't be helped" had been made an acceptable answer you're supposed to tell yourself as to why you're bent over a barrel.
@@donnydogpiss4533 also, let me ask... _how_ did they get their Constitution?
I used to want to move to japan, until I found out how xenophobic it is and overworked people are
Same 😅
Also you're completely fucked if accused of a crime even if you had nothing to do with it.
Not true
So, it's just like America.
@@Sgt-Wolf Not quite. If you can speak decent English no one will question your nationality as an American. No matter how well you speck Japanese or how much you've mastered local customs you will never be Japanese in the eyes of locals
Can you do a video on trad wives and their association with the far right aka Mrs Midwest, Robyn Riley etc. I find them super interesting/sinister😋
In particular, Mrs Midwest, as she tries to hide her extreme views and pull young women in by talking about “softer things like skin care.” She has a strange obsession with Japan and South Korea too. Xx
Yes, it's very sinister, especially when they're obsessed with East Asia (except China because 'China Bad' therefore 'Chinese Culture and People Bad'). We already have a long history of Asian women being seen by foreigners as being the apex of femininity and fetishising us that way, and these tradwives are just next in line to perpetuate it. Beauty norms and gender roles among East Asian cultures are so horribly strict, that the pressures Anglo and Euro cultures and nations are under (to that end) honestly pale in comparison.
How are they obsessed with Japan and South Korea?
trad wives only exist because conservatives are too dumb to make sex robots...
The idea of Kojima being a nationalist is wild. Like seriously if you've paid any attention to a single thing his games have ever said that is just a wild thing to believe.
It is in part due to several reasons. Firstly, Japan worked with the Nazi's during the Second World War, this, combined with Japan's refusal to teach about the conflict until one reaches the university level, leads to a number of Japanese people being unaware of exactly what the Nazi's are, meaning they are ignorant of their crimes and thus, have no problem using Nazi symbology. It doesn't help that Japan's refusal to teach World War 2 history comes from the atrocities they committed, which reached the point if the Nazis weren't committing the Holocaust, then Japan would have been the worst of the Axis powers.
The second is their own general lack of knowledge and understanding of literary themes. Tayna the Evil is a good example of this, as the person who wrote the story is an avowed Communist. The whole point of their work is to show that the military-industrial complex and Japan's overbearing and crushing corporate system are closely related things, if not one and the same, something that flies over most American readers' heads. Attack on Titan is another example of this lack of understanding of literary themes. Many in the alt-right cheer on Eren's genocide plan, but pay absolutely zero attention to how this isn't painted as a good thing. It literally causes an enemy mine between Eren's best friends and some of his worse enemies in an attempt to stop him from causing a mass extinction event. In one of the final chapters, another character states that the only reason this has happened is because of the hate that existed for Eren's people. That the hate they had for them ultimately created a monster ready to return that hate.
The third is just simply fanservice. Not really nuanced, but it is what it is.
Japan were the worst of the axis lmao.
americans talking about my country is probably the funniest thing ever.. they know like fuck all.. about us
Funny that most weebs Nazis even tho most of popular anime is insanely left wing cowboy bebop fullmetal alchemist trigun mgs and oh yeah evanglion and Metroid
Japan is slowly but surely opening up to foreigners living and working there, just because its ageing homogeneous society is becoming a problem.
Almost like an ethnostate is a dumb idea
@@themangoman9315 its shooting yourself in the foot, metaphorically.
@@melelconquistador absolutely
to all the people referring to themselves as "left-wing weebs": stop calling yourself a weeb! pure and simple! it's not a good term
But the word has changed in the west. It’s not the original meaning about someone obsessed with Japan but more along the lines of an otaku. It’s like how people don’t use literally correctly anymore.
@@graycat7704 I would hate being an Otaku... Shudders...
They also ignore the INSANELY high suicide rate in Japan. Is it still the highest in the world, or just up there? And, ironically (maybe not ironically?), some of the absolute worst sex education on the planet. Japan has a TON of issues.
How does Japan have the worst sex education?
Henti taught me a lot! Jk.
But I'm genuinely asking how is it bad?
@@TheNoraa890 It's just very low quality. It's not quite abstinence only, but in most cases it's close. A literal lack of information, boys are rarely taught how girls work, and girls how boys work, etc. Basically the awful depictions of hentai really are how many of those artists think it works. None of that even covers consent, which alone has issues there. Obviously I haven't gone myself, so I do not have specific details, but... yeah.....
Also they ignore the fact Japan has immigrants, Chinese, Filipinos, one of their star athletes Is half black Japanese. The fact they imported Brazilians and Peruvians of Japanese ancestors but are culturally South American, not to mention a community of ethnic Koreans who are not citizens and live in their own bubble.
@@newbie1958 Hell, one of their more popular pop stars for a time was a cross dressing Australian wrestler.
But I simp for Japan as well.. No, not their imperialism and fascism and war crimes. But their food, toys, movies, music, art…
I'm a huge fan of Edo period and/or feudal Japanese society, but I don't know much about modern Japan. They're still pretty damn racist, so they're not role models by any stretch of the imagination
I like some stuff from Japan, but I laugh at the idea of it being perfect. They were a brutal imperialist power that destroyed millions of lives and used "soft power" through kawaii culture to seem harmless in the present day, never apologizing for their actions. They are a xenophobic country that is so against the individual they cause people to become seriously mentally ill, and leave them to fend for themselves.
I like some things from Japan, but Japan itself is horrifically imperfect.
Japan has apologized since before they even surrendered in WWII officially
@@Warsie "Apologized" you mean lip service while not doing a damn thing and praying at a shrine to war criminals. Sure Jan.
@@Warsie that was not an apology. Unless they start paying for what they did to other countries and openly admit/teach about their real past (like the about "comfort girls") then I would consider it a decent first step.
@@sillycookie You know the Japanese government sent reparation money to comfort women right? And they do show WWII war crimes in Japanese textbooks right?
Also you said "apologize" not "pay reparations or publishshit in their education system" which are two different things.
@@theangryholmesian4556 Japan offered and did provide reparations to comfort women. Also Japan dealt with all that shit in a treaty with the ROK in the 1960s. The DPRK won't negotiate with Japan (and does such fun things as abbducting Japanese to make movies for them or training spies lmao)
If anyone here is interested in more japanese left wing stuff, I would suggest you to read Kisetsu Morita manga like Black magic industry or 300 years old witch (recently made into anime).
There's not "one" Indian communist party. There are at least 3 Communist Parties of India (CPI) that I know of: CPI, CPI-M(Marxist) and CPI-M (Maoist) which is a successor of Marxist-Leninist parties and is currently a banned party engaged in guerrilla warfare against the Indian state. Additionally, there are many socialist aligned regional political parties
So only two communist parties and a fascist party posing as communist.
@@shis1988 Nope. Two electoral parties and one revolutionary party
I am ethnic Japanese and Japanese citizen. (God I have to explain this since there are some ex-foreigner naturalized Japanese these days) We don''t want either far-left nor far-right foreigners... All we want is just to be left alone. We don't wanna get dragged in the political division happening in the western countries.
socialism is international
@@bootyspoon4675 yeah and most people hate socialism because it sucks.
and no, I don't like capitalism either but in comparison to socialism, I would rather have capitalism. not crony capitalism or corporatism. jusst simple pure capitalism with zero government intervention, minus of course when it comes to national security and not allowing foreign rich people from questionable corrupt countries to buy private businesses or property on free democratic countries.
unfortunately this is what is happening in the West.
Chinese, Russian and Arab olygarchs own lots of assets in Western Europe, Australia and North America.
@@LevisH21 lmao "cronyism" and "corporatism" are just the inevitable outcome of late-stage capitalism. And then you go on to immediately describing government intervention like dude, wtf do you actually believe in? The US is far from free or democratic. You're living in a fantasy world.
@@bootyspoon4675 because corruption and nepotism in socialist countries never exists, correct?
Please do an episode about Polish far right politics, what happens on the border of Poland and Belarus and the 11th of November Fascist Parade in Poland
not only to me as a human, but especially to me as an austrian who is well aware of their country's history, the idea of striving towards or promoting an ethnically homogenous society is deeply disturbing
Everybody start the don't simp kids Chan
Mucha suerte en España, esperamos ver nuevos videos pronto!
This was a very informative video. I had no idea that Japan had a communist party! Thank you for this.
I am from Spain and I am SO interested about hearing your thoughts on the situation here, both historical and current, but of course i also hope you like it here! =^_^= have safe travels.
When I was in japan, I witnessed a left wing demo, but sadly, they were not hard line communists but what americans call liberals and they were pretty embarassing. Their leader was actually drunk during the demo (and dressed in clothing which made him look like a wannabe hitler. no joke.) They had signs with campaign slogans written in english, but full of spelling mistakes. And their campaign flyers/handouts were written in a style which was for small children. And they wanted to illustrate that japan has a racism problem by showing data, but the data about how prevalent racism was, was not about racism in japan. (And interestingly, according to their flyers, they were sponsored by the Open Society institute.)
Never send libtards to do a lefty's job
@@Robin-jk6wz I fullheartedly agree.
If Japan is a perfect society I would like to like in an imperfect one
The JCP turns 100 this year so happy Birthday Japanese Communist Party! As an American with Japanese ancestry and as a Japanese historian with far-left political leanings, of course they would be my party of choice if I ever could vote in Japanese Federal elections and I always try to talk about them whenever I can, much to the chagrin of my grandmother who is an LDP supporter and big fan of Shinzo Abe (*Barf*) Sad part is I do more to avenge her father's sacrifice than she does. (He was drafted into the army for World War 2 and died in action.) Specifically he starved to death because his superior officer hoarded all his regiment's food for himself.
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Another funny thing about japan is that, during the chilean alection of december, most of the japanese voters supported the leftist candidate Gabriel Boric lmao.
Wait how big is a population of Japanese in Chile?
And one other thing I have noticed with right wingers is that they have this weird double standard when it comes to laws and things. Like for example, Japan have very strict laws when it comes to assault then they go "that's just the way they are". Meanwhile if we go by lets say, any of the Scandinavian countries given that they are their favorite punching bag, then it is "SJW Feminist controlled communism! Arghhh!" or something to that effect.
Anything to fit their narrative
The Communist Party of Japan is sadly unremarkable in that. It is technically a communist party but that openly opposes socialism past and present, and outright claims that only electoralism is correct and whose policies are essentially just socdem AT BEST. Like that is half the communist parties of Europe. There is a reason they, like many countries, had a Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) though it folded in 1999. One of the best examples is in Canada, with their CPC being revisionist as fuck, with a very prominent and early anti-revisionist/Hoxahist party the CPC-ML.
This shit is common,Brazil has two communist parties that claim to be the oldest communist parties in their country. The Communist Party of Brazil, and the Brazilian Communist Party
They're pretty much just socdems/demsocs masquerading as communists.
That's good, though. Communism is a totalitarian ideology.
so...jontron is still gross, good to know
I mean what you expect when they cant even grasp the message of western media either, theres still people that idolize Walter white (Heisenberg) as a genious badass that didnt settled down with a mediocre life, without grasping the toxic displays of pride, ego, agression and pettyness that led to His downfall, an obvious critic about men behaviour and mindset when It comes to family, work, etc
I hate these kinds of arguments because Far-right vs Far-Left can mean completely different things depending on the context of culture you are talking about.
Everybody know the most unrealistic things in anime is one guy flipping burger in McDonald can afford an apartment in Tokyo.
The "Against Japanism" podcast is a pretty good leftist show. I especially like the "Solidarity with Palestinian Resistance" episode. You should give it a listen.
I legit expected to hear about how Westerners love Japan because they love anime. Then I was struck with the revelation that they just want to live their lives without ever seeing a non-white person again. 😐
this video is like the tonic to the other ones you've made about japan and tojoboos, keep up the great work!
Honestly I just automatically 👍 every time I click on your videos even before I watch it (so I don't forget). I figure the odds are in my favor I'll like it anyway lol.
We need every subscriber to be like you! 😅
CPC God, CPJ zzz cuck
Kav with yet another banger. Oh yeah brother, 2022 is gonna be something else for your channel.
Tbf the Communist Party of Japan has long since turned into a socdem party. Their founding generation was extremely close with the CPC, and fought at their side against the KMT and the japanese. Many of them were POWs at first. But as time went by the later generations were bought off the revolutionary path. Or just murdered by reactionaries.
Btw. great of you to use the actual acronym of the CPC!
This has always been weird to me.
Code Geas, my fav Anime, is literally based on the multi-racial, multi gender main cast waging an Anti Fascist, Anti Imperialist struggle against 'Britania'.
The National Liberation movement (Black Knights, and the Japanese Liberation Front) are labeled Terrorists, while the population are crushed by Britania's Colonial, racist, extractive regime.
Idk how right Wingers see this and think 'Yeah, this totally validates my politics'.
Ghibli films notoriously have a Green, anti industrial/anti war message. Idk how right Wingers watch Ghibli and come away re-enforced in their beliefs?
Wow that sounds like a really good series. Any particular place where I can find it?
@@robertoleary5470 Anywhere.
Try Crunchyroll or Netflix.
If not, then Sail the Seas 😂😎
I think they’re just really, really bad at media analysis. I’ve seen so many other things titled ‘why right wingers don’t understand ____’. And it’s always them thinking it’s a right wing message when it’s the opposite.
Would be interesting to learn more about leftist ideas in Miyazaki’s works as well I totally didn’t know about the metal gear stuff
Another commenter said Miyazaki was in the communist party
@@TheKavernacle he was a communist at some point. I've read that in several sources and probably Wikipedia. Although, I clearly recall he wanted to make a movie about a red soldier, but he didn't go through with it. Perhaps his pacifism conflicted with portraying a warrior protagonist?
Anyway, I learned he became disenfranchised long ago and no longer identifies as one.
@@TheKavernaclealso Japan can't be compared to any Western country especially Western countries In the New World continents North America South America Central America Caribbean Islands Australia New Zealand since these countries where settlement Colonies established by The Spanish Empire French Empire Dutch Empire Portgual the Brtish Empire and to a lesser extent Sweden.
@@TheKavernaclefor example Mexico when it was colonized by the Spanish Empire was called New Spain. It was a of Spain a settlement colony. America the orginal 13 states that where orginally 13 Colonies where Brtish settlement Colonies. Look up New Jersey its named after a area in England. New Hampshire named after a place in England. Boston named after a place in England. The entire New England region. Connecticut Rhode Island New Hampshire Massachusetts. That area is named New England after England. Because the colonizers imperialist wanted a Another England in North America. There is no colony of New Japan. Like Mexico was called New Spain or New England In America etc
There is currently 99% mask usage in Japan, no guns and extreme work culture. Wonder if they will adhere to any of that? Also socialized healthcare... Hmmmm.
Japan also has a high suicide rate as well but right wingers wont talk about that
It's the dream eutopia
People have such a strange view of Japan in the west, I'm an Ainu who studies in Europe and for some reason people thinks Japan is the best place ever but it isn't lol
Probably because the Japanese animation industry. They make the kind of movies and shows western executives wouldn’t even bother with
It's the best place ever because it's ethnically homogeneous.
I just find it really really REALLY weird anytime I see someone who isn't significantly indigenous complain about immigration. . . and I find it super weird when a guy with an Iranian background talks about not accepting immigrants from countries that have problematic relations with his. . . cognitive dissonance through the roof.
Like I'm pasty, I know I didn't get that from the like 2% Iroquois in my blood, and I wouldn't dare talk s*** about people coming into "my country" because I know it's my hunk of land.
>it's a hunk of land
If countries are just a "hunk of land" why are people flooding countries in the West every day?
@@KingOfInsanity777 because their hunk of land was turned into a war zone - often due to both direct and indirect interference of the country they're going to.
@@sayastra
Great, now tell those same people from Iraq and Syria who have a natural love for their country, heritage, and culture that it was all just "a hunk of land." I hope you have running shoes lol.
@@KingOfInsanity777 lol, the straw is flying
My ojisan, who is a descendant of the daimyo Mōri Motonari through the Kikkawa clan, confirmed that Japan is nowhere near conservative, and it is true that Japan has a huge communist party and ofc a feminist movement.
Hayao Miyazaki is a hardcore leftist
just look into how japan "chose" kamikaze pilots in ww2 to understand why the far right love them so much
Hideo Kojima the nationalist.... that always makes games about America or Americans..... yes, so nationalistic.
@@nikolamilicevic1040 Sure but in his career he has made zero games that are set in Japan outside of Tokimeki memorial of all things but thats not his choice. Just saying if you said an American patriot film maker based all his movies in Europe I'm sure everyone would think its weird.
When I first started seeing anime back in the day, I wondered why the Japanese made cartoons about white ppl
John Tron is not Far Right my guy.
You got to remember that The JCP has long sought to represent the ethnic minorities present in Japan and in its membership they're overlap in Ainue Civil rights activists, union activists, and local members of JCP in Hokkaido and the Kurils where the home of Ainue.
I recently read about how a bunch of conservative Christians got upset upon learning that Take Me To Church was a song about homosexuality and the Catholic Church's attitude toward it rather than just a guy asking to be taken to church.
Being conservative might just be a symptom of some kind of mental disability that prevents someone from understanding the basic concept of subtext.
In the process of watching RUclips in English-speaking countries, I was surprised to find many foreigners claiming that Japan is right-wing. My personal opinion is that Japan has only recently become right-wing; in the 1970s and 1980s, there was a very large left-wing movement, especially among university students.
ただこの左翼運動の後に反動は結構強くなっちゃったかな。それが理由なのかな？？
Me thinks people got scared when the elected leader of the socialist party got murdered. In front of a live studio audience. With a katana.
Soooooo yeah. :/
Hope people wake up.
Since you commented, you are leftist in Japan. If you look at Japan's neighbors, do you really think it is a good idea for Japan to go further left? And the 70-80s, do you mean that in a good way? I hope not...especially the jra, what a wonderful time...