Poor Japan

[Cream Soda]

Oh man such a shame too. Japan has such fine ladies. Probably in my top 5 list of best women from the world.

Don't worry, they'll last for the rest of our youth at least. I probably won't give a fuck by the time I'm 70-80 anyway

[Pikarya]

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[Ryany]

I wish the US would donate our chronic breeders to Japan.

Current did some 30 minute or 1 hour documentary on this recently talking about how Japan would rather develop robots to do the work than take immigrants or something similar to that.

[Trigun]

By 2060 Japan will become bizarro New York.
It will be the melting pot of the world, everyone will be nice, and it will be a place of absolute prosperity.

Everyone will live in Hong Kong though and will commute by bullet train to Tokyo for work everyday.
They will complain about how it takes 43 seconds to get back and forth.

[Cantih]

While the shut-ins and 2D nuts can be pretty awful, maybe some progress could be made by, you know, not being total dicks to them in the first place driving them to it?

[Eaglestrike]

While the shut-ins and 2D nuts can be pretty awful, maybe some progress could be made by, you know, not being total dicks to them in the first place driving them to it?

Might take a long while. I know even here in the US there is a subset of geeks who consider sex as a huge test and they take it soooo seriously (pretty sure we've had threads about it on this site) that they're not even able to perform. Pretty sure you just tack on Japanese honor/shaming and that's all you need to create those shut-ins and 2D addicts.

[Lucavi]

Not saying the ladies are perfect, but there isn't much in this world that's going to make me just say "aw fuck it; pussy aint worth it for the best physical years of my life".

[Abandon]

Original article:

http://http://news.yahoo.com/japan-p...112432967.html

TOKYO (AP) — Japan's population of 128 million will shrink by one-third and seniors will account for 40 percent of people by 2060, placing a greater burden on a smaller working-age population to support the social security and tax systems.

The grim estimate of how rapid aging will shrink Japan's population was released Monday by the Health and Welfare Ministry.

In year 2060, Japan will have 87 million people. The number of people 65 or older will nearly double to 40 percent, while the national work force of people between ages 15 and 65 will shrink to about half of the total population, according to the estimate, made by the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research.

The total fertility rate, or the expected number of children born per woman during lifetime, in 2060 is estimated at 1.35, down from 1.39 in 2010 — well below more than 2 needed to keep the country's population from declining. But the average Japanese will continue to live longer. The average life expectancy for 2060 is projected at 90.93 for women, up from 86.39 in 2010, and 84.19 years for men, up from 79.64 years.

Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has pledged to push for social security and tax reforms this year. A bill he promised to submit by the end of March would raise the 5 percent sales tax in two stages to 8 percent in 2014 and 10 percent by 2015, although opposition lawmakers and the public pose challenges to its approval.

The institute says Japan has been the world's fastest aging country, and with its birthrate among the lowest, its population decline would be among the deepest globally in coming decades.

Experts say that Japan's population will keep losing 1 million every year in coming decades and the country urgently needs to overhaul its social security and tax system to reflect the demographic shift.

"Pension programs, employment and labor policy and social security system in this country is not designed to reflect such rapidly progressing population decline or aging," Noriko Tsuya, a demography expert at Keio University, said on public broadcaster NHK. "The govern

So, who is with me in going to Japan to knock up some non-snaggletooth ladies?

going there later this year, shall start populating the place with mixed babies asap

[warc]

um i need 3 seats on that plane
me warc ceejay
lesss gooo

Seriously though, I'm first to admit I'm a weeb with yellow fever as you can probably tell from my FoD posts. However real Japanese girls aren't really high on the list of worldwide hotness. It'd be something like toptier asians > toptier white/euro > middle tier white/euro > middletier asians. Most people falling into the midtier obviously.


I wonder if the people who designed social security never thought that the population might decrease or something. Seems like its built to fail.

[Cantih]

going there later this year, shall start populating the place with mixed babies asap

Oh god, Abandon TOKYO STORY HERE, can't wait.
Go do that voodoo that you do so well.

(Also, did your deployment change, or is this after all the piratebusting?)

[Metah]

yep, most companies you need a BA to get a work visa. I have a friend who works for NOVA in Osaka over there and says that he's run into a lot of foreigners who roll the dice and lie about having a degree and its really hit or miss if you get caught or not.

This is true. In fact as far as I can tell, unless you use your Working Holdiay Visa (in which you only get 1 in your lifetime for that country), you cannot even stay in Japan without a bachelor's at an accredited university. My sister is a good example, she was working in Japan some years ago using that, and she didn't have a university degree (just a college degree, from CDI college or something I think, something that's not accredtied), and even though her company wanted to keep her and she wanted to stay, immigrations wouldn't approve it.

I'm surprised he's run into a lot of foreigners who lie about having a degree, and that people get away with it is almost funny considering how much they crack down on foreigners in Japan. For example, they have a 24 hour hot line anyone can call and report anonymously if they believe that a foreigner is in Japan illegally, or is lying about their qualifications, etc. That's kind of excessive right? Who's gonna call at 3 AM and be like "BILL'S ONLY A HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE, GET THIS CHUCKLEFUCK OUTTA HERE!"? But I guess the option's available :\

[Anton]

Last time I was in Japan, birthrate was a major issue. It is and will be, I think, because the culture would have to change before it turns positive. That won't happen any time soon. Hence, major issue.

Young Japanese are emigrating. The kids, Japanese women in particular, are leaving the country in droves and never coming back. Women's fashion in Japan is all-foreign. They don't share their parents' attitude towards foreigners - rather, they are recognizing more opportunities abroad. Once they go off to study, they hook up, live their lives abroad, and forget about Japan. I have it on good local knowledge that the current preference among Japanese women is the foreigner.

This thread's already described the... interests of the older men. Everyone knows about that. But old perverts aren't population drivers - the kids are, and they're living abroad in growing numbers. Perhaps to escape the perverts?

The real killer though is xenophobia. First of all, you cannot immigrate to Japan. IIRC, most Western countries are shifting to declining population. But our countries don't run into this problem, because we allow a chunk of immigrants to cover the gap. In Japan, unless Japanese runs in your immediate family, you cannot become a citizen - full-stop. Forget it. You can get a work visa (1 year in your life, then GFTO forever), but the rules on citizenship are draconian. So, right off the bat, Japan's population will shrink assuming a "western" birth rate, because the government has straight-up blocked immigration.

Then you've got the cultural xenophobia - less in-your-face these days, but still very common. The fact remains, if you're 5'10 and white, that you stick out like a sore thumb. Sure, everyone is very friendly during your stay, but to the vast majority you don't even exist - until you're looking for the washroom. It's all done very passive-aggressive in Japan - big smile, friendly, even when you screwed up every manner in the book, nobody rages in your face. All smiles. But you know you don't belong, they know you know, and you know they know.

Seriously, I would love to visit Japan again. For a vacation, couple weeks, it's an awesome place with all sorts of cool shit, tourism up the ying yang, historic, AMAZING FOOD, the history of an island civilization removed from civilization.

But I would HATE to actually have to live there for an extended time like, say, years in Japan for a foreign business. Even if you took up the culture to the nth degree (spoke japanese, super-mannered, whole 9 yards), you'll always be the 5'10 white guy everyone has to be nice around because 'well that's what the rules say', and you know the rulebook too, so it's just a big culture wall your silly white weeaboo self can't break through. "Honoured guest" is like the best a foreigner can become, which makes great vacations but bad stays, if you catch my drift.
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What you're left with is a country where the kids are leaving wherever possible, the adults are way too busy with work to properly settle and have children, the government wants nothing to do with immigrants (and to an extent, neither does the populace). Is it any wonder that Japan is heading towards "Creepy Elder Island"?

[Lucavi]

going there later this year, shall start populating the place with mixed babies asap

Pave the way for us supporting troops, Abandon. We'll provide you with the necessary reinforcements: extra lube, more red bull, a sweat rag, and a few buckets of popeye's chicken and red beans and rice.

On a serious note, it goes back to what I said earlier. You couple Japan's absurdly stiff "traditionalism" and xenophobia and this is what you get. The youth will typically always eschew tradition in the face of globalization, so long as they aren't denied access to that globalization, like with religious fanatic families. You can try hard suppression, like China, or "soft" suppression, like Japan, but neither really works. As much as they probably love the thought of returning to the days of the shogunate, that era is long, long gone.

[Not Kuno]

Then you've got the cultural xenophobia - less in-your-face these days, but still very common. The fact remains, if you're 5'10 and white, that you stick out like a sore thumb. Sure, everyone is very friendly during your stay, but to the vast majority you don't even exist - until you're looking for the washroom. It's all done very passive-aggressive in Japan - big smile, friendly, even when you screwed up every manner in the book, nobody rages in your face. All smiles.
But you know you don't belong, they know you know, and you know they know. Seriously, I would love to visit Japan again. For a vacation, couple weeks, it's an awesome place. But I would HATE to actually have to live there for an extended time like, say, years in Japan for a foreign business. Even if you took up the culture to the nth degree (spoke japanese, super-mannered, whole 9 yards), you'll always be the 5'10 white guy everyone has to be nice around because 'that's what the rules say', and you know the rulebook too, so it's just a big culture wall your silly white self can't break. "Honoured guest" is like the best a foreigner can be, which makes great vacations, but bad stays, if you catch my drift.

When I was younger I was a total Weeaboo and then when I went to Japan and saw this first hand, it slapped that shit right out of me.

[Lucavi]

Yeah, I'm sure I'll have a great time being a 6'3" black guy. Should be a lot of fun. The good news is that since I'm said 6'3" black guy growing up in white suburbia, I'm already used to growing up feeling like the odd man out. It was never the kids my age, but their parents. God bless them for being so polite, but its just something you feel, and eventually, something you know.

I'm fully prepared for it, hence why my stay at Japan will be nothing but tourism, sake-drinking, sushi/sashimi/ramen-devouring, and hopefully, vagina-destroying.

[Xno Kappa]

Oh man, if them bitches be screaming over two inches I wonder how'd they react to my mandingo cock.

[archibaldcrane]

People are going to want to OTPHJ the shit out of you.

[Kuya]

When I was younger I was a total Weeaboo and then when I went to Japan and saw this first hand, it slapped that shit right out of me.

Was their veiled contempt for you that obvious that even a weeaboo could see it?

[Abandon]

Oh god, Abandon TOKYO STORY HERE, can't wait.
Go do that voodoo that you do so well.

(Also, did your deployment change, or is this after all the piratebusting?)

nah, it's the same deployment, and after that, Japan. Read up on what happened to FFG 47, USS Nicholas. I'll be doing the same thing, gooo VBSS.

[Demosthenes11]

fuck japan and their terrible culture of shame, perversion, and superiority complex.

so much fucked up shit goes on but young white faggots that saw an episode of a an anime once go there and because people are nice to them, it's such a great place.