from the sounds of it, maybe you don't want to be a woman in Japan....

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But with all the tentacle rape going on, we already knew that...
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from the sounds of it, maybe you don't want to be a woman in Japan....

heechy keechy!

even their homeless look clean and respectable

I had no idea Japan was such a misogynistic piece of shit. For shame.

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Tragic.

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Tragic.


You see any of that there, Dag?

I've never been to Japan, but from what I've read it's a very structured culture.

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Sure did. Like many Asian countries- Japan never really had much of abra burning woman's liberation movement. Women are often treated as a servant class and once married, solely for raising the next generation.>> ^rougy:

>> ^dag:
Tragic.

You see any of that there, Dag?
I've never been to Japan, but from what I've read it's a very structured culture.

I can tell you from experience, the homeless situation in Japan is far from this clean or orderly. THIS is a public face. The homeless are not tolerated near city centers and are often spirited away to the rural area. My family there often took in the homeless as agricultural workers on our properties. Many were single mothers who were terribly (shockingly) abused and violated by Japanese men. A good deal of them became as close as family to us since their own families often shunned them as failures. A good portion of homeless people in the rural area could be classified as far from clean or respectable/honorable though. Many are very cut throat, even when opportunities are offered to them from a kind person.

The few homeless that remain in the city are VERY much functional. Often they are barely below the poverty level compared to others that end up in the rural portions of the country. Often the mentally or physically handicapped, provided they are not violent or a nuisance, are tolerated as well in the city. They make up a large growing portion of the homeless. Mental illness is rampant in Japan, but it is rarely spoken of.

^ Thanks, Tatsu.

If I were from another planet, I would say that something is wrong there.

Japan is not known for its homelessness.

An island that produces so many wealthy people,
must be wise indeed.



Is not the Earth a small blue island in a rich obsidian sea?

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I suppose that will teach them to be born with vaginas.

Japan has never been the socialist, welfare-state that Europe, the US, and much of the industrialized world seem to fancy. qq. Consider the source. The US and her allies are ALWAYS perpetrating evil on Al-Jazeera.

As one who appreciates japans art and culture, this makes me quite sad. maybe this is why no one touts japans government as something to appreciate.

Living here now. In general, Japan is a great place to live... for a foreigner. Extremely low crime rates. Okay medical insurance (National Health Insurance here, which has both pros and cons).

It would suck hard to be native Japanese though. Everyone here is working crazy hours--my friend who manages a restaurant literally works 7 days a week, from opening at 2PM until well after midnight. Lots of people doing mandatory unpaid overtime because the economy has been tanked for over a decade now.

The government here is a frickin' mess. The corruption that goes on here is just mind-boggling. They're thinking of electing as Prime Minister a guy who just a couple a months ago was facing prosecution for millions of (US) dollars worth of tax evasion. His secretary took the fall for for it and he claimed he didn't know anything about it--uh huh.

Women's issues are behind Western standards, but it's changing for the better rapidly. My wife will get 6-months paid maternity leave when she gets pregnant and we'll get boat-loads of cash from the government to offset the cost of the OBGYN visits and hospitalization costs. The government has been offering coupons for free health exams for women for common issues like breast and uterine cancer. Women almost always get solitary custody of kids in a divorce and have the right to deny the father access to the kids.

Still, there's a way to go obviously as this video shows. We have a friend who's an 18-year old single mother. Pretty tough, but she's got extended family that help her through it. A lot of my university students come from single-mom families and they tell me about how hard their moms work to pay for their education (most of them are working part-time jobs to help pay for school too).

In Japan, it's all about your connections. Japanese society places a huge emphasis on your personal connections--friends, family, and extended family. I imagine that part of the problem of why very little is being done for these people (single mothers or otherwise) is that there is something of a stigma against people who don't have those connections... Maybe from the Japanese perspective they feel there must be something wrong with a person who can't rely on family to help them when the chips are down.