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Takaichi, who says her hero is former British conservative leader Margaret Thatcher
She also wrote a positive review for a book in 1994 about election strategy that praises Hitler like a dozen times
wot if working long hours to pay rent...
in rent place?
and rent place can only be afforded by two people, with tax breaks if they are of different gender?
:extra-twisted:
and if they declare their romantic intentions in signed contract, they get extra-special tax breaks?
:mega-twisted:
legitimately, if you make it unaffordable to live on your own, shame people from living with family into adulthood (or make it legal for their family to mistreat them with impunity), ratchet homophobia to the highest levels, and ban birth control and even education about it while ramming "couplehood is salvation" down everyones' throats with every media outlet, you are gonna get mixed gender couples shacking up to survive and procreating unintentionally.
"moved into together out of necessity and accidentally had a kid" is a real data point.
maybe japan could start mass-kidnapping asian children who "look japanese enough" and raise them by the tens of thousands in state-run creches
maybe a bunch of those kids could end up still disenfranchised by wider Japanese society, despite being kidnapped and forcibly shoved into a Japanese identity, so either wind up working menial labor or forming the modern Yakuza
shit, did i make up something the japanese actually used to do? lemme guess, they did it to korean kids?
Yeah I thought you were referring to the Zainichi Koreans. A bunch of Korean kids were taken from their families, given new names and tossed into abusive education systems. Or just outright enslaved and made to work in mines or factories in the Japanese mainland. On top of that, when the allies in WW2 made Japan give Korea independence, the new government didn't even give citizenship to the Zainichi Koreans living in Japan. So Japan just stranded this large group of people it kidnapped in the first place, wouldn't let them have access to government healthcare, and forced them to register their identity with municipal governments and declare themselves as Koreans. Which wasn't great for avoiding discrimination, since now their neighbors or coworkers knew they were Korean. So Koreans wound up with fewer job prospects, less access to healthcare, and discrimination in regards to housing. Fast forward to today and something between 10% to 30% of yakuza have Korean heritage, despite Koreans making up less than 1% of the Japanese population.
Japanese history is sad
i was just sort of attempting to do generic japanese vibes... making up something so dark it's clearly not real.
uh.
holy shit that's wild
i fucking hate japan
This article is maybe one of the most condescending pieces of shit I've read in some time and I've barely gotten past the headline
Some highlights
But Takaichi’s victory is not necessarily a victory for women in general, critics say, especially after she secured it by forming an alliance with an Osaka-based party that will pull her coalition even further to the right.
Takaichi opposes same-sex marriage and favors keeping succession to men only in Japan’s shrinking imperial family. She also opposes changing the rules to make it easier for married women to keep their maiden names in Japan, where married couples are required to have the same surname.
A protege of assassinated former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, she advocates tougher immigration policies, the revision of Japan’s pacifist constitution and higher defense spending.
“I myself will throw out the term ‘work-life balance,’” Takaichi said. “I will work and work and work and work and work.”
Can't imagine why she wouldn't spark hope
Im mad that the internet both exposed to me to Japan but also ruined it for me. Japanese people are just as stupid as any other countries people. I miss when it was a mysterious near fictional place as i understood in my youth.
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