Only because of pure ideology and a base that saw their manufacturing growth as a threat.
Once US capital realized that Japan could be a petri dish for neoliberalism and fascism they changed their tune and all the dipshit rubes followed suit
America had been pumping capital into Japan since the occupation. Japanese banks then responded through low interest loans and extensions of credit to basically anyone who asked. It resulted in a massively inflated tech sector, usually called the Japanese economic miracle. This scared the heck out of American capitalists. Japan briefly became the big evil country in a lot of American news/media in the 80s.
This fear would culminate with America raising interest rates and building alternate tech/computing sectors, Silicon Valley for one. Japan had a massive recession throughout the 90s, which is usually called the lost decade in Japan.
No, the lame lifestyle versions of rock an roll past it's prime.
Yakuza if you were to translate it creatively would be somethink like "snake eyes" it refers to a losing hand of cards and carries a spooky/bad connotation. Or like "8ball" or something tacky like you would see a gang be named in a boring B movie.
Beyond that they are half just conservative boomers in office buildings. So just as uncool as possible.
Society always viewed gangsters as complete scum. Right up until Hollywood started glorifying them. From The Public Enemy to The Godfather to Goodfellas to The Sopranos, they just make gangsters look badass.
Reminds me of how Liberals will make up a definition of democracy as a system where parties lose elections then visibly and verbally backspace once they realize "Hey that has bad implications for our biggest ally in asia".
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His sentence was cut short because he hung himself even though no one was gonna punish him lol
Was this Mishima
no
I love it when right-wing chuds celebrate him for ''saving Japan'' despite the fact that he was one of the few people who wasn't a pro-US lapdog
And yet the US still pulled the rug out form under them in the early 90’s
Only because of pure ideology and a base that saw their manufacturing growth as a threat.
Once US capital realized that Japan could be a petri dish for neoliberalism and fascism they changed their tune and all the dipshit rubes followed suit
Don't forget racism too!
First as tragedy....
I dunno what this is about can you elaborate?
He's probably talking about the Plaza Accords. Here's basically the first thing I found on DDG
https://kendawg.medium.com/how-the-plaza-accord-helped-the-us-destroy-the-japanese-economy-b4b24c20a9af
Thanks, that’s what I was referring to.
America had been pumping capital into Japan since the occupation. Japanese banks then responded through low interest loans and extensions of credit to basically anyone who asked. It resulted in a massively inflated tech sector, usually called the Japanese economic miracle. This scared the heck out of American capitalists. Japan briefly became the big evil country in a lot of American news/media in the 80s.
This fear would culminate with America raising interest rates and building alternate tech/computing sectors, Silicon Valley for one. Japan had a massive recession throughout the 90s, which is usually called the lost decade in Japan.
That's the basics of it
Remember Die Hard? The Nakatomi Building? The subtext being that the Japanese were taking over America and buying everything?
Yeah well a few years after that Japan got rekt. There's a reason nobody studies Japanese at school any more.
hawai'i erasure :angery:
LOL ok except Hawaii. The Japanese couldn't take it during the war, so they came back afterwards and bought the place.
Good Japanese food in Honolulu though. So authentic, at one place I was denied entry because I wasn't Japanese. That's a real Japanese restaurant!
lol what the fuck omg
Imagine how based they could have been if socialism had won
:doomer: Probably would've just gotten couped
Nuked again
The yakuza are effectively rockabilly and paid by the US government to break unions
are you talking about rock and roll?
No, the lame lifestyle versions of rock an roll past it's prime.
Yakuza if you were to translate it creatively would be somethink like "snake eyes" it refers to a losing hand of cards and carries a spooky/bad connotation. Or like "8ball" or something tacky like you would see a gang be named in a boring B movie.
Beyond that they are half just conservative boomers in office buildings. So just as uncool as possible.
The Hong Kong triads attacked the protesters in 2019. This is because the British used to employ them for the same role back in the 1960s.
So, just out of pure habit at this point?
It always feels weird to me that organized crime are uncool chuds
Always were.
Society always viewed gangsters as complete scum. Right up until Hollywood started glorifying them. From The Public Enemy to The Godfather to Goodfellas to The Sopranos, they just make gangsters look badass.
Reminds me of how Liberals will make up a definition of democracy as a system where parties lose elections then visibly and verbally backspace once they realize "Hey that has bad implications for our biggest ally in asia".
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