read the article the video is not good
not exactly the point or the main problem, but...
She noted that Japanese women spend over five times as long as men on household chores
damn. i've been living alone for years in my own little equitable utopia where i do all the wiping of my own ass, fixing of broken things, shopping, cooking and bills, so when i read these hardcore disparities, my mind is just blown realizing that some people are out here trying to don draper this shit.
My cousin married a Japanese woman. They live in the US, but she was working for the US arm of a Japanese company. When lockdown happened she said she was so relieved because it meant she didn't have to pour tea in meetings anymore. Pouring tea was not her job. She later got fired after she blew the whistle on some shady shit they were doing.
Having a baby means you have fewer household chores to do, right?
Right?
semi productive child labor is only 5-9 years away once you have your first child.
It drives me nuts how people just completely discount, ignore, or dismiss all the gains that one-half of the population (women) experienced in the Eastern Bloc. Kristin Ghodsee's book Why Women Had Better Sex Under Socialism highlights this. I really don't even think her book is about sex per se. The point is, when women feel empowered, secure, and equals to men... they feel better about themselves. And no different from men, happy confident people make for better romantic partners. For a moment socialism was able to provide this, until it was snuffed out. You can read all about how women in these places, as socialism was dismantled, saw their lives get worse in relation to their status to men.
I just think this is all a helpful antidote to the bs I see on social media from evangelicals (as an ex-evangelical I have an unhealthy obsession with evangelical social media) who think "feminism" is ruining relationships and society. The opposite is true.
Wonder what happened to the last guy who tried to get the japanese to bone more without changing society
"It's not a problem of matchmaking, it's an issue of more men with unstable incomes," the professor told CBS News. "Even among regular workers, relative incomes are falling, so it's better (for singles) to keep living with their parents" than get married.
Yamada lambasted the government for programs that he says primarily benefit Japan's well-educated elite. In 2021, a fifth of men and over half of women were in part-time, freelance or other non-regular jobs.
Harvard's Brinton said the plight of non-regular male workers is another reason Japan should adopt an egalitarian, dual-earner, dual-carer norm.
That's a band aid when they will slash wages even more on everyone to the point where you have the situation in South Korea and emerging in the United States where having a family is prohibitively expensive. We are seeing more artlcles here about how the young are disinterested in marraige or having a family because they just can't afford it and their economic outlook is increasingly bleek. :doomjak:
Obviously the solution is for Japan to spend billions upon billions on US weapons to act as a proxy tool instead of boosting wages.
Odd how the DPRK, despite being a literal hell on earth, somehow has a fertility rate of 1.80 in contrast to the ROK's abysmal 0.85.
Wait, sorry, my bad, a liberal made a Kim Jong-un joke and pulled out that same night-time photo. Thought: Cancelled.
There's too many people
There's not enough people
We need the right amount of people
There's too many (((foreign))) people
There's not enough native nihonjin people
In 2021, a fifth of men and over half of women were in part-time, freelance or other non-regular jobs.
Harvard's Brinton said the plight of non-regular male workers is another reason Japan should adopt an egalitarian, dual-earner, dual-carer norm.
We only have enough full time openings for 4/5 of men, but have you considered how much brighter the future could be if we doubled the number of job seekers?
2 years of fully paid leave for both parents would instantly fix this problem
Unrelated to the meat of the article, but
Babies [...] are held by college sumo wrestlers as they compete in a traditional baby screaming contest, known as Naki Sumo,
is an incredible fucking line. Neat Wiki article on it, too
Sumo wrestlers employ a variety of techniques to encourage crying, including bouncing the baby in their arms, making loud noises and funny or scary facial expressions, and chanting "Naki! Naki! Naki!" ("Cry! Cry! Cry!" in English).[5] In some versions of the festival, when neither baby has cried for a number of minutes, referees or judges donning traditional Japanese masks approach the babies and attempt to scare them.
Lmao
You all laughed when we wanted to go to Japan, but now they're giving out government-issued girlfriends! :gamer-gulag:
Imagine what they're gonna do in like 3-5 years when this doesn't work. "well we government assigned everyone together so now there are zero remaining single people... And the birth rate is actually even lower now."
I think a couple of years ago ex-PM Abe made some ridiculous PSA encouraging people to fuck for the good of the nation. They've been trying all kinds of shit for decades but they can't act against capital so nothing happens.
Kill one ex-PM for action against the Unification Church.
Kill ??? ex-PMs for action against capital.
It's like one of my Japanese animes!
In a futuristic society, Japan has implemented a complex system referred to as "The Red Threads of Science" to encourage successful marriages and combat increasingly low birthrates. Based on a compatibility calculation, young people at the age of 16 are assigned marriage partners by the government, with severe repercussions awaiting those who disobey the arrangement.
So, how's the rearmament plan? Where the money gonna come from? Are they gonna throw those single dude to the army? Well, that's not gonna go well for the current shite govt
So, how’s the rearmament plan?
capitalist state can have a little keynesianism. as a treat
They could solve this just by opening up immigration but they'd rather be racist.
Alternatively, they could still be racist but ease up conditions on the worker-drones, provide better parental leave and create an overall better environment to start a family in that isn't a neoliberal hell island. Essentially the inverse of the US which compensates with immigration.
Of course, knowing the LDP, that is out of the question.
