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Japan protecting its own corporations from competition
This beer isn’t anything all that special in the micro beer brewing market. Probably average beer where it was brewed with one of the micro brewed beers in this image brewed in Hawaii. In Hawaii this beer would probably sell for about US2.00 a bottle. Here in Japan it sells for two to three times…
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Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the dysfunctional state of Japan
“My name is Shinzo Abe and I don’t have a fucking clue on earth what is going on.” While online the other day looking for news on Japan off YouTube, Shinzo Abe appears in the first few seconds on YouTube talking about his government and this recent election which cost Japanese…
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Dysfunctional Japan with a fast depreciating Yen
This article first appeared at Yahoo news Japan needs foreign workers, but will they come? [probably not] Faced with a dwindling population and severe labor shortage, Japan aims to attract more foreign workers, [sometimes I think this is just political empty rhetoric since Japan has been suggesting this for the past ten years and nothing…
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Japan faces downgrade in credit rating
This article first appeared on PressTV Fitch puts Japan credit on Rating Watch Negative Credit rating agency, Fitch, has placed Japan sovereign credit on Rating Watch Negative (RWN), just days before snap elections in the country. The rating agency said in a statement released on Tuesday that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s decision to delay…
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New phenomenon in Japan: “power harassment”
In many Japanese companies a phenomenon that can only be explained as being something Japanese called “power harassment” was brought to my attention the other day. A disturbing trend where employees in companies in Japan both large and small intimidate new employees. I suspect the reason for this type harassment is that older employees are…
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More shit the Japanese government keeps hidden: rising poverty
Source: The Borgen Project The Truth Behind Poverty in Japan According to The Economist, poverty in Japan is rarely visible. There is little begging and little evidence that the homeless exist. The poor are quietly hidden in shadows away from what appears of economic homogeneity in Japan. They are hidden from sight and very difficult…
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Rental extortion in Japan and the niggardly Japanese
This small rental for a business comes in at ¥180,000 a month (extortion) There is a dark side of the rental agency businesses in Japan that I will never be able to reconciliate with and that is the almost yakuza-like activities of these fucking property owners and rental agencies. The rental company wants ¥180,000 (roughly…
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Japan’s third quarter recession deeper than estimated
My view is who cares? Isn’t less consumption better? Do Japanese actually become better off by increasing consumption? Source: BBC Japan’s economy shrank more than initially estimated in the third quarter of 2014, according to revised gross domestic product (GDP) figures. The economy contracted by 1.9% in annual terms from July to September, well above…
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Always the Japanese apologizing
“Alright, come on, we’re really fucking sorry.” Source: The Japan Times Conservative daily Sankei apologizes for running anti-Semitic ad Dec 6, 2014 A conservative national daily on Saturday apologized for carrying an advertisement for books whose author claims that Jewish people were behind the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. The…
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Poverty takes on a new look in today’s Japan
Anyone’s at risk: A businessman walks through the Tokyo International Forum. While it was recently announced that the number of jobs has increased in Japan, factors affecting poverty include societal problems such as crushing household debt and caring for one’s elderly parents. | REUTERS by Mark Schreiber Special To The Japan Times Dec 6, 2014…
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