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[The Cockatrice]

Oriental Pearl isn't a sensationalist YouTuber

This aged well.

 

[falconhoof]

It's weird to think I've been watching Chris for absolutely years now and on the very, very odd occasion this dimlow of a woman's videos have popped up on the rare occasion and me thinking 'what is this shit'

And here we are, her shit got five minutes of limelight..

Next week, she'll be in the very very odd occasion bracket again.

Same. I've watched his stuff on occasion and then spotted a bunch of videos in my feed titled something like "They couldn't believe I could understand what they were saying!!!!". I never bothered to click on them.

 

[DragoonKain]

Japan is going to be fine. One of the safest countries on earth, extremely homogeneous. Humble, hard-working culture and values.

 

[March Climber]

Excellent video, we need to stop falling for clickbait, even if it conforms to your own view of the world.

It's only going to get worse with A.I. advancements. I don't see what the end goal is though...for people to stay in their comfort bubbles forever and be afraid of things like traveling?

 

[falconhoof]

Japan is going to be fine. One of the safest countries on earth, extremely homogeneous. Humble, hard-working culture and values.

Japan could pave the path forward for other nations to follow. It needs to solve the falling birth rate, and IIRC South Korea does too as do many western nations. Importing people is not a solution, it comes at the cost of culture and legacy.

Thinking back to how my parents did it just seems insane these days, they were about 19, bought a house and started having kids. Dad worked doing jobs like taxi driver and that allowed them to be a single income home.

Society needs to figure out how to get people coupling in their early 20's, none of this playing the field till mid 30's. It needs to enable them to be able to buy a home, live off a single income.

One of the factors in this has to be rock solid boarders because that opening encourages wage devaluation, because migrants will always work cheaper.

It's not simple, but I hope Japan can get on with sorting it out and prove to the world that it can be done.

 

[Ironbunny]

I do remember seeing the same kind of "Nothing to see here" from Europe 20 years back and here we are. I do watch Abroad in Japan and hope he is right about this.

 

[Tams]

While Chris Broad is broadly (harhar) right and he is a very good critical thinker, he is a little naïve and living in a bubble (as pretty much all of us do).

Japan is fine for now and relatively unaffected by globalisation due to being remote islands and relatively conservative. But it is no surprise that nationalism has made a strong showing there despite that.

Some of it is Japan's conservatism and there is some dislike of outsiders (if you've lived there, you'll know exactly what I mean - 'uchi' and 'soto').

Some is Japan seeing other parts of the world - Western Europe, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand - and saying 'もういいです'.

There was a video on reddit (removed, unsurprisingly) of Japanese immigration removing a visa overstayer. The immigration officers laughed at him and suggested he try the UK. Says it all really.

 

[Celcius]

Glad to see Chris calling her out

 

[T.v]

Bears, apparently.

 

[Oberstein]

Oh boy, new vid.

 

[Tams]

Oh boy, new vid.

 

[Dr.Guru of Peru]

Nothing really feels like it's changed honestly. The area around Namba station in Osaka is shockingly clean compared to any other major transit station in the world, let alone the dumps in American cities. It mean, it shouldn't surprise me since I come here regularly and Japan has always been this clean - but it's hard not to internalize expectations set by fake news.

 

[Aurelius]

I haven't been back for a couple of years. I find the current mass tourism really unappealing. But when my wife and kids go back once a year to visit family, I don't hear them complaining. Still planning on retiring there in 10 years, so not too unhappy about the new nationalistic and conservative direction of the prime minister.

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

I haven't been back for a couple of years. I find the current mass tourism really unappealing. But when my wife and kids go back once a year to visit family, I don't hear them complaining. Still planning on retiring there in 10 years, so not too unhappy about the new nationalistic and conservative direction of the prime minister.

Yes mass tourism everywhere is unappealing, even more so when you are spending thousands and travelling on a 13hr+ flight to get to that place.

I was lucky to have lived there from 2016 and move back by late 2019, just before all the COVID hellscape and now cost of living issues and mass tourism the country is experiencing. Along with what sounds like a more hostile or negative view towards foreigners which I didn't really feel back then and could enjoy living in my city and travelling in the country.

I'd expect the hostility to only increase here on in.

 

[RJMacready73]

Tokyo is absolutely fucking mind-bogglingly huge, the stats below are crazy for a city/suburbs, you could graffitti and an entire area and it would be a blip on the radar ffs

• City proper: The Tokyo Metropolis covers an area of approximately 2,194 km².
• Greater Tokyo Area: This broader metropolitan region, which includes the city proper and surrounding prefectures, is significantly larger at around 13,452 km². This area is also the most populous metropolitan area in the world.

 

[Mr Reasonable]

It's only going to get worse with A.I. advancements. I don't see what the end goal is though...for people to stay in their comfort bubbles forever and be afraid of things like traveling?

There's a saying that goes "you'll sell more tickets for the ghost train than the speak your weight machine" - basically people are more interested in the sensational and the scary than the mundane and factual.

Where we are is that people can end up on a platform getting huge viewer counts for "exposing" problems in society and with a bit of work can build that into something where their position can influence enough people's world view that it's worth it not only to the individual broadcaster, but to a channel as a whole who for various reasons can benefit from disseminating a world view.

For people with an individual channel, it wouldn't be hard to imagine getting a few bookings on a more mainstream channel who is a bit higher up on the food chain, in terms of audience size or perhaps in terms of backing from a wealthy donor or owner. If that goes well, they could take the next step up and on and on.

Take a look at any number of highly politicised "commentators", channels or broadcast outlets and work out where the money comes from to do those things. That's the long, medium and possibly short term aim.

 

[Baemono]

New challenger

 

[Outlier]

The "Weak men create hard times." guys are those of us whom do nothing to prevent the hard times.

 

[EviLore]

It's so bad now that demon motorcycles have taken over

 

[Shadowplay1979]

I think those dumb fuck mario kart rides need to be banned and everyone who rides them sent to prison ( me and everyone else in tokyo) besides that tokyo is doing fine