The Democratic Party of Japan has not unexpectedly crushed the ruling Liberal Democratic Party in an unprecedented landslide, ending their almost uninterrupted 50 year reign with a spectacular victory which sees them on track to seize 300 seats in the 480 seat Diet.
The forecast crushing defeat was widely predicted, with the government unable to control record levels of unemployment or deliver any convincing reforms after the loss of Koizumi; Rozen Aso’s endless gaffes and increasing unpopularity doubtless also contributed.
Political observers tie the scale of the defeat more to exasperation with the LDP’s incompetence and a desire for substantive political change than to any great enthusiasm for the DPJ itself, although as a basically unproven party it is not yet clear how they will perform.
Actual discussion of policies was given limited attention throughout the campaign, with emotional appeals instead being the campaigning mainstay.
The DPJ’s basic domestic policies are to curtail the overpowering influence of the civil service and introduce more benefits; it claims it can fund increases in spending without raising consumption tax, through savings on the bloated civil service bureaucracy.
It also claims it can introduce a $10 hourly minimum wage throughout the country (a substantial increase on prevailing lowlevel wages in many areas).
It has also stated its intent to prepare Japan to effectively receive more immigrants, in particular through allowing permanent residents to vote in local elections, though the LDP also notionally supported this.
Where international policy is concerned, it promises pro-China policies and a reduction in the US military forces stationed in Japan, though with no significant change in alignment.
Critics are intensely sceptical of its ability to fund any of its promised spending increases without increasing the tax burden, strangling private enterprise and further increasing the national debt.
The LDP itself has enjoyed near uninterrupted political power throughout the post-war period, though the existence of multiple competing factions within the LDP, in effect parties unto themselves, ensured an unorthodox form of opposition was present even if the actual opposition was unable to affect policies.
This system may very well have been shattered (though the DPJ has its own internal policy factions), although a lacklustre DPJ performance would likely quickly see the prior status quo reasserted; it seems the real hope of many voters is to see a substantially reformed LDP returned to contest future elections.
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They're a perfect example of the problems Japan has today.
What Japan is today is heavily flawed and filled with all sorts of racists who vote LDP because they're more conservative and hate non-Japanese.
"Japan what it is today", you know what Japan is today? A country full of problems! You're not making the LDP sound too great!
"filled with all sorts of racists who vote LDP because they're more conservative and hate non-Japanese."
What's wrong with wanting to live with other people of the same race and culture? People like to associate with other people who have similar interests and beliefs to themselves and when you try to mix people of different beliefs to end up with conflict and ultimately violence.
For example, under Sharia law men aren't allowed to associate with women who aren't members of their immediate family while in the west it's totally acceptable for a man to associate with a women to whom he's not related. Tell me, how can these two polar opposite principles work together in the same society? Clearly they can't and that's why it's completely impractical for different cultures to live together and why multi-culturalism doesn't work.
I agree, I get sick of liberals always preaching tolerance and diversity. Personally, I'm glad to have the choice of living in the U.S where I can hang around people of all backgrounds but I have the option of going back to India and living in a homegenous society. For whites though, they are starting to lose the option of white homogenous societies.
Its funny that people like Brian Ashcraft of Kotaku complains about racism in Japan, how he has sometimes been mistreated because he is a forienger and wants Japan to open up like Western nations have, if they want to stay homogenous, its fine, we shouldn't force it on them, we'll just look like the evil, baby-eating racists!
I'm glad to see people who use common sense these days. The desire to live in a homogeneous society is not a crime. Butthurt otaku who want to go to Japan to steal a Japanese girlfriend, however, don't like that. And people wonder why many Japanese hate us.
"For whites though, they are starting to lose the option of white homogenous societies."
If you lose the colour factor you'll realize that Anglo-saxon culture has taken more of a hold on the world than any culture has had on Anglo-saxon countries.
The fact that a system of law such as sharia is not compatible with tort and criminal law is not something that has to be totally culture conflicting.
Culture comes in many forms and law is just one of them. Multiculturalism is not the sharing of all forms, as that would be mostly impossible. Law and value systems are things that are not usually culture compatible, and so long as you make that clear to immigrating parties you will have for a large part a cohesive society.
Want a case against multicult? Just take a quick look at the wonderful, harmonious, multicultural land known as the UK.
multiculturalism =/= many races
monoculturalism =/= single race
Also, "homogeneous society," is a little vague because it can mean racially so, culturally so, or both. And I don't think any desire, in and of itself, is a crime. But racism is. In the moral, if not legal sense, at least.
I suppose it will be hard for you to see passed the side of "desiring to live in a homogeneous society," and people being racist fuckwads. There is a fine line.
1. "Sharia law" is not universal to all Islamic sects, what you describe is specific to Wahhabist Islam, something that is practiced in Saudi Arabia and is not liked by most followers of the Islamic faith! Sharia law is something which strictly speaking all people of the faith should desire, what isn't agreed on is what that law contains. Sects like Sufism can actually be rather progressive and compatible in a variety of cultures (coincidently it is also a sect with a history of persecution in Saudi Arabia).
It is always curious how individuals who rail against multiculturalism seem to know little about other cultures!
2. It is a mistake to call Japan a homogeneous society, even historically speaking.
3. Really many of you people hold terrible and hypocritical opinions.
And by that 3rd point I am really looking at you Blitz.
With a quick scan of your posts I have seen you construct strawmen of your imaginary ideological enemy, engage in ad hominem attacks combined with pointless name calling, show a bias towards middle easterners that borderline towards overt racism all while consistently showing your hateful self up anytime a conversation is derailed towards the topic of immigration or really anything that would interest a xenophobe.
In the spirit of your fallacious methods of argument I will also like to say that judging from your posts, name and avatar combo I'd guess that you probably hold a Stormfront account!
I'm sure someone who won't debate here alone, who needs 157 like-minded people to support him, is not a coward. Please learn the meaning of words you are planning to use before using them.
I am truly laughing my head off right now :):)
Just another coward. I guessed as much.
Support me? No, it was merely for the purpose of your humiliation after you’ve been ground to a pulp for all to see. But you’ve probably been to the Terry Tremaine forums and had that happen before; I bet it wasn’t your favorite experience.
I think most would take a pass on debating with 157 people with down's syndrome.
:) Have fun with your stormfront butt buddies though!
I’m not going to bother debating this with anonymous users on a story page; most of the time I’m simply trolling. However, you’re more than welcome to get your ass kicked on IRC, if you like. In front of the entire 157 member channel, no less. I dare you to show up.
I've dealt quite effectively with big mouth trash like yourself several times now.
Can it be gay time now?
I remember reading that they were "reconsidering" the US military presence in Japan, but I sense that little will really change regarding this matter. Getting the troops out of there (and the rest of the world for that matter) would be a good thing. Saving billions of dollars on military spending would provide an economic boost that the US desperately needs.
Which has also been defined as "wannabe Japanese" instead of "white Japanese".
The general usage of the term more implies a cultural appropriation and not racial thing. Else people like Ken Hirai could be referred to as "weeaboo".
lol@Rozen Aso. UBERPWNAGE FACERAPE!
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=%22black+weeaboo%22&aq=f&aqi=&oq=&fp=9da64b7fc60aa3d7 [http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q="black weeaboo"&aq=f&aqi=&oq=&fp=9da64b7fc60aa3d7]
How much of a pay increase does the $10 minimum wage mean for animators?
About $9.95
Of course you all know this is the end of loli in Japan.
i think this is why they won
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/03/21/democrats-propose-end-to-loli-ban-free-loli-for-all/
It sounded like a "damned if they do, damned if they don't" scenario for the voters. The LDP have shown that they cannot control the situation they are in, but the DPJ have been spouting out attacks without any solid policy to get the country out of the rutt it's in.
I think the article got it right in saying that, ultimately, the public is more hoping for a reformed, reorganised and more focused LDP to come back from all this rather than hope that the DPJ will be able to do even a fraction of what they have claimed.
If anon is right about the "landslide victory" theory, I, for one, will look at the Japanese govt closely before making a decision to move there.
Like that was going to ever happen anyway. Do you even have a post secondary degree?
O_o
Lots of butthurt rightist whining in here, please continue so i can fap to it.
The DPJ/LDP thing reminds me of The Life of Brian.
so new goverment probably means bigger recession and less jobs.
Politics need to make a fake recession to fill their pockets.Just like when bush went,the whole world had to pay for it.
Stop trying to make the word weeaboo a racial term.
It IS a racial term. It's play on wapanese.
In regards to the article...
It should really be irrelevant to us who gets into power as long as they don't gain too much power. Both parties have strived or shown interest in striving into the censorship culture. The thing that stops it is that both parties disagree about what should be done about it. What we really want (from what I can gather)is a close win from either side, meaning more political dispute on what should be done, meaning that in essence nothing gets done at all.
You need to catch up on things.
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/03/21/democrats-propose-end-to-loli-ban-free-loli-for-all/
And wapanese and weaboo isn't really that much racial.
Did I say anything offensive? I thought that wapanese and weaboos exclusively referred to white otakus with a strong interest in Japan, probably wanting to be Japanese themselves. Interesting wapanese is a term but there's no similar terms for people of other races like the wapanese, that I know of anyways.
The "w" in weeaboo does not stand for white. Therefore there can be Indonesian weeaboos, Nigerian weeaboos, etc. Google the term to see the origin.
You're an idiot. The term weeaboo arose from 4chan's word filter; the original term was "wapanese" which filtered to "weeaboo" after one of the moderators got sick of it. The term "wapanese" is indeed racial in connotation, being it is a portmanteau of White and Japanese, or White Japanese-wannabees. Thus, weeaboo does strictly refer to Whites.
Wrong, "wapanese" was a portmanteau of wannabe japanese, a racist term in itself. However, in anycase, the word is as bad as nigger/wigger, imo.
And before you ask, "wigger" stands for wannabe nigger, not white nigger...
Why?
They made Japan what it is today.
eww, democrats
So when is it Akumetsu time?
Race and culture are intertwined. And I really couldn't care less if you think that racism is immoral.
You, Sir, are just a nazi faggot who needs to STFU.
Oh go die in a fire.
NO U
DIE IN A FIRE, FUCK YEAH!!!11
I hope part of the DPJ agenda is finally getting rid of obscenity laws in porn. I WANT TO SEE PUSSY AND DICKS WITHOUT PIXELS GODDAMNIT!
US currency is worthless in actuality; before it goes belly up, I'm going to stock up on supplies.
One of their more interesting campaign promises, from a US perspective, is to demand that US treasuries be denominated in yen. In other words, they are effectively saying, F U America, we aren't playing the printing press game with you ANYMORE! Another interesting promise by the DJP is to INCREASE domestic spending which portends a possible liquidation of US treasuries priced in dollars.
OWNAGE!
this is the place where everyone starts to attack one an other
DPJ = More Libertarian than LDP.
Of course that was sarcasm in your words, I know.
Wrong. Artefact has already noted that DPJ is full of radical feminists.
I wonder if this means the money we have to pay for our school trip to Japan will increase or decrease....Or maybe the yen will be exactly at 1 dollar....That'd be horrible....
I am scared for Japans future now, having a Communist overlord as a prime minister will bode ill for the future of manga and anime...
The DPJ isn't exactly communist, but whatever. If the Japanese felt like having a change of pace, I can't really complain about that.
So, Aso turned to Junk after this, and lost the Alice Game....
Poor japs. They don't know what they've voted for.
i'm surprised no one has said it yet:
COMBO BREAK!
I hope this turns out okay in the end.
Now that the Japanese LDP is out of power in Japan, I would love to see them come to America where their policies would be far better then the ones of the Republicans or Democrats here. Neutrality, fiscal restraint, good treatment of workers, awesome cartoons. Makes me feel all patriotic just thinking about it. I for one would welcome our new ninja overlords.
Except they would have to start by kicking out all the dirty non-Japanese...
"Neutrality, fiscal restraint, good treatment of workers, awesome cartoons."
As a U.S. citizen, I'd happily settle for the first three, if I could get them. The fourth would be a nice bonus.
But could I _really_ get the first three from the LDP?
"Neutrality"
more like sucking up to the US on every foreign issue
"fiscal restraint"
subsisiding the marode construction industry by ordering large and useless concrete projects, that's totally not wasting money
"good treatment of workers"
to the point that they're now forced to work for chump change wich doesn't even is enough to keep their families fed. There's a reason why the JCP is so strong compared to other communist parties in the industrialised world. But hey, Aso said it himself, poor people shouldn't marry.
"awesome cartoons"
what has that to do with the LDP?
And you also forgot to mention how utterly corrupt LDP politicians are. There goes no year by without a major corruption scandal by a LDP politician (granted, the DPJ isn't much better when it comes to corruption, they're made up of former LDP politicians afterall)
Commies are in charge in the US; and now also in Japan. Sad times for our world.
I am a commie (a green one furthemore).
Something against me?
According to most americans i've met you blatently eat children and burn houses.
BS! I eat lolis :<
this
not you per say, just that your system, while well meaning doesn't work in reality. Your goals are admirable but the problem is no one will work hard if they get the same pay for being lazy. In a perfect world full of people who work because they want to it would be great though. Name one first world Communist country? And China doesn't count for two reasons.
Please remember scandinavian countries got some of the biggest suicide rates in the world, even while having an incredibly low population density...
"Under capitalism, man exploits man.
Under communism, the reverse is true."
Yugoslavia was one of the few (only?) countries to make communism work in a reasonable way.
The problem is that neither communism NOR capitalism have worked perfectly.
The financial crisis shows what's wrong with ultra-capitalism.
Interestingly, it's the greed and stupidity of single people that's causing the failure of both capitalism and communism.
Maybe the best thing is some middle ground between them, but that would already be "too left" in the US spectrum.
I'd like you to point out one country in history that was actually Communist because just like China right now any country that has claimed to be Communist has simply been a Dictatorship trying to pretend its something it isn't.
you sir are a moron, 1, they're fixing a minimum wage based upon the lowest level of living costs, thus allowing anyone with a residence and the will to work to have a basic survival. In a communism, the lack of residence would also be taken care of, and everybody would be forced to work so long as they can. Socialism instead simply redistributes the money to those who needs it and gives the possibility for lazy asses to earn a living wage, those who are too lazy to do so will not be kept alive unless they can't work for a living wage for some reason. Socialism is more about giving possibilities to everyone, communism is making sure everyone is equal, even if they don't want to be.
Tito-machette, please enlight me and tell me the difference between socialism and communism.
Fixing a minimum wage based on nothing and increasing government spending does sound very communist to me.
No doubt taxes will be raised, confiscating people's freedom and arbitrarily redistributing wealth to chosen lazy asses. Fuck that.
"the best political system today would be something like in Scandinavian country’s. Democracy mixed with socialism. btw to all commie haters out there, there is a big difference between communism and socialism."
and there's an even bigger difference between socialism (which really IS a state-owned and planned economy) and a free-market capitalism combined with a welfare state, as in Scandinavia or nearly all of Europe.
In theory, but not in practice. In theory there is no upper class, and its stifles excellence while at the same time promoting competition. In practice it has so far lead to bloated corruption.
Socialism is a theory with a high level of faith in the good of humanity, but this is a difficult ideal to swallow if you believe that humanity is inherently a selfish creature by nature.
As tingle said, communism has nice goals; and if they were obtainable I might support it. But the cold reality is that communism when applied outside of theory is a complete failure because of human nature; and nobody will ever be able to change that.
There's a saying by the Russians that goes something like, "Everything the Communists said about Communism was wrong. Unfortunately, everything they said about capitalism was right."
Too bad the Scandinavian countries are being taken over by immigrants who would much rather prefer Sharia.
Communism tends not to work in countries in general, it's best suited for small settlements, and in such settlement it works wonders; saying that Trotsky showed a fairly good country wide adaptation of communism, though it admittedly did not last long enough before he was murdered to tell if it would really work. Honestly I think governments will never work properly, and only micro systems can work perfectly, but they're necessary now and a socialistic capitalism tends to work best in the real world, but that's only my opinion, each person considers certain problems bigger than others.
There's a saying I've lived with "People can't work without the system, but the system can't work with all these people"
Yugoslavia was one of em. sadly it was created among people who had more then a thousand years of hate and small wars. the best political system today would be something like in Scandinavian country's. Democracy mixed with socialism. btw to all commie haters out there, there is a big difference between communism and socialism.
Anon, are you living in the 50s? More like deceptive Statists/Facists. Again, welcome to the USSA.
When this kills their economy and the yen falls like a dollar tied to a lead balloon they will re-elect the LDP. Something the recent years of Republican and Democrat super majorities in America has taught me is that I prefer it when it's close and they have to negotiate with each other then get everything they want.
The yen might fall, but so will the dollar. They're all in a race to the bottom.
Yeah, whenever the U.S. President is of the same political party as the majority of the House of Representatives and Congress, bad things happen much more quickly than if they're of different political parties.
"When this kills their economy and the yen falls like a dollar tied to a lead balloon"
Yes please. Shipping charges and customs are expensive enough. :D
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falling yen? it'll be nothing be good news for japanese imports and tourism
You sir are a retard.
He actually said what is common knowledge for everyone with a decent high school degree on this planet...perhaps he expressed it a bit subjectively, but it's still in the bounds.
He actually said what is common knowledge for someone with a decent high school degree on this planet.
Perhaps he expressed it a bit subjectively, but without stranding from the accepted historical interpretation.
^This. Keynes was the economic weeaboo of his day, and Krugmann is the president of that failed school of thought.
So does the DPJ like Anime and Manga and Visual Novels like Aso did or will the Japanese Otaku be in real trouble now?
If you've been keeping up with things, DPJ means potential trouble for the eroge market. LDP seemed to prefer to table the issue for later when possible, while DPJ tended to vocally support it.
Let us hope that the universal truth of "all politicians are lying bastards" works to our benefit, though honestly I worry more about the economic impact of the country in general now that a party with such... "interesting" policy ideas is in control.
Keynes...was someone who plotted on taking over the world by making every government fall into huge, impossible to repay debts.
It's about time for the world to wake up. It's f*king abnormal that every single government and most people/ corporations are in debt which is the direct result of money being created by banks lending it to them. If money is "created" by lending it, and it needs to be repayed with interest, it will obviously result in more total debt than total money in the system...which is impossible to repay, then.
I'd vote for a democratic communist party if there would be any, but so far never heard about one. Capitalism already proven itself not working, but so far we haven't seen real communism, only the dictatorship version which was obviously not good.
And this is only one of the very very serious problems in the "system". Overproduction and overconsumption (also direct result of Keynes) is another one that's about to destroy the planet. Not to mention Keynes didn't care about what we produce...nuclear weapons add to GPD so making them is good isn't it...of course not!
"democratic communist party" that is not possible. Communism is absolute control beyond socialism which murders entire states and cities to maintain and achieve control and maintain control. Communists are the ultimate mafia structure which keep control over a group of people there for the 'democratic' part does not exist. By the way, you have to live in a free country to have any 'democratic' policies with in the government that are real. Other places which have kings and queens as dictators are not free countries either. To understand what a free country is, you would never allow Communism to happen. I hope you understand as this is not a personal attack on you just FYI.
I thought one of the essential elements of communism is that the means of production are owned by the state.
Pretty sure communism by definition is governance by all.
You're referring to Stalinism there, bud.
Marx himself never said how true communism would arise after the proletariat got to power. The only ideal he expressed was that:
"Capitalism is destined to fail. The best political system possible is one where the people are given what they deserve based on their respective capacities"
This means that someone with a weak body who worked a lot would always earn the same of someone with a strong body who worked with the same intensity. So everyone would be rewarded for their passion and dedication to work, unrelated to what they can physically accomplish with it.
To "dissolve the state" only means that people must break free from political, economical and religious bonds to be able to think with their heads, that everyone must build the new state together from scratch.
In the end what was truly needed back then and is needed now to make true communism possible is a whole new theory of communism itself. (as Marx said: "Pertinent to the time")
Marx & Engels, as philosophers, meant mainly to give the ideals necessary for it to be done.
To take Marxism literally is the same as doing so with the Bible.
No, because is doesn't exist, it's a theory that doesn't work, but the theory is it's a true democracy.
Communism seeks to dissolve the state through a transitory 'dictatorship of the proletariat' where control of the state is taken over by democratic processes subject to universal suffrage. Whether that necessarily means direct democracy or not is debatable, since Marx endorsed the Paris Commune and it had an elected council and its participants were mostly republicans.
I suspect the less literate among us would erroneously invoke the "No True Scotsman" fallacy in objection to the insistence that rather than being rampant Marxists, the Soviet Bloc used Leninism as a rhetorical device to sooth the throats of the populace as its malevolent oligarchy jammed its member firmly down them.
Communism (and its subgroups) suck major arse; it's not true democracy at all.
Communism is true democracy, were every person votes on every aspect, unfortunately this is impossible in large scale, and thus communism in said scale is nothing more than a concept. Stalinism is not communism, not even close.
Stalinism is a communist philosophy. And communism is a Utopian philosophy which advocates "the dictatorship of the proletariat”. BUD!
You sir, are a retard.