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21. 

    Travis
    

    Peter Barton said:

    Because it's a blow off job for a blow off class that very few really give a shit about.

    Personally I would rather do something more meaningful.

    Well obviously, but not everyone would care about that. As for me, looking back I wish my high school had provided me with mandatory classes in a secondary language instead of...wait for it...Parenting Skills. A class to teach us how to take care of infants and young children. Yea, it was great. Absolutely super. It'd be real handy to know at least a little Spanish round here...

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22. 

    uber phallas
    

    The only way for Japan to grow is good leadership, and more comedy in mangas and animes these days.

    Or just apologize for the war.

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23. 

    stillcode
    

    Japan's stagnation will continue until a critical mass is reached.

    Their population continues to contract, shrinking the economy, leaving people out of work, leading to fewer children people can afford to raise, leading to a shrinking population, shrinking economy...

    They could remedy this by accepting lots of menial labor like the US is from 3rd world countries. I would highly oppose it since it would basically be a facilitated invasion of Japan. In southern CA where I used to live, I look at some of the town's with 99% hispanic population and think to myself, "Wow. This part of Mexico is a pretty good area to live in."

    The Japanese could also hope to invent robots which will supposedly be able to take care of the elderly and such. I'm not sure if it would be economically feasible, but it's their best shot.

    Their debt to GDP ratio is something like 200%. When the people stop buying up municipal debt the game is up and even harder times are coming for them. I expect more defaults by local municipalities and then when the government comes in to save them, they'll follow America with quantitative easing, leading to the severe devaluation of their currency.

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24. 

    not racist
    

    Anime will be Australian.

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25. 

    Peter Barton
    

    travtrav said:

    Well obviously, but not everyone would care about that. As for me, looking back I wish my high school had provided me with mandatory classes in a secondary language instead of...wait for it...Parenting Skills. A class to teach us how to take care of infants and young children. Yea, it was great. Absolutely super. It'd be real handy to know at least a little Spanish round here...

    Where did you go to school? Taking a foreign language for 2 years was mandatory to graduate in Texas, unless you go for a GED or the lowest version of graduating.

    I took German.

    /and don't remember any of it except for numbers and insignificant words.

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26. 

    Mercure
    

    Actually, becoming an English teacher is harder than you might think. Not because it requires such special skills, but rather because the number of children you'd be teaching are declining rapidly.

    I visited a school a while ago (highschool (中学校)), and it was surprisingly empty. When I asked one of the teachers why they had such a large building but so few teachers, I was informed that they used to have over a thousand students a number of years ago, but now it was around 200.

    Good luck getting a job when things are becoming this dire. ;)

    uber phallus said:
    Or just apologize for the war.

    You do realise that Japan has been apologising for it for ages now, right?

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27. 

    not racist
    

    Mercure said:

    You do realise that Japan has been apologising for it for ages now, right?

    But when will they pay for their war crimes? Even US have paid for their loss in Vietnam.

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28. 

    w334b00
    

    What is it with people thinking anime and such has a significant impact on Japan's economy? The only money coming in is from the Japanese themselves, since everyone else, the very people who think anime has a major economic impact on Japan, pirates. :l

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29. 

    maid
    

    not racist said:
    But when will they pay for their war crimes?

    What did you have in mind?

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30. 

    Vegio
    

    Mercure said:

    I visited a school a while ago (highschool (中学校)), and it was surprisingly empty.

    psst, I'm an ass, but high school is 高校!

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31. 

    Mercure
    

    Vegio said:

    psst, I'm an ass, but high school is 高校!

    Junior high school then. I'm not an American, I don't know how your school system works exactly. >_>

    Where I come from, junior high school and high school are one and the same thing. Fun to explain to the Japanese over here, especially when you then get to explain how the higher levels take longer every single damned time. :P

    not racist said:
    But when will they pay for their war crimes? Even US have paid for their loss in Vietnam.

    Uh-huh. I wonder when they'll pay for Afghanistan and Iraq then. ;)

    Or, for that matter, when will the US pay for the bombing of Dresden (I believe the UK also helped with that one though) or for the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? I'd say those are also war crimes. People just tend to forget that bit since they won the war. History is written by the victorious ones, aye? ;)

    In war, everybody commits crimes. The Allied forces did (the Germans were not the only ones who did some terrorbombing), the Soviets certainly did, the Italians and Nazi's did, and the Japanese did. Some commited a few more (and occasionally much worse) crimes than others. That said, we're talking about something which happened over 60 years ago. Most of the people who could really be blamed for the war and the crimes comitted are already dead or practically about to die. You can hardly expect the people who were born AFTER the war to pay for something they didn't have anything to do with, if you ask me. That'd be quite rediculous.

    It's like a policeman knocking on your door and telling you to pay a massive fine because your great grandfather happened to be a mass murderer who liked to slaughter people with spoons.

    Very pointy spoons.

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32. 

    Misakite
    

    Mercure said:

    It's like a policeman knocking on your door and telling you to pay a massive fine because your great grandfather happened to be a mass murderer who liked to slaughter people with spoons.

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33. 

    Dark Mage
    

    Really I don't understand the defeatist attitude in Japan as their present situation is nowhere near as dire as where they were after the end of WWII.

    They had a bubble economy burst the US has weathered these many times.

    Real estate values of $93,000 per square foot was ludicrous and unsustainable and the crash was visible a parsec away.

    Yes the effects were bad but it was nowhere near as devastating as the Stock market crash of 1929 or the mess that hit Europe around the same time.

    What they really need to do right now is put a bullet in the heads of all the zombie banks.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_company

    BTW China will likely suffer a similar collapse in the near future just about every economist who knows their ass from a hole in the ground agrees.

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34. 

    Moeru
    

    Char said:
    Really I don't understand the defeatist attitude in Japan as their present situation is nowhere near as dire as where they were after the end of WWII.

    I think most Japanese probably know the bleak direction their economy is going. The problem is that they don't want to do anything about it. They will rather suffer in silence.

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35. 

    Peter Barton
    

    Misakite said:

    Yesssssss.

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36. 

    Raichu
    

    the future can always change

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37. 

    King Tiger
    

    raichu said:
    the future can always change

    yeah kinda like how your avatar became a loli? (didn't see that coming)

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38. 

    Raichu
    

    unsung said:

    yeah kinda like how your avatar became a loli? (didn't see that coming)

    eh....bored

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39. 

    MasterInfamous
    

    unsung said:

    yeah kinda like how your avatar became a loli? (didn't see that coming)

    Konata's not a loli, she's a little person.

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