So, apparently (and much to verybdog's chagrin), being Japanese is a greater threat to humanity than being gay.
So there's a lot of sexually frustrated, hot young Japanese women running around, you say? Why didn't this happen ten years ago, when I was single and almost presentable-looking?
I need to ditch this hellhole and go back to Japan. Then leave again before the retired outnumber the working population.
It's disastrous. I don't know how Japan will cope with this in 40-50 years. Even if they became more receptive to immigration, nothing can make up for such a low fertility rate. In the not too distant future, 1 in 3 Japanese will be over 65.
Fat chance. There is a group of ethnic Koreans that has been in Japan now for several generations, yet they are continually denied Japanese citizenship. It will take a major shift in their collective mentality for something like this to happen.
A major shift in their collective mentality, as you put it, isn't as far fetched as you might believe. There is a huge gap in attitudes and values, especially towards the rest of Asia, between Japanese born before and after the mid-1970s. Right now, the pre-1970s Japanese are running the country, but by the time the aging crisis becomes more pronounced, the power base in Japan is going to look a lot different as well.
Wow...and I thought Japanese ppl were very sexual ppl. I need to go to japan as there are some fine girls there
that's like saying Las Vegas is a conservative, and moral city. When I hear people who visit Japan, come back with thier stories and impresions, I always tell myself, "wow, sounds like a place where respect actually means something." My friend went 5 months ago, he said the subway in Tokyo, in the middle of business hours, was pretty full, but what blew him away was the fact that no one talked to each other, yet everyone was very courteous, and in the middle of a respectful silence. People in the streets, didn't raise their voices, no yelling to speak of, and the cars were the cleanest he's ever seen in his life. Pollution pretty much doesn't exsist, he reported. I had another friend who 10 yrs. ago lost his wallet in the middle of the streets in Tokyo, with like 900 Yen or something ....when he traced back all his steps, it was in the ground, no one even touched it. I said, "yeah that's probably because no one saw it, must have bleded in with the ground." he said, "oh no, it was out there in the open, heck, in any big US City that same wallet would have already been spent." Not to say there aren't good people who might have returned such a wallet in the US, but hell, thats why when a taxi driver returns a suitcase to a business guy with $150,000 in it, it makes the news because lets be honest ask any police officer, most of the time, that suitcase or wallet is gone. How many "lost" claims must be filled every day? Now how many "found" objects are turned in every day?
It is a fascinating culture....Never been there, but sometimes get to watch their news here on 'News World International' on Direct TV....Very interesting stuff.... I would not be as condescending towards their attidudes on sex....