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2019年9月4日水曜日
Anti-Japanese moderation at Japan Today (FujiSankei)
2019年5月30日木曜日
The Leader Who Was ‘Trump Before Trump’
I don't like Abe and I don't vote LDP but this article is ridiculous drivel.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/29/opinion/abe-trump-japan-illiberal-authoritarian-turn.html
Nakano Koichi and others of his ilk need to spend some time in Communist China, preferably in a "re-education" camp for Uighurs. The word "authoritarian" deserves more careful usage.
I cannot understand what he is trying to do with this article. Possibilities that come to mind include:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/29/opinion/abe-trump-japan-illiberal-authoritarian-turn.html
Nakano Koichi and others of his ilk need to spend some time in Communist China, preferably in a "re-education" camp for Uighurs. The word "authoritarian" deserves more careful usage.
I cannot understand what he is trying to do with this article. Possibilities that come to mind include:
(1) Pissing contest among Koichi, Jeff and Jake to see who can get the most ridiculously exaggerated nonsense about Japanese politics published in English;
(2) Advertising for NK's sound byte service for gaijin reporters who speak only English;
(3) Reassure Amuricans that however awful Trump is, he's not as bad as Abe;
(4) Reassure Japanese lefties that Abe is even worse than Trump;
(5) An attempt to influence voters in Japan because as we all know the New York Times in second only to the Japan Times when it comes to influencing the Japanese electorate;
(6) Get some pocket money for a few beers because his wife has cut his allowance.
2019年4月23日火曜日
The Happiness Report That Makes Me Very Unhappy
2019年3月23日土曜日
Suicide now leading cause of death among children aged 10 to 14 in Japan
Suicide has become the leading cause of death among children aged 10 to 14 in Japan for the first time in the postwar period, an analysis of government demographic data has shown.
This is a typically moronic Japan Times article sourced from Kyodo.
Suicide is at the top of the list in Japan because other causes of death, especially accidents have been sharply reduced.
Data for the US for exactly the same age cohort is not available but a number of recent reports have said essentially the same thing as this CNN report.
This is a typically moronic Japan Times article sourced from Kyodo.
Suicide is at the top of the list in Japan because other causes of death, especially accidents have been sharply reduced.
Data for the US for exactly the same age cohort is not available but a number of recent reports have said essentially the same thing as this CNN report.
The total death rate for 10- to 19-year-olds in the United States declined 33% between 1999 and 2013 but then suddenly soared 12% between 2013 and 2016, according to a new report from the National Center for Health Statistics at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (PDF).
The report, released Friday, revealed that this rise in deaths is attributable to injury-related deaths, such as traffic accident fatalities, drug overdoses, homicides and suicides, as opposed to illness, such as cancer or heart disease.
Among 10- to 19-year-olds around the world, road traffic injuries were the leading cause of death in 2015, followed by lower respiratory infections and suicide, according to the World Health Organization.
To move suicide down from first place in the cause of death league table, it is clear what the Japanese government needs to do: increase the number of young people that get killed in traffic accidents. Homicides due to American-style gang warfare would also help as would drug overdose deaths. Getting the cooperation of industry to increase air pollution to Chinese or Indian big city levels would do wonders in terms of the numbers killed by respiratory disease.
As is their want, the Japan Times deleted my comment pointing out that with a 1, 2, 3 ranking, if you want to decrease the relative importance of 1, you increase the importance of 2 and 3.
It's the same for measures of gender equality. The female labour force participation rate in Japan is high and growing but still lower than the male rate of 85% with the result that Japan gets a bad rap for gender equality base on the female/male ratio.
That's easy enough to fix. Adopt policies the throw guys out of work. Exporting manufacturing jobs is a good way to do this. If male employment declines more than female employment, the gender gap is reduced and society is better off, or at least that's what advocates of reducing this gender gap seem to be saying.
That's easy enough to fix. Adopt policies the throw guys out of work. Exporting manufacturing jobs is a good way to do this. If male employment declines more than female employment, the gender gap is reduced and society is better off, or at least that's what advocates of reducing this gender gap seem to be saying.
It’s Not Just Japan. Many U.S. States Require Transgender People Get Sterilized
In the past few days there have been a number of news reports derived from a Human Rights Watch missive citing a recent Japanese Supreme Court ruling to the effect that it was not unconstitutional to require people who want formal legal recognition of a gender change to be "sterilized."
In other words, if you are a biological male but want to be legally recognized as female, you need to have your male kit (aka junk) removed.
All the usual Japan bashers and those who hold to the belief that countries run by white people do it better chimed in with all the usual cliches about Japan and its alleged cultural backwardness.
This article by someone with a vested interest in the subject shows that some political entities run by white people are just as "backward" as Japan.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/its-not-just-japan-many-us-states-require-transgender-people-get-sterilized
The Daily Beast sometimes gets it right.
One obvious question in this context is what do women think about this. How many women would want a biological male with all his reproductive kit still in place showing up in their changing room at a fitness center solely on the basis that "I regard myself as a woman and therefore I am a woman."
Aside from the failure to recognize that Japan was anything but unique in having the sterilization requirement for formal recognition of gender change was the total and abject failure of any writing to note that there are not a few feminists particularly in Britain who reject the idea that a trangender biological male with or without his/her original plumbing is a woman and such recognition constitutes "female erasure."
2019年3月21日木曜日
Yet another pundit suffering from numerical illiteracy
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who took office in 2012, has promoted the message of letting “women shine,” and he rightly boasts that Japan’s female labor force participation rate has now risen above that in the United States. However, at just under 70 percent of women ages 15 to 64, that rate nevertheless remains below levels in Europe and Canada (75 to 80 percent), and is far below the participation rate of 85 percent for Japanese males.
"Far below the participation rate ... for males" is easy enough to fix. Put guys out of work and on the dole. That will improve the ratio straight away because as pundits like BE seem to forget ratios have a numerator and a denominator. You can make the ratio "better" either by increasing the numerator or decreasing the denominator. Both approaches will yield the same numerical result.
On any measure of gender equality, Japan fares abysmally in comparison with other advanced democratic countries. It ranks 110th in the World Economic Forum’s Gender Gap Index, flanked by Mauritius and Belize.
Indeed. Japan has a very long way to go if it wants to get into the top ten and rub shoulders with the likes of Nicaragua (5th) and Rwanda (6th), but even Emmott's own Britain has some work to do. It does not make even to 10th rank, currently held by Namibia.
Similarly the US is sandwiched between Mexico and Peru, well below the likes of Zimbabwe and Uganda.
I suppose it would be churlish to point out that the claim "On any measure of gender equality, Japan fares abysmally in comparison with other advanced democratic countries" is complete BS. Japan actually scores rather well on Georgetown Index.
But, as I always say, "When it comes to Japan, never let facts stand in the way of what you want to write."
Racism in the Japan Times
The Japan Times commenting policy says
"Don’t disparage a person’s race, religion, color, gender or sexual orientation or generalize about a nationality or race."
Many of the posts here "generalize about a nationality" (mine, which is Japanese) in an extremely negative way.
Where are the moderators? Or is it forbidden to generalize about every nationality except Japanese?
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