I ❤ Japan
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- nb1
First episode directed by Michael Mann! Doooope. I wonder if this can hold my attention beyond a couple episodes. First show I’ve seen in a long while that doesn’t feel like a carbon copy of everything else in the past decade
- Really liking this. And based on a true story as well. Four episodes in so far and HONTO NI SUGOIstoplying
- BuddhaHat2
https://japantoday.com/category/…
A Japanese filmmaker is shaking Cannes film audiences to the core with a dystopian vision of her country in which old people agree to be euthanised to solve the challenge of a rapidly aging population.
"Plan 75" by Japanese director and writer Chie Hayakawa is based on a very real problem.
Japan is the most rapidly-aging industrial society, a trend that is causing huge economic and political problems as a dwindling number of younger people must support a growing army of the old.
Close to 30 percent of Japan's population is over 65, the majority women, and that rate is expected to continue rising in coming decades.
In the movie, anybody over 75 is encouraged to sign up for a deal with the government by which they receive a sum of money in return for agreeing to be euthanised. A collective funeral is thrown in for free.
- wow!oey_oey
- ok... but.. EARS!!!! What the fuck is up with her EARS!!! OMG!shapesalad
- Slightly odd ears, yes.jagara
- What do they do with the money?drgs
- jagara1
Reading this. Living in Japan and being unmarried (especially as a woman past a certain age) seems to suck hard:
- yep. Being a woman there is all about one thing - look as pretty as you can, marry a stable income salaryman as quickly as possible.shapesalad
- And Japanese porn starts off as an advertisement on how cute/sexy you are. If you don't attract a husband = a means to rebel against society to eventuallyshapesalad
- the closet you'll get to love/husband/sexshapesalad
- Finished it. Memorable, funny, upsetting, sad, recommended.jagara
- jagara2
Another fascinating read, if you're interested in Japanese culture:
- Economically looks super bad, bound to implode at some point. Very odd interplay between Yen/Dollarshapesalad
- drgs1
I mean, they aren't even working. There is this social stigma against being the first one to leave or just to leave from work on regular time, so office workers end up having "competitions" in sitting chained to their chairs for hours, lock themselves in toilets to have a nap while waiting for others to leave, or do some meaningless tasks to fill time, which all together create a grossly inefficient, completely rigid office culture, which produces nothing.
Gutless, subordinate human cattle, I despise JapanDiscuss
- Parts of their culture is fucked up, no need to despise them.jagara
- Hammer down the nail that stands out.shapesalad
- I've witnessed similar in Britain, but folk don't do any work and still hang about the office. Then get blitzed drunk because they hate their livesPhanLo
- shapesalad0
KONBINI CONFESSIONS
- shapesalad0
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world…
Floppy disks in Japan: Minister declares war on old-fashioned technology.
Japan's digital minister has "declared war" on floppy disks and other retro tech used by the country's bureaucrats.
Around 1,900 government procedures still require businesses to use the storage devices, plus CDs and mini-discs, Taro Kono said.- Still living in the 90s.shapesalad
- lol have you seen the Japanese internet?grafician
- shapesalad0
Crazy MV.
