I feel like Japan’s geography as a small island nation that has to sometimes contend with much larger rivals has led to…interesting cultural adaptations.
well banksters, there are the rare local community banker who sees conglomerate banks as a major source of threat to the financial stability of the nation. but frankly I'm more likely to find a unicorn than one of those bankers anymore.
Developed: You have buying power but are poor anyways Undeveloped: You have no buying power and are poor anyways. Argentina: You dont need money to buy food when money is so plentiful you can use it as food. Japan: You'd better not raise the price of that apple or the ancients will damn us all.
I'm kinda glad he did that little tangent about Anime because I find a lot of people in the West who watch a lot of anime develop this idealized version of the country and it's kinda hilarious when they actually go to Japan and get a massive reality check.
Dragon Maid is way better since they actually showed that Japan's school and work culture sucks, and the manga would be insanely boring without the dragons there.
Yeah, people get the wrong idea of Japan as this perfect utopia when it has a lot of internal problems below the surface. My brother-in-law and mother-in-law (both Brazilian) wanted to move to Japan and find work, thinking it would be super easy to earn lots of money there. And they weren't even anime watchers. They really thought Japan's streets were figuratively paved with gold. My wife and I had to explain to them that with the stagnant yen, tough work culture (to the point of being toxic), and general disdain for foreigners, it'll be really tough to make a thriving life in Japan unless you knew what you were doing (learning the language, have preexisting job prospects, etc). Thankfully they never followed through with their plan as they stayed put in Brazil (and doing pretty OK for themselves these days).
Ergo, in a sense, the allies did basically nothing to change the political status quo of Japan other than writing a new constitution for the same ruling class. This is in stark contrast to what happened in Germany, because what happened in Japan is as if Germany under Allied occupation being allowed stay as the unified Weimar Republic instead of being rebuilt from the ground up into two different regimes on either sides of the Iron Curtain. This is what let jingoistic revisionists have a say in Japanese politics even to this day when most Japanese people are polite pacifists.
Many "isekai" main chars in anime often die from overwork in their original world. So the fun times in HS and death in the cooperate workplace is very well known.
I remember living in Japan. It is both modern and ancient at the same time. Everyone pays with cash. Always cash. ATMs close. Dont forget your stamp if you wish to do any type of business or banking. But Pachinko is stupid fun. I remember in the mid 90s the yen was like 79 to a dollar. Everyone was freaking out. Crazy how its just been stagnant for 30 years. One thing that hasnt been stagnant is their national debt. Only China's is higher per GDP. Eventually it will crush Japan. And then it is game over, unless the US pumps in a lot of investment. But I dont think the US is in any kind of shape financially or politically to do such a thing.
I lived in Japan for eleven years. Moved back to the States in May of last year. Cash is still king (better keep those yen bills nice and crisp and unfolded with a decent wallet), and the yen exchange rate was over 150 to $1 USD (it's increased to 160 this past year). Groceries and shopping was great for us, especially since my wife and I were paid in USD. Life wasn't so great for our Japanese friends though (since they were paid in yen) as they had to watch their spending.
@@arcturionblade1077 The coins too. Actual usable and functional coin currency. Very retro. I honestly dont know why we havent done the same here in the states with the dollar and 5 dollar notes. Coins last forever.
Probably most of place in Asia have dress code and school uniform. Maybe the West may see it as restricted but it was there to make everyone at the same lvl, no matter how rich or poor u are. And socialism, I guess
@buinghiathuan4595 All European schools have dress codes aswell I dont think this is a Japanese thing haha it's an American thing to not have a dress code haha
@@buinghiathuan4595 Australia has primary/high school dress codes as well, used to be mostly the private schools at first in the 80's and 90's but past that more and more public ones adopted it and now it's pretty much a given that when a new private/public primary/high school opens up it will have a dress code so having a dress code for schools isn't restricted to just the Asian regions.
The eternal struggle of talking about struggles. Its horrible whats Happening( war, civil unrest and economic Crashes) but Somebody has to Talk about it and inform the people. Love your content. 😊 @@historyofeverythingpodcast
@@historyofeverythingpodcast True, but its also helpful to get out information of whats happening as why as it could potentially help in the future if people understand a bit more why things are happening so can be more informed when they vote. Granted it's only a drop in the ocean unless you get billions of views a video, but even starting to inform some people on why economies crash and thus what policies it would be good to look out for when voting can help.
also, they adhere staunchly to traditional values intransigently which proffers the country's best intererst. They continuously push back against the west woke agenda.
Not surprising seeing how high school is considered the last hurrah for most Japanese when they have a sense of childhood innocence and "freedom" before the crushing weight of responsibility from college and work culture overtakes their entire lives.
Which is why the west doesn't seem to understand that anime is fiction. Loli is fiction. Magic girls is fiction. They needed to escape reality. Getting mine crafted will cause the manpower situation weaken which in the end will effect the Japanese economy. Which is why they also don't allow migrant workers from outside Japan because we know people send money to their families.
An excellent example of institutionalized sexism in Japan was a scandal some years ago where Tokyo Medical University was found to have been artificially lowering the entrance exam scores of female applicants to the point less than 10% of new students were women.
I'm confused, what do you mean it "artificially lowered" there scores? Do you mean like it just deducted points from their test for being woman? Or do you mean something else? Regardless, that would not be "institutionalized" sexism, it would be a particular entity, the Tokyo Medical University, being sexist, but as there is no law in place in Japan mandating that behavior, it is not built into the "institution" of the State of Japan.
@@brendanconlon8292 the entrance exam scores of all female applicants, and a handful of male applicants with female sounding names, were automatically lowered by ~10%. Further investigation indicated there was likely similar practices in other prestigious medical schools across the nation. It all came out when a different investigation into a nepotism case ran a computer program to find any students whose official grades didn't match with their actual exam answers.
@@brendanconlon8292 women applying to Tokyo University's Medical School had their entrance exam score lowered by ~10%, with indications of similar practices at other prestigious medical schools in the country.
@@brendanconlon8292 and Tokyo University is *the* prestigious and influential Japanese university, with the best equivalent being something like Eton or a mix of Harvard/MIT. Their graduates frequently dominate the boards of medicine/engineering/etc within the country, so this is very much a cultural institution.
TLDR: Central planning works better with an extremely disciplined population but will eventually fail. Also the final decoupling of the USD from gold and the following inflationary abuse of it set off all kinds of historic changes around the world whose full weight we're IMO yet about to live through.
its sad in this day we would rather have cheap dangerous things then well crafted and safe things. QUALITY allllllways beats Quantity.. having as lot is great but it never lasts
Demmings work in Japan was also foundational for modern project management. We got the fish bone diagram as well as process analysis techniques that defined the whole industry.
Saw you at the Ren-Fair in Kentucky! I had the big hat and hawaiian shirt! Hope you guys had fun and stayed cool Sorry for not stopping to chat, it was really hot and and with an hour of sleep i was star struck lol
For those of you that don't understand -- America assassinated the Japanese economy ... and they are trying to do the same today to china but china isn't really Japan and the game play is a little different, hence the word "Over capacity"
That’s mostly due to their culture as a collectivist society. Also having a shrinking population causes an excess of homes, not a lack of homes. This means no tent cities. Also there is quite a bit of sexual assault crime in Japan.
Mr Cool beating me by a few minutes. Pretty much exactly what he said, societies and cultures are in fact different and do in fact respond to stressors in different ways
Japan is famous for it's ironclad traditions, but also for making deep changes at an incredible pace when tradition stops working. I think now is one of those times of change.
BOJ has kept the interest pegged to negative rate for years which dissuaded investors from investing in the Yen or its government bonds. Instead, they have chosen to pile into the USD or Euro and divest from the Yen. As a result, the Yen has sustained a drastic depreciation relative to the USD.
Well... also in Anime the shows that DO begin with a middle aged Salaryman tend to be Isekai... so yeah... they're REALLY latching on to they would rather take the chance with a gruesome death to be reborn in a Fantasy world than deal with another day in a Black Company.
I remember reading something years ago about the Yakuza owning a large percentage of the banking industry and this actually helps stop a banking collapse
In America all over wealth is in a real estate that's where most of the wealth for the average citizen. Japan doesn't have that they're building considered worthless after 30 years because of all the earthquakes. So it's a whole different method in which to generate wealth but they also avoided all the bubbles that America's had to deal with
In Japan, it's the land that's valuable (plus location, of course). The house itself is not considered a vehicle for wealth generation, like it is in the US.
A house should only be considered a place to live, not as a rigged investment to benefit old people at the expense of the young people's ability to get their own place to live
Japan's been through economic crashes before. Back in the late 80s, they had a crash... and came out of the crash with still having the third largest economy in the world. This is what happens when you have extremely robust social programs in place. A crash in America and tons of people lost their homes. A crash in Japan and the Japanese government mobilized to make sure that as few people lost their homes as possible.
Also as a side note, Panasonic is a company you could do an entire video on all on its lonesome, because they are Kind of amazeballs. Their founding principle at its core has always been "Support and develop the community" ever since they were founded at Matsushita, and while people often just kind of brush them off as "just another random company no one notices", they have small electrical components in literally every electronic device you own, to say nothing of the fact that they basically constantly force everyone else to get off their ass. I'll give you a great example. Round about 2012, camera technology was... slow. Cameras did one thing and one thing only, the next models were all basic iterations, and advancement was very boring and very linear. And then Panasonic made the GH4, which had way more latitude in process capability than it actually NEEDED to have, allowing it to continue to be robust and useful even today, it recorded in 4k, it handled luts in-body for a small fee, it put solid work into making its onboard audio processing not suck(something that was relatively universal among DSLR type cameras that recorded video and even non-DSLR cameras), and it did it on a sensor that no one thought could be worth a damn, all while fully understanding that a digital camera is at its core, a computer, something that Canon and Nikon still struggle with to this day. Which is to say, every connected component is only as fast and capable as its weakest link, so while Canon was still linking components using USB1.1 protocols WAY past the point that that was no longer useful, Panasonic was capping out what USB2 could do internally, which meant greater reliability, better write speeds, higher burst speeds, all of it. In one single move, Panasonic walked onto Canon's lawn and took a MASSIVE dump straight on their front porch. It was a flagship camera for less than 1500 bucks at the time, and it was a hell of a slap in the face for the old guard. It's said that the GH4 basically forced Canon to wake up, and set the stage for Sony's rapid rise as a manufacturer, as expectations among users blew up once they saw what was possible. Their Nocticron glass also served as a shot across the bow given that it outperformed their L series lenses significantly, all while being natively compatible with OIympus's camera bodies as well thanks to their participation in the micro-four-thirds standard. And what Sony would do and continues to do to this day in that market STILL acts as a hardcore slap to the face of Canon's pre-2010 complacency. Also Panasonic invented the world's first bread machine. So there is also that.
Nintendo apparently has millions of dollars squirreled away and can weather many a storm. They're just very conservative with how they spent this money.
You mentioned how a lot of Anime are focused on high school. There’s been a surge of more isekai anime and manga recently, usually involving overworked adults or high schoolers. Do you think the reasoning behind that is similar, like how being isekai’d saves them from their fate of being overworked under-appreciated salarymen?
I did about a month of Quality Control based math in HS. Way it was explained to me was US companies weren't interested at first so we were getting wrecked in the auto market in the 80s
More on multiple companies collaborating together to create innovation. A racing group called Team Racing Midnight is a group of executives who drives to pursue innovation within thr car industry while maintaining animosity and safety
Reagan, being a hypocrite, tried to restrain the free market by imposing a 100% tariff, which is a gigantic tariff Me, a Brazilian, where EVERYTHING has 92-150% tariffs: 100% is supposed to be a big deal?
@@Tyranid_Hive_Mind they wouldn't do it; time has proven that the populace of Japan can overwhelmingly be driven to sacrifice everything for the sake of bettering their country, even if it mean their lives will only improve slightly, if at all, over generations. The Japanese have a culture of unity unseen in any other developed, or even under-developed, nation. All they need to do is figure out what it is they need to change and create a cohesive plan to achieve it.
Living here at the moment and I am crying at how low the Yen is compared to the dollar mainly because I have debts in the US to pay. My daily life hasn't changed, nor has my paycheck (I am in the ALT industry which is going down the drain right now). Prices of goods have gone up enough to where my wife and I do a bit more shopping for good deals. Prices for appliances like electricity and gas have skyrocketed but have been kept in check by government subsidies. We make enough for a small vacation within the country every few months but travel outside of Japan to visit family in the US is out of the question right now unless my folks want to pay the bulk of the costs. Children are out of the question until I move out of the ALT industry. If Japan wants to keep its presence on the world stage it does need to rethink its work culture and start innovating again.
13:15 Keiretsu might as well be the old Zaibatsu but not Zaibatsu in name only. When GHQ (Allied occupation government) dismantled Japanese Zaibatsu to dismantle the former industrial base of Imperial Japan's military expansionism, their remnants transformed into Keiretsu (which literally translates into affiliation in English) to do basically the same thing: pool capital and resources to grow industry. (South) Koreans saw how Keiretsu led Japan's economic development post-WW2 and copied the system into Chaebols. Chaebol is basically the same thing as the Japanese Keiretsu, as you can find that the word Chaebol is literally the Korean pronunciation of the same Japanese word using the same two Han Characters: 財閥.
I honestly don’t think it’ll fix itself because of who is in charge. I think one issue that hurt Japan is the fact their conservatives are nearly ENTIRELY dominant in the government. It says something that the reveal the main party has ties to a CULT and they embezzled a lot of money means they MIGHT lost their majority. The conservatives are super closed minded and not what Japan needs to grow
Japan will not grow under liberal rule, only expire. Japan is a spirit, if you replace the population with foreigners, the spirit will leave, and Japan will be Japan in name only.
Will you do a meet-up with your European viewers in Germany? It's really easy to get to Munich and the area around it from most of the surrounding countries. I've seen the Christmas markets, but I'd gladly board a train to hang out with this community
Well it had a homogeneous population. A smaller population in comparison to other developed nations and it didn't shit fling at their neighbors in the last hundred years.... Staying small, cohesive and polite keeps you going... But give it another generation or two and it'll fall off due to stagnant birth rates of their natives while an increase in migrant birthrates... That'll cause a sharp shift in crime, financial stability, and quality of life in 25-50 years if they're lucky
Also Norway's economy is way, way, way over praised, all of the Icelandic nations are. Norway specifically has a total gdp of a little less that 580 billion. That is significantly less than 1/2 the size of Mexico's and a little over a 1/4 of Canada's (not exactly powerhouse economies). And on top of that it has a bunch of natural gas off its coast. Basically Norway's economic strategies is, be next to a bunch of valuable natural resources and peaceful neighbors, and don't have to big of a population so that you can spread all that money you gain from those natural resources around a lot. To be fair, many, many other countries with a similar advantages squander it, but its not the case that Norway, (or any of the Icelandic countries) are master of economics, innovation or productivity. They aren't, they just have a lot of valuable natural resources and a stable government.
@@brendanconlon8292could you please explain why you think norways gdp isn't good compared to canada? Year, it might be 1/4 but if you account for population it's almost double pr capita. Also why compare it to mexico with a population of 127 million? Norway has 5,5 million people. Even if we ignore the population numbers and just look at the size of these countries this negative comparison doesn't make sense since mexico has almost 4x the area and canada has about 25x the area
@@stinepetersen861 You miss understood might point. Norway does have a good economy and I would argue it is better than Canada's and is certainly better managed than Mexico's. My only point with those comparison's is to emphasize that, in real terms, it is tiny. When people bring up the Scandinavian states, as models of "great" economies" they are generally doing so to imply, if not outright suggests, that they are examples other nations can learn from. But as nations scale the reality of economics just changes. What makes sense for an economy of 500 billion is vary different than an economy of 25 trillion. Smaller nations, like Norway, can rely on natural resources, controlled by state institutions to fund large welfare states. But as a country gets larger, and its economy needs to get bigger, nations need a more diverse economy, and likely require sectors likes tech and finance that have higher demands on intellectual capital to further scale, and such economies need very different structures and a different balance between state and private enterprises than Norway has. So, to sum up, Norway is a good economy, but its largely because its fortunate enough to be next to natural resources while being small in population so it isn't a good model for anyone else. Qatar has essentially the same model. Norway just happens to do it while also, fortunately, being a democracy.
@@brendanconlon8292year, but you didn't actually mention scaling up an economy in your first comment, you just implied that the gdp wasn't good compared two larger countries with stagnant economies. Sort of makes it difficult to not misunderstand you
Hopefully selling 2 cents of cardboard as a 40 cent pokemon card, and 2 dollars of plastic as a 200 dollar anime figurine, can revitalize their economy.
I mean I'm contemplating moving from South Africa to Japan to both work and live there. Their economy is in a tight spot l, but it's not nearly as bad as RSA. Though it will be challenging to find a job there and learn the language. But I do wish the Japanese all the best with how things are going and that they do pull through.
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Regarding that quick segement about anime. You had short clip of it in that segment but zom100 bucket list of the dead is one of my favorite shows in recent memory. It being about a salaryman who's finally freed from his exploitative job when the zombie apocalypse hits, so he decides to check things off of his bucket list. It's weirdly hopeful and optimistic despite the zombie premise and its a nice breath of fresh air from the common high school setting. It also came out the exact time i was starting my first salaried job, me being a year into this job now I kinda wish the zombie apocalypse would hit sometimes too.
More like "when will Japans economy crash" Not only do they have the issues they have been developing for decades but theyve recently been changing policies reactively. Cutting down on their tourism and discouraging foreign languages like english in public spaces is gonna hit some areas of japan really hard.
Tourism only profits a few individuals, it does not impact the greater economy. Foreign languages are not frowned on in public, but Japanese is the nations language and it is naturally used everywhere.
Tourism in Japan is becoming like a bad smell. What’s worse is the behavior of alot of the tourists is detestable. I’m not seeing any discouragement of other languages in public but if there is I wouldn’t blame the locals if they did, the Chinese don’t talk to each other they shout.
@@rowbearly6128ive seen nothing but the opposite, that people in japan are more over time becoming less tolerant of other language speakers. Nearly every youtuber who covers japan has done a segment about this in the last while.
@@sookendestroy1 RU-vidrs are generally annoying and do not respect the culture. I have lived in Japan for over 25 years. Witht he younger generation things are moving in the opposite direction.
What do you mean 41:20, Saudi Arabia just let the Petrodollar expire which has helped stabilize the USD float after the gold standard. and it hasn’t been covered by a single US media chain.
we live in such a pathetic and coddled society when we have to censor basic words on a video very obviously directed towards adults. This crap is so pathetic monetization requires us to be more censored than 1950's america
Excuse the question if you've answered it but it seems as though you don't cover any current events in Western countries. I feel like now more than ever the EU and North America are worth a video or two.
Not enough inflation? The yen is at its lowest value in history against the dollar. It's incredibly cheap to live on USD there and real estate is rock bottom. You're missing something.
Cars could be purchased after only 2.4 months of working...meanwhile in North America, corporations would see this as reason to jack up the prices and increase profits. God, I hate capitalism under the greed we see here.
Godspeed, Japan. I hope that their legendary reputation of endurance, quality, and innovation again carries them (and the rest of the world) into a new golden age.
Tariffs and sanctions worked very well for the US. It saved the US semiconductor industry and now Toyota is more of a American company than Japanese most of their vehicles are made in America so yes Tariffs and Sanctions work for America and we need more against China and Russia
