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With no families or visitors to speak of, many older tenants spent weeks or months cocooned in their small apartments, offering little hint of their existence to the world outside their doors. And each year, some of them died without anyone knowing, only to be discovered after their neighbors caught the smell.
The first time it happened, or at least the first time it drew national attention, the corpse of a 69-year-old man living near Mrs. Ito had been lying on the floor for three years, without anyone noticing his absence. His monthly rent and utilities had been withdrawn automatically from his bank account. Finally, after his savings were depleted in 2000, the authorities came to the apartment and found his skeleton near the kitchen, its flesh picked clean by maggots and beetles, just a few feet away from his next-door neighbors.
The huge government apartment complex where Mrs. Ito has lived for nearly 60 years — one of the biggest in Japan, a monument to the nation's postwar baby boom and aspirations for a modern, American way of life — suddenly became known for something else entirely: the "lonely deaths" of the world's most rapidly aging society.
To many residents in Mrs. Ito's complex, the deaths were the natural and frightening conclusion of Japan's journey since the 1960s. A single-minded focus on economic growth, followed by painful economic stagnation over the past generation, had frayed families and communities, leaving them trapped in a demographic crucible of increasing age and declining births. The extreme isolation of elderly Japanese is so common that an entire industry has emerged around it, specializing in cleaning out apartments where decomposing remains are found.
Compounding matters, Japan has a declining birthrate and bans immigration.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 03 2017, @07:31PM (18 children)
Wanting to keep a homogeneous population would be considered very racist were Japan a nation of white people.
Why do the Japanese get a pass?
For that matter, why do the Chinese get a pass? or the South Koreans? or Mexico, which constitutionally forbids changing the population demographics?
Germany allowed the Saudis to fund the building of mosques for all the refugees, but would the Saudis allow Germans to fund the building of protestant Churches in Saudi Arabia?
The more I think about it, the more it looks like the only non-racist, non-bigoted people are whites! Hell, it was white people who came late to the global slave trade, and who have done the most to end the global slave trade; it is white people who came up with the ideas of "multiculturalism" and "tolerance"; as far as I can tell, only white people have implemented social programs to advance other groups (consider that in Malaysia, the social programs benefit the majority Muslim Malays the most!)
Goddamn. None of it makes sense. Maybe white people should once again start taking a little pride in themselves.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 03 2017, @07:35PM
Explained here [youtube.com]
(Score: 5, Interesting) by legont on Sunday December 03 2017, @08:33PM (3 children)
It was suggested by Machiavelli in his infamous book "Prince". In short, if said Prince wants to hold concurred nations long term he has only two choices: 1. Exterminate them. 2. Provide for them a better living than to his own people. Stalin had done both. The US has done the former and is doing the later now.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 04 2017, @03:20AM (1 child)
conquered... or concurred?
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday December 04 2017, @04:45PM
Concord?
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday December 04 2017, @04:44PM
Prince, or Prints?
Hold, or Holed?
Two, or Too?
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 0, Troll) by jmorris on Sunday December 03 2017, @08:50PM (5 children)
Because the Japanese do not give a f*ck what you think. Because this is universally understood, the (((usual))) suspects don't bother, knowing they would gain absolutely nothing from their efforts, efforts better used in the West to extort more resources to be used to keep the West subjugated.
That really is it. When White Men stop giving a f*ck what Jews think about them and decide "IT IS OK TO BE WHITE" everything will instantly change. Then when, once awake and looking at the world with eyes alight with awareness of a threat, we will also realize feminism was nothing but a shit test our fathers failed and correct that problem. Those two things fixed we will return to peace and prosperity for another turn of the r/K wheel.
And because the Japanese do not give a f*ck, they will survive these times as Japanese. We don't yet know exactly how they will survive and how mighty they will be when this is all over, but whatever is still on the Japanese lands will be Japanese. They care about that, and that is perfectly OK. It is OK to be Japanese.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 03 2017, @09:47PM (4 children)
I think we'll launch right into an international genetics race akin to the old arms races.
White people, along with everyone else, will be left behind by the augmented class.
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Flamebait? What's the point of a discussion forum other than flamewars, you worthless website of whiners???
Suck a flaming cock, SoylentNews, you work of whiners.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 03 2017, @11:20PM (3 children)
> What's the point of a discussion forum other than flamewars ...
At the risk of feeding the troll (bad idea, I know). How about this:
Reasoned debate at an intellectual level and avoidance of emotional triggers.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 03 2017, @11:30PM
Spock made everyone all hot and bothered.
For wrongheadedness, there's no salve more effective than ridicule.
Logic dictates that you suck a cock, SoylentNews, you illogical rubbish.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 04 2017, @01:10PM
Spock made everyone all hot and bothered.
For wrongheadedness, there's no salve more effective than ridicule.
Logic dictates that you suck a cock, SoylentNews, you illogical rubbish.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 04 2017, @04:33PM
Spock made everyone all hot and bothered.
For wrongheadedness, there's no salve more effective than ridicule.
Logic dictates that you suck a cock, SoylentNews, you illogical rubbish.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by julian on Monday December 04 2017, @12:01AM (4 children)
I disagree with the Japanese immigration policy, but they have their own country and can deal with whatever problems they create for themselves one way or the other. We have a different reality we have to deal with. For one thing, the homogeneous ethno-state the Japanese sort of have which alt-reich cretins salivate over is impossible to recreate in the USA. Even if you stopped all immigration tomorrow, non-white people are already here and they're US citizens. They're not going anywhere. Since many are first and second generation immigrants and lower in socioeconomic status they have a higher fertility rate which drops off to the base rate after a couple generations.
There is, of course, nothing wrong with being white. There is usually something very wrong with Internet edge-lords who feel the need to proclaim this like they're being subversive and profound. You are not oppressed, put-upon, or even inconvenienced for being white. To claim the contrary is to adopt the same nauseating victim-hood complex that dozens of right-wing YouTubers have made a cottage industry shrieking about when they see it in liberals and minorities. Yet it seems even more pathetic when it's coming from the self-proclaimed "master race" (behold them! [reddit.com]).
Moreover, having pride in your *race*, whatever it is, is fucking stupid. You should be proud of your accomplishments--I guess that explains why so many far-right ethno-nationalists fall back on being proud of their skin color. They've got nothing else going for them.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday December 04 2017, @04:59AM
You're already at +5 so I can't mod you up further, but THANK YOU for being the one single fucking voice of reason in this entire festering septic tank of a thread. This place is going straight to shit...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 04 2017, @01:23PM
Nobody said anything about making the USA an ethnostate; nobody said anything about whites being "oppressed" (though, whites are forced to pay for the artificial advancement of other peoples); nobody said anything about whites being the "master race"; nobody said anything about being proud of skin color.
There's straw coming out of your ears.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 04 2017, @04:35PM
Nobody said anything about making the USA an ethnostate; nobody said anything about whites being "oppressed" (though, whites are forced to pay for the artificial advancement of other peoples); nobody said anything about whites being the "master race"; nobody said anything about being proud of skin color.
There's straw coming out of your ears.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 04 2017, @07:22PM
Then help Muslims emigrate to Malaysia (Just look at their flag! They must be the ACS project for Muslims!), Mexicans back to Mexico (under US 'management'.) And then let the chinese finish buying out the US and watch as our leadership learns mandarin and abandons us for some wealthy Chinese-majority retirement island now that they have gotten theirs :)
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 04 2017, @10:58AM
No, this is called xenophobic. Japanese are very xenophobic.
And yes, many Japanese are also very racist. They just get a pass on it because they tend to be polite about it.
(Score: 2) by moondrake on Monday December 04 2017, @04:31PM
who is giving them a pass?
I've lived there. And have been confronted with some racism. It was the "good" kind though (have not been beat up or anything).
But to conclude from that whites are much better is silly. Stupidity does not seem to have anything to do with skin color.