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[–]RM-Goetbbels 15 insightful - 2 fun15 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It wasn't that she was infected with covid 19 or that her husband and daughter contracted it from her. It was because the media and the governments have exacerbated her mental state to total fear.

[–]polync 12 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Sounds like depression or BPD which wouldn't be properly treated in Japan. Also this would most likely be counted as a covid death.

[–][deleted] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This is insane. Mainstream media should be kept on lockdown in crisis. If closing non-essential businesses is allowed, closing harmful organizations should be fine too.

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (13 children)

Japanese culture probably has a lot to do with it. If you're on a train there and your phone rings you cover your mouth with a cloth, they all do it, so as not to offend others.

[–]jet199 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (9 children)

And the culture of killing yourself over the slightest thing.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

Yeah, they are a strange lot, I don't think there is another culture on the planet that even comes close. They are so dedicated, and clever too! Imagine where they would be now if they hadn't been bombed back to the stone-age in WWII? Ahhhh, those were the days! Imagine being part of a 1000 bomber raid dropping incendiaries on Tokyo? Or better yet, the bombardier of the Enola Gay. Just one little push of a button and you release a weapon that will incinerate hundreds of thousands of people in an eyeblink. Brrrrrr, I get shivers just thinking about it.

[–]jet199 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

There's a theory that the Japanese purposely use the myth of their weirdness so they can maintain their cultural integrity against the forces or globalisation when in truth every country has similar unique quirks but they don't promote them.

[–]Node 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

Wouldn't their unique inclination to promote their own weirdness make them weird in and of itself?

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

The theory is it isn't a inclination, it's a conscious tactic. A bit like acting crazy in prison so people leave you alone.

[–]TheOtherSide 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

That's a weird thing to say.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

This is from late last century, Trigger Alert, Schoolgirl prostitution in Japan.

Japanese sociologists say teen prostitution is tolerated in part because prostitution doesn't have the stigma here that it has in some other cultures. Japanese culture doesn't impart on sex the sense of sin that Western religions tend to. Even incest isn't a crime in Japan except in the case of rape.

An archived WSJ story, paywall bypassed https://outline.com/sxkrCn

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB844189550290273000

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yet the reality is most Japanese men aren't getting laid. The population is decreasing. And it's partly this kind of thing which is a big turn off. No women wants to nurse an insecure man who has to target children because his fear of relationships is so great.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes I have read about that transition. I wonder what happened to them? Certainly some, the criminal element, have balls still but the rest?

Do you have first hand knowledge of this 199? I found an article on it that puts forward some reasoning on the issue but it's always good to hear on-the-ground observations. Some years back I shared house with a guy who had lived there for 10 years after marrying a japanese woman. At the time I didn't think to probe him on the matter but I find it fascinating now. I wonder if it was externally imposed social engineering so to speak, or just a confluence of negative events as this article puts forth?

http://legendsofmen.com/2019/06/is-east-asian-masculinity-dead-as-goes-japan-so-goes-the-west/

[–]adultmanhwa 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

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    [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    There was probably some secret code for it and you simply didn't know what it was? They are very liberal sexually, have been since the beginning.

    [–]Vagina7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    code? give me the fkng code.

    [–]zyxzevn 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    99.98% chance of survival. Even if not treated by the censored medicine.

    [–]adultmanhwa 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    I wonder if this is just a made up stories.

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      [–]Lahontan 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

      Found the psychopath