• @[email protected]
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    137 hours ago

    “Just by being born here, our son benefits from the love, support and hope of so many people — even though he has achieved absolutely nothing in life yet,” his father said.

    Sounds like this kid needs to get his act together. 2 years old and nothing to show for it!

  • @Coldgoron
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    1410 hours ago

    Sometimes the horror stories create themselves.

  • atro_city
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    1812 hours ago

    Vote for a party that wants to make the country attractive for young people to bear children? Nah, let’s sew puppets to replace them instead 🤡

    • tiredofsametab
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      1111 hours ago

      We don’t know whom these people are voting for, but there is a (n at least to me) surprising amount of support for candidates left of the LDP in rural areas. The part of rural Japan I live in elected a rep from the Japanese Communist Party (which, despite their name, are more like democratic socialists; not sure why they refuse to change the name).

      • atro_city
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        149 minutes ago

        Old, rural, and in a country where >50% of the people vote for one party (which is actually multiple)? I think it’s quite safe to assume who they voted for - or that they didn’t vote at all with voter participation between 50-70% in various elections.

      • @[email protected]
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        18 hours ago

        Democratic socialists or social democrats? (Yes, there is a huge difference), because demsocs are just a type of communist (whereas socdems are capitalists / liberals)

        • tiredofsametab
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          27 hours ago

          Per Wikipedia here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Communist_Party#Ideology_and_policies :

          [. . .] it is, however, politically moderate and advocates a peaceful transition to communism.[69] Marxism–Leninism, which former party chairman Tetsuzo Fuwa had worked for years to make acceptable to the electorate, was abandoned in favor of scientific socialism in 1976.[70][71] According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, the JCP became a more traditional democratic socialist party after modifying its policies in the 1990s.[57] This analysis is supported by the Japanese political scientist Kōji Nakakita [ja], who is often cited as a specialist on the JCP.[72] The JCP follows a Marxist ideology,[73][5] stating that the theory of Marx and Engels is the foundation of their program.[74] The party sits on the left[75] to far-left[80] of the left–right political spectrum.

          I suppose the real answer is to read the material in Japanese and look at their policy decisions, but I for one don’t have time for it (nor can I vote here in Japan anyway).

  • @[email protected]
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    13 hours ago

    silent hill desu

    I actually really want to visit that town the next time I go to Japan now.

    • @[email protected]
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      1012 hours ago

      This is just asking for a horror movie adaptation. It starts when the main character sees one looking at them at the edge of their vision, but they turn and it isn’t. By the end it’s basically puppet zombies and everybody from the first act has turned into a puppet