8mo ago

'Outnumbered by puppets': Depopulated village in Japan crafts dolls for sense of life

www.nbcnews.com

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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 🤡
- 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).
  
  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.
  
  Democratic socialists or social democrats? (Yes, there is a huge difference), because demsocs are just a type of communist (whereas socdems are capitalists / liberals)
“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!
silent hill desu
I actually really want to visit that town the next time I go to Japan now.
Sometimes the horror stories create themselves.
Nope. Bad idea. Creepy as fuck.
- 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
  
  This is just asking for a horror movie adaptation.
  There's this.
- I could see a version where it isn't. Maybe.
  But those are really bad.
Akira Yamaoka soundtrack starts playing
the Lies of P DLC looking pretty good
There will come soft rains.
This is where America is heading. Japan doesn't like immigration just like the r's. To combat this, r's are trying to force young white women into having unwanted babies. Also, it's a little hard to do war without a population to send.
- Not everything is about the US bro.
  
  Absolutely correct, but there are tons of nations losing population right now. I believe UK used the immigration thing for Brexit as well.
- Germany, North Korea, Denmark, and a bunch of other countries too. Yet somehow they manage to blame "immigrants" for their childlessness, not the rich, powerful, and wealthy who make the country unattractive to have children in.
- If you have a degree and come from a number of countries, that's about all it takes to get a work visa. For English "teaching" (most jobs are glorified tape recorders from what I've read), you don't much at all. I've been here almost 10 years and will be applying for my permanent residency shortly. Since I've come, they've actually made it easier to get PR, especially for younger people, with points systems.

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