% per 100k? This person is making a valid point, but it's undermined somewhat by the fact they've clearly fucked up something.
According to this, per 10,000 people:
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/homelessness-by-country
That's what I figured they meant.
Yeah, but those other stats are raw numbers. Okay, we have a higher number of unhoused people and food-insecure people, but we also have a higher number of people, period. If you wanna make a point, it has to be per capita. I like how the first stat got this right, but the others did not.
Ya might be a good point but it’s a distracting mess
Thankfully we already know a little bit about both of our situations so we get the gist
Fuck proselytizing religions. No, I won't join your stupid fucking cult. Fuck right off.
Do you want to talk about Satan?
We enjoy sex, responsible drug use and rock and roll.
Fuck all religion. No I don’t want to reject reality to play make believe.
Naw, my religion is cool. I'm a Satanist. We accept reality as revealed by science.
I do not trust any stats that come out of Japan in terms of homelessness. If there's a statistic that's embarrassing for Japanese society, you know damn well they're gonna try to cover it up with technicalities.
In Japan, the legal definition for someone who is homeless is: "those who use city parks, riverbanks, roads, train stations and other facilities as their place of stay in order to live their daily lives."
So that doesn't include living in your car, living in insecure housing, living in shelters, or living in internet cafés, of which in 2020 there were about 15,000 'net café refugees' in Tokyo alone.
Sooo yeah, Japan can claim to officially have a super low homeless population, because they've narrowed the definition so much that you have to literally be sleeping on the street for it to count.
They cover it with Hideo Kojima
yeah they also fail to acknowledge the suicide rate or the amount of overtime or purchasing power of avg wages.
I'm not making any statements on any countries other than japan. but I'll add a message to american weebs: STOP FETISHIZING JAPAN
I just woke up, but I don't think the unit should be percentage per 100k people. Otherwise, I agree with the statement though.
Not only that, 07 > 5.7, I assume missing a decimal point. Their heart is in the right place, their keyboard is all over the place.
Probably this person studied in america /j
Yes am I unaware of a strange way of displaying these metrics or did they just add the % sign for no reason?
correlation is not causation, the reason why they have less murders is probably not Christianity (for example they have way stricter gun control)
edit: after rereading the post I don't think the other person is tryng to argue that Christianity is causing murder and whatnot, so ignore above paragraph
also wouldn't it make complete sense for Japan to have way less Christians since they were isolated for so long and have their own religious beliefs
Also, Christianity was banned for quite awhile.
A Japanese guy used a 3d printed gun to undermine a christian cult in Japan.
The Moonies are so wacky that calling them “Christian” is a stretch. Definitely not aligned with the Nicene creed, and I think once the founder/prophet claims some sort of divinity it’s better to refer to as Christian derived.
This part of 'what your bible says about murder and poor people' makes it sound like the writer of the response believes it's causational but i think they were just offended and not trying to make a scientifically sound argument. And i would understand that.
It's almost racist because of how the first post makes Christianity sound like something superior. As if the Japanese being different in their believe makes them less.
also wouldn't it make complete sense for Japan to have way less Christians since they were isolated for so long and have their own religious beliefs
Exactly this. Although Japanese rulers haven't always been very peaceful, their culture is known for being caring and respectful towards others where as Americans are by many people seen as loud and obnoxious (also positive things, but i'm not trying to make a comparison between two cultures as a whole), making this comment about Japanese adoption of Christianity not only come across as ignorant but also very arrogant.
It's more a statement of the state of Christianity in the United States, where in a lot of congregations the actual teachings of Jesus have taken a back seat to gun culture and right wing politics.
She's saying that the Japanese are better Christians than Americans, despite not even being Christians.
Your unhoused numbers are wrong. Those are the official "sleeping on the streets" numbers, which is not the same thing. First because they're official, and therefore almost certainly undercounting, and second because they exclude all of the situations where people don't have houses but are kinda not exactly in a cardboard box.
07%/100000
5/7 with rice
Japan also has a terrifyingly high conviction rate, something those Christians would cream themselves over.
If you measure the us conviction rate the same way the commonly quoted 99% conviction rate in Japan is calculated ours is actually higher.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conviction_rate scroll down to the Japan entry for the source. Sorry don't know how to link it directly lol
Japan is just gaming the numbers here. Both with the conviction rate and with the homeless ratio.
https://www.examiner.org.hk/2025/01/17/the-invisible-homeless-in-japan/features/
According to this link, if you apply western metrics, Japan would have between 100k and 200k homeless. Which would mean Japan has 81.2-162.4 homeless per 100k inhabitants, while the USA has 221.7.
That would make Japan a bit better than the USA, but it's not that much of a difference any more.
Given the confluence of weeb culture and the alt-right (think incels and “traditionalists” with anime avatars, right-wing gamers pointing to Japan as a high-tech conservative utopia untouched by wokeness and such), it was inevitable that sooner or later someone would try to imagine a Japan that goes to Latin Mass.
Is there something wrong with her heart? Maybe she needs to go see a doc... oh, wait nvm. We'll just pray the pain away for her.
I don't think she's really sorry about their heart
The US is really just a big social experiment trying to prove a point.
I'm not sure what that point is, but it's definitely out there.
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I actually wouldn't put it past them to help bulldoze the entire planet to make an intergalactic highway if it meant they'd get Earth money in exchange. They're already doing that with the environment, so...
Well, the best times in American history were when corporate and wealth taxes were high and opportunities for the unwashed masses were greatest, and the worst were when the rich were allowed to run rampant, so I think the point America is trying to make is kill the greedy along with their parents and children.
I'm heartbroken too. Anything over 0 is a failure of public education
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