You'd be surprised... sometimes IRL.

Yeah... it baffles me both how "effective" the cops are (Pretty sure they make up some BS law or they pick up a foreigner who doesn't speak the language and screw them over) and how many people praise them... Some wanting them imported to the US with one Reddit user IIRC stating (before I got botted from the site) that the "George Floyd thing wouldn't happen becuase they're effective dealing with the delinquent population and bringing order to any disturbance"

Translation: he wanted Japansese cops because according to him they keep black people in check and beat protestors willy nilly.

You should see how God-awful it is here in Puerto Rico.

Example from one job ad online:

Electric Engineer, 5 years minimum experience needed, 7.25 starting hourly wage.

¡Senda falta de respeto, coño!

Giving it that kind of permission is like the most obvious thing not to do.

But at what cost?

When I read that IBM quote, WarGames and WOPR come to mind.

Wasn't that the party run by a virulently racist convenience store clerk?

Yep.

Especially since the same conservative party has had power for the better part of SEVEN DECADES.

"Japan in particular is wildly xenophobic to begin with and it hasn't offered a future to youth for decades"

Not since like the late Nineties - early Aughts when the economy began to stagnate.

And speaking of Kurds and similar groups of people from MENA (They're super few but they're there) considering where they're from and the religion they subscribe to, Islam, the police have a carte blanche to spy on them whenever the hell they feel like it.

"We have a much younger population that’s recently become more politically active after years of being exhausted with far-right rule."

God I hope the US either collapses for its own stupidity for bungling the most consequential election in world history or experiences a leftist surge that finally tells the Nazis and the GOP to [Redacted just in case, you know what I mean.]

They just want the old Empire back to ~~take over the land that is rightfully ours and rid world of the Chinese horde!!!~~ bring back the "Good ol' Days"

This is why I discourage anyone borderline worshipping Japan as like this high tech utopia.

It's a borderline ethnostate with deep rooted systemic political and racial problems (in particular with Koreans) and one hell of an aversion to women.

The Japanese people are nice with a diversity of thought like any population but let's not kid ourselves, Japan is a conservative's political fantasy.

And like the US, it hasn't fully purged It's far right (in this case, fascistic) elements form it's recent history.

Japan: A lovely place but a political hellhole.

And don't get me started on their cops!