あいりん - Gritty Japan

Well Japan has big problems as I'm sure you know with Social safety nets for non workers. Osaka lost about 460,000 jobs since Lehman Brothers Holdings collapsed since 2008.

I think they hit their historical high for jobless rates since 1953-54 in 2009, which was actually a year sooner than what was being projected. That number has since gone down a bit but I believe it's actually starting to surge back up again.

I read a number somewhere that 77% of the unemployed people do not receive benefits, which compare with 57% in the US.

Of course none of it compares to places like Subsaharran Africa. A friend of mine who served in the Foreign Legion was stationed over in Djibouti. He once told me that the men of these regions are incredibly lazy. They mainly depend on the women to do most of the work. He said he really only felt bad for the children.

 

Last of the summer wine was filmed in holmfirth which isn't far from where I live in Barnsley.

 

i thought the brits were all proper and well spoken and like to drink alot of tea.

 

Yeah and we all wear tophats and monocles..... Even the women!:lol:

 

I thought it was Bowler hats.

 

Bowler for the lower class, Top hats for the upper. Oh and caps for the working class right down at the bottom

 

The Japanese are equally crucified. There is no red tape a foreigner has to cut through that a Japanese doesn't. It sucks for everyone.

 

How are they crucified?

 

It's just a shitload of work to get going, and incorporating is actually quite expensive. My company ran me a good 300,000 yen to get off the ground, in cost alone. I believe in the US it costs $50. Once you're done, something like an address change or any other type of change can cost you something along the lines of 50,000 - 100,000 yen. It's the one time I can think of when right-wingers are totally right: regulation totally fucks up the works.

It goes far beyond this thread, but Japan's infrastructure is so expensive it's counterproductive during recession. Moving (house or office) is ridiculous requiring many months in cash up front (some non-refundable). The aforementioned paper work (cost and of course, resources put in). Etc. etc. All of these things promote stagnation.

The upside is , for small to medium sized business owners, there are a lot of write-offs you can enjoy in Japan that you can't in at least America, and I would assume a lot of Europe.

 

The orderly and tidy i love. It makes those slums look not so bad at all. The shunned for life is complete BS. Here in the US you can go from homeless to millionare as many times as you want. No one will even care. In fact, its a badge of honor for lots of people.