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Japan's gamble to turn island of Hokkaido into global chip hub

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Re: Japan's gamble to turn island of Hokkaido into global chip hub

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Post by panny »

tanaros wrote: post #479
panny wrote: post #436

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>The Japanese population trend is unsustainable with long term growth. There are plenty of people in Tokyo/Osaka who can come to Hokkaido. If the jobs pay well, they will. Japan owes it to an entire generation who were left out in the "employment ice age." Japanese are very smart, can be trained, and should get first shot at the jobs. >Maybe they will find people to relocate to satisfy the labor needs? They're notori…

> Good gaijin are welcomed, bad ones need to leave. This is always the rhetoric in anti-immigration movements. You may find that the definitions of “good” and “bad” vary wildly.

>You may find that the definitions of “good” and “bad” vary wildly.

Not really, the definition was clearly explained in my post. Don't destroy vending machines,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flhqq_xsWBs

Don't build shanty towns on other people's property,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9RO8DpJ64g

This is pretty easy to understand for anyone. If you are an immigrant in Japan and you have a problem with these requests, please leave.

Sincerely,

A fellow gaijin.

Re: Japan's gamble to turn island of Hokkaido into global chip hub

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Post by noduerme »

dmpk2k wrote: post #249
noduerme wrote: post #218

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In terms of survival strategies, letting someone else rule over you was sort of the OG Christian thing before they got control of the Roman Empire. It's kind of the default in most places. Declaring independence and actually succeeding at it and governing yourself is remarkably rare. The question isn't what you think is wise, or what you would do (because no one knows until they're in that situation). It's whether yo…

> Some people don't, evidently. Other people do. I like how this can be interpreted two ways, depending on whether you place loved ones above governance, or vice versa.

That's not a binary choice. Find yourself under the wrong governance and you'll find your loved ones disappear pretty quickly, even if you do toe the line. The people who treat populist politics as a sport are the people who don't have personal experience of that, or convince themselves they're insulated from the repercussions.

Re: Japan's gamble to turn island of Hokkaido into global chip hub

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Post by noduerme »

aurareturn wrote: post #471
brigandish wrote: post #243

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How’s that going in Hong Kong?

It is going fine in Hong Kong. Still operating as its own system.

Its own system? The entire local government was replaced with rubber stamp flunkies, all democracy activists were arrested, and it's basically a terror regime. No one in their right mind would move there or start a business there. If the intent was to maintain a separate system for the purpose of attracting foreign capital, so much for that.

Re: Japan's gamble to turn island of Hokkaido into global chip hub

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atwrk wrote: post #258
noduerme wrote: post #220

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>> the confrontative position of the first Trump administration and afterwards the Biden administration significantly helped the "by force" faction This is the argument that you hit your wife because someone on the telephone made you angry.

This is about international relations. You won't get any insight into it if you reduce any point you don't like to argumentative metaphors. Even within the framework of (structural) realism so popular in contemporary US politics there's this well-known problem that the buildup of defense capabilities of party A looks like aggression to party B - and vice versa. See the seminal work Perception and Misperception in Int…

No no, I mean that one does not conduct foreign relations with fear that your approach might give fuel to the local autocracy to whip up fabricated nationalist riots.

Re: Japan's gamble to turn island of Hokkaido into global chip hub

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Post by n4r9 »

MangoToupe wrote: post #401
mrguyorama wrote: post #390

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It is usually morally correct to fight off literal tyrannical invasion, what are you on about? Are you seriously suggesting it wasn't moral for the French to fight the Nazis or the people of Afghanistan to fight off the Soviets and Americans? >You should support yourself and bide whatever state imposes itself on you. Pathetic. Might as well go back to feudalism with that attitude. It is not nationalism to want a sove…

Ok, so why do people not violently rise up against the us government? They clearly have never represented our values, and they use the pretense of sovereignty to act as if their behavior reflects our interest. > It is not nationalism to want a sovereign nation that you have influence over, that's democracy. So what's our excuse? Do we not have a democracy, or are we simply a contemptible people?

A lot of people believe that Trump represents their values. They might be dead wrong, but it's what they believe that counts.
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