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by matsuki » Wed Oct 21, 2015 1:29 pm
Salty wrote:matsuki wrote:Or a culture of "we can save money here and by the time anyone finds out, if they ever find out, we'd have gotten ours and be long gone." (hence the chuugokumitai reference)
Agreed. And after a major earthquake, nobody would be focused on the pilings.
by Russell » Thu Oct 22, 2015 10:10 pm
Tokyo Metropolitan Police have warned the editorial departments of four weekly magazines over the publication of erotic images dating back centuries, it was learned on Monday, reports public broadcaster NHK (Oct. 19).
According to police, the publication of shunga, or erotic woodblock prints, inside magazines Shukan Post, Shukan Taishu, Shukan Gendai and Shukan Asahi Geino along with nude photographs of contemporary women on separate pages could be viewed as “obscene” under the law.
The production of shunga works reached its peak during the Edo Period (1603-1867). While similar in artistic style to ukiyo-e works, which often show courtesans and natural scenes, shunga pieces are highly explicit, typically featuring couples engaged in various sexual positions.
Earlier this month, Shukan Bunshun suspended its editor over the publication of three shunga works. One piece published by the magazine was Katsushika Hokusai’s “The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife,” which depicts a woman being sexually pleasured by an octopus.
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The pieces published by Shukan Bunshun were as a part of an introduction to a shunga exhibit now underway at the Eisei Bunko Museum in Bunkyo Ward. The exhibit prohibits visitors under 18 years of age from entering.
“We will continue to respond to the publication of content that emphasizes obscenity rather than art when needed,” a representative of the police is quoted by NHK.
The editorial departments of Shukan Gendai and Shukan Asahi Geino refused to comment on the matter. A representative of Shukan Taishu said that the matter would receive “future consideration.”
An editor with Shukan Post contested the claims of the police. “Shunga is traditional culture in Japan that should be displayed to the rest of the world with pride,” the representative said, “and, until the end, we will view it as art.”
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by Samurai_Jerk » Fri Oct 23, 2015 12:03 pm
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has ordered his new minister for demographic issues to come up with “bold proposals” for raising Japan’s birthrate. His aim: Stem a slide in the labor force to drive production and fund the retirement of the country’s elderly.
The working-age population in Asia’s second-biggest economy could shrink as much as 40 percent in the next 45 years, while the number of elderly balloons in a country with one of the world’s longest life expectancies. Abe last month made arresting the decline a priority, announcing a new economic plan that calls for stabilizing the population at 100 million in half a century from 127 million now.
Here are some measures Abe’s new minister Katsunobu Kato, a father-of-four, could introduce to slow the downward spiral.
Immigration
Less than 2 percent of the population are non-Japanese, compared with about 13 percent in the U.S. and Germany. Economists have called for increased immigration, and about half the respondents to an April poll in the Asahi newspaper agreed.
Abe last month rejected the idea of accepting more foreigners, saying he would first seek bolster the fertility rate, and entice women and the elderly into the workforce. Last year, he said foreigners were needed as housekeepers to allow more Japanese women to work outside the home, but details of a pilot program are yet to be decided.
Kindergartens
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by matsuki » Fri Oct 23, 2015 12:29 pm
Last year, he said foreigners were needed as housekeepers to allow more Japanese women to work outside the home, but details of a pilot program are yet to be decided.
by Wage Slave » Fri Oct 23, 2015 12:50 pm
by matsuki » Fri Oct 23, 2015 2:31 pm
Wage Slave wrote:Meanwhile there is no shortage of political capital and debt funded cash to squander on seeking to rewrite history, squabbling over what does or doesn't get into a UN library, chasing whales around the southern ocean and all the rest.
by Salty » Fri Oct 23, 2015 5:43 pm
matsuki wrote:Wage Slave wrote:Meanwhile there is no shortage of political capital and debt funded cash to squander on seeking to rewrite history, squabbling over what does or doesn't get into a UN library, chasing whales around the southern ocean and all the rest.
Don't forget the titty bars and kyabakura funds!
by Taro Toporific » Sat Nov 28, 2015 4:00 pm
Embroidered "Blue Screen" bomber jacket by the Japanese brand @Tabinary.
Pix taken at the Tabinary popup shop this weekend at Harajuku ---Tokyo Fashion (@TokyoFashion) Nov. 27, 2015
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