Japan’s new “Abenomics” policy to spur hyperinflation: It Lifts and Separates™ the electorate…
Japan hopes for a lift from “Abenomics” bra
Reuters / May 8, 2013
The Japanese division of lingerie maker Triumph International unveiled on Wednesday an “Abenomics” bra, a special edition it says offers a “growth strategy” and a potential lift towards Japan's elusive inflation target…more…
Homeless, jobless forced to take refuge under Golden Arches
Asahi News | Jan. 31, 2013
Japan’s long-moribund economy has spawned a new breed of jobless and homeless people dubbed “makudo nanmin,” or refugees at McDonald’s.
Mostly in their 30s and 40s, they typically spend the night at a McDonald’s restaurant…for 100 yen over a cup of coffee.
Many of the makudo nanmin graduated from school during the employment “ice age” from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s, joined the labor market as temporary workers and eventually lost their jobs.
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Image ripped-off from DannyChoo {sorry}.
I know quite a few of these “refugees”—contracted “code monkeys” who were at Hitachi but never hired full-time. Now if they have a short-term contracts at Softbank/Docomo/whatever, they sleep under their desk after midnight. Otherwise, they sleep at McDonald’s (or grandma’s farm) until they scrounge up their next subcontract and have a new temporary desk to sleep under.
Anti-IMF activists stage rally in Tokyo
theSundaily | TOKYO (Oct 13, 2012): Protesters calling for an end to the International Monetary Fund hit the streets of…upscale Ginza shopping district…more…
The Zombie protesters rallied against the meetings of the IMF/World Bank waving wads of fake Japanese money mocking the super rich as shambled along the luxury shopping haunt of the Ginza in downtown Tokyo. A fun time was had by one and all.
Looking at today’s economic news coming out of Japan today, I saw these two schizoid headlines positioned almost next to each other on googlenews…
—Japan’s April Trade Gap Widens, Exports Fall
(businessweek.com | 2012-05-22)
—Japan Exports Rise at Fastest Pace in Over a Year
(Reuters | 2012-05-22)
Today is April’s Fools Day. When I first saw this seemingly obvious joke article, I thought that The Guardian newspaper of the UK is having a bit of droll fun about the “rebirth of Japan”—the developed world’s most morose, moribund society.
What’s the story of the next decade?
The rebirth stillbirth of Japan
guardian.co.uk | The Observer, by Will Hutton, Sunday 1 April 2012
It is a small thing, but it says a lot about the country. At Tokyo’s Narita airport, when you take off your shoes at the security screening check, the guard hands you a pair of Chinese plastic leather toilet slippers. The message is obvious: this hugely inconvenient airport cares for your wellbeing and recognises your need, NOT.
In Japan, taxi doors swing open automatically; toilet seats are electronically warmed and cleaned; and the extraordinary variety of radioactive food is presented exquisitely. There is a passion for satiating every imaginable perverted human want…more ad nauseam…
The reason I am calling this article “Crackpipe or April Fools” is that the lead holds up Tokyo’s Narita airport as The Ideal, but in reality for Japanese it is the most hated airport on earth. In Japanese “嫌悪成田 (hate Narita)” has about 1,620,000 google hits and in English “hate Narita” has 4,120,000 google hits.
Amazing true fact #1: Two Japanese vending machines use as much electricity as a typical family of four people…
One of the 3Yen’s readers just asked, “Have you ever heard the song ‘Turning Japanese’?”
A foreign exchange broker taking a breather at a trading desk in Tokyo on August 11th (ReutersPicturesDOTcom)
He’s “wearing” a T-shirt depicting the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Meltdown(s) at an anti-nuclear power rally Hiroshima on August 5th (DAYLIFEdotCOM)
Economic growth – China Becomes Second Biggest World Economy
Reuters | CNBC — Friday, 30 July 2010
….Yi Gang, China’s chief currency regulator, mentioned the milestone in passing in remarks published on Friday.
“China, in fact, is now already the world’s second-largest economy,” he said in an interview with China Reform magazine posted on the website of his agency, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange.
Cruising past Japan might give China bragging rights, but its per-capita income of about $3,800 a year is a fraction of Japan’s or America’s...more...
The major problem with this report is that China’s statistics are completely fraudulent. While China as No. 1 will be true in the future, but right now the ranking is impossible to pin down—even for the Chinese. Still, I love how the China-hating Japanese anguish over this, muahahaha.
The primary problems of dead-Japan™ are that the Japanese have always hated to take chances entrepreneurially. Japanese business is temperamentally CONSTIPATED (hence the photo on the top of this post).
Now that the average age of Japanese people is close to 60 years in many areas like mine in here in Tokyo, it is unreasonable to expect the Japanese to want to do anything but enjoy their twilight years while Japan fades away with their world’s-No.-1 negative birthrate and world’s 2nd highest debt ratio that’s worse than basket-cases like Greece and Iceland (…Japan’s national debt 170.4 percent of the Japanese GDP–only Zimbabwe is worse with a national debt is 241.2 percent of Zimbabwe’s GDP).
Bempi-san pedals his bicycle in Tokyo today unhappily because Japan’s Nikkei stock average pulmented 396.48 points, about 3.7 percent…
Sources of the remixed advertisement above: Flickr and Day Life.com.
More bempi/constipated photos below the fold.
Over the weekend, my buddy Masa-sensei of the sadly always farked-up masamania.com took these fab photos of Japanese art trucks or as they’re called Dekotora
meaning ‘decoration truck.’
As I have written here before in, What ever happened to Japanese ‘Dekotora’—decoration trucks? (3yen.com 2007), Dekotora are a dying art form and I seldom see them on the roads anymore.
Dekotora are disappearing for the same reasons I mentioned in the previous post about how Bosozoku gangs are dying out in Japan. WIth negative population growth there are fewer younger people to enjoy such whimsical vehicles. And with the deep decline of the Japanese economy, there are far fewer well-paying blue-collar jobs meaning there is much less money available to waste on extravagant vehicles.
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