Sorry bout your heart
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Yeah, but those other stats are raw numbers. Okay, we have a higher number of unhoused people and food-insecure people, but we also have a higher number of people, period. If you wanna make a point, it has to be per capita. I like how the first stat got this right, but the others did not.
US population: ~350M
Japan population: ~125MNot even 3x as much.
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Fuck all religion. No I don’t want to reject reality to play make believe.
It's part of capitalism as well.
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According to this, per 10,000 people:
- Japan: 0.2
- US: 19.5
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/homelessness-by-country
.2% per year? So we should expect about 10% of people to be murdered by 50?
I was going to say .2% is better than I thought, but that’s pretty dire.
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If you measure the us conviction rate the same way the commonly quoted 99% conviction rate in Japan is calculated ours is actually higher.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conviction_rate scroll down to the Japan entry for the source. Sorry don't know how to link it directly lol
Japan is just gaming the numbers here. Both with the conviction rate and with the homeless ratio.
https://www.examiner.org.hk/2025/01/17/the-invisible-homeless-in-japan/features/
According to this link, if you apply western metrics, Japan would have between 100k and 200k homeless. Which would mean Japan has 81.2-162.4 homeless per 100k inhabitants, while the USA has 221.7.
That would make Japan a bit better than the USA, but it's not that much of a difference any more.
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It's part of capitalism as well.
Fuck that too!
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This part of 'what your bible says about murder and poor people' makes it sound like the writer of the response believes it's causational but i think they were just offended and not trying to make a scientifically sound argument. And i would understand that.
It's almost racist because of how the first post makes Christianity sound like something superior. As if the Japanese being different in their believe makes them less.
also wouldn't it make complete sense for Japan to have way less Christians since they were isolated for so long and have their own religious beliefs
Exactly this. Although Japanese rulers haven't always been very peaceful, their culture is known for being caring and respectful towards others where as Americans are by many people seen as loud and obnoxious (also positive things, but i'm not trying to make a comparison between two cultures as a whole), making this comment about Japanese adoption of Christianity not only come across as ignorant but also very arrogant.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Although Japanese rulers haven't always been very peaceful, their culture is known for being caring and respectful towards others:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_Japan
Many people try to make Japan sound perfect, but they have a lot of problems:
https://archive.ph/0IoIQJapan lacks any law which prohibits racial, ethnic, or religious discrimination.
wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Junko_Furuta
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karoshi
Of course still not as bad as the US, but I don't it is because of religion, it is more because of the two party system. Look at Singapore 18% Christians and they don't have that many problems.
In the end I believe most problems in all countries are because of human nature, not religion. Religion is just one of the excuses they use for the horrible things they commit.
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Bless your heart.
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Your unhoused numbers are wrong. Those are the official "sleeping on the streets" numbers, which is not the same thing. First because they're official, and therefore almost certainly undercounting, and second because they exclude all of the situations where people don't have houses but are kinda not exactly in a cardboard box.
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Given the confluence of weeb culture and the alt-right (think incels and “traditionalists” with anime avatars, right-wing gamers pointing to Japan as a high-tech conservative utopia untouched by wokeness and such), it was inevitable that sooner or later someone would try to imagine a Japan that goes to Latin Mass.
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Why would they be Christian 🤨? Guessing this is from an American?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Hey, we at least tried to convert them, but nobody congratulates Portugal for that.
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07%/100000
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.2% per year? So we should expect about 10% of people to be murdered by 50?
I was going to say .2% is better than I thought, but that’s pretty dire.
0.2 people, not percentage. That was what they were trying to straighten out because percent per 100k doesn't make sense.
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Although Japanese rulers haven't always been very peaceful, their culture is known for being caring and respectful towards others:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_Japan
Many people try to make Japan sound perfect, but they have a lot of problems:
https://archive.ph/0IoIQJapan lacks any law which prohibits racial, ethnic, or religious discrimination.
wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Junko_Furuta
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karoshi
Of course still not as bad as the US, but I don't it is because of religion, it is more because of the two party system. Look at Singapore 18% Christians and they don't have that many problems.
In the end I believe most problems in all countries are because of human nature, not religion. Religion is just one of the excuses they use for the horrible things they commit.
Many people try to make Japan sound perfect, but they have a lot of problems
Japan lacks any law which prohibits racial, ethnic, or religious discrimination.
I am aware, but the difference in people's view of Japanese people and people from US is astounding.
Agree with you and comment above, I don't believe there is causation. Two system is surely not helping to make US peaceful.
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07%/100000
5/7 with rice
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I guess not having many Jesus cult members helps
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I do not trust any stats that come out of Japan in terms of homelessness. If there's a statistic that's embarrassing for Japanese society, you know damn well they're gonna try to cover it up with technicalities.
In Japan, the legal definition for someone who is homeless is: "those who use city parks, riverbanks, roads, train
stations and other facilities as their place of stay in order to live their daily lives."So that doesn't include living in your car, living in insecure housing, living in shelters, or living in internet cafés, of which in 2020 there were about 15,000 'net café refugees' in Tokyo alone.
Sooo yeah, Japan can claim to officially have a super low homeless population, because they've narrowed the definition so much that you have to literally be sleeping on the street for it to count.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]yeah they also fail to acknowledge the suicide rate or the amount of overtime or purchasing power of avg wages.
I'm not making any statements on any countries other than japan. but I'll add a message to american weebs: STOP FETISHIZING JAPAN
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Heartbroken because it should be 0%?
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I guess not having many Jesus cult members helps
save me jeeeeeeeeeebus
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Many people try to make Japan sound perfect, but they have a lot of problems
Japan lacks any law which prohibits racial, ethnic, or religious discrimination.
I am aware, but the difference in people's view of Japanese people and people from US is astounding.
Agree with you and comment above, I don't believe there is causation. Two system is surely not helping to make US peaceful.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Yes the US need to get rid of the two party system. These years it is basically choosing who is less horrible than electing a good president. Both parties are corrupt. Japan also need to fix their laws they are vey misogynistic and racist, they also need to fix the work culture. No one in japan is having kids due their toxic work culture.
Japan really knows how to do PR, they make people think they are great, when in reality for many people Japan is an awful place to live in. Tourist is fine, but living there is horrible from what I heard.
From reddit on racism in japan, can't confirm if it is true, but won't be suprised it is.
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Given the confluence of weeb culture and the alt-right (think incels and “traditionalists” with anime avatars, right-wing gamers pointing to Japan as a high-tech conservative utopia untouched by wokeness and such), it was inevitable that sooner or later someone would try to imagine a Japan that goes to Latin Mass.
Is that still a pervasive thought in today's culture about Japan? I understood back in the 90's when there was less exposure but I thought that reality kinda crumbled with the loss of high tech companies that actually give a damn anymore. I don't know of anyone that talks about "premier" Japan tech unless it's something from the past.
