/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[Anonymous No.]

Taro Aso's pretty much set to be the next PM of Japan now. What are your thoughts?

[Anonymous No.]

I thought this wasn't /n/, personally.

[Anonymous No.]

Fukuda was good with foreign policy, I just hope Aso won't be visiting any particular shrines and talk about the last 100 years.
I'll also be missing Fukuda's dissapointed look together with his half-smile.

[Anonymous No.]

Man makes no fucking sense to me. He's a Roman Catholic, a manga reader, and a racist. He's like a walking mass of contradiction.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1348533

[Anonymous No.]

>>1348544
...which one is the contradiction?

[Anonymous No.]

>>1348544
How is that a contradiction?

[Anonymous No.]

Long live Rozen Aso.

[Anonymous No.]

Taro Aso is actually the Comte de Saint-Germain.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1348551
>>1348558
Being a racist and a Catholic often go together, but only if you're white.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1348587
Never been to Japan, I see.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1348599
How many Catholics are there in Japan, again? Three?

[Anonymous No.]

NOOOO!
The Christfags have taken Japan!

[Anonymous No.]

>>1348610
Japan is one of the most secular states in the world, and a Prime Minister of a minority religion would have no chance of changing that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1348610
Just as planned..

[Anonymous No.]

I just heard on the radio he'll be the new PM. Must be pretty much official by now.

...season 3, fuck yeah.

[Anonymous No.]

Someone should ask what his favorite Rozen character is.

[Anon of Neo-Russia No.]

>>1348544

All Japanese are racist and manga readers.

[Anonymous No.]

There was a story on him on the NHK last night, I didn't understand ANY OF IT but I do remember the next story had the word 'toire' used several times. Something about a woman and a 6-year old boy in a public bathroom... I think she killed him.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1349556
Man, I just got an erection.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1348544
About Christianity I dont know. But he does not want more immigrants on Japan which is related to what native japanese people think of foreigners.
I think it will be in japans best interest to cut on immigration and to limit it to other Asian countries (China and Korea) if they dont want to see their culture destroyed in a few generations. It pretty much happened to Sweden and France and I would not like to see it happen to Japan.

[Anonymous No.]

You guys don't understand that religion has no importance in Japan and it is a non-issue when it comes to politics. And you cant compare a Japanese Christian to a raving mad lunatic American evangelist. He surely is a moderate Christian.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1349541

Japan has a healthy dose of racism in my opinion. It is what has kept their culture preserved despite the modernization.

[Anonymous No.]

He will be Japan's best fucking PM in years.

[Anonymous No.]

Japan needs Ron Paul.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1349620

I don't know... Koizumi was pretty fucking awesome.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1349623
No japan does not. Japan was not founded on the same traditions as America was, so Ron Paul in Japan would be a major disaster.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1349629
Why? what did he do? Seriously I dont know

[Anonymous No.]

>>1349646

Do you remember his hair?

[Anonymous No.]

>>1349620
Fortunately he wii quit soon

probably on october

[Anonymous No.]

where's my koizumi-chan?

[Anonymous No.]

>>1349656

Good, because nobody wants politicians playing video games on the job.

[Anonymous No.]

I'm a RC, read manga, but trying not to be racist

[Anonymous No.]

so how is he a racist? because he doesn't want to pack the country full of arabs and africans, like our stupid western countries do?

[Anonymous No.]

>>1349702
That's understandable, but white people too?

[Anonymous No.]

>>1349708
Especially white people.

No, wait, let me correct that.

>Especially white weeaboos with no background knowledge about Japan and white americans with no respect to any foreign culture even when they live in that foreign country
And actually, that's one thing I think our politicians should enforce too.

[Anonymous No.]

Tell me why Aso is called racist

I have never heard he is racist in japan

[Anonymous No.]

>>1349702
Western leaders want sandnigger votes. But Japan doesn't have saniggers significant enough in number to affect politics.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1349708
white people don't mass-emigrate anywhere, like the third-worlders do. it's not a huge problem. i personally wouldn't want to live in japan, just visit maybe.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1349723 has never been to Ausfailia or the USA or Canada or Britain, where white people mass emigrate

[Anonymous No.]

>>1349718
IIRC he said that the reason why Japan went on a rampage of conquering the rest of Asia during WWII was because foreigners had put those imprerialist ideas in Japan when they forced it to open themselves to the west.

He is also an advocate for stronger inmigration control (even more, Japan has actually one of the most restrictive inmigration policies of the G8) and some of his statements make even people in Japan panic because it could be interpreted as saying anything that wasn't japanese was a big dumbfuck.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1349723
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm4154829

not much of a problem, but still downright bad.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1349727 has never been to Ausfailia or the USA or Canada or Britain or any northern EU country, where white people mass emigrate
Fix'd.

Germany alone is said to have about half of its population living in a some other country (even if it's another first world country)

[Anonymous No.]

He's an evil man with an evil face. That kind of honesty is rare nowadays, so I'm a fan.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1349729
>He is also an advocate for stronger inmigration control
well that is definitely a good thing.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1349772
why?

[Anonymous No.]

>>1349729
just last year they were talking about relaxing requirements

Japan is so full of shit

[Anonymous No.]

>>1349772
Depends on if that policy applies only to stupid low-class workers or to stupid high-class investors.
Though both groups can boost your economy significantly, the latter one is more probable to leave your country and not burden social welfare than the former.

Then again, does Japan have a social welfare system or are they just like americans who are fucked up if they catch a goddamn flu (not even talking about a serious illness)?

[Anonymous No.]

>>1348546
THAT LOOK.

also kind of /n/ in here, tone it down.

[Anonymous No.]

私は自分自身を客観的に見る事ができるんです！
あなたとは違うんです！

[Anonymous No.]

I have no idea if he is any good at all, and given the views in this topic I'm thinking he is pretty much Mr. Status quo in terms of Japanese government. They need more than the status quo to get over their fucking deadlock of a government structure though.

It's cool that he recognises manga as a cultural export but ho-hum on everything else.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1349780
Not really. Is like the american Congress. Fukuda was an advocate to loosen requirements for foreigners and promoted a "friendly" foreign policy.

Aso is pretty much the exact opposite. He wants to promote japanese products in his own country but also worldwide. And that means keeping foreigners out and promoting japanese products in foreign countries, including manga and anime.

Actually, he truly believes that some of the countries with most exposure to anime or which have little to no own comic industry could have the same potential market as Japan (especially Continental European Countries like France, Spain, Italy and Germany).
While I think that's a little bit too optimistic from his point of view (and would also mean that Japan's manga and anime industry along with the merchandising products would grossly multiply their benefits 300 times what they do now in said countries) if he achieves to convince people in Japan about it and also wins the next elections he would be crazy enough to propose those ideas to Congress (and depending on how convincing he sounds to Congressmen) actually get them billed.

[Anonymous No.]

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[Anonymous No.]

>>1349882
oh no, someone fix this :(

[Anonymous No.]

>>1349866
Actually, the only reason he got elected is because he is popular between young people (because of said recognition of manga a cultural heritage) and because his economic views cater voters who traditionally were alienated by the believes of Koizumi and Fukuda.
He basically advocates for more public investments in key segments such as high-speed roads and trains to more rural locations and industrial complexes outside the big cities, which is seen as good by older people who live in the countryside, and small and middle businessmen who can't always afford to create new business in Tokyo and Osaka because of how expensive the office buildings are.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1349869
Actually, that is where he is visionary. Except for the part where foreigners have to be kept out of Japan (trade always works both ways, they should know they've had Dutch influence since time) if he could assist in creating a huge comic and manga market in western centers at a time when the artistic avante garde is shifting ever eastwards we could suddenly have the situation where copyright law is ignored in favor of dojin.
That would fucking rock.

The obvious problem with this is paper media is probably the closest it has ever been to completely superseded so again he is going to have to hob-nob with a lot of western electronic media companies in order to create such an industry...

[Anonymous No.]

>>1349534
Hinaichigo.

Or so I read. On 2ch. They might have been trolling.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1349910
He should be Kira's medium then.

[Anonymous No.]

[Anonymous No.]

[Anonymous No.]

>>1349900
Well infrastructure is what has made Japan so economically robust in the past. I hope the old country folk know what they're in for though. Their healthy traditional lifestyle is about to collapse around them.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1349905
Well, he has always been vague about how he views the west when talking about inmigration and economy.
It's especially weird to think he doesn't want foreign influences when he was pretty much the one who created the "International Manga Contest" funded by the japanese Foreign Affairs Ministry (or whatever that's called) back when he holded that position. He especially wanted to promote it in western countries but ended up having half of the contestants being japanese and koreans with only few western participants.

I guess he pretty much does have an idealized vision of how westerners should be like for his visions to work but also realizes that's just reverse-weeaboo wishful thinking.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1348525
he must DEMAND TO PEACH PIT TO START WORKING ON SEASON 3 OF ROZEN MAIDEN.

[Anonymous No.]

How can a man who does not worship the Emperor as a decendant of Amaterasu be PM?

[Anonymous No.]

>>1349958
>holded

[Anonymous No.]

Another little thing I'm picking up ITT that I want to ask about:

Do you think Japanese politicians are still freaked by America's gun-boat diplomacy?

>IIRC he said that the reason why Japan went on a rampage of conquering the rest of Asia during WWII was because foreigners had put those imprerialist ideas in Japan when they forced it to open themselves to the west.

Seems to be a response to the god damned black ships.

[Linetrap No.]

Aso's election was a triumph
I'm making a note here, huge success
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction

Taro Aso-san
He does what he must because he can
for the good of all of us
except for the ones who are dead

but there's no sense crying over every mistake
He just keeps on trying until he runs out of cake
and the politics get done and he reads a neat manga
for the people who are still alive

[Anonymous No.]

>>1350021
>and the politics get done and he reads a neat manga

DOES NOT RHYME

[Anonymous No.]

>>1349991

I think so

but Japanese need the god damned black ships

[Anonymous No.]

From Wikipedia:
>In 2001, as economics minister, he was quoted as saying he wanted to make Japan a country where "rich Jews" would like to live

>On October 15, 2005, he praised Japan for having "one nation, one civilization, one language, one culture and one race," and stated that it was the only such country in the world. At a lecture in Nagasaki Prefecture, Aso referred to a Japanese peace initiative on the Middle East, stating, "The Japanese were trusted because they had never been involved in exploitation there, or been involved in fights or fired machine guns. Japan is doing what the Americans can't do. It would probably be no good to have blue eyes and blond hair. Luckily, we Japanese have yellow faces."

>Kyodo News reported that he had said on February 4, 2006 "our predecessors did a good thing" regarding compulsory education implemented during Japan's colonization of Taiwan

>Mainichi Daily News reported that on March 9, 2006 he referred to Taiwan as a "law-abiding country", which drew strong protest from Beijing, which considers the island a part of China. His implication that Taiwan is an independent nation contradicts the agreement made between Japan and China in 1972 (the Joint Communique of the Government of Japan and the Government of the People's Republic of China) that the Beijing rather than Taipei government be considered the sole legal government of China and that Taiwan be considered "an inalienable part of the territory of the People's Republic of China."

Oh wow. Just oh wow.

[Anonymous No.]

You guys have a shitty thread, I don't expect much from /jp/sies tho.

>>>/a/14912406

[Anonymous No.]

>>1350021
Taro Aso-san
He does what he must because he can
for the good of all of us
>except for the ones who are white

but there's no sense crying over every mistake
>He just keeps on trying until he runs out of figs
>and politics get done and he reads a neat manga
>for the people who are in Japan

[Anonymous No.]

>>1350092
why, because we're not a weeaboo hivemind that's only saying OMG SO AWESOME IM MOVING TO JAPAN ^_^ ?

[Anonymous No.]

>>1350115
But you are.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1350127
Lurk more.

[Anonymous No.]

>>born in Iizuka, Fukuoka
I hate him a little less now. I think.

[Anonymous No.]

For some reason i saw Barrack Obama when i glanced upon him

[Anonymous No.]

>>1350693
Will they both achieve the same stardom as the Bush-Koizumi duo?

[Anonymous No.]

[Anonymous of Alabama !.p44NyTsCo No.]

>>1350705
Obama won't, because he won't be President.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1349885

It looks OK if you use mona font.

[Anonymous No.]

someone posted this
"2008-09-23 00:02:14
It was reported today that Taro Aso has already resigned his position as Prime Minister of Japan after a brutal 6 hours of leadership.

The top members of the LDP are now going to sit around and pick which one of them will become Prime Minister for the next six hours."

is this true?

[Anonymous No.]

>>1350809

Word on the country is kinda old already.

[Anonymous No.]

gb2/1519/

[Anonymous No.]

>In 2001, as economics minister, he was quoted as saying he wanted to make Japan a country where "rich Jews" would like to live

You want kikes in Japan? [Y/N]

[Anonymous No.]

>>1351244

NO.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1351244
Sure, I like Jews.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1351244

Yes, these Jews should go to Japan and do the same that they have done to the USA and Canada. First buy up all the media. Promote woman's liberation to reduce the birth rate. Promote massive immigration and multiculturalism. Increase race hate in the media. Cause terrorist attacks on Japan. Send young Japanese men and women to fight kill and die for Israel the Jewish homeland.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1351294

FUCK YEAH'

[Anonymous No.]

>>1351294

[Anonymous No.]

>>1351294

Wrong. Jews are powerful in the West because they can hide amongst them. They're powerless in Japan.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1351294

I fear this will happen

[Anonymous No.]

Please do not feed the TROLLS i.e.:

>>1351294

it means they win
LOL

[Anonymous No.]

As long as I get my Season 3, the man can fuck everything else as much as he likes.

[Anonymous No.]

Does this mean germans now get free access to Japan again?

[Anonymous No.]

>>1351489
The animation will be done by Madhouse.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1350074
You're not seriously arguing that Taiwan isn't independent, are you? The Taiwanese hate the Japs as much as they hate being associated with the Chinese.

I don't know about the Jew shit, I mean Yids loved Shanghai back in the day and it was an opium-ridden shit heap. Jap politicians seem to always suffer from the same crappy history education though, so who knows what they actually mean.

He is right about the middle east though. The best military forces to secure Iraq would be far eastern ones. The mussies would be all "WUT".

[Anonymous No.]

Rozen Aso is now the Prime Minister of Japan.

[Anonymous No.]

It is amazing how popular you can be when everyone else is either a woman or has proven to be ineffective.

Still I wish him all the best. I've always wanted Japan to have a dynamic democratic system.

[Anonymous No.]

Hey, I learned something from this thread.
I learned about.... MANIFEST DESTINY.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_destiny

Man that explained a lot. It's pretty funny how Taro Aso has turned around and inferred that the Black Ship thing was an act of Imperialism though, when manifest destiny has that kind of "TROO DEFENDAHZ UV DEMOCRACY" flavour to it.

[Anonymous No.]

So he will be rooting for better animu/mango in the future?

[Anonymous No.]

>>1353458
half the "taiwanese" want to be associated with china MORE. those mainlanders should go back to china if they like it so much.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1354592
No, he will be on the side of the anime/manga companies, so he will likely try to eradicate fansubbing for being "piracy".

[Anonymous No.]

>>1356058
Taiwan's eventually gonna be part of China regardless

[Anonymous No.]

>>1354409
Japan has been saying that since 1854.

[athens !SysNpnp3nU No.]

>>1356058
Didn't work out badly for HK, so whats the problem?

[I am Jap No.]

hahaha
Asou is very otaku

[Anonymous No.]

>>1356073
As long as it is peaceful no one cares.

[Anonymous No.]

The Kuomintang Party is back in power in Taiwan again. Remember that their professed goal is not to gain independence, but to rule over all of China. The only way this is possible is if China becomes democratic, they reunite, and then their party can become elected.

That might happen eventually ... but as long as the economy keeps growing 10% every year the Commies aren't going to have their power challenged anytime soon.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1350809
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HOLY FUCK

[Anonymous No.]

>>1350809
lol dumb hick

[Anonymous No.]

>>1356356,1
>>1356356,2
stfu

[Anonymous No.]

holy fuck my sides. 2008 was seven years ago