/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[Anonymous No.]

Greetings, /jp/. I am in need of your help.

I am writing a small essay regarding Japanese society's problems. Initially I thought that I would have no trouble finding materials, but several hours later I discovered that I'm out of topics. I would be grateful if you gave me advice on what else to write about.

Points I already covered:

fucked up office mentality;
power abuse and harassment at work;
parent/child conflict (lumped freak fashion in there);
degenerating family unit;
overwhelming conformism and social pressure;
hikikomoris;
meaningless social rituals;
stressful everyday life;
karoshi and suicides.

What else should I write about? I need about five-six more topics, each enough to fill at least a page.
Tasukete?

[Anonymous No.]

Bump

[Anonymous No.]

>>9843922
How large exactly is your small essay supposed to be?

[Anonymous No.]

>>9843922
>>9843938
you waited a whole 4 minutes for the board that averages 1 post a minute to answer your shitty request thread before bumping it from the middle of the front page to the top of the front page

G J

[Anonymous No.]

>>9843950
Around 20 pages or so. I am stretching it out as much as I can with empty babble, but it only goes so far.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9843953
I do not know about this board's posting speed. I am hardly a frequent visitor here.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9843955
Adding a historical and an economic perspective would easily fill out another five pages, but you might have to actually think about it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9843922
>Tasukete?
get out.

[Yama !XanaDuh0e2 No.]

>>9843955
I would be ashamed as HELL of having a student like you if I was your teacher...

Go to HELL...

[Anonymous No.]

>>9843958
You could have scrolled down.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9843961
Historical and economic perspective on what, exactly? I had an idea about writing what a drain on Japanese society old people are, but that's not enough.

[Anonymous No.]

Where's Bullying at school?

Also:

Enjo Kousai
NEET (not to be confused with hikikomori)
Ass gropers on trains.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9843963
>tripfag's valuable and important opinion
I'll grace you with a reply. I didn't ask to write this essay, it was heaped on me.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9843968
Thanks a lot, will definitely use these.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9843968
>Ass gropers on trains.
>society's major problem

[Anonymous No.]

>>9843967
Economics: The economy is weak and has been weak for two decades. There is a lack of innovation and growth. The idea of lifetime employment and steady advancement is started to lose luster. Public debt is high, which is only okay because it's domestically held by Japanese people who are fine with abysmal interest rates.

History: When and where did these problems start to emerge? How did was the Japanese "miracle economy" reduced to its current state? What systems collapsed that led to the creation of the problems you describe?

To add perspective, you should add a few pages on Japan's future prospects and what society is attempting to do to combat these ills, if anything.

[Anonymous No.]

School bullies in japan can be pretty nasty.
also, there are legions of invisible hobos in the big cities, and many countryside places suffer from youth immigrating to the urban centers, with partial loss of traditions. there's the problem of yakuza cohexisting with police and government like if its a normal thing.
and religion. japs take the rites they think cooler from right and left (catholic marriage in church, buddhist funeral. stuff like that)
...nice pic.

[Anonymous No.]

Wouldn't your essay hold more credibility if I dunno, address the positive aspects of Japan as well?

[Anonymous No.]

>>9843989
>and religion. japs take the rites they think cooler from right and left (catholic marriage in church, buddhist funeral. stuff like that)

I fail to see how this is a "problem".

[Anonymous No.]

>>9843984
Will cover these points. Thank you.

[Anonymous No.]

-ridiculous anti-filesharing policy

[Anonymous No.]

>>9843998
It is specifically aimed to describe Japan's problems. No bashing - just descriptions and possible reasons.

[Anonymous No.]

if you can get a copy of "shutting out the sun" at the library you'll probably be able to pad stuff using that. it does go into some economical stuff, also mentions freeting, women not getting married and having kids, declining birthrate, along with the other stuff you cover

[White Ren !YLuFFdRcFQ No.]

>>9843973
Oh no, you didn't just insult Yama-sama you damn outsider.

Know that he is of Jewish descent and your post is really offensive to us the Jewish people of /jp/.

You don't belong here goyim.
DISAPPEAR!

[Anonymous No.]

>>9844004
>4004

number 4 has spoken

[Anonymous No.]

Is this what Arts students do? Rant about 'issues' without trying to solve them?
Maybe you could make some suggestions instead of describing obvious problems.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9844015
Hello from /pol/, hooknose. Don't you have people to swindle and babies to suck off?

[Anonymous No.]

>>9843996
Its not...but its a interesting thing about japanese society.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9844019
I was once assigned to write a paper on international political economy and offer my analysis. I turned in long research paper that got a B because it was "very well written, but mostly a synthesis paper" because the analysis consisted mostly of agreeing with other people's existing recommendations.

This thread reminded me that I wanted to read Tales from the Dark Side of Japan which someone mentioned in /r9k/ a while ago.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9844019
>Arts
lolno. I'm a Psychology major. The next step (and another essay) will, of course, be dedicated to providing suggestions.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9844023
Mudslime detected.

[Anonymous No.]

>helping filthy crossboarder with his 5th grade homework
I SHIGGY DIGGY

[Anonymous No.]

>>9844038

Ah, okay.
I would keep this essay short and make up the length in the recommendation essay, that is if they are counted cumulatively.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9844038
Please write, "2 nukes weren't enough" as one of them.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9844038
>Psychology

Oh wow, why bother?

[Anonymous No.]

Fuck off.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9844014
I think our library has this book. Will grab it tomorrow, thanks.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9844033

I have so many problems with non-science education.
How stupid is that?
So if there were an existing optimal solution that someone had thought of and you simply agreed, you would be marked down despite supporting that optimal solution?

[Anonymous No.]

>>9843984
>Economics:
Frankly I think Japanese are way too much self-deprecating themselves. They keep saying that they face economic crisis, but then you look at the GDP of worldwide countries and you find out they are on third place with a mere 100 million inhabitants.

The truth is that they're not doing miracles like they did after the war and they call it "crisis".

[Anonymous No.]

>pizza delivery guy arrives
>$17.48
>hand him $20 dollar bill
>2012
>implying I don't need that $2.52 back
>delivery man doesn't understand
>thinking I was serious
>shiggy
>tip him
>eat pizza

>2012
>not eating pizza after greentexting your pizza guy IRL
>shiggy

[Anonymous No.]

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[Anonymous No.]

>>9844040
>some doesn't like kikes
>MUST BE KEBAB!
How does it feel to be delusional, Moishe?

[Anonymous No.]

I have defeated countless opponents using Aikido, and they always ask me, Why are you so strong?
I answer, I'm not strong, you are.
Aikido uses the strength of the attacker back at them but 10 times stronger(estimate). Using Aikido and I can probably kill a charging Rhino using it's force right back at it, of course, I'm not going to try it, way to dangerous for any sane person.
I recommend practicing Aikido for every /jp/edo, as you are all physically weak, and Aikido is specialized for the weak to defend against the strong.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDnYNroUmNs
A 50 year old man with cerebral palsy doing Aikido, very touching.
Arguably the most powerful martial arts in Japan.
An Aikido practitioner is practically invincible, no one of any martial arts background can ever land a punch or kick on one.
Using the power of the attacker, the Aikido practitioner uses absolutely no energy to knock them down.
A fearsome martial arts it is.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9844056
The idea was more that if you want to write a paper, you should be saying something new, and if you don't have anything new to say, you should have written about a different subject.

[Anonymous No.]

I must express my disbelief without resulting to vulgarities, good sirs. I can barely say in between fits of unrestrained mirth. I almost lost my seating with that last outburst, and it has not subsided yet. My goodness. This is indeed, if I may be so bold as to use the common tongue, and excrement of unrivaled worth. Again, I say these things in the moments between unparalleled fits of laughter. It is the biggest of it's kind, as well as the greatest. I congratulate you on your efforts, and the efforts of all those involved.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9844040
CRY MO BITCH NIGGA

[Anonymous No.]

>>9844068

That is a good point provided you had a choice of subject.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9844062
It's more growth being shitty than anything else.

The job prospects for new graduates are also less, I think.

[Anonymous No.]

Anyways, >>1, please listen to me. That it's really related to this thread.
I went to Yoshinoya a while ago; you know, Yoshinoya?
Well anyways there was an insane number of people there, and I couldn't get in.
Then, I looked at the banner hanging from the ceiling, and it had "150 yen off" written on it.
Oh, the stupidity. Those idiots.
You, don't come to Yoshinoya just because it's 150 yen off, fool.
It's only 150 yen, 1-5-0 YEN for crying out loud.
There're even entire families here. Family of 4, all out for some Yoshinoya, huh? How fucking nice.
"Alright, daddy's gonna order the extra-large." God I can't bear to watch.
You people, I'll give you 150 yen if you get out of those seats.
Yosinoya should be a bloody place.
That tense atmosphere, where two guys on opposite sides of the U-shaped table can start a fight at any time,
the stab-or-be-stabbed mentality, that's what's great about this place.
Women and children should screw off and stay home.

[Anonymous No.]

What the fuck is this thread doing on /jp/?

I had to double-check to make sure I wasn't on /b/.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9844072
We could have written about anything we liked, as long as it related to international political economy in some way. The problem on my end was that I picked my topic and my eight papers, read them all, and had finished drafting most of the essay without ever finding some sort of new angle on the topic and I wasn't going to do that shit over again. I also dedicated too much room in the essay to summary and not enough to concrete policy recommendations.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9844078
/b/ is a red board. You were probably thinking of /int/.

Which is actually the correct board for this thread, although nobody bothered to point it out.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9844014
>Shutting out the sun
>by Michael Zielenzieger
>Zielenzieger
I'd rather have something different than jewish ramblings as a source.

[Anonymous No.]

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[Anonymous No.]

>>9844086
I assumed /jp/ was the place to ask questions about Japan. I am a /k/ommando who also frequents /pol/, don't know much about what is going on at other boards.
Anons helped me here nevertheless.

[Anonymous No.]

Big problem is Japanese refusal to acknowledge choppari war crimes in Corea nida

[Anonymous No.]

>>9844105
>I assumed /jp/ was the place to ask questions about Japan
Everyone makes that mistake, even though the title and the rules are pretty clear on what you discuss here.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9844105
In the future you should take note that Japan is not actually the board about Japan, it's about erotic games and stuff like that. /int/ is the actual board for discussion of foreign countries and culture, including Japan.

Please don't come back. We pride ourselves on being an unfriendly board populated entirely with assholes and if you tell people we helped it could damage our street cred.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9844110
>In the future you should take note that Japan is not actually the board about Japan
>Japan

This board is not called "japan" faggot.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9844115
I'll call it whatever I like, faglord.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9844110
>Please don't come back. We pride ourselves on being an unfriendly board populated entirely with assholes and if you tell people we helped it could damage our street cred.
Fine, then. I will be silent about this exchange. This is coming from a fellow board of assholery, so I completely understand.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9844115
And you're not called "Anonymous" but you're still using that title.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9844105
Why do people keep assuming /jp/ is a japan board? All it takes is too look at the frontpage and the board title to realize there's barely any japan here.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9844128
Dude, "anonymous" isn't a tittle, is how you define someone who writes something without specifying his name, which is exactly what I am.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9844134
What in the fuck is a tittle

[Anonymous No.]

>>9844133
>too look
bad typo

[Anonymous No.]

>>9844138
A little tit.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9844138
Don't try too hard, it's probably impossible for you to understand what I meant.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9844148
Probably, your grammar is terrible.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9844144
Cute tittle dude.

[Anonymous No.]