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Originally Posted by RickOShay
UHHH.. I am gonna assume you meant to quote me on this one.  Yes, I do remember Brazilians getting paid to leave, and not come back. Kind of sad in my opinion. But I guess it is true that there are probably many conservative Japanese politicians that feel it is their duty to keep the Japanese race "pure".
It will be interesting to see how Japan chooses to deal with it's population issues over the next few decades. Will progressive thinkers win out completely someday, or will the remnant attitudes passed down from grandfather to grandson from Japan's darker times continue to have their say policy making?? |
My extremely rudimentary knowledge of Japanese politics is that the until-recently ruling party (LDP) had as its base rural farmers and people like that—basically, conservatives—like the Republican party in the US.
When I lived in Japan, one of my professors lectured about it (could have been a leftist prof for all I know) and about how it's cheaper to give bread as part of school lunches, but since the LDP's base includes rice farmers, no one has the political will to dump all over the rice farmers and switch to bread.
Not sure if it's true. I repeat that my knowledge of Japanese politics is rudimentary. I started reading Japanese newspaper articles just to pick some stuff up.