Takaichi's LDP Wins Historic Victory | STJ 299

Hey everybody, welcome back to Small Talk Japan. On the show we talk about all things Japan in English. My name is Mitch and I'm here with Natsuki. Hi Natsuki, how are you? Hello. I'm good. I'm I thought it's very cold outside today, so I wore this hoodie but it wasn't. It's hot. Yeah, it is. It's like it's eighteen degrees or something. Yeah, yeah. It's like spring already. Yeah, I'm into it. Loving it.

We got a big show for you guys today. We had a big snap election. Takahishi, uh she is very, very popular right now in Japan. And so she decided to hold a House of Representatives election where she won big. biggest election win and I think Japanese history. And Nazi's here to tell us everything she knows about it. No, no, no. I'm just nodding, you know. Uh but in fact I bought it for her. You know, let's let's talk about that. So uh so I

I don't I don't have any uh problem with people who vote w for who they want to vote for. But I don't like Takaishi because Takayishi is anti foreign people, especially what she says is really is is like borderline xenophobic and racist. And so I'm wondering why someone like you who likes foreign people and foreign culture and my friend, why would you vote for someone who obviously doesn't want me here? They'll see. Yeah. No, like every foreigner. Yeah.

Everyone. Yeah. Because when you make a policy, it's not just the bad foreigners, it's all the foreigners. Right. So some of the things that her stupid ideas have done, she's made it so getting a visa is now like four times more expensive. Why? to avoid Uh to avoid not good foragers to come into Japan.

What it what is no. So right now, um if if you are a smart if you if you have a PhD, if you're an intelligent person, you don't come to Japan. Japan has no uh right now the economy is very like it's not great. Right. The population is going to fade out. Uh the yen is very, very weak. So if you are like s say you are a German university student.

and you study really, really hard and you have a PhD, you're not coming to Japan. No. Those people aren't coming here anyway. No. So the good foreigners, whatever that means, they're not coming here. So what are you gonna do? So if you make it more expensive t for a visa All you're gonna get is more and more Chinese. Because they come here'cause all they all the Chinese are trying to do is escape China. Right. Right. So you're just gonna get more Chinese

Chinese people come anyway. Yeah, but the thing she's out there saying like, you know,'cause they have this thing it's called a business visa and so um people in a lot of like something like some th many thousands of people get this like self sponsored uh business visa. Mm-hmm. And the requirement for that, which we're gonna talk about next, um, is to only have something like three uh five million yen in the bank. So what is that? Golkyakuma yen? Mm-hmm.

But they made it so you have to have thirty million yen, which is like Sun Zemma yen. And so now this Indian res uh uh restaurant in Japan might have to close. So this hardworking Indian restaurant owner who is a part of the community is going to go out of business because Takaishi doesn't want the bad foreigners here. See, you don't know the policies. You just voted with your emotions. Just just be honest. You say I've I voted with my emotions.

I vote with my emotions. That's what everybody did. Dyselection everybody and voted with their emotions. Yeah, because she does good speech. She she for when she has a script. When she has a script. When she goes out of script she says really dumb things. Right. I don't think Takayi's very smart. Sorry. She's very popular, but I think that sh I don't think why you do think she's popular.

the same kind of same old policies, all the prime ministers, you know, uh including Abe, they kind of all look the same. Right. Like they all sound the same, they all look the same, and they're kind of boring. Mm-hmm. Then all of a sudden you get This new character, right? She's like playing drums with the top of the cr of of Korea. You know, she's like she's like she's more energized in in front of the camera. And it's a it's a first time uh female prime minister.

But if you really look at her policies, some of her policies I agree with. Like uh when she talks about defense, you know, military spending and things like that and and and you know uh security versus you know threats like China or, you know, North Korea, I agree with those. But when it comes to e economic policy, she has really bad ideas. Like I think that the yen is going to go to two hundred yen versus the dollar in the next year. But are there any good good candidate other than her?

Not in her party. I mean we could always vote for San Saito. That would be good, right? Then we can have new history because the head of Sa San Saito thinks that, you know, things like Nanking didn't happen, which is fun. Nanjin. Nankin. Nankin. Yeah. That didn't happen. Uh, so because you know, because he worked at a supermarket, so he knows. Yeah.

Dude, I'm I am seriously worried about this country. So let's first talk about this Indian restaurant that I I wanted to talk about. Okay, so here's this Indian restaurant. Okay, I'll send you this article so you can look at this on your phone. So it's a it's an Indian restaurant that is in um that is let me see here.

Uh uh hold on. There you go. It says on a weekend in July, the Indian restaurant Rajang in uh Shiba Prefecture was bustling with young people and families. The lunch menus, curries, set include salad, curry, nan, and a drink for 900 yen. But because the r requirements for a business manager visa is changing to have to have

thirty million yen, which is Sun Zim Mayan. Do you have Sun? Does anybody do we know anyone that has Sun Zen Mayan in the bank? No. So you have to have Sun Zen Mayan to get a to for him to renew his visa instead of five million yen, which is like Golhyak and Mayan. Right. So that's a sixty times increase. And so now he's thinking he will not have a business anymore. So this this curry restaurant will just go out of business and on the community will just not have the curry restaurant anymore.

Sad. Yeah, good job. Thank you. Wow. Taka easy, thank you. Good policy. Good job. So what they're trying to do is they're trying to prevent Chinese people from b uh buying their way into the the the visa system. But this is not going to stop that. This will stop the good people, like this this curry restaurant owner. hardworking people and the people, the Chinese rich kids that are coming here are not going to stop coming here because they have that money.

Cool. Right. Good job. So which country is the their destination next? I mean so see if if the Indian uh cowry owner Can't stay in Japan anymore where they're going. Back to India. I don't know. Well I don't know because that's this is like a new problem that Ms. Takayi just wanted to cause. Yeah, so there are many c current restaurants even here but all of them

Uh going that way. It depends on what kind of visa that they have and it depends on how much Takaishi wants to bully foreign people. See here's the problem. Because after COVID, right, tourism exploded in Japan, okay? And because most Japanese people aren't really uh informed, they don't have a lot of information about foreign people. And most Japanese people have never even met a foreign person.

So what they do is they mix in foreign tourists with foreign residents. Right, right. So they confuse these two groups. Foreign tourists, some of them are have bad behavior. This is any country that has a lot of tourism. They can have bad behavior, they can tr cause trouble, and that's a part of the tourist in industry. That's part of tourism.

But people like me who have just been living my quiet life here and part of the community and following all the rules, I am not a fucking tourist. But Takaichi knows she knows that she can be a little bit racist And old people will go, Yeah, fuck those foreigners and then they'll vote with their emotions. And it's the same thing as the the people who support uh uh Trump, MAGA people.

They don't have any information. They don't know how anything works. They're mostly very uneducated, ignorant people. So they just go, oh yeah, Trump is saying kind of racist shit. I don't like black people. I'm gonna vote for Trump. I don't like Mexicans. I'm gonna vote for Trump. That's that's all they're thinking. It's it's not it's not really thinking very very far into it.

Why I come here today. I feel like I'm not sure. So not so So Natsuki, so you like to travel abroad. If the yen goes to two hundred yen to the dollar, you're not going anywhere, right? No. You know you know what tuck uh Takaichi wants to uh m make the yen cheaper, right? What why did you vote for this?

I wanna go home. Why you c why you calling me today? No, I'm serious. Like I I wanna know. Like so give me the Japanese perspective on this. Why do you guys like Takai Chi? Right Can you tell me one policy that she's going to make that you agree with?

So to be honest, I haven't checked anything but I had to go to erection, right? So I picked someone I know. And in in this area there are like two choices. La of course there are some choices, but like big two is like t uh Jiminto and more and Is of course the first Prime Minister in Japan and her speech first female Prime Minister. First female Prime Minister in Japan and her speech.

Actually somebody edited it and probably on the like internet or social media. It really good and that make me think she's probably good. Other the uh w like compared to others because I don't know anything. Yeah. Well I this one one thing that I do think will happen from this is that because she ha they her party has total power now. Right. So whenever that happens, you get to see like all of their ideas, like what their ideas will do. Right. So we're probably gonna see a lot of

Indian restaurants close. We're gonna see a lot of smart people not come here. I mean if I was smart, like I said, smart person graduate from like Germany or America, I'm not gonna come to racist Japan. I don't wanna I don't want to live there. I'll go to a different country, right? I'll go to Taiwan or I'll go to Hong Kong or some somewhere else.

And so I think we're gonna see when we need more foreign workers, right? We're gonna see less foreign workers in Japan, uh, and we're gonna see a weakening yen and bigger and bigger problems in uh with China. So I don't know what any of this is gonna I don't ha I don't see how this is gonna be good, but we all gotta watch this happen. If you can choose to move anywhere where would you like to go?

I mean I that's I'm I'm a permanent resident here because I want to live here. I would like this country to do as be the best it can. Mm-hmm. Right. And I think people like Takaishi uh Takaichi who has bad ideas, I think that I think I I really I just think that Japanese people need to be more informed about

government policy. I think most people just don't know anything about government policy. Um and I also think that having more understanding of how the economy works, if you go to a convenience store at two o'clock in the morning And there's an you know, like a Nepalese kid who's studying Japanese in school and he's working at this convenience store. Some Japanese people get upset by this. They go, Oh my god, there's fucking foreigner working here. But that's really, really ignorant.

You should be thinking, thank God, this kid is here because now this store is open. So I can get some snacks at you know, two o'clock in the water. Yeah. Still now. Oh yeah. Because like I see only n s those kids working in convenience store, especially in the nighttime. Dude Family Mart seven eleven and Lawson came out recently saying

Guys, you can't be this racist against foreign workers. Like he's like they're important to our our convenience store business. You guys need to chill out. Right, right. You know? And it's just this Again, uh, you know, people in in the government are are making the connection between for foreign tourists who can be Meiwaku, I mean Meiwaku guy kuga jin, right? Who says that? Fucking Takaichi says that. So that is a f uh that's a foreign tourist. Residents

are m very, very peaceful people. In fact, residents, like me, commit less crimes than Japanese people. Right. So w like, word is very hard. Like Uh when you say guy kokosin, it's like foreigner, like everything. It means like every everybody, right? Right. Well that's why I don't I try and I try not to use the word foreigner.

Just that sounds like a really cold word. Non-Japanese person is a better way to explain that. Yeah. So I think anyway, it's just I think the the the effects of this, we'll see it. I mean it we're feeling it right now. You know, my staff are scared.

they're asking me like, do you do you think that the country is gonna change in a in a negative way? And I and I my honest answer is like, I don't know. So this is a very, very, you know, it's kind of uh getting darker, I think. Uh and it's not just here. I mean, American politics are really bad too. But it's I think e everybody just feels like things are just getting a little bit more than a little bit.

not good. Chaos would be the word. Chaos. Yeah, of course Japan Japan is getting worse. And I don't know any I I enjoyed uh Europe. Europe was fun. I think people in Europe are very mature. Still I'm in I'm in every country. Not every country, but I I thought that it was just really chill. I thought Europe was really cool. I think what about Canada?

Canada is the problem with Canada is like Canada and America are like linked together. Right, right. Um and then the cost of living in Canada is like through the roof. Also I don't like cold places. Like some Asian countries, like Malaysia, Singapore. I mean

Honestly, I'd probably enjoy living in Taiwan, but the problem with Taiwan right now is the whole threat of China. Right. You know. Right. I actually really like Chinese people. I've dated uh two of my exes are Chinese, right? So like I I like Chinese culture. I like Chinese people, but like I just don't like mainland China. But I heard like e English teachers, even English teachers, like they Chinese i if you work in China they pay like

Double while triple? Yeah, but the problem the problem with that is they have to live in China. I don't want to live in China. Like, um, Hong Kong, Taiwan, those places are, you know, not real China. Right. I mean, I had to fly through China twice and I was just like, never again am I coming back to this country. Like it's just it's just Nah. And I'm not I like Korea, but I I don't think I could live in Korea. I think Korea also too cold. And also the Korean culture I think is difficult for me.

It's like I l I like Korean media and I like Korean people but it's just like living there I think would be tough. Also I've been living here for fucking twenty years. Like that's a big investment. So if I just suddenly leave, it's like I have to forget everything that I learned here. So wha wha wha what so now you live longer than when you are living in the United States. You live in Japan longer.

Uh that will happen in four years. In four years I'll live here longer than I've lived in the United States. So I came here at twenty-four. Okay. So I need to be forty-eight. I see. So then it'll be almost there. I'm getting there. I'm getting there. Um, okay, let's see. Uh let's move on to a different a completely different

Let me hear something happy. Well, there's not a lot of happy news there. Uh here's a here's a news article. So Japan seizes she seizes Chinese fishing boats off Nagasaki and arrests the captain. So, um in in uh this is this happened in in near Nagasaki Prefecture. Um basically uh a lot of Chinese fishing boats recently have been like coming into Japanese territory and fishing

illegally. Um, and so not a lot of has been done about this, but sut finally A a forty seven year old Chinese national was arrested Thursday and stands accused of trying to evade an onboard inspection by a Japanese fishery control officer about a hundred and seventy uh kilometers southwest of the island of Meshima in Goto Nagasaki. So I think I'm cool with that. I think I think you should police the waters. I think that dude, I I went through

like classes, took a task by captain's license. So because you know there's so much demand for fish in China that uh Chinese fishing ships like have basically fished all the fish from around China. So they have to keep going further and further away. And so sometimes they come into Japanese territory and stuff like that. That's usually what it is. In this case I I don't know. We don't have details, but yeah, that's usually what it is.

Um, here's another fun story. Seventy six percent of unmarried people in Japan have no partner. Women don't see the need for marriage, and men say it will reduce the amount of money that they can spend. Sounds like my brother. Oh yeah, your brother's single. Is your brother the same age as how is your brother? Oh, he's doing good, I believe. I mean I haven't talked with him for a long time. Oh m m I mean long time is only like w one more two months.

Well uh last time I saw him it was n New Year's Day. Mm-hmm. So it it's been almost two months. Well that's that's I mean, my brother's back home. Like I s I talk to him like once a every two years or something like that. Right. Anyway, so I I g I believe he doesn't have any partner and I I he doesn't wanna spend s some money for his girlfriend. He only wanna spend his money for himself. Yes or so?

Oh right. Understandable. Uh m m myself personally, I mean like I don't have a partner partner, but I'm also no I I mean Yeah. I I mean how good. I have no plans of getting married. Not not because of money. I just don't really not know. Yeah, you spend your money for people, so you're not like this person. No, no, no, no. No. No, I'm not selfish. But then again, like I s you know like

I was listening to my friend talk about this, but like if you don't get married by around thir end of your thirties, then you have to like wait until people start getting divorced. Right. If you want to get married. I don't want to talk about uh women's are not good, but you know, you're men and if you're like

getting older you still can get married with younger, you know, beautiful lady. Yeah, recently I I've ha I don't wanna say this, but recently there's just been this individual who is very young and just like Like coming at me and I'm like, No. Why not? No, half my age. Half. It's okay. Half my age. So so you're forty to so which means twenty one or two, right? No. No. No. Stop it. No.

I'm like, no, no, I'm I'm gonna be good. Is Loricon English? Loricon. So what's it? Yeah, what it means is like uh usually a guy who likes younger girls. So like uh Leonardo DiCaprio. Um his girlfriends are always like twenty. Oh. Doesn't matter how old he is. Oh, okay. But um so it it has a a little it's It has a little bit of a con context of being like uh pedophilic a little bit, but it's not like a pedophile in Japan.

Um and it's it's more accepted here. But for me, my my values and my morals, I think that's more. If you start dating like teenager, I will be like. After twenty years it's acceptable somehow. So weird. No, I can't think. Yeah, it's weird, I know. No, because like okay, so my ex I'm not gonna say who, but my ex is now I'm what, forty I'm gonna be forty three, right?

And my ex is twenty nine now, I think. Oh, yeah. And and like I remember when we first started dating, I was thinking like, how old were you when I was in high school? So infant, how old was that person? I don't remember but yeah, it's like I was just like, Wow that's baby? Not a baby, but like yeah, I started thinking about that. I was like, That's grass, I don't wanna think about that

But but with that one in particular, I think the rule is half your age plus seven. I think that that was like the cutoff or something. I can't remember, but Yeah, twenty one is no, no, no. And then but and we started dating when I was thirty seven or something like that. Well there are many men, like sixty, get married with thirties, you know.

I think if they're over thirty, I guess it's okay. I don't know, I feel like that's better. So when you become fifty and then the the uh girlfriend was la your partner is like thirty, is that okay? I would feel better about that than me now and a twenty-one year old. Okay. I f I just feel that that's okay. Then get old. That's just weird. Anyway, all right, let's continue. School staff resign one after one as Takasaki City's elementary school. Gates open at seven.

A.M. Teachers have human rights and they're being ignored. Outrage. Teachers union also fiercely opposed the first. uh the morning first grade wall. Yeah, I saw that yes on T V. Yeah. So basically um so I'll just read the article. As children enter elementary school, the morning first grade wall problem arises where children struggle to find a place to stay in the morning because their school starts later

than their nursery school uh did. To address this issue, an increasing number of local governments are taking sets to open school gates earlier in the morning. Which means seven o'clock. Yeah, seven o'clock. So basically a nursery school you some nursery schools will open at like

five, some are twenty four hours in a day. Yeah, special nursery school maybe. So but generally I think they open at seven. Mm-hmm. And then so mommies they take their kids to nursery school, drop them off and then go to work. Right. And then they cut they pick them up and go home. Which by the way, I have an entire r I have this whole thing I wanna talk about how stupid the the nurse the nursery school system is in Japan.

because I have my second mom that I'm dealing with this and I just feel so bad for her. But anyway. Um so Not to nursery school. Then when the kid gets old enough to go to elementary school, first grade, they're still not old enough to be by themselves. Right. But their school starts at eight or eight thirty. And so mom got has to go to work. No, no, no. And like usual schools open from seven thirty.

Or they started eight, but but still it's later. Okay. So their their solution, this elementary school solution was like, Oh, we'll just throw this pop problem at the teachers, which is all schools do. They just like throw all the problems at the teachers. And so they're like, We're gonna open even earlier because like teachers in Japan work super long hours. They don't need any more like time. Um, and so the staff are resigning at this elementary school.

Yeah, I don't wanna be a te I don't wanna be a teacher. I don't wanna be a teacher. It's very tired. Um Troubles. Also all over the there we're there's also the problem with uh monster parents these days, yeah, causing chun tons of problems for, you know, the teachers. And so right now teachers who don't get paid that much in Japan, um, it's not it's not what I choose, but it's just the what the the the they cho the the economy sets, they don't get paid that much.

Um they work crazy long hours. I'm talking about like teacher teachers like that work at schools. Right. Um and they have a lot of stress. And they have a lot of responsibilities'cause they're basically raising the kids. Mm. But uh yeah, uh in my mind I'm thinking m myself, if I were a single mom and I have to leave home like f six thirty, like very early in the morning, but my kids are still young and

And but I cannot quit my job. I will probably let my kids stay by myself. Yeah. So yeah, uh we need some solutions. Yeah. So uh let's let's talk about n uh nursery schools in Japan. Uh uh n n daycare in Japan. All right. So this is the dumbest thing that I've I was currently having to deal with with one of my my staff. And I I feel really bad for her because she just Seems really stressed out about this. And what this is, is if your kid gets a fever, you're just

The mom is just fucked. Like if you have if you have a situation where you have a mommy, daddy, and they're both working, right? And there's like the in laws, grandma, grandpa live nearby and your kid ha has a fever, you can have grandma watch the kid, right? And you can still go to work. But if you are a By yourself family, you don't have any grandma, grandpa, no in laws. Mm-mm. And, you know, and the mommy works and the kid gets a fever, they can't go to daycare.

That's true. So what do you do? You have to take the day off. That's true. Actually there is a some some facility. Sick daycares, but you can't put you can't they're always full. Right. And on top of that, if you put your kid in sick daycare, they're gonna get m other illnesses. Right. That's true. And they're expensive. And they don't take illness like through or they just get normal colds, yeah. But not through or some other like

Sickness, they don't take it. So yeah, that's true. So mommy or daddy can have to mommy, right? Right. Always mommy, right. Right. And so like so I'm I'm I'm looking at this this problem and I'm thinking to myself, like, how'cause she has a job that's really important, right? And so when she is absent from her job, she feels bad and the you know, and sh and of course the the kids, you know, they're sick, so she has to take care of them.

And so like it just becomes all this pressure on mommy. Right. It's everywhere in Japan. Yeah. And I'm just like, that's really dumb because like kids are gonna get sick. They're gonna get sick. So there needs to be some sort of solution where mommy can work uh ev ev even if the kid is sick. If there's no if there's no grandma and grandpa.

So what what solution can you think of? I'm thinking that the daycare system should probably be updated and I think that there should be like a like a maybe like a nurse there. And so like you it's like almost like not a hospital, but it's almost like, you know, like a hospital in the daycare. And so your sick kid can just go sit and lay in a bed and be taken care of by a nurse until you come back from work.

Something like that would be an acceptable. So, like you know how they have the sick daycare? You just combine sick day care and normal daycare. So the sick daycare area is there. Or like mommy can work from home on that day. What if she's a teacher? Right. Right? What if she's a teacher? What if she's a doctor? What if she uh you know is a bus driver? How does she work from home if she's a bus driver? Yeah, that's something companies should think about.

Or or fr uh I d I wouldn't wanna be your breast stripper from the first place. But it's still a job, right? So I'm I'm looking at this, you know. logical business owner and I'm thinking like, well if this is the system, never again will I will I hire a woman. And that's terrible, right? You don't you don't want people to think that. Right?'Cause like a woman, I'll look at them like you're a liability. You are gonna be absent from work.

I don't want to hire a it happens actually. Yeah. But I know it happens. That's what I'm saying. Like d wouldn't wouldn't it be better if we had a system where mommy can go to work and not have to feel that stress and pressure? I think that's better. Right. Or like, you know, to h hire Nas at home and then uh none like it.

s um like city hall support the money. Something like that would be okay too. But like there there should be some sort of solution to this. And I'm not saying that I have the solution, but I think that we should be spending time thinking about how we can fix this. Because it just

Like I I was reading an article online uh about from a Japanese mom and she has like it's like a it's almost like manga and it has all the like the pictures and everything. And it just seems so stressful. And so what a lot of moms do is they quit their job. Right. So actually my friend my friend's friend they she has like Like five kids or four kids? Anyway, so when her younger kids got sick but she couldn't uh absent from her work

She asked her older son to obsend school to watch the kids. Yeah, yeah. So that happened. So that's I mean, that is one solution, but it's not a good solution, right? So it's just it's just tough. And I was trying to think about like when I was a kid, like How when I got sick, what what did we do? And then I remembered that when I was a kid, we had because it was in the eighties, we ha dad went to work and mom stayed home. She didn't work. So it was a single income family. Mm-mm.

And I'm thinking and now with the economy being what it is, especially in Japan, that's impossible. You cannot have a single income family unless you're a doctor or something. Right? I mean you dual dual income, right? I don't know a single married couple that's like single income. Mm. Or they wanna

they are okay to stay like simple life. I mean yeah, but the thing is is it's a you still have to p spend money on your kids. Right. Even if you have a simple life, they have to go to school. Right. You have to buy the nose say Nando seiru. Nando seidru. Nando se r and like how much are those? There's like go mayen. More than that. It was very expensive, like Nana Mayan. So that's like five hundred dollars, right? And like you have to buy all this shit for them. It's it's not free. Right.

You know, and so it's expensive. And right now again with the yen getting uh more uh cheaper. Oh my god, the other day I went to the supermarket to get olive oil. Oh, that's why everybody bought it for Takaichi because she says she's going to stop tax for two years.

Oh my god. Okay, so let's talk about this guy. So Takaichi with her brilliance, she's so smart, highest IQ in Japan. She wants to end taxing food for two years. And to pay for this, she has Only food. Only food. But then So this is gonna cause a lot of trouble. So one, if you're an isakaya owner, right?

That makes it so it's way cheaper for people to just stay home and Right, right. Yeah, yeah. I saw somebody post it on Instagram about that. So if you're a restaurant owner, you're thinking like greats. I mean'cause restaurants got fucked during COVID. Yeah. Right? And so they're just now coming back.

And they're, you know, getting bet you know, things are getting better. And then she's got this idiotic plan to reduce taxes on on food for this is not gonna help anybody, guys. This is not gonna help anybody. And it's also gonna hurt the government because that money is gonna be gone from the government.

That's not the answer. The answer is to make is to help fix the economy. The economy right now is s is flat. Yeah, it's the same idea as what uh an Abbot did before, like spend money for Everybody like many governors do that not governors, many prime ministers do the same thing, like spread money for

Just short time and make everybody happy. What we need to do is we need to invest in like so if you look at Taiwan, right? Let's just take Taiwan. Very small country. It's like it's like a it's like a city basically. It's like one city. Taiwan, thirty years ago, or whenever it was, they decided that they wanted to be the the microchip producer of the world. And so they invested all this money and all these all uh all the people in, you know all

everything that they needed so that the chip making factories in Taiwan could be the world's best. And where are all the the world's bleeding edge top microchips made? Taiwan. Right. So Taiwan, their their companies are now coming to Japan. Right in Kumamoto. Kumamoto and in Hokkaido now now. Japan needs to figure out a couple industries that are gonna be really, really strong in the future and invest a ton of money and people and time into.

industries. One thing that Japan is really good at is robotics. Why is why is why are we not making the world's top robotics here in Japan? Like we there's no plan. There's no plan for the future in Japan. It's just like we'll just do the same old, same old.

And you know, spend some money. Like you said, Abeg did it too, you know, just spend some money, maybe make some new concrete boxes that we don't need'cause the government likes to make buildings. And in twenty years from now we'll be talking about how we wasted twenty years. If I was Japan I would vet invest a hundred percent into robots and space.

This would be where all my money and talent would be going. You've been saying yeah, f this for a long time. Like it's the future. Have you looked at SpaceX? Do you know that you can get internet anywhere on the planet now because they because Elon Musk put a bunch of starlights satellites into into orbit around the Earth? So you can get star you can get internet in Africa in the middle of nowhere. That that happened.

And Japan's sitting here thinking, like, oh yeah, Jack's uh we're not gonna give them any money and you know, we're not gonna do anything about space, we're just gonna keep thinking. The same. Reduce tax. We're gonna reduce tax on food. Vote for me. Oh god, it's so dumb.

And everybody did. Everybody did. But no it's good because now everybody's gonna see you know, there's this English phrase called buyer's remorse. It's when you buy something and you regret buying it. It that's called Bayo's remorse. And so I think now that everybody voted for Takichi and all her her ideas, now we're gonna see those ideas and everybody's gonna be like, Wow, these are dumb. Is somebody behind her?

Well the Unification Church. The Korean church, you know, Anu kyokai garuja. So they gave her a lot of money, just like Abe. So m maybe. Maybe. I mean, they asked her. They said, Hey, you know, uh, what did they say?

They asked uh uh Kimi what's her name? Kimi Onno Ona I I don't like her so I don't I can't remember. So what does she uh what what's good about her speech was like Well what's good about her speech was like Uh she said I'm from a normal family so my f father is not uh not like a Sedika politician and like I have nothing but I wanna you know spend my life for people like better life. Because like Japanese politicians, like m not everybody but many of them, like their families are

all of their family is a politician, right? Like so they don't know the struggles of normal people. Right. But Takai to look at her she's from like a normal family and she's uh the first female president no no no prime minister in Japan so we felt some sympathy, you know what I mean? Yeah, sure, good. Yeah. I mean a lot you know, that's great. But look at her ideas. I know. So we don't even take a look at her ideas. Look at her ideas. Her ideas are gone. I know, so

Not all of them. I I do agree with some of her her her ideas. I I I wanna say that I do agree with some of her uh her her policies. But still, still Fu made Fu made good speech. I mean Fu made good Impressive speech other than her. So that's why I can't I can't I can't I can't make too much fun of you because you're the typical Japanese person. I know. And so like

It's but it's really sad. It's just like guys, you don't know anything about this woman you're voting for. Oh, don't make me feel humiliated. It's uh it's not it's no, I'm trying to say that you're just normal. Everybody does this. That that's why it's really sad. And the foreign community in Japan is scared because we're looking at this, these pre people making these uh anti-immigration policies, and we're thinking like,

What's next? What what's next? Right. And so it's really, really it's just not it's not a good environment right now. Anyway, we're gonna record a little video for our patrons because uh it's been like forty five minutes and I think the show is I think we're good. Okay, good.

Uh, Natsuki do you wanna say anything to the to everybody? Wish us luck. All right guys, if you uh enjoy the show, uh like and subscribe. I will I will try to say uh Takaichi's name properly from now on. Uh there's a couple of names that I just struggle to say. That's one of them I also can't oh shit, what is it? Uh There there's recently my Japanese katakana pronunciation of a word is taking over my English pronunciation of the same word. And it's really annoying. I can't remember what it is.

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