They also have no legal claim to the Diaoyu Islands

I don’t think of it as a bastion of conservative tradition. I do think of it as a generally highly intelligent, homogenous society with strong immigration laws and largely uncorrupted by abrahamic religion. Islam is not banned there in legal terms but certainly highly ostracized

Their economy is going downhill, the government is very rigid and strict, and the suicide rate is incredibly high. The family of those people get fines

Japanese women like black men

Japan doesn't have the open borders Europe does but to say they have extremely strict immigration isn't entirely true. It's more than China and the Philippines, which may not give citizenship but are very open to SKILLED foreign workers.

Fair enough, I’m so used to u.s. immigration laws that everything else seems strict by comparison

Except Europe of course...God help them

Immigration to the US isn't necessarily hard, but it ain't cheap either

Europe is basically dead

Probably a prohibitive factor for a lot of undesirables south, and in the Dark Continent

Still no point in hating on the Japanese imo, especially as the U.S. becomes increasingly more brown and degenerate.

Nah I don't hate them

Can't say enough praise about their work ethic

And despite their culture, they're about as creative and inventive as Americans

We definitely lifted them out of the dark ages by nuking them and teaching them capitalism

Ironically in many ways they are more westernized than they are. Baseball is the major sport there aside from kickball, meanwhile in America everyone chimps out over african handball and the National Felons League

Probably one of those things where something foreign is more appealing and novel

We don't care about US dollars but if we get some Chinese or NK money in our hands it looks neat, alien etc

I mean they only allowed 27 refugees in or so

And they dont have illegal immigration like we do

Overall moving towards Japan ideals is way better than what ever the left wants.

Unless you want to defend yourself. Then not so much, with extremely strict gun control

FAR worse than Britain.

What is their violent crime rate though?

There is zero correlation between the two. Communist countries tend to be quite safe too.

Banning guns to save some people while others suffer for it is no different than starving part of your population to death in order to feed the others. Communism.

The articile pretty comically bad because it implies that the "main" reason why shaving at home was encouraged was because of racism, even though it mentioned, quite clearly, that there were major public health concerns about going to a barber due to the spread of diseases, which can be spread if there was an accident such as a minor cut.

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/01/the-racially-fraught-history-of-the-american-beard/283180/

Also, their arguments don't completely line-up because, during the time, there was a general fear of Barbers, regardless of whether they were black or white. They completely ommitted mentioning Sweeney Todd, which probably also fed into the fear of barbers even more so than anything else, since it became a major classic piece of literature and an urban legend.

Beards are badass. They should be allowed in the army and anyone who says it breaks the gas mask seal is going to Hell for lying.

I dont believe in hell I'll see you in the void

Also it matters for japan because the laws on personal weapons have restricted them probably the longest of any civilized nation period. Swords were outlawed before firearms were really in common use. Japan is just in a really weird position across the board.

https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2017/03/21/the-makers-of-the-army-s-gas-mask-are-looking-into-beard-friendly-options/

The Army masks dont seal perfectly with beards.

I will also say that the beards also pose other problems like being exposed and needing to be cleaned or making it easier to break the seal accidently.

PO-LEASE THAT MOOO-STASH.

Cum catcher?

It's a lie, invented by NCOs who meanwhile are fucking their female soldiers

The armies of continental Europe almost always allow beards. France, Germany, Denmark, Sweden etc.

I went to college with a Danish guy who is now serving in the Life Guards. Ironically the only unit of the Danish Army that doesn't allow beards

It's been demonstrated to American soldiers how the beard has to be cut

Keep the neck clear