Article

2009-12-26 China-Japan-Koreas

Debt-laden Japan shocked by £630bn spree to 'save lives'

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Steve White 2009-12-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Japan has a lot of enormous festering social problems, and it's a wonder they haven't had a blow up yet.

Posted by Anonymoose 2009-12-26 10:14|| 2009-12-26 10:14|| Front Page Top

#2 That's because Japan's problems are all of the implosion variety, Anon. What kids they've got left all want to hide in their bedrooms and draw dirty manga or play with hugging pillows instead of forming new families or joining the JSDF. The countryside is emptying out as everybody moves out, and everybody sweats up a storm working in 80-degree office towers because somebody somewhere thought it'd be more environmentally responsible to do so.

Modern Japan is the middle child of the West, and it'll kill itself pretending that nothing's wrong rather than do anything about it.

It'd be nice if they stopped wasting their resources on pointless concrete-pours, but as I understand it, they've pretty much run out of riverbeds that *aren't* encased in concrete.

Posted by Mitch H. 2009-12-26 15:08|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2009-12-26 15:08|| Front Page Top

#3 and if we all bought American made cars (or at least mostly American made) it might just about end the balance of trade problem we have with China and push Japan back on it's heels ....

Posted by NoMoreBS 2009-12-26 16:34|| 2009-12-26 16:34|| Front Page Top

#4 I wonder who bribed the PM to make so many new slaves out of his own countries inhabitants.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2009-12-26 16:41|| 2009-12-26 16:41|| Front Page Top

#5 Obama san?

Posted by Redneck Jim 2009-12-26 23:31|| 2009-12-26 23:31|| Front Page Top

17:01 Steven
00:02 Redneck Jim
23:40 Redneck Jim
23:31 Redneck Jim
23:19 Redneck Jim
23:16 Redneck Jim
22:57 Redneck Jim
22:40 Cromert
22:20 lord garth
21:36 Frank G
21:29 Asymmetrical Triangulation
21:24 Uncle Phester
21:15 49 Pan
21:14 Frank G
20:48 trailing wife
20:12 Mike Hunt
20:11 lotp
20:08 JohnQC
20:07 Mike Hunt
20:02 Frank G
19:57 JohnQC
19:54 trailing wife
19:41 lord garth
19:40 JohnQC