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Category Archives: Japan
Why Did Japan Attack The US In WWII?
For the same reason that most everybody when they are cornered, fight back. I’m finishing off John J. Mearsheimer’s classic, The Tragedy of Great Power Politics: The indictment against Japan for overexpansion boils down to its decision to start a … Continue reading
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An Investigation of Global Policy with the Yamato Race as Nucleus
From Wikipedia: An Investigation of Global Policy with the Yamato Race as Nucleus (大和民族を中核とする世界政策の検討, Yamato Minzoku o Chūkaku to suru Sekai Seisaku no Kentō?), was a secret Japanese government report created by the Ministry of Health and Welfare’s Population Problems … Continue reading
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How Does Japan Keep Islam At Bay?
From SNOPES.com: The above-displayed meme purportedly states several factors which have allowed Japan to “keep Islam at bay,” but the majority of these claims are either false or misleading. For instance, the claim that Japan is the only nation that … Continue reading
Jewish Journal: Donald Trump’s American dream
Danielle Berrin writes: Just for fun, I decided to take Donald Trump at his word. After the Republican presidential candidate responded to the San Bernardino terror attack by calling for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United … Continue reading
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Different Diets Work Differently For Different People
Steve Sailer writes: The existence of human biodiversity shouldn’t be such a startling new insight, but I guess it is. It ought to be obvious by now that different people flourish or decay on different diets. And yet we constantly … Continue reading
The Collapse Of Japan
Steve Sailer writes: “As we all know, Japan is an economic black hole with a stagnant, aging, unvibrant population. Except as various graphs by Jason Bayz suggest, Japan has been doing a pretty good job keeping the Japanese at work.” … Continue reading
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The Rape Of Sweden
Paul Ciotti: “I suspect the government and the media in Sweden give a hard time to people who protest rape by newly arrived immigrants. It’s probably similar to the way the government and the media here go after people who … Continue reading
The Glories Of Japan’s Slow Growth
Comments: * It’s about “Who, whom?” as usual. Foreign investors i.e. American hedge funds, banks, etc. don’t like Japan because Japan’s real estate and financial markets have been flat. That’s what’s meant by “lost decade”. It’s not that it’s been … Continue reading
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Japan Shows The Way Forward
Comments to Steve Sailer: * Steve, you often tell us on various articles about stagnating wages or stressed resources to do a ctrl-F for the “I” word, immigration. On articles like this one about the doom and gloom of homogeneity … Continue reading
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Japanese Doing Things Right
Link: * Even Japanese floodwaters are crystal clear and have no debris in them. Japan is really a terrible bland homogenous society, even their subways and flood waters are so boring! * Japanese are defunding potential traitors by abolishing the … Continue reading
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