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Alexandra
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PhD • Trans-Cultural Video Game Production: Migrant Developers in Japan Translator JP-ENG 🇷🇴🇬🇧🇯🇵en een beetje 🇳🇱
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Glad to hear there is one more soul interested <3
I am considering putting together a methodology guide along with it. This was such a rabbit hole but it makes sense when you understand the principles behind why the companies hide their data in specific places hahaha
Because there is no industry body that will aggregate the total number of foreign employees in the Japanese video games industry I have to do it myself. And that's how I spent my day calculating percentages and totals. Just curious, is anyone interested in the numbers?
I think during Louis XVI it sucked ass for the same reason the White House does rn
I have a friend who already turned it on yesterday
no comment in this section was NOT unhinged
I also saw a comment saying that they'd rather 10 well behaved tourists than shop just a little than 100 who "just throw trash and don't buy anything". Logical thinking is not a feature of the 21st century. I understand now why my uni was offering courses in "logical thinking" to students.
If anything it might discourage those with lesser incomes from applying, meaning those from Africa or South-East Asia. Unless, that was actually the point. It's not as if the JICA protesters were screaming about not wanting "uncivilized" people from the "Middle East and Africa".
This is not an efficient way to collect "taxes" if the richest tourists don't even need to pay it. It will also not stop over tourism, if it's still comparatively cheaper to travel, sojourn and shop here.
They compare the Japanese application fee (3000 yen) with that of the US (250 dollars) (which is ridiculously expensive considering that the visa is not a guarantee to entering the country) and say they consider raising it.
What is hilarious is that most of the "foreigner" footage is of white people who would NOT be affected by an increase in visa application fees. It is also hilarious that the only measure they can take against us is rising the entry/exit fee which will also affect Japanese people
Do we call this the Sanseito Ripple Effect?
I made the mistake to read the comments. It is fascinating how Trumpist discourse has permeated this society so well despite low English literacy. I guess the idea was always dormant like a cancer ever since Meiji.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pAT...
政府が外国人訪日ビザ値上げ検討か 出国税3倍の欧米並みも 高校無償化財源にする案【知ってもっと】【グッド!モーニング】(2025年10月20日)
YouTube video by ANNnewsCH
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if the trump admin doesn't want this shared I feel a moral duty to share it
Someone posted this too.
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Nearly 6 billion people live in the 101 countries that a recent study has identified as confronting a net decline in water supply — signaling enormous challenges for food production and a heightening risk of conflict and instability.

(Published July)
“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat
A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.
www.propublica.org
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質の悪い読者がつくと著者が堕落するように、質の悪い支持者がつくと政党も堕落するものなのかもしれない。
It's always a humbling experience to re-read papers from your first year of university. Glad to be able to say that even back then you could already see the potential buried beneath the chaos.
Only chaos on the horizon for Japan. Welcome to the second decade of the 21st century
Big upheaval in Japanese politics. Today (Japan time), after a ninety minute meeting between Saitō, head of Komeito, and Takaichi, the LDP politician who recently won her party’s presidency, Saitō announced an end to their parties’ 26-year-long coalition agreement.
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I can’t adequately express how mystified and nauseated I am by the conversation about Trump receiving a Nobel Peace Prize that corporate media is now leading. But as a journalist, attorney, historian and Trump presidential biographer I’m now obligated to make the case *against* in full.

Here it is:
Media and MAGA Calls for Trump to Catch a Nobel Peace Prize Rather Than An ICC War Crimes Indictment Are Obscene
The second-biggest threat to global peace after Putin has earned a cell for war crimes—not a humanitarian award. That his grotesque and scammy appeal for a Nobel Peace Prize is working is terrifying.
sethabramson.substack.com
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前にも同じようなことを書いたけれど、ノーベル平和賞はむしろトランプに抵抗している人たちに与えるべき。米国に限らず、世界の各地でトランプ的なもの、強権主義に抵抗している人たちに与えてほしい。
It's finally that time of the year when inside is cozy, outside it's crisp, the smell of coffee is deeper, the sunlight is colder and the sound of music flows like butter.
PSA for Japanese games scholars researching Dojin games: Read YAMADA/HICHIBE. His is the largest and most comprehensive sociological research on what Dojin games and Dojin culture is from the mouth of the Dojin creators themselves.
The tradeoff between productivity and health
When the election results came in last year, Kimmel couldn't go through his intro without tearing up and without his voice breaking. And that's when I realized that if this bully of a man cries about it, the situation is really bad. Hope he makes a YT channel
“Jimmy Kimmel wasn’t doing politics right.”

—Ezra Klein
this is quite genuinely insane, and I want to believe the backlash to this will be severe
The worst type of email is the one that announces application results and asks you to check the attached document for the results but the sender forgot to attach any documents.