Students Forced To Sing National Anthem -- Is This The Future Of Japan?

[mopedronin]

It's no secret that when the economy of a country starts to reach worryingly low levels as they are in Japan, that the ugly tides of nationalism grow strong and wash up and over the shores of common sense and reason. Still engaged in Ryu Murakami's book Leaving the Peninsula (「半島を出よう」 -- the story of North Korean special forces invading Fukushima

Comments

[jerem_morrow]

So Japan has it's own Bush...

[mopedronin]

Yeah, and this guy's vocal about it. He actually gave orders to the Self-Defense Forces to be on the alert for foreigners running amok during natural disasters.

[jerem_morrow]

I suppose there's the possibility of you being targeted in such a situation?

[mopedronin]

honestly, probably very low as my family is a well-respected in the community. before long, i imagine many people will know me and there would be no such problem. more to the point though really, i don't live anywhere close to the tokyo area. and if i was in the tokyo area during a natural disaster, i'd be one of the first to be helping people; i have faith in my fellow man, and that others around me would see i am no threat and to hamper me in such a situation would be outright stupid. in fact, i don't think the SDF would follow such orders to the letter that Ishihara would want them too.

[jerem_morrow]

Rays of hope.

[f0rge]

That was my first thought when I was reading this. Has the whole world gone insane in the last few years, or did I just never notice until now?

[mopedronin]

Who knows... last time I looked everything was still cool. It's just the wrong people with too much power making trouble if you ask me.