Posted on 03/22/2018 11:08:53 AM PDT by blam
Mrs. F.’ was 84 years old the first time she ever went to prison.
Her crime? Petty shoplifting. She stole rice, strawberries, and cold medicine.
She served her time. Got released. Then shoplifted again so that she’d go back to prison.
She’s now 89 years old serving out another 2 ½ year sentence, not too far away from where I am right now, at a women’s prison about 60 miles outside of Tokyo.
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She’s not the only one.
One in five female prisoners in Japan is senior, almost all of whom have been convicted of petty crimes like shoplifting.
This is no accident. Elderly women in Japan are economically vulnerable. Half live below the poverty line. Many live by themselves and have no one to turn to for help.
So there’s a growing trend in Japan of elderly women deliberately committing petty crimes– hoping to get caught so that they’ll be sent to prison.
In prison, of course, they’re fed, clothed, housed, and even have their health care covered by the state.
It’s a pitiful, last resort form of welfare that’s likely going to become worse as Japan’s already elderly population continues to age.
It’s also a sad example of what happens when a nation’s economy goes bust after a dangerous, explosive, unsustainable boom.
Back in the 1970s and 1980s, Japan was indomitable.
This country had pulled itself out of the ashes of the atomic bomb in World War II and set itself on a path to dazzling economic growth.
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Not exactly. We nuked them, then we re-built them. Their steel industry was re-built using American industry knowledge and technology.
Japan’s export economy has been largely replaced by near-slave labor costs in China.
Prison - Nursing Home - what’s the difference?
Japan must not be employing free market economics. I don’t think there’s much upward mobility by design.
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Another factor in Japan’s financial problems was dealing with Americans. They bought business and land during the 80’s at inflated prices and when the recession hit Japan they sold those holdings at a steep lose i.e. They bought Pebble Beach golf course for $841 million dollars and were forced to sell it for $500 million dollars. Buying high and selling low contributed to Japan’s woes...
America is rich because he sell high and buy low...
How, just how could this happen in a country that has high taxes and fast trains?
The big island of Hawaii is underdeveloped. Build thousands of old style Japanese homes and let them live there. Plenty of space.
The dims would set aside that land for south of the border and middle eastern invaders.
They got state-of-the-art technology while ours was still old and decrepit.....................
Clean, private toilets?
Japan is Keynsianism in action. Trying the prime the economic pump with massive spending has failed spectacularly.
Good point.
Of course, Japanese prisons may have clean private toilets - I’ve never seen the inside of one.
I never thought about that. The Japanese are very clean generally.
Yep.
It depends upon where the Nihon-jin happen to be. Their personal space is quite clean and orderly, outside of that can be quite the pig sty. Everywhere I have travelled in the Japans shows a disregard for anything that is not within their personal control.
Interesting!
There are sparsely populated islands in Japan———why move the poor things 4000 miles?
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>>People in Japan aren’t having many children.
I’ve read that more adult diapers are being sold than childrens diapers.<<
The one strength we COULD have, if managed properly, is our immigration policy — AS ON THE BOOKS.
Immigration, when implemented to people who will HELP the USA is fantastic and part of the reason we are not where xenophobic and insular Japan is now (this has been predicted for decades).
I am not stating anything people here don’t already know: unbridled immigration and “compassionate” immigration is the road to destruction. The rats eat all the seed corn.
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