Posted on 04/20/2013 3:49:03 AM PDT by NYer
I was there when the dollar was 250 yen. Not too bad; still, I’d always advise anyone who’s thinking of going, even now, just to get up and go.
It’s a great country and livig there is a great experience.
I have to agree.
Dad was stationed there and we traveled back and forth on MSTS (the Army’s navy.) I made six Pacific crossings 1951-1961.
Good Points, Thank you for them.
“Government based on buying votes is doomed to failure.”
Only after taking the whole country down with it. There is no way our current downward spiral will reverse itself before the big crash—too many takers, too many people who want their share before the next taker, too many people who lack a sound moral foundation, the dominant daily communication of “me first”, instant gratitude, I deserve it, all feed into this downward spiral. Just prepare is all we can do at this point. And I’m an optimist.
“Population decline is not necessarily a bad thing.”
It is when it’s deeply involved in a ponzi scheme. :-)
How do I get on that ping list?
Nice shade of blue there.
I suspect that population density might have some long term adverse affect on population growth.
Japan is ranked as one of the most densely populated countries already and that ranking does not even consider that the % of it’s livable land space compared to its total land space is one of the lowest. There is no “spacious western lands” in Japan to move to if one wanted to.
I am wondering in my mind if Japan were able to sustain itself during a period when its population density would decline from the high it is today, if there would be seen, after some time, a trend of improving Japanese birth rates? Just a curiosity to me.
Was population rising or falling during the Renaissance?
So guiltless, she should be canonized.
They will eventually become a colony of China.
I traveled to Japan via MSTS in 1954, as a toddler. Spent three years there and came home with two more baby brothers. I still have the Order of The Golden Dragon certificate they gave to the passengers.
Later we shipped to Okinawa (Dad was Special Forces in Nam) and stayed for three years.
Do you remember the name of the ship you sailed on ?
I have two “Order of the Golden Dragon” cards for passing over the International Date Line...
Remember? Heck no, but I can get it off the cert....it was the USNS General E.D. Patrick.
Not sure if we returned by sea from Japan, but we flew to Oki and back in the mid sixties.
I guess you might have had boundaries defined in your mind when you answered me, but I had none. There’s nothing to “argue”.
Nor does history show us an example of a successful society that out-grew its resources. What’s your point?
What ?! Not every man has a 10-inch penis?
Not every woman LOVES everything you do to her no matter what, and in record time?
Say it ain't so ..... (/off sarc)
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