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Jose Cruz
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Well, that applies to all countries except Switzerland which incorporates direct democratic institutions. The US is not different from Japan: 2 parties run the country and their established elite cadre, now they put someone outside of the political elite to run the country and everybody thinks it is the end of the world.
Poor young Japanese people: they have no political power and have to work like dogs to pay the pensions of tens of millions of elderly people. No wonder shows like PMMM are so successful among the Japanese youth, since their situation is exactly this: a fight to not succumb to despair and take the weight of the elderly on their shoulders. |
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leafy sea dragon
Posts: 7163 Location: Another Kingdom |
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Another thing to consider is that a lot of anime, if not most anime, is escapism. I think the most visible case of this is the recent trend of "trapped in a video game" anime series, which has a wish fulfillment aspect to it, that being that the audience for these shows are so unhappy with their real lives that they dream about staying in some other reality where they can have power and the rules and hierarchy suit them better. Of the anime made recently, what percentage of them are about normal people doing normal things? I don't really stumble across that many--when the setting and premise are both mundane, they throw loads of cute girls into it (which is a form of escapism itself, the fantasy of being surrounded by said cute girls). |
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yuna49
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I disagree. First we have a federal system that incorporates local, state, and national governments. Japan has municipal governments, but otherwise a unitary state. In addition, the "balance of powers" in the US Constitution was designed to hobble decision makers, while parliamentary systems place immense power in the hands of the governing party or coalition. Political competition in Japan is generally not between parties since every party other than the LDP is pretty weak. That forces political disputes into factional conflict among elite actors particularly within the LDP. |
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