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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (5 children)

This has been a thing in Japan even before the population crisis. This has been a thing in other Asian countries besides Japan! What's next? "Japan's economy is so bad, they're using paper for their doors!" Japan's population and economic problems are apparent. Why does CNN feel it needs to mislead in order to punctuate it?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because "Japan so weird" gets the clicks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Wait… this is a game show??

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

America's economy is so bad, they use paper for their walls.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

And their asses!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

It has been a thing in western countries too, just less popular in recent centuries.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Why does CNN feel it needs to mislead in order to punctuate it?

Every western news source out there.

We're closer to achieving cold fusion than we are to achieving a newspaper that can write about Japan without descending into "wACkY jAPaN!!" territory.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds more like the Japanese have a minumum wage and nonstandardized working hours problem than a marriage problem.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Exactly! In the article they say that if you're working 70 hours a week of course you won't have time to find a partner.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

So arranged marriage. Kay