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😏JAPANESE BADDIES ON SALE!!! 🥰🥰🥰 If you have been to Japan recently, some places appear to have become a mini Singapore. 🥹 One can easily walk down the streets of Tokyo and hear the familiar Singlish accent and speech patterns. 🤔 But beyond an influx of inbound tourism, the collapsing exchange rate of the Japanese Yen has invited something else. Something more insidious.🤔 Sex tourism.❗️❗️ To understand why the Japanese are strongly vocal about the current situation, we have to look at this issue from two key perspectives: history and economics 🩷 First, we consider why it is a point of national shame. Japan was one of the first countries in Asia to become industrialised, starting from the Meiji Restoration in the 19th century, and subsequently experienced a post war economic boom. 🙂 This meant that the Japanese were relatively much richer, and have higher purchasing power compared to neighbouring countries 🤔 (in the 80s bubble era, the Tokyo imperial palace itself is worth as much as the entire real estate value in the state of California!) So, what did the men do? They engaged in sex tourism in less developed cities such as Bangkok. 😭 This is problematic on two levels: (1) it demeans the women offering their bodies to foreigners in exchange for money, and (2) it enforces the narrative that people from richer countries can dehumanise those from poorer countries, seeing them as mere objects for pleasure (does this not sound eerily close to neocolonialism, in terms of dynamics?)🥹🥹 Second, the key reason why Japan has become a sex tourism destination has to do with the shifting global economic situation. 🤔 Today, the situation has reversed. With the collapse of the Japanese Yen over the past few years, (though we might see a rebound due to joint US-Japan intervention recently) coupled with relatively low domestic inflation rate, and an economy that has been sluggish for decades, Japan has become relatively more affordable for many people around the world ❗️ I believe you can see where this is going. Being seen as more budget friendly destination with "high quality" women (ugh 🤮), men from surrounding countries such as South Korea, or from western countries like USA, come to Japan for sex tourism 🤼‍♂️ It feels like a boomerang that has returned from its course!👀 Along the streets of Kabukicho, one can easily spot many young women touting potential customers... selling their bodies to men from beyond the shores in the hopes of making a living amidst the sluggish economic prospects and a cost of living crisis 🫠 To the Japanese, this is a situation that invites national shame for clear reasons. Typically, sex tourism is more prevalent in countries seen as "poorer" or "less developed" But consider this: there is irony in how the Japanese are willing to engage in sex tourism overseas and domestically (soapland, hostess bars), yet it becomes a cause for moral grandstanding when it is inflicted on themselves by foreigners, rather than by the Japanese on other nationalities😱 RULES FOR THEE BUT NOT FOR ME😱😱 Thus, I leave you, dear reader, with the following food for thought: do you sympathise with the Japanese, or do you think the Japanese public are being hypocritical regarding sexual services?🙂 Tags 🏷️: #Socialissues #Economics

Global minimum corporate tax rate | Wikipedia could use this for any points or qns related to globalisation, taxes, wealthy vs poorer nations, and multi-national businesses #gp

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The modern consumer: some readings for you today! The danger of being in the middle: https://open.substack.com/pub/eugenehealey/p/the-death-of-the-middle?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1vk3ff China's brand politics: https://cna.asia/4h21vfq [My own post here!: https://t.me/nljeko/488] Our addiction to consumerism: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/28/too-much-stuff-can-we-solve-our-addiction-to-consumerism

bye so it didn’t strike me that that TYS cld also mean two-year series

hi guys! pls forward to your siblings/friends below 13 year olds (we don't have enough data oopsies)

hi guys! pls help my group do a survey on FOMO 😱 https://forms.gle/Sq47V3kDCracbQcXA it’s my last group project for poly year 1 sem 1 😛

got this article from the new yorker! it explores the homogenisation of nyc but specifically through gymwear (you can borrow the magazine from nlb overdrive btwww it’s the aug 3 issue)

come do a geog essay with me except idk why my timelapse started so late and ended as soon as it started 🫩🫩🫩 #lapse

praying for anyone that takes chem

a lot can change in 100 days…. press on everybody!!!

Daily reminder ⏰ alvls 2026 100 days left

pictorial representations in case anyone is lazy to search it up credits to the respective owners!!!

omg just recently my gp teacher was talking about norway’s prisons and places like halden prison are labelled as the world's "most humane prison"... bc rather than prioritising suffering (like prisons in el salvador) , norway's justice system focuses on rehabilitation and they treat offenders as future neighbours rather than lifelong criminals🙊🙊🙊 soooo what's the result? - norway's recidivism rate is around 20% within two years WHICH IS among the lowest globally - in comparison, other countries with harsher punitive systems report substantially higher reoffending rates :( IM SURE ur prob thinking of the gp qn 'Does harsher punishment significantly reduce crime?' or smth vaguely similar to this but norway suggests that the certainty of the effect rehab has may be more effective than the severity of punishments!!! why rehab? - addresses the root causes of crime (poor education, addiction, unemployment etc) - lowers long-term crime by reintegrating offenders back into society - saves future policing and incarceration costs through reduced reoffending counterarguments - victimes may perceive the system as insufficiently punitive - such programmes require significant government funding and public trust which may not be possible in certain areas - it may work only because norway is an affluent and egalitarian society which makes it kinda tough to replicate this model elsewhere

Singapore tried to reform prisons. It didn’t work out Perhaps one of the most depressing elements of life inside a prison is the tiny cell a prisoner is confined to for the majority of their incarceration. In Singapore, a cell that houses one inmate is around 7m^2 - around the size of a disabled toilet - a space many orders of magnitude smaller than the combined area of the houses, parks, schools, malls, gyms, coffee shops, streets, void decks in which the average Singaporean lives, breathes, and works in every day. Could there be some kind of pleasant alternative to the cold, linoleum, one-window, harsh-fluorescent lighting cell for our criminals? How about a sandy island? In 1960, the Singaporean government established a small offshore prison colony on the island of Pulau Senang, located about 13 kilometers off the southern coast of Singapore. On the island, as part of a rehabilitation programme, a few hundred prisoners were allowed to roam freely and were put to manual labour. While today’s maximum security prisoners are confined to a space the size of a service elevator, these hardened criminals were allowed to roam about in an island the size of 130 soccer fields, building recreation grounds and offices, farming, and having their meals under the shade of leafy trees and the watchful eyes of their superintendents - who were, astonishingly, not allowed to possess weapons, in order to build trust between them and the prisoners. The rehabilitation programme was so successful that by 1963, 200 prisoners had been successfully rehabilitated and released from the island, with a less than 5% recidivism rate. Unfortunately, the superintendent of the open-air prison, Daniel Dutton, was often cruel to the prisoners and pushed them past their physical limits. This contributed to an atmosphere of anger and hostility which provided ample breeding ground for riots. As a result, on 12 July 1963, 70 to 90 of the prisoners staged an uprising, killing four superintendents (including Dutton, who was set on fire and slashed to death) and injuring several others. The changkols (hoes) they used to plow the fields of the little island became instruments of mass destruction. 18 convicts were found guilty of murder and were sentenced to death by hanging. The open-air prison was closed in 1964 and the island was later transformed into a live-firing area for the Singapore Armed Forces. Riots occur as a result of three factors: (1) poor, insufficient, or contaminated food; (2) inadequate or unsanitary housing; (3) sadistic brutality by prison officers, or a combination of all three. In this case it was probably (3) that was a major factor for the 12 July 1963 prison riot. This incident teaches us several things: → When prisoners retain the right to engage in meaningful employment, they can direct their time and energy to constructive activities that allow them to cultivate the traits of perseverance, patience, and teamwork - enabling them to become much more productive members of society as compared to if they were not allowed to work at all. We can see this from the great success of the open-air prison in rehabilitating 200 prisoners before the deadly riot in 1963. → It is only when prisoners are able to retain most of their rights (the right to food, shelter, medical services, education and work, and the freedom from degrading treatment and torture) that they can serve their sentences with a peaceful and stable state of mind, preventing them from committing acts of violence that will almost certainly increase the duration of their incarceration and halt their progress of rehabilitation. Singapore now has much more resources to spend on government institutions such as prisons than in the past. Do you think we should try such an experiment again? React with for “yes” and for “no”... Perhaps the second experimental prison could be at Pulau Ubin… TRY IN THESE QUESTIONS ~~ Consider the view that people imprisoned for their crimes should lose all their rights. (2022)

also if you're not a morning person there's a 1145 slot at pearson on 14 (the others are at 9+ with one at 10+)

GBP 133 is about S$230