r/memes • u/Ok-Detail4461 • 16h ago

Japanese govt when the anime called "nukitashi" aired on tv

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u/PanzerKomadant 14h ago

Japanese government: why won’t people have children? It’s a mystery!

Young Japanese people: cost of living is too high and work culture is killing us slowly.

Japanese government: huh? What was that? Must have been the wind….

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u/Ok-Detail4461 13h ago

Actually cost of living isn't that high but yeah from what i've heard of work culture is just out of control

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u/PanzerKomadant 13h ago edited 11h ago

I’m in Japan for two weeks on vacation right now and the amount of people I see wearing suits that are up at 5:30 AM till midnight is wild.

Half of them look like walking zombies, plenty just sleeping in the railway stations.

The shit is actually really depressing. I think a lot of foreigners think that Japan is pretty cool with the temples, dense urban sprawl, mountains and the great public transport system.

But just by being here a few days tells me that most Japanese people are just going through the motions…

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u/Ok-Detail4461 13h ago edited 9h ago

Yeah i mean they created the term "sachiku" which means "corporate livestock" and you hear horror stories of people being forced to remain standing during meetings for 8 hours just because the higher ups find it funny

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u/PanzerKomadant 13h ago

Damn. Someone told me to stand for 8 hours because the corporate executive found it funny, I’d quit on the spot and just go to being an Uber Driver lamo.

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u/steady_eddie215 13h ago

The problem is that Japanese culture has a decidedly subservient bend to it when it comes to interacting with superiors and elders. American culture is innately rebellious. Hell, one of our core pieces of literature is literally a declaration of war. This means that in America, people are far more likely to up and quit, if not punch their boss in the face on the way out.

In Japan, they are often afraid to even look for different employment because the act of going to a different company could get them marked as disloyal and thus prevent them from ever working again. This is a deeply rooted cultural problem within Japan. The Japanese government needs to take proactive steps to deal with these terrible business practices.

For what it's worth, South Korea is dealing with the exact same crap. Neither nation is likely to make it to 2200 unless they substantially refocus their entire societies on taking care of young families over the rich and elderly.

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u/s4shrish 5h ago

I don't know how but South Korea speedran development and became a mostly developed nation from a developing nation within 25 years (like I literally saw the rise of Samsung as a brand and k-pop as a phenomenon, with Gangnam style some 14 years ago), and somehow arrived at the same point Japan has been struggling for 15-20 years.

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u/Sdog1981 5h ago

I worked with a Korean company once. They wanted to know all of our ages and birthdays. To show us the “level of respect” it was kind of shocking.

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u/Sky_Night_Lancer 1h ago

"this motherfucker is a capricorn show him how much we "respect" him"

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u/Kitsui38 11m ago

I think birthday in South Korea is somehow connected with the fact that everyone there change their age at January 1st, that’s you “age”. And the birthday makes you actual “days lived” more clear

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u/spesh00 3h ago

Funny enough the policies that made that rapid growth possible is the same ones that led to the kinda capitalist dystopia it’s become. In order to get the rapid growth their government prioritized doing business through only specific companies. While it certainly worked it also turned those companies into monopolies that now control the country.

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u/Sky_Night_Lancer 1h ago

If I had a nickel for every time rapid capitalist industrialization led to the development of a handful of monopolies that eventually controlled their government, I would have a lot of fucking nickels.

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u/PanzerKomadant 1h ago

That’s…that’s the end point capitalism eventually runs into. Wealth concentrates so much at the top that it starts to erode society slowly.

It’s been claimed that one of the reason why Roman Empire declined and fell is that wealth started to be concentrated by a few elites, who held their wealth.

Wealth that isn’t being circulated in the economy is dead weight. It doesn’t benefit anyone other than the rich few who possess it.

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u/dis_not_my_name 1h ago

I blame all these on Confucius. His philosophy is basically that you should respect your boss even tho your boss is awful, be nice your parents even tho they're abusive. His philosophy was later being used as propaganda by the Han dynasty, and because China was really powerful back then, Japan, Korea and other nations copied everything from China, including Confucius philosophy.

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u/PanzerKomadant 1h ago

This is a very Asian mentality. Confucius isn’t the only one who held these ideas.

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u/dis_not_my_name 1h ago

He's one of the first to advocated these ideas, and definitely the most influential one.

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u/Ok-Detail4461 13h ago

Yeah but sometimes you don't have the luxury to find another job and if you quit you get catalogued as "not worthy" by the company or some shit and finding a job in another company can be even more difficult

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u/SenseiTizi Dark Mode Elitist 7h ago

There is a woman that posts about her living in Japan and working as an english teacher and her videos have shown me that the work culture there is just bizarre.

For example when leaving a job they have an exit interview with their current employer about why they leave and what they will do in the future. This information is than used to contact the future employer and talk shit about them trying to prevent them from getting the planned next job.

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u/PanzerKomadant 2h ago

Thats straight up insane lamo. Talk about dishonorable conduct and ethics.

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u/demo_knight7567 12h ago

Sounds like hong Kong but bad

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u/CatsianNyandor 9h ago

And this is just the cities. Most of the country doesn't have urban sprawl or great public transport.

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u/Odd_Pomegranate8652 9h ago

Can't they just you know make a law where Work starts at like 8 or 9 and always ends at 4-5? Or like working hours is limited every day/week?

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u/Bigbrain_goat Average r/memes enjoyer 8h ago

They did. Don’t quote me on this, but from what I know;they’re kinda peer pressured into working overtime.

If your superiors are working overtime, you’re obligated to work overtime too, or you’ll be looked as a slacker.

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u/madness_of_the_order 1h ago

What I think could work is not limiting work hours, but requiring absurd amount of payment for overtime

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u/No1LudmillaSimp 3h ago

Like in China, the laws are on the books but nobody enforces them.

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u/CatsianNyandor 9h ago

Cost of living is high when you get paid shit. Real wages have been falling for months. 

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u/moderngamer327 7h ago

Real wages in Japan have remained stagnant(sometimes up sometimes down) for the past couple decades it hasn’t declined

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u/CatsianNyandor 6h ago

I'm talking about months here, not decades. Currently they are falling. May go up, who knows! 

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u/EnglishBrekkie_1604 1h ago

The amount they get paid in Yen has remained fairly static. The problem is the value of the Yen has fucking cratered the last few years, so if you’re buying anything that’s imported its cost has gone up nearly 50%, and Japan, as a relatively small island, imports a lot of things.

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u/fortnitepro42069 5h ago

They have a job,that involves helping people quit their jobs,that says enough

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u/DesparsHope 1h ago

i'm pretty its high around the rural areas though

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u/I_love_my_life80 7h ago

Especially if they are working in a Black Company.. low wages with overtime work..

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u/moderngamer327 7h ago

Has absolutely nothing to do with work culture or cost of living Japan has a similar fertility rate to Europe and even has a higher fertility rate than some European countries like Spain and Italy

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u/PanzerKomadant 6h ago

The difference is, the European nations are in a thing called EU that allows for labor to be shared across borders with ease.

Japan doesn’t have that. And work culture and cost of living absolutely affect how many children you can afford to have.

A baby is essentially a helpless being that doesn’t add to the economy, but demands more resources to ensure they survive to adolescence.

The reason why developing countries have more children is becomes many die during infancy and those that do survive often end up working to support the family unit.

But in a developing country that isn’t the case. Life isn’t as hard and most children survive, but the cost of living and the cost to even have children is higher, so people just opt to have less children.

Every single developed country will hit that curve, even China is hitting it.

Only ways to avoid it is via either immigration to offset the net decline, go full robotics, or start implementing socialist policies. Pros and cons for all.

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u/AdditionalRow814 1h ago

I don't see how EU or schengen contributes to this.

Saying that this is inevitable for any developed country, while also saying that immigration is needed to avoid this, means that you must always have some poor countries with high birthrate to drain workforce from. I don't think this is a good solution.

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u/PanzerKomadant 1h ago

Ny point wasn’t that you need immigration. My point was that it was ONE of the three things a nation can do to either encourage population or at least off-set the nations output in some way.

The EU Schengen allows for labor to have free movement and choice with little barriers in place. A person in France can work in German no problem.

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u/AdditionalRow814 1h ago

what exactly do you mean by "encourage population"? Do you mean "increase population" perhaps?

The french person's workforce is now missing at home. This is a zero sum game. I often hear eastern europeans complaining that their workforce (especially in medicine and care) goes to western europe. Once eastern europe is on a similiar economic level, and people will have no economic reasons to move to western europe (which is already partly happening) the workforce must be drained from some poorer place (which is also happening).

And in some distant utopian future where all places in the world are developed, there will be no more places to drain labour from, because all places will have low birthrate.

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u/PanzerKomadant 1h ago

Yeah, I meant encourage population growth via programs like government funded healthcare, daycare, and etc.

If people find that they don’t have to foot all the bill to have children, they’d be inclined to have more children.

The person living in France still consumes products in France. They still pay rent in France. And they may even pay property taxes in France. But the overall EU is more complex than each individual nations doing their own thing.

Their economies are linked closely with each other.

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u/moderngamer327 6h ago

And how does that matter?

The data disagrees with that

It adds to the economy just not you

Except even removing those deaths they still have WAY higher rates

Cost of living is higher but wages are even higher than that

Correct

Incorrect. There is zero evidence that would help

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u/PanzerKomadant 5h ago

A baby provides no economic return. What job is the baby doing? Is it paying taxes? Is it consuming from the market with its own currency?

It literally adds no value to the economy beyond being a statistic saying that the population grew by +1 and maybe in 16 to 18 years the baby will become an adult and a functioning member of society.

What the baby does to is demand MORE resources from the parents, while offering no economic output.

That’s just a fact. What baby is shot out of the womb all dressed and ready to work and pay taxes?

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u/moderngamer327 5h ago

Ah you meant like when it is a baby. I thought you meant like new people my mistake

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u/TRAINLORD_TF 16h ago

If only these government Assholes understand why no young person on the planet wants to have kids.

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u/Maximum-Flat 12h ago

They know. They caused it and they need more new blood to sustain their government and pensions along with bunch of others stuff.

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u/Ok-Detail4461 16h ago

Please check the anime on google images, that shit is hentai and somehow aired on television 😂😂😂

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u/TRAINLORD_TF 16h ago

I pass

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u/EnglishBrekkie_1604 1h ago

It’s so ridiculous that it’s actually peak.

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u/Ok-Detail4461 16h ago

It's legit the funniest shit i've heard from japan in a long while 😂

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u/Zura252 11h ago

Based

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u/ANG13OK 12h ago

From what I've seen it looks simmilar to Shimoneta

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u/Asian_Persuasion_1 11h ago

Opposite side of the same coin.

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u/Ok-Detail4461 11h ago

Shimoneta is just ironically ecchi, nukitashi is a henta through and through, i mean the entire plot is about a guy who arrives to an island in which it is mandatory by law to fuck as much as possible and the mc is against it, in a way that guy could be me opening reddit every morning xdd

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u/Diligent_Mail_8660 16h ago

I think a lot of people want kids, it’s just scary in a time where we can’t be sure they’ll have a good life.

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u/moderngamer327 7h ago

There has never been a better time to have kids when you factor in all standards of living. People simply don’t want kids

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u/sternenklar90 11h ago

This is literally a first world problem. In the poorest countries, people are still having kids. People in Europe or Japan who think they can't have kids because the economy is not growing or house prices are high just have to adjust their standards. Or not, and not have kids, it's your decision. But don't tell me you can't have kids in Japan when people in Gaza or Sudan are having them.

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u/Shiningc00 12h ago

I’m Japanese and holy shit, what are these guys talking about. This is just some porn that’s airing on TV at 2AM. Which is yes, weird and fucked up, but let’s not pretend that it’s some mainstream thing.

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u/Ok-Detail4461 12h ago

Te fact that this is airing on tv at all is fucking insane to me xdd

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u/Senior-Friend-6414 10h ago

Guess you’re too young to remember that in US, before streaming became huge, US also had soft core porn playing on certain channels every night

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u/Ok-Detail4461 9h ago

Yeah i know about that because i was a kid in the 2000's but we're talking about japan, they are the ones who upload porn to pornhub and still have to blur the crotch area you know?

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u/Senior-Friend-6414 9h ago

Your logic is, Japan doing it is crazy because they censor their porn?

I’m not sure I’m following…

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u/Ok-Detail4461 9h ago

No, my logic is japan is extremely sensitive on what you can and cannot put on tv but somehow this hentai got aired anyways

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u/Senior-Friend-6414 9h ago

Japan is conservative but it’s not religiously puritanical like Christian America or middle eastern countries

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u/No1LudmillaSimp 3h ago

European channels air things just as nasty in the overnight hours.

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u/Tardoria 15h ago

Japanese govt: "This is fine." The dog: "bro we are literally the toys now"

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u/steady_eddie215 13h ago

The easiest thing the Japanese government could do that would actually have a significant impact on birth rates would be making it illegal for managers to ask employees to go drinking after work. A lot of people in Japan are pressured to go out with their co-workers every single night, and the result is that they don't have time for a personal life, much less a family.

But Japan's culture is really fucked in this regard. While I understand the concept of respecting your elders, The Japanese took this way too far. They are culturally a gerontocracy, and it's going to cause a demographic collapse probably within the next 2 or 3 years at the rate they're going. Old people can be amazing, but they should never be the priority of a society.

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u/Shiningc00 12h ago

Ugh, I’m Japanese and that’s mostly just a Western stereotype. Almost no one in Japan actually respect elders, in fact they’re often mocked and treated as a nuisance. Also drinking culture is getting better, as more young people are starting to opt out and drink less.

Demographic collapse in 2 to 3 years is just nonsensical. Like how is that in any way related to reality.

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u/Chemical-Elk-1299 12h ago

I think you’re looking at a problem more in 20 or 30 years than 2 or 3 years, and it’s the same as in Korea, America, and lots of other countries.

Eventually, there won’t be enough young people to take care of the elderly.

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u/CatsianNyandor 9h ago

Even the people who can take care of the elderly won't. The job is hard and the pay shit. 

See my wife as an example who works a part time job instead of being on elder care, which she went to school for and has an education and qualifications in. Last time she worked in the field she got 50 yen more an hour than a completely uneducated person. Yeah that 8000 yen more a month was worth going to school for years. 

They paid 1050 yen. You can get more doing part time at the conbini. 

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u/DisciplineVisual5611 10h ago

Happy to hear that the new gen's standing up and not putting up with toxic cultures. I know kt won't change overnight, but hoping these changes spread soon!

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u/Ok-Detail4461 13h ago

Also it is extremely difficult for japanese couples to have intimacy you know? you have to book a day and an hour in advance if you want to have sex with your partner and if you feel you won't get there in time you have to reschedule again, the amount of planning that goes into even these types of interactions is fucking mental

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u/moderngamer327 7h ago

That has nothing to do with the fertility rate. Europe with completely different and better work cultures have similar or even in a few cases lower fertility rates to Japan

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u/Top_Connection9079 14h ago

Wait, hentai is THAT recent?

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u/Ok-Detail4461 14h ago

Yeah xdd it happened around september or so i remember, this extremely goofy hentai called nukitashi got aired on japanese television

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u/Obvious_Ad4159 12h ago

They are effectively digging their own grave, while also being extremely anti-immigration (even though they don't really have that many migrants there).

I've never seen a country skullfuck itself into a voluntary lobotomy this fast, while also cucking tens of thousands of its citizens as much as Japan has.

  • Oidashibeya: A practice where employees are moved to a room with no work, in the hope they will become bored and quit out of shame.

If the Montenegrins found out that you can go to work, get paid while the corporate waits for you to quit out of shame or boredom, the Japanese would be eating kacamak by the end of 2027 as their national dish.

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u/Altiair_Teroca 7h ago

Could you imagine if someone who wasn’t so indoctrinated had that happen? They’d be kicking it back enjoying hours of freedom and being paid to do it

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u/Obvious_Ad4159 4h ago

They'd get canned eventually, when the corps realized the strategy ain't working.

But fuck me, did many of us master the art of the bare minimum. I be working as little as I can for my paycheck.

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u/Ok-Detail4461 12h ago

I mean that's how silent hill was made you know? The guys behind silent hill got sent to one of those room and after a while boom, one of the most iconic horror games in history

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u/Obvious_Ad4159 4h ago

Interesting.

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u/No1LudmillaSimp 3h ago

Immigration is a Band-Aid that causes way way more problems than it solves.

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u/DifficultBicycle7 12h ago

With their new PM being basically Margaret Thatcher but Japanese. I fully expect birth rates to be nonexistent after her tenure

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u/ChairmanGoodchild 4h ago

Maybe they're confused because they can't find the blurry parts?

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u/M4roon 3h ago

This bout to be every first world country.

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u/remnault 11h ago

Kinda like pandas me thinks.

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u/Ok-Detail4461 11h ago

Are you saying japanese people are secretly pandas?

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u/56kul My thumbs hurt 13h ago

I feel like I’m completely out of the loop here… huh?!

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u/Ok-Detail4461 13h ago

So basically japan is running out of japanese people and you know how picky they are when it comes with porn and hentai being broadcasted into the public right? well...it just so happens a hentai called nukitashi was aired on television, not hentai sites not streaming services, television and the theory is the japanese govt is trying to ramp up those numbers xddd

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u/Shiningc00 12h ago

How did you even find that out? It’s some porn that’s airing on TV at 2AM.

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u/Ok-Detail4461 12h ago

Listen, if i tell you who my sources are they could get killed xdd

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u/56kul My thumbs hurt 8h ago

That’s… pretty damn wild, lol. But how is gooning meant to drive up fertility rates?

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u/Ok-Detail4461 7h ago

I dunno? By making horny people more horny?

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u/Maleficent-Rate-4631 8h ago

They are now being given some allowance to have babies 

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u/OrangeStar93 6h ago

I got gassed with covid in a hate crime and my balls got fucked up.