I'm Japanese. Americans who visit my country tend to come home with the same question: how did Japan stay Japan? They watched trains leave on the exact second. They left a phone on a café table, came back an hour later, and found it still sitting there next to the cold coffee. Some of them read that in 2023 people in Tokyo turned in more than 4 billion yen in lost cash to the police, and assumed it was a typo. It wasn't. There are two halves to the answer. Most people who praise Japan online only know the first one. For America, the second one matters more. THE FIRST HALF: HOW WE KEPT OURSELVES It starts in July 1853, when Commodore Perry brought four black ships to the mouth of Edo Bay and pointed his guns at a country that had been closed for over two hundred years. Across the sea, China had just lost the Opium War and was being forced open by foreign powers. Japan's leaders could see exactly what happened to old civilizations that refused to change. So they changed faster than any nation ever had. But they did it under a rule: wakon yōsai. Japanese spirit, Western technique. Take the railways, the steel, the constitution, the navy. Leave the self-contempt at the dock. That rule survived everything that came after. War, defeat, two atomic bombs, nearly seven years of American occupation. We copied your factories and then beat you at cars. I was going to write that no Japanese classroom ever taught us our civilization was a crime. That's not quite true. After 1945 a lot of teachers taught a very guilty version of the war, and Japanese conservatives have been fighting over those textbooks for decades. But the guilt stayed inside the history lesson. It never became a theory of everything, the way it did in your universities. Nobody told us our language was oppressive, or that the family was a structure of domination, or that being good at math was a form of privilege. Foreign residents are still about 3 percent of the population. When outsiders called us closed, most people shrugged and went back to work. For a long time I thought that shrug was a weakness, a kind of stubborn provincialism. I've changed my mind. I think it's most of what a border actually is: a people quietly sure it has something worth keeping. So American conservatives are right about Japan. Confidence in your own culture works. We are the proof. THE SECOND HALF: HOW WE ARE DISAPPEARING In 1949, about 2.7 million babies were born in Japan. In 2024 it was 686,061. The first time I saw that number I assumed I was reading the wrong column. I wasn't. Our fertility rate is 1.15. The population peaked around 2008 and has shrunk every year since. There are mountain villages now where the only new things are the vending machines. And this didn't happen under the left. One conservative party, the LDP, has governed Japan for almost all of the last seventy years. No woke revolution, no open borders, no defund the police. The right won the culture war here before it started. The country is shrinking anyway. What went wrong is economic, and it's very old. On the last trading day of 1989 the Nikkei closed at 38,915. Then the bubble burst. The banks were sitting on mountains of bad loans, and instead of letting failed companies fail, they kept lending them fresh money so nobody had to admit the losses. Economists later called them zombie firms; Caballero, Hoshi and Kashyap documented the whole thing in 2008. The Nikkei didn't get back to its 1989 high until February 2024. Thirty-four years. The zombies were kept alive at someone's expense, and it was the young. To hold the old structure up, the system protected the people already inside: lifetime jobs for the men hired before the crash, pay by seniority, pensions no politician dared touch because old people vote. Whoever arrived after 1990 got what was left. Today close to four in ten workers are non-regular, on short contracts or part-time or sent in by agencies, and men in those jobs marry far less often than men with permanent ones. Nobody plans a family on a contract that ends in March. Real wages are still lower than in 1996. Government debt is well over 200 percent of GDP, the highest in the developed world. When the government finally admitted the birth crisis, it did what governments do and announced a program: about 3.6 trillion yen a year for children. Births kept falling. Have you ever seen a bonsai up close? You take a tree that wants to grow thirty meters tall, and every year you cut back its roots and wire its branches so it keeps exactly the same shape. Some live for centuries. They're beautiful. They never get any bigger. That's what conservatism becomes when it only preserves and never builds. We protected everything, including the things that should have been allowed to die. In 2022 Elon wrote that unless something changes, Japan will eventually cease to exist. A lot of people here called it rude. I was annoyed too, for about a day. Then I looked at the census again. WHAT AMERICA SHOULD TAKE FROM THIS Japan shows you can keep your culture without apologizing for it. Don't let anyone tell you that pride in your country is the problem. Japan also shows that a nation can get culture right and still lose, if it protects its old companies, its old voters and its old arrangements against its own young people. It dies politely, with clean streets and trains on time. You still have what we lost: a system that lets things fail and lets new things be born. Bankruptcy, startups, people who move across the country for a better job. Elon is a product of that system. Every bailout, every subsidy for a company that should have died, every rule that protects the insider against the newcomer moves you a little closer to us. If you know someone who says "America should just be more like Japan," send them this. Both halves. A nation isn't saved by preserving its past. It's saved by having someone to hand it to.

🚨🇺🇸 This is footage of SEAL Team 7 during the Battle of Mosul in Iraq in 2017. Should the US end up sending troops to Iran, expect more footage like this. A LOT more. Writer: Daniel

The people many of you follow are complete clowns. Below is first among equals.

日本を深く愛するアメリカ人からのメッセージ。 我那覇真子さんの旦那様です。 全日本人、必読の投稿です。 ちなみにCCPとは「中国共産党」のことですね。 二宮尊徳から名前をとった息子さんの金次郎くん。 ご両親の強力なDNAを引き継いで、 日本のために、そして健全で対等な日米関係のために 大きく飛躍してほしいです！

日本を深く愛するアメリカ人からのメッセージ。 我那覇真子さんの旦那様です。 全日本人、必読の投稿です。 ちなみにCCPとは「中国共産党」のことですね。 二宮尊徳から名前をとった息子さんの金次郎くん。 ご両親の強力なDNAを引き継いで、 日本のために、そして健全で対等な日米関係のために 大きく飛躍してほしいです！

This is why they are rightly called Zionazis.

Holy shit. Dutch intelligence has uncovered Jared Kushner’s role as a Mossad agent.

業種を問わず、日本人労働者が外国人労働者の指揮命令下に置かれる可能性のある雇用環境や、そのような労働構造が生じ得ることに強い危機感を抱いています。

Japan stands at a critical crossroads. 🇯🇵 At stake is immigration policy and how we protect our safety, culture, and way of life. We must pass on Japan as it is to the children of Japan‼️

AFTER YEARS OF DROUGHT, IRAN’S SKIES OPEN. COINCIDENCE OR CLIMATE WAR? For decades, much of Iran has faced severe drought, dry farmland, and shrinking water supplies. Now, areas that struggled for generations are seeing rain and snow at levels not recorded in more than 60 years. The timing has raised questions. The shift followed a strike on a UAE weather-modification and cloud-seeding facility. If the region has technology that can influence precipitation, who controls it, and how has it been used? Was this simply a natural weather cycle turning in Iran’s favor? Or was outside interference involved all along? Were the U.S., Israel, and other adversaries using weather technology to block rain and snow, deepen Iran’s drought, and pressure its people? The rain returned. The questions have not.

中国土耳其骂战的起因是这样的，中共网军AI假账号这一两个月以来大规模冒充日本、泰国、法国、韩国、印度，巴西和土耳其人用种族歧视的言论互相辱骂，试图让世界各国网民增加对日本的仇恨，然而土耳其发现了中国方面的阴谋诡计忍受不住，所以才有了现在的土耳其网民全面反击，请扩散