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Two disclaimers:1 - Despite my following reasoning, I don’t even believe ‘democracy’ is a fundamental end-all and be-all of what it means to be an optimal social primate. And as an American, I am looking at the word as representing the current Multi-national, neo-liberal, zero-sum trends.2 - Despite having American citizenship, I have lived over half my life in Japan … 36 years and counting, and with a permanent visa, this is probably a terminal relationship.On my answer —Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time — Winston ChurchillQuite a catchy tune … but I have no idea whether democracy is the worst, or better, or just another experiment in how to manage social primates that have bred to populations of herding / swarming size.I just see democracy as one of many tools for sustainability of the species … and if lucky, perhaps even a higher quality of life.But as any other tool, democracy can be used and misused, depending on one’s inclination and perspective. For example, anyone who has been marginalized as a minority will likely be aware of the dangers of tyranny of the majority.I don’t have the time or scope for exploring the implications of John Rawls’ original position on morality here. It leads down one heck of a rabbit hole. But I would like to make a plug for Michael J. Sandel’s definition of ‘corruption’ as — any time ‘lower level’ values displace ‘higher level’ ideals.Certainly this is a provisional social construct. But I think most of us would agree that ‘everyone has their price’ is an easy to understand euphemism for how Michael Sandel is defining corruption.For my short answer … Yes.Just follow the money — https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/27/fake-news-inquiry-data-misuse-deomcracy-at-risk-mps-conclude?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+main+NEW+H+categories&utm_term=282232&subid=10308016&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2It is not just democracy that is under threat.Family values and its institutions … adoption, weddings, birthdays, or funerals … are all under threat of being devoured by capitalism. It doesn’t take much triangulating to see the relationship between the misuse of corporate human capital in Japan Inc.’s ‘democracy’ to see the devastating effects on demographics … a falling population, but gutting the countryside for further concentration of power and opportunity in the Tokyo area.In pre-reformation Europe, the Catholic church similarly grew rich and therefore corrupt, partially due to selling special dispensations (those express train prayers to heaven) to the robber barons of that era.But here, in present day Japan, depending on the amount of donation offered to a priest performing burial rituals お布施, the deceased is given a new ‘spiritual’ name (kaimyou - Dharma name) that is ranked and correlated with the amount of money donated.I’d call that culturally sanctioned blackmail, but I guess we Americans do the same with weddings and funerals … the more money one has, the more lavish the ceremony is expected to be. I guess it comes with the package of what it means to be a social primate.But how much is ‘enough’? Where does one draw the line if it comes at the expense of others?This jives well with Sandel’s home run definition of corruption.Capitalism is devouring science.Common sense determines that neither scientific fact nor theory have been subject to the values of democracy, though lord knows it is not through lack of trying.I will leave it to the likes of Neil DeGrasse Tyson to point out the incompatibly of democracy with science in many of his excellent documentaries …or an even more scientifically capable contemporary, Steven Pinker …… but the good professors (institutionally sanctioned) are NOT making similar documentaries about how capitalism is devouring science.‘Publish or Perish’ — is NOT a scientific heuristics.It is an economic model, and an ultimately self-destructive one at that.In fact, they, among others (yeah, you too Michio) are making a tidy little sum riding off those gigs. It’s just too bad that the likes of Karl Popper or Thomas Kuhn are not so photogenic. Karl had much to say about what happens when science becomes subservient to capitalistic agendas in the Nazi form of Nationalism.And I think there is quite a bit much more than being ‘politically correct’ at stake when the whole scientific domain is being questioned as gender influenced … How Masculine and Feminine Traits Influence Science.For some examples of how capitalism is devouring of science, I modestly suggest reading Naomi Klein regarding Project MKUltra. Or Noam Chomsky on the M.I.T. - D.A.R.P.A. connection. Or for that matter Google’s true origin partly lies in CIA and NSA research grants for mass surveillance, Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Agra.As I am making this edit, today’s news alone (Thursday, July 24, 2018 spells it out … Monsanto-on-trial … again.And to bring it closer to home (in Japan) … a copy of July 27-28th news … https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/27/national/crime-legal/japanese-prosecutors-raid-jaxa-facilities-connection-second-education-ministry-bribes-case/#.W1xSNygVSHoAnd to make sure the article is not ‘lost’ … another source, JapanToday.Prosecutors raid space agency over bureaucrat's bribery caseJuly 28 — 06:55 am JST TOKYOProsecutors on Friday raided locations linked to the space agency after they arrested a senior education ministry official earlier on a bribery charge in the second graft scandal to hit the ministry in a month.Kazuaki Kawabata, 57-year-old former director general for international affairs at the education ministry, was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of receiving bribes in the form of being wined and dined by a consulting firm executive in return for providing a favor to his firm.Prosecutors suspect former consulting firm executive Koji Taniguchi, 47, already arrested and indicted for alleged complicity in another bribery scandal involving a different senior education ministry official, provided 1.4 million yen ($12,600) worth of meals and drinks to Kawabata between 2015 and 2017.Kawabata was on loan at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency at the time and was in a position to evaluate the agency's business contracts.Kawabata allegedly helped Taniguchi invite astronaut Satoshi Furukawa to an event at Tokyo Medical University in November 2016 among other favors he offered him, according to sources close to the matter.Furukawa was allegedly asked by the former chairman of the university's board of regents, Masahiko Usui, about whether the astronaut could take part in the event, they said.Taniguchi bribed Kawabata by wining and dining him more than 10 times, the sources said, adding that Kawabata and Taniguchi have denied the allegations.Other sources said the education ministry bureaucrat is also suspected of receiving taxi vouchers from the consulting firm executive.Earlier in the month, another education ministry bureaucrat, Futoshi Sano, 59, and the former official of Tokyo Medical University were indicted for bribery.Sano, former director general of the ministry's science and technology bureau, allegedly helped the university get selected for the ministry's funding program in return for securing the enrollment of his son at the school.Taniguchi is suspected of bringing Sano and Usui together.The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology was preparing to set up a third-party committee to investigate the suspected bribery involving Sano, but the minister, Yoshimasa Hayashi, said the plan will be postponed in the wake of Kawabata's arrest.© KYODONo mistake, ‘greed-is-good’ capitalism is devouring science, not driving it.Education, since the dawn of the industrial revolution, has been in danger of being devoured.For one semester, even while I was an Associate Professor at Jissen Women’s College, I took a leave of absence and attended open-classes as a student at a rival institution, Showa Women’s College. Among the courses I took, one was taught by a professor and employee of the central Ministry of Education (For about 7 years, I also used to be one of 2 or 3 native English speaking informants as textbook proofreaders and cultural advisors for the Ministry 平成17年4月文部科学省教科用図書検定調査審議会専門委員（平成23年3月迄). His course was about the history of Public Education in Japan.The Japanese public education system is based on England’s Victorian era education, which in turn was based on the structure and heuristics of two other institutions at that time … the penal system and the military. A liberal arts education was largely reserved for the elite ruling class.That’s a pretty grim hint as to the traditional ways in which large populations are ‘managed’ through capitalist values.Tied up with education, racial equality is in danger of being devoured … DeVos Doesn’t Believe that Promoting Racial Diversity in Schools Is a Worthwhile Cause.That military thing of ‘corruption’ through replacing one value with a lower value can be found in the outsourcing of the U.S. government’s accountability in warfare. Blackwater Protection was and still is, a convenient excuse for the U.S. government’s plausible deniability. But I guess the ancient Roman army did the same thing with ‘barbarian’ mercenaries long before capitalism was a gleam in Adam Smith’s eye.And as hinted earlier, the penal system — in private, for-profit hands?For the CEOs … the more inmates, the merrier. And throw away the keys. There is no financial incentive for rehabilitation.As for U.S. Public Health policy? Outside of the U.S., the laughing stock of the ‘developed’ world. Inside, a crying shame.That alone is enough to make me question the distinction between ‘developed’ and ‘developing’ as an arrogant conceit. A more accurate distinction between countries might better be found along a sliding scale of institutionally sanctioned, legalized corruption.Personal health care costs account for the single greatest cause of family bankruptcy in the U.S. On the the other hand, a cozy little group of insurance company executives and Big-Pharma CEOs can afford another private jet or island retreat.For the personally ambitious, there is big money to be made off of sickness, infirmity, and death.And those ‘closed-door’ international trade talks are closed for good reason.For example, one of the conditions of the TPP was that medical products banned in the U.S. could be used in countries with less economic leverage, and any claims from citizens of those countries regarding health or environmental degradation will not be subject to that country’s laws or judicial system. The multi-national corporation will have the right to regulate, judge, and penalize themselves … as they wish, or not, and citizens of those economically marginalized countries, democratic or not, will have no say in the matter.Even elected politicians are not privy to all of the information in those closed-door trade talks.Anyone here old enough to remember Perestroika or Glasnost?Evidently, ‘what’s good for the goose is good for the gander’ does not apply to Capitalist management.It just goes on and on.One. Horror. Show. After. Another.I would say the loss of ‘democracy’ to the corruption of money should be among the least of our worries.Yanis is brilliant, full stop.Spot-on analysis.And compared to reading Piketty’s massive tome, a lot easier to listen to.Besides, I think his barber is doing a great job.I am just weighing in because of his observations from about 1:10 of the YouTube video above — when he explains how the Chinese economic system may be more humane than the U.S. counterparts. The local governments may allow somewhat more freedom than the national government, and individuals may be arguably just as free to follow, ignore, or game the system as their American counterparts.This is the same in Japan, For now.But as we are seeing in the U.S. now, the authoritarian dynamics could change overnight, and I assume the same could be said for China.Japanese scientists are worried about the same thing — Japanese scientists call for boycott of military research. But that is already old news. Japan is well under way in following the U.S.’s model of tax funded research at M.I.T. being funneled into Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.I think it was only three or four years ago, that Tokyo University was bringing out damage control PR in denying they were involved in military related research. Things have changed in a very short time. … Scientists and defense research | The Japan Times——————————————In any country, the socially progressive left will always be less united than the right. It's like trying to herd cats ... or order a jazz musician to follow a note for note transcription of a military marching band score.IMHO, the above observation points to something fundamentally contradictory about human nature.As a social primate, we do pretty well in small communities with empathy-driven morality. Of course even small groups can be led by bullies, and many a spouse has suffered at the hand of their 'beloved'.But when we become herding primates, probably anything larger than Dunbar’s Number, and guided by a rule-driven morality (or algorithm), it is just a matter of time before we become self-destructive swarming primates ... that 'Tower of Babel' thingy.I guess part of it is because large populations necessarily become hierarchically institutionalized, and therefore dependent on a rule-driven (legal/logical based - not empathy based) morality.But when empathy is no longer the basis for morality, the 'Dark Triad' personality types are most able to take advantage of the inevitable gap between empathy and rules ... the narcissists, machiavellian opportunists, and psychopaths among us.You know … your boss.(kudos to Alan Louis)Altruists become relegated to fools ... Diogenes carrying a lantern in the daylight, looking for an honest man.Diogenes … my hero, the template for ‘pro-social trolling’ … and the capitalist in me is wondering if I can get a copyright on that phrasing ;-)Compared to more egalitarian communities which are small enough for us to acknowledge and recognize each other as unique individuals, large populations and accompanying institutions simply provide too many niche opportunities for those dark-triad types to rise to the top.It might be useful to think of the ratio of dark-triads to altruists in a hierarchy as similar to the increase of surface area to volume of any structure as it increases in size.This surface area to volume ration, as biologists understand, is a salient variable which limits the size of living things.Surface Area to Volume Ratio - OBEN Science 7EAnd to extend the metaphor, as the surface area of hierarchies expand in proportion to the volume of its limited natural resources (can’t outsource costs and losses forever ya know), those dark-triad vampires, also proportionally increase to the point that those behavior traits become the dominant culture of the institution.Hmmm … the capitalist in me wondering if I should coin the above observation in the domain of social sciences as ‘Martin’s Law’. Or in the spirit of open source … ‘more like guidelines’.No matter what 'fool-proof' system is in place, those dark-triad types will suck the human capital dry, siphoning all resources into their own gated communities, until inevitably, 'too big to fail', fails, like a dinosaur collapsing under its own weight.'Housing loan crisis', 'Lehman Shock', the Great Wall Street crash of the ‘20’s ... a stinkweed by any other name would smell as rank. Alas, were it just restricted to smell.2012, what we ‘learned’ — Fukushima reactor meltdown was a man-made disaster, says official report.As a former Comparative Culture teacher, I should say a bit about how Japan Inc. parses ‘human error’ and ‘man-made’ disasters. Imagine a wide range of meanings ranging from an ‘honest mistake’ at one extreme, and getting caught doing what hierarchical social primates are primed to do … ‘gaming the system for personal advantage’ at the other extreme.Those two terms conveniently cover the gamut.Well hey, it’s the Fourth of July, 2018, and following good pedagogic practice, let’s see if, indeed we ‘learned’ anything.Just 3 stories today is enough to say it all …1 — Nuclear watchdog OKs restart of aging Ibaraki nuclear plant hit by tsunamiPhoto: REUTERS file(Read it while it’s ‘hot’ folks, to aid our short collective memories, Japan Today will typically delete the article from its archives in a week or so, so I have it copy-pasted for any future readers interested, assuming there is a future.)Yours truly, as an English teacher at the Tokai Mura nuclear power plant - before.And after?Can’t really say. Like the weather and earthquakes, that will be up to the Watchdog Committee’s official stamp of approval.2 — Japan oks ambitious nuke energy target plutonium reuse plan — Japan on Tuesday approved an energy plan that sets ambitious targets for nuclear energy use and sustains a struggling program for spent-fuel recycling despite setbacks after the 2011 Fukushima disaster.(But praise the lord we have government officials and Watchdog Committees!)3 — Senior education ministry official arrested over bribery — Tokyo prosecutors on Wednesday arrested a high-ranking Japan education ministry official on a bribery charge, suspecting he granted a research subsidy to a medical school in exchange for admitting his child as a student.Oops.Might as well add another few for good measure …(edit July 7, point 4, because of the relevance to points 1 and 2)4 — 5.9-magnitude quake felt in Tokyo, no tsunami warning. I felt that one. ALL of Tokyo felt it … and for close to 30 seconds.Mother nature couldn’t give a f.f. for the government’s official approval of where and when the next temblor will be permitted. But money-driven authoritarianism and mother nature have never been on good speaking terms, much less happily wedded.5 — Fukuoka's 'guest teachers' of English outstay their welcome. — After 36 year years of studying and teaching here, I found out the hard way that Japanese work contracts are not worth the paper they are written on. And this is not restricted to lay-teachers … Cautionary tale: Bern on how no protections against harassment in Japan’s universities targets NJ regardless of Japan savviness and skill levelHaving worked in American and Japanese Universities, high schools, and volunteered at kindergartens, I know a little bit about education. Now, having resigned in protest from a tenured Associate Professor position (qualifications here … Steven Martin, I am forced to pick up odd jobs at universities, but not as a professor — though still desperately trying to hang on to my identity as an educator, following its best, subversive to authority, liberal arts tradition. Now working for a subcontractor, likely similar to those mentioned above in the Fukuoka article.I have a contract here before me, that I will not sign. It makes no mention of accountability to the students who educators should be serving.Educational content and pedagogy have been boiled down to little more than economic constraints and opportunities. Just like any other business, everything is based on the bottom-line.Now with falling demographics and numbers of Japanese students to draw on, the overabundance of ‘educational institutes’ are forced to accept anyone who can breathe, and now an increasing number of the young and restless from China and Southeast Asia. This makes for some interesting cross-cultural possibilities.But it is an extra pedagogical burden on those who speak only Japanese and English, and these outsourcing companies are choosing teachers whose main qualification is ‘they look foreign, speak English, and are desperate enough for money to just sign on the dotted line and follow orders’.I try to make do.Here is a sketch done in my English class last week, by a speaker who maybe can say ‘Hello, how are you today?’ — yet she could visualize and understand Plato’s Allegory of the Cave better than most American counterparts. Bright girl.The ‘most recent comment’ under the following YouTube link describes how I got their attention last week, kept it, built on it .., and enjoyed a blast from the past.As bad as my situation is, still can’t pay the rent, it could be worse.6 — Japan’s open to foreign workers. Just don’t call them immigrants … The latest LDP plan is to open the door to 500,000 low-skilled, kkk workers (no not Jeff Sessions and company), the 3k jobs are kienai, kitsui, and kikken (dirty, hard, and dangerous) — jobs that anyone tries to avoid, but dirt-poor immigrants see as opportunity. There are just two teensy-weensy conditions to the special 5 year visas (10 years if language skills are up to snuff).• There is no legal path beyond the expiration date of that visa allowing for immigration or naturalization. When that visa expires, the worker has no choice. They MUST return to their native country.• If the 5 year or 10 year worker has a spouse or kids, even those immediate family members will not be allowed into Japan. All human needs will be taken care of by the Japanese company they work for.‘Special work visas’? I would call that a legal euphemism for ‘human trafficking’.It appears that Japan Inc. is hell bent on using hidden labor to build the infrastructure catering to the wealthy visitors who come to ‘do’ Japan. Not so different from Qatar, the UAE, and other oil rich sultanates.(edit) Today’s morning headline in Japan Today … https://japantoday.com/category/national/japan-firms-used-foreign-trainees-at-fukushima-cleanup-reportsI have saved the above to hard disc because as per policy, that website typically deletes its articles a week or two after posting it. No wonder we fail to learn from history … we are not allowed to even make a collective memory. So for anyone who wants the details of the article above (which are few — even the guilty companies were not named), I have saved the article to hard disc. And again, that title …4 firms made foreign trainees do Fukushima decontamination workYokoso (welcome to) Japan … tourists and ‘trainees’ alike.Japan’s 4th of July headlines is one for the record books … to hell in a hand basket. A big one.————————————So class, what have we learned since that 2012 official government report?Hmm. Something about a dead parrot?More like a whole menagerie — George Orwell's 'Animal Farm' in a nutshell.Credit: Carl Glover via FlickrJust a guess, but those 'dark triad' types probably make up between 1 and 5 percent of any population.But even among the remaining, more typical, members of ours species, Hannah Arendt .... and then later the behavioral psychologists Solomon Asch (conformity experiment), Stanley Milgram (experiment in obedience), and Philip Zimbardo (the malleability of identity in the Stanford Prison experiment) pointed out how easily even the average Joe Blow's behavior can be manipulated with relatively light touches of authoritarianism.Noam Chomsky in 'Manufacturing Consent', and later later Naomi Klein in 'The Shock Doctrine', shows us some blueprints. Antony Loewenstein is showing how this is playing out down under with Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe.And William Blum shows us some of the gut-ugly details in Killing Hope.A couple of yeas ago, Stephen Hawking wrote an editorial for The Guardian saying This is the most dangerous time for our planet ... implying we will either make it to Mars and exploit its resources, or destroy ourselves in a final malthusian meltdown over the remaining resources on earth.An increasing number of STEM specialists believe we may have already passed a species-ending tipping point.Chomsky, in his 2010 Chapel Hill speech, 'Human intelligence and the environment’ began that speech with a couple of paragraphs referring to the debate between Carl Sagan and Ernst Mayr regarding the probability of intelligent life elsewhere in the cosmos. Predictably, and sensibly, Sagan argued for the probability, on statistical chance alone.But Mayr gave a surprisingly sensible counter-argument from an evolutionary biologist's point of view. The biological record indicates an average of about 100,000 years for the shelf life of an apex (dominant) species ... and we are at about that point.Mayr said that while there is probably life out there, it is not likely to have a human-like intelligence. He went on to further imply that human intelligence is not the apex of evolution — it is merely one of many tools for the survival of a social primate.But worse, he suspects human intelligence is more likely a fatal mutation. An evolutionary spandrel at best.The more I observe of our swarming, self-destructive nature, the more I tend to agree with Mayr.

This answer may contain sensitive images. Click on an image to unblur it.From what little I know, I think Hide has given a good answer, and I was torn between writing the following as a comment, or acknowledging his answer as my grounding for a slightly different and perhaps overly broad angle on the topic. Thanks, Hide Izumi!Going to ask Kanji literate and experienced Quorans to verify this, but here are some comments arising out of long term conversations with a friend who works in mid management at Mitsui-Sumitomo, and has organized in-house workshops dealing with personnel problems in the workplace such as various forms of harassment, mental stress, human rights, and so on.As of a few years ago, the single greatest cause of mortality among Japanese Males between the ages of 20 and 44 is suicide. (1) I would assume there is a high correlation between that age/gender group and the bulk of the full-time work force.The problem was recognized by the national government as severe enough to warrant a new law, as of 2 years ago, requiring companies of 500 or more personnel to include a yearly mental health care check along with the traditional yearly physical health care check. (2)So far so good. But my friend said that in discussions with corporate associated psychiatric counselors, found that the law, like many laws regarding human rights, has very small consequences for punishing non-compliance. That being said, most large corporations will at least go through the motions of compliance … it is just part of the Confucian-based ethos of a hierarchically rigid society. (3)But more worrying, the law itself, appears to be just the government going through the motions — my guess because of a conflict of corporate interests with a corporate-friendly government. The law does not stipulate that the mental health care check be carried out by a mental health care professional. Too expensive. Any quack will do.At the end of the mental self-evaluation check list, is also a box in which the employee chooses (or not) to allow one’s immediate supervisor to see the results of the mental health check. It is easy enough to see the consequences of this option: if the informant is suffering from harassment and is expected to allow supervisors to see the information, that information is likely to be hedged to protect the informant from further harassment. If the informant chooses not to allow supervisors to see the report, there is nothing preventing supervisors from either further harassment or preventing the informant from advancing further up the corporate ladder.I worked at a university, even more problematic because so-called educational institutes are exempt from that law. As many a Quoran academic specialist can testify, the politics and harassment of academia, even without the temptation of huge corporate profits, can be every bit as vicious and vile as the corporate world.In the words of Frans de Waal … ‘Academics have petty jealousies, cling to their views long after they have become obsolete, and are upset every time something new comes along that they failed to anticipate.’ pg. 99 (4), and I would argue that Japanese Universities are even less on the cutting edge of societal problem solving than American counterparts — more conservative and less tolerant of diversity than the corporate world (5).My suspicion is such a toothless law is on the books because Japan currently is, and has long been, far more neo-liberal capitalist than the American far-right’s wildest dreams. Suicide and mental health issues are just part of the cognitive-dissonance and consequences of the corporate oligarchy vampirizing the working class gutting the sustainability of the nuclear family.Other (but by no means extensive) consequences I might list include:(1) An aging population yet continued marginalization from the workplace because of age discrimination. (6)(2) A legal system that has long been heavily weighted in favor of the collective institution at the cost of individual human rights. Yes, you might win a court case against your company, but count on a Pyrrhic victory at best, requiring more time and cost than many … including myself, think it is worth. Just too many examples to list.(3) Exploitation of foreign trainees for cheap labor - human trafficking, (7)(4) The fall in aspirations to marriage. (8)(5) The failure to reproduce children enough to sustain the current pension scheme, indeed the ‘unlimited growth’ assumed by most economics theories. (9)(6) And the continuing policy of conflating education with poor businesses models based on short-term profits in many ways, but here I will point out only 2, outsourcing Foreign teaching positions to temporary and academically unqualified staff (10) and the national government’s aim to reduce national universities to the role of stripped-down STEMs subservient to central authority (11) and (12).With Trump’s hostile corporate take-over … uh … I mean ‘election’, and presumption of the U.S. collapsing into a more nationalistic culture and transactional based foreign policy, Brexit and similar consequences, the rise of nationalism in Nordic countries and Western Europe as an Islamophobic response … what worries me more is the super-majority ruling LDP may not have enough checks and balances to prevent a rapid, more extreme right-wing nationalist swing.In such a case, I suspect mental illness and suicide will be allowed only with permission, and even then, under-reported by a press now ranked 72 in the world for freedom of information … neck and neck, between Tanzania and Lesotho. (13)(1) Suicide in Japan(2) Kenko Shindan - The Japanese Health Check(3) Straitjacket Society: An Insider's Irreverent View of Bureaucratic Japan: Masao Miyamoto(4) The Bonobo and the Atheist(5) Cautionary tale: Bern on how no protections against harassment in Japan’s universities targets NJ regardless of Japan savviness and skill level(6) Why It's Difficult to Get a Job in Japan After 30(7) Japan sanctioning mass 'slave labor' by duping foreign trainees, observers say(8) More couples saying, 'I do ... but not yet'(9) It’s official: Japan’s population is dramatically shrinking(10) Teaching as a Foreign National at Japanese Universities(11) Humanities under attack(12) Japan Dumbs Down Its Universities(13) Japan : Don’t mess with “state secrets” | Reporters without bordersUpdate — just a few hours after writing this, in relation to point 6 and point 12 … this morning’s lead article of the digital version of The Yomiuri Shinbum (English version … The Japan News) is pasted in full below. The reason I am not pasting as a link is because despite Japan’s technical prowess, the digital version of the The Japan News is not archiveD anywhere for future references. Anything more than a couple of weeks old is stripped from the user database. ‘Convenient’.———————————————————————————————————November 21, 2016Ministry: Stop describing foreign trainees as labor forceThe Yomiuri ShimbunTrainees from Vietnam shuck oysters at a seafood processing plant in Hiroshima Prefecture.7:56 pm, November 20, 2016The Yomiuri ShimbunThe Justice Ministry is asking organizations serving as coordinators for the government’s Technical Intern Training Program (see below) to remove such expressions as “securing a labor force” from descriptions of the aim of the program on their websites.The program is aimed at transferring skills to developing countries. The ministry began issuing the requests in August, it has been learned.The move is apparently intended to facilitate passage of a bill on expansion of the program in the extraordinary Diet session.Some organizations supervising the program are bewildered by the request, with one official saying, “Everyone knows that the actual purpose of the program is to secure a labor force.”Under the program, supervising organizations accept foreign trainees in cooperation with organizations in partner countries and find them organizations in Japan that implement technical intern training programs. There are about 2,000 supervising organizations nationwide, including chambers of commerce and industry, agricultural cooperatives and fisheries cooperatives, and they are also supposed to confirm whether training is appropriately provided and give necessary instructions.The Yomiuri ShimbunAccording to the ministry’s explanation, about 220 of the supervising organizations used such phrases as “improving productivity” and “securing a young labor force” when explaining the purpose of the program on their websites.The website of the Tokyo-based Japan International Training Cooperation Organization (JITCO), a public interest incorporated foundation tasked with, among other things, giving guidance to supervising and implementing organizations, used similar expressions.On instructions of the Justice Ministry issued on Aug. 18, regional immigration bureaus across the nation have been urging by such means as written notifications that supervising organizations and JITCO to remove these expressions.One of the the ministry’s model sentences, obtained by The Yomiuri Shimbun, says the aim of the program is “to cooperate in the education and training of human resources who can play key roles in economic development in developing countries, not to secure a labor force.”Relevant organizations are asked to “correct such expressions quickly and report the results.” JITCO has removed such expressions, and many supervising organizations have taken similar steps.A bill concerning the proper implementation of technical intern training and protection of technical interns is being deliberated in the extraordinary Diet session. It includes such measures as extending the maximum training period from the current three years to five years.To prevent problems such as nonpayment of wages and human rights violations, the bill stipulates the establishment of a new entity tasked with instructing and overseeing supervising organizations and implementing organizations, while setting forth penalties for human rights violations.Technical Intern Training ProgramThe program was established in 1993 with the aim of helping foreign nationals learn skills while working in Japan that they can use for the development of their home countries. The maximum training period is currently three years, and the program covers 74 industry sectors such as agriculture, fisheries, machinery and textiles. As of the end of June, about 210,000 foreign nationals had been accepted through the program.April 26, 2017And the trend quickens … Anger, confusion as Japan revives militaristic edictEdit Jan. 27, 2019 —Now having been recently employed by a Tokyo City High School for at-risk students, I was required to fill out that compulsory mental health care self-assessment. Although it was translated into English, I could see the questionnaire was not put together by the same standards I was expected to use in my graduate studies … and indeed, in the fine print, noticed the mental health care self-assessment was out-sourced to a for-profit corporation.Four years now, since I’ve been forced to leave a tenured Associate Professor’s position and have been mysteriously unable to find regular employment in higher education … yet asked for a third time to be a judge for a nation wide speech contest held by students at Japan’s highest ranked school, The University of Tokyo … The 13th English Oratorical Contest for the University of Tokyo E.S.S. Trophy … I honestly answered that I sometimes feel suicidal on the self assessment. I received the rubber stamped corporate ‘results’ of the self assessment saying I should watch my health, and seek professional help if things get worse. I have personally verified how educational institutes cover their asses regarding mental health issues among faculty or students.And I am one of the ‘lucky’ ones … At least four firms used foreign trainees to clean up radioactive contamination from Fukushima nuclear plant: ministry | The Japan TimesThough morally corrupt, I should emphasize that this is not a purely racist-driven phenomenon. Just last week, Japan passed a law allowing Japanese doctors to be legally obliged to work 160 hours a week overtime, twice the amount of overwork time that is highly correlated with suicide . Planned cut in doctors' overtime hours worries Japan's rural hospitals | The Japan TimesThe same old, same old.‘The more laws the country, the more wicked the people.’ — Lao Tzu

I just answered that actually, but I’ll copy and paste it here, as the question is more direct: This image represents Bekenstein’s approach to what became Holographic Theory: It was based on an equation by Bekenstien, after a few generations evolved to: Lp is the Planck length (10^-35 meters), tp will be the Planck unit of time (10^-44 seconds). These are the smallest slice of space and of time possible in normal space-time. They are the Zero Point for space and time, in a quazi logical way. Where N refers to the number of ‘bits’ of information and AΩ is our world-sheet, as we fill that empty void with information (N) we inadvertently create the world-sheet AΩ. In order to derive the value of what 1 ‘bit’ of information is, we can simply do this: Setting ‘c’ as a natural number and equal to 1:(more)