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Okay, so any HK is something
I’ve talked about many times.
Any HK is a TV channel.
It’s the National Broadcasting Channel.
That’s fine.
You are obligated to pay for it
if you enter into the contract.
So it gets a lot of heat because a lot
of people don’t want to pay or don’t pay
and then they come after
them and it’s shit like that.
So it’s sort of an antiquated idea, especially
in the age of streaming and whatnot.
And they don’t do a lot to compete.
So I don’t have a lot of love for NHK.
And then I found out that the president of
NHK, I decided to switch the company from
a seniority-based system to a merit-based
system, which is something I really
appreciate because it means one of my
biggest complaints about Japan’s society,
primarily politics, but this
works as in corporations as well.
As a seniority is overvalued.
You have people who are
put in a position because
they’re old or they’ve
been there forever.
They haven’t innovated
or learned anything new.
So the company or in this case, politics
or whatnot does not innovate along with it.
And that’s how you
end up with antiquated
ideas being pushed
through and the minister of
technology not knowing
anything about technology.
That’s all based on seniority.
So he did a lot of things.
So the former NHK
president who retired the
January introduced a number
of new measures such as
eliminating the seniority system
and professional sectionalism.
However, the movement a strong
backlash from within the broadcaster,
including a claim that a
strong of employees have
left due to the abrupt
changes in the system.
The current NHK leadership
has therefore decided
to amend the personnel policy
to replace the system entirely.
Basically what they’re
saying is that you had
all these people in senior positions
and this good dude comes in.
He’s like, you don’t deserve your
senior positions or maybe you do.
Let’s find out.
Let’s create a meritocracy
and you can keep your position.
But anyone coming up,
they’re not going to come
up because they’re your
flunky or because of their age.
They’re going to come up
because they actually have skills.
And all the people who
are probably, now I assume,
not particularly skilled
or didn’t really deserve
their position, they’re
all like, no, that system
sucks because I might
not get to keep my job.
So then as soon as this
guy retires really quickly
right afterwards, they’re
like, we’re going to
bail on that system created and go back to
the old system where I get to keep my job.
And that’s one of the
problems with the senior
people being in charge
and the people in power
being in charge because
what they have to do is
consolidate power to make
sure they can keep their power.
So another quote from
the article during his
tenure made a laid out
policy to cut back on the
ratio of managerial posts
from the 30% range to 20% rate.
So he’s wants to cut 10% of the
managers and put them down or retire them.
He introduced exams for
appointed managerial staffs.
So you couldn’t just be
like, I’ve been here 10 years.
I deserve to be a manager.
You’re like, now you
have to pass a test with
the aim of scrapping
the seniority system by
promoting junior and mid
level career employees.
He also offered an early
retirement plan for those
in their 50s and supported
their reemployment.
He also introduced the
system to relieve staff
from managerial posts after
they have reached a certain age.
This is all stuff that I said
should happen in politics in Japan.
I think it should be universal.
I think there should be an upper
limit of the age of politicians.
A lot of the politicians
when they hit their
70s, they’re not in the right space
to be running countries anymore.
Just like these guys probably aren’t in the
right space to be running new amendments.
Like the guys in their
50s, myself included,
they’re not really the ones we’re
going to be innovating a system.
Maybe they can take a system
and make it work with system.
They already know, but they’re not going
to be innovating and making new things.
They’re not going to be
jumping onto the Internet.
They’re going to not
going to be creating a new
system for NHK to move
forward into the future.
And if they don’t know
the technology, if they
don’t know what’s going
on, if they can’t pass
these tests, they certainly
don’t deserve the position.
So that was very interesting to me.
These are all steps that I think
companies and governments should take.
Sure, the thing that I
actually was most interested
in was it was mid-level
career people with
skills could then surpass
senior level people.
And so you would have the best
people in position to actually do a job.
And that is incredibly
antithetical to the way
Japanese work, culture,
and political culture works.
So I really, really was
excited that this happened.
But of course, I didn’t
learn about it until
that system would have been
scrapped, which is complete bullshit.
According to multiple
individuals close to
NHK, NHK board members
of the executive body
held a meeting in early July to discuss
the personnel system introduced by Meida.
So these are all the people, most at risk.
These are the oldest
people, these are the people
who achieve their
position through seniority.
They’re not necessarily the most skilled
people, but they’re the people with power.
The attendees analyzed the system made
light of senior employees, which it should,
and reported it gave a rise
to promotions in assignments
that didn’t match
personnel evaluations on site.
So what they’re saying
is people are getting
promoted, and they’re not getting
promoted in the way I got promoted.
I got promoted because
I put my time in there,
my time in, and the
time’s what matters.
But the reality is in a business
time is not what mattered.
It’s skill.
So I’ve met many people
who have worked the same
job for many years,
and they will talk to you
about how they have so much experience
at their job at the thing they do.
They fail to take into account.
They’ve never had a good evaluation.
They’ve never done a good job.
So I’ve been working at the same company.
I’ve had the same job for 20 years.
That sounds like a good thing.
But if you haven’t done a good
day in 20 years, that’s problematic.
That’s something to be aware of.
So this guy, Maeda, the
former NHK president,
sounds like the kind
of guy I want in charge,
because he’s like, let’s make changes,
and let’s make the people who come up,
be the best people to
drive NHK into the future.
I want to do the same thing in politics.
Let’s have the people come up, be the
innovators who actually understand technology
and the problems that
society is going to face
into the future, and have
them drive Japan into the future.
But of course, as soon as he stepped
aside a little bit, everyone’s like, well,
you’re into that crap that might make me
lose my job in my bonus and make me retire,
because I don’t do much
work, but I get to sit at my desk.
I don’t know why my senior Japanese
executives have sort of Western exe.
I want a little cowboy there.
But let’s face it, it’s
that cowboy attitude
that’s going to get
you through the day.
Okay, this is weird Japanese politics.
The director of women’s
affairs division has
agreed to step down because of literally
the most Japanese photo I’ve ever seen.
So she went to Paris
on a fact-finding mission
and to do research
into women’s issues and
stuff and to look at
how other countries are
handling it and there’s sort of a conference
and important women leaders are there.
There’s a previous
one I actually didn’t talk
about where it was like G7 countries all
sent a representative for women’s issues.
Japan sent a man.
So they have this
picture and it’s like six, I
assume very powerful women in politics from
their countries and this Japanese dude.
I mean, because of
course, who’s going to speak
on behalf of Japanese women, but at
Japanese man, that only makes sense.
This is the way it’s done.
Found that funny, but I think
they’ve maybe swapped out.
So anyways, this lady
went to Paris and she’s
doing the work she’s
supposed to be doing
and she’s out in front
of the Eiffel Tower and
she’s with two other
ladies and she’s like,
oh, let’s take a picture in
front of the Eiffel Tower.
So they do a very Japanese thing.
They do a goofy picture.
So it’s her and her
two friends and they
steeple their hands above
their heads and stand
in front of the Eiffel Tower mimicking
the Eiffel Tower that is behind them.
It is a very innocent,
quite frankly, very sweet
picture of a woman who’s probably
very excited to be in France.
I mean, I’m going to go
ahead and just guess for the
first time because she
looks very happy to be there.
She posted this on her Twitter
and Japanese media went, Abe shit.
So much so that they’re like,
this is inappropriate behavior.
You shouldn’t be
having, they’re essentially
saying you have
shouldn’t be having fun.
But you go out to a
conference in another country.
That doesn’t mean you can’t also have fun
and you’re not working 100% of the time.
They did this with the
Prime Minister’s son.
The Prime Minister’s son
actually also had to step down.
Now he seemed to have
a little bit more going
on, but they were making
a big deal of him taking
pictures while he was in France
and I’m like, he’s driving around.
He’s picking people up.
He’s doing diplomat stuff, let’s say.
He’s essentially the Prime Minister’s aid.
Let him take some pictures.
This depends really weird about that.
Like you’re there to work.
You should only work,
but you’re still in human
being and you’re not
working 24 hours a day.
So taking a picture
in front of the Eiffel
Tower, it’s not like she was doing anything
dirty or offensive or anything like that.
She’s just doing a very innocent picture.
So I really feel like this one was unfair.
And so after the public backlash of
her being a really normal Japanese lady,
that’s the bit I can’t get over.
I’ve seen so many Japanese
pictures where this is, I was be like,
if you were, if she didn’t do that,
yeah, I can’t say anything more.
It was a nice picture.
And I’m really sorry.
I bet she’s a nice lady
who’s doing a good job.
And I can public out.
I think they’re just looking for shit.
It’s almost like Japan’s
so got so few problems.
It’s not that they don’t.
We like, I mean, that’s what I talk about
every week is all the problems Japan has.
Focus on those.
When people go overseas to take pictures,
I’m going to take a fucking picture.
He has.
That’s just free.
Okay, so Japan has done
something that is terrifying.
The Fukushima nuclear
reactor problem almost blew
up, didn’t blow up, but
cause problems shut down.
And now there’s a ton of
liquid that’s been radiated.
And they’re like, we got to get rid of it.
We’ve been sitting there for years.
They came over the plan.
What we’re going to do is
slowly release it into the ocean.
Sounds very, very scary.
And they did.
They started working sort of last Thursday.
Everyone who wants to freak
out, that was your chance to freak.
Now, other countries have reacted to
this in a neck, which it was expected.
Thing is, two countries in
particular had very strong reactions.
Both Russia and China
said they didn’t want
Japan to release the
wastewater into the ocean.
They both said we would
prefer if you would vaporize it.
So basically create steam and
have it go up into the atmosphere.
And they’re saying that
it would have less sort
of effect or impact on
neighboring countries.
I’m pretty sure the neighboring countries
they were talking about China and Russia.
The issue, and this is one
of the problems between
sort of international
politics is if you’ve
listened to an engineer’s
Japan over the last little while.
Russia and China have been taking a very
particular stance with Japan as a country.
In that particular stance,
I would go so far as
to say is intimidation or bullying
or trying to be the big dog.
The somewhere I come from, it
would be he’s trying to big dog them.
And it hasn’t worked.
So Japan hasn’t really backed down.
In fact, Japan is pushed back, which
is made China freak out once or twice.
North Korea certainly is
freaked out once or twice.
We did have that group
with saying like Japan’s
military, we’re following
the Constitution.
The Constitution says
we can only defend
ourselves, but let’s
redefine defend ourselves as
be able to shoot rockets
and missiles into other
countries and hit things
that are attacking us.
So you can see there is an element of Japan
that is saying like if you keep pushing us,
we’re not going to push
back, but we’re going to make
sure you can’t push
anymore, which is terrifying.
So with that cultural point
that Japan, Russia, China
have a contentious relationship
when Japan or when China
and Russia make a request,
a legitimate request, we
think doing research that this is a better
way to do this, you should listen to us.
Japan’s going to be
like, dude, you just spent,
you just like sent
warships into my ocean,
you shot missiles into my
exclusive economic zone.
We’re not going to listen to you,
we’re going to do what we want.
They actually got approval
from other countries.
And to sort of put
everyone more at ease,
the amount of radiation measured in the
ocean has not changed in any significant way.
So you hear like people hear the
word radiation and they should freak out.
I think that’s fair.
People again sort of forget
that bananas are radioactive.
So as long as there’s
like a little bit, not very
much, it actually has no
negative impact on you.
I mean, we’re all thinking
radioactive fish and stuff.
Who knows, because this is
going to be constant continual
release of the radiated
wastewater into the ocean.
Yeah, it could lead to mutations.
It could lead to lizards
who grow up bigger than
before and have, you
know, maybe extra curricular
powers.
Um, yes, it could lead to Godzilla, but
as we’ve seen historically
in the films that, that
knows how to handle that,
and they take the brunt of it.
So I’m trying to in Russia might want
to just sit back and let Godzilla happen.
That might be the thing.
Some other actual, I almost
said it, and fall out from this.
China has banned import on all
marine products is primarily seafood.
From Japan.
Japan, China is the largest export
destination for Japanese seafood though.
So this is going to have a really
big impact on Japanese business.
But a good thing for me and
anyone who’s actually living in Japan,
there might be an
excess of fish that does
not get exported, which
means fish prices in
Japan may go down, which you’re
like me, you need a lot of fish.
That’s pretty good thing.
It also set off some.
Freakouts.
Any sort of situation like this is going
to have people over react in China,
they started hoarding
salt because they were
thinking that there’s not
going to be an assault available.
All the salt that might
comes out of the ocean
might be irradiated,
something like that.
So they’re all been hoarding salt.
The governments like
don’t do that and they got
really weirdly racist in its own way
by saying like, we are not Koreans.
This is not how we behave.
So apparently China doesn’t just look
down on Japan, it also looks down on Korea.
Not a big surprise.
I’m being honest.
I hate saying China because
it’s not Chinese people.
It’s the Chinese government, which
has to follow a very strict party line.
So I think every now and then I have
to reiterate that as I take digs at China,
it’s not the Chinese
people because honestly,
pretty much every Chinese
person I’ve met has been very nice.
It’s the Chinese government,
which is borderline
dictatorial and the
Communist party is pretty
rough and let’s face it
at the end of the day,
I wouldn’t want to live
there and it’s because
the government and
the racism isn’t exclusive.
It goes back and forth
and China, China, to Korea,
Korea, to Japan and you
can make any combinations
of those and yeah,
it’s pretty accurate.
Structured of business for calling the
police 1,996 times over three months.
Initially this man called
for a legitimate case
and wanted to get
information but then wanted to
speak further the police declined
to chit chat or speak further.
This is what this is the bit
that I would like to know about.
When they say he wanted to speak
further, did he just want to talk to them?
Did he have something
specific to say? Did he
have more information
or was just rambling on?
The police thought they got other
stuff to do than just talk to you all day.
So they hung up.
So the guy started calling
back and saying things
like, “Screw you idiot”
and then hanging up.
He got two warnings to stop
and this is one of those things.
When you get a warning
from the police, you’ve
got to realize you’re
dealing directly with
the people who are going
to arrest you. You’re not
dealing with like, let’s
say I have an argument
with my neighbor and
they warned me to stop. I
can keep going, they can’t arrest me
unless they perhaps be a police officer.
But if you are dealing directly with the
police and the police give you a warning,
stop doing what you’re doing
or we’re going to arrest you.
They know they can do
it. So then they gave him
a second warning, they’re
like, “Stop calling us
or going to arrest you.”
And then they kept doing
it and then they arrested
him because it’s like
they don’t know who
he is. He keeps calling
them. He’s got the name.
They have a open case,
so they have his
name on file. They know
his address. They know
everything about him.
This is very poor criminality. When
he was arrested, he denied the charges.
He denied saying he’d done anything
wrong and he said, “I have my.”
Which is a pretty dark scary thing
to say, which I honestly just wake up.
Cool, but the guy’s clearly an idiot
because he called the police 2,000 times.
Two men were arrested for sending a bomb
threat. We actually went over this once.
when it actually happened. So the two guys
have been found and they’ve been arrested.
They’re suspected to be the
people who sent over 300,000
faxes to schools, firms, and local
governments. Now, most of them just ignored it,
but a music school took
it really seriously. The
fax said there are 334
bombs in and around the
school. You have to pay
us 300,000 yen ransom or
we’re going to blow up
the school. This was the
Tokyo College of Music.
They evacuated the
school. They called the
police. They did all the
things they started
searching, didn’t find any
bombs. 300,000 yen is
not enough money for this.
A monthly salary in Japan would be
between 250 and 400. This is the mid-range
of an average monthly
salary in Japan. For me,
again, I’ve talked to the
last few episodes about
risk versus reward when
it comes to your crimes.
One month’s salary
isn’t enough to risk the
jail term that is coming
your way or making bomb
threats. I am interested
to see what kind of
punishment this gets
sent out with because they
just made the threat,
but it’s obstruction of
business. We know that’s
the catch-all where they
do whatever they want
with it, which is actually
one of the scarier laws in
Japan. These guys turned
out to be part of
Kuchinkyo, which is a group
that is known for harassing people online.
They’re part of a group specifically that
harassed a lawyer. That’s
what their most famous
for, but they’re a group.
They think harassing people
is a form of entertainment.
One of the guys was
arrested, said, “I thought
it would be fun if this
became a big deal.” It’s going to be
a big deal for you as you are arrested.
A woman was arrested.
This was interesting because
it does give a sense of
what you can and can’t
do in Japan and take
responsibility for. A
woman was arrested for
creating a how-to guide
called “How to swindle
your sugar daddy.” It’s not
just how to get a sugar
daddy, someone who will give
you money to hang
out with you and be with
you and just take all
his money. It’s how to
find one of those, get
him, and then get him to
give you as much money
as possible, whereas it goes,
that goes a step beyond the paid relationship
to fraud. There’s a 20-year-old girl.
My mind was like 20 years
old and she’s written a
book and she’s made a
book that apparently works,
that she took 10.65 million yen from two
men in Ichi. This is why she was arrested.
The connection, this is a different. I
have to be clear. I’ve got to start again.
A woman used the book
to scam two men out of
10.65 million yen. The
scam led to her arrest,
a 20-year-old woman. That created, they
were like, “How did you do this? How did you
get to like, how did you
figure out how to scam
these guys?” You said,
“I found this book online,
I bought the book.”
That’s where the book was
revealed to the police.
The police went online.
The book was being
sold from between 10 to
30,000 yen, but if you
could make 10-point size.
That’s a pretty good return on investment.
They went and found the author of the book.
She also has been
arrested because she’s
propagating fraud. I
assume she’s already done it.
She was interviewed on
YouTube. She had her face
covered in stuff, talking
about her success.
I know what’s going
to mean Japanese and
Mike. My Japanese
reading abilities and good,
I really actually want
to get that book and read
it now because I want to
see where there are any
steps that I couldn’t
figure out on how to scam
your sugar daddy because
I think just having a
sugar daddy is part of
the initial scam. She’s
taking it to a next
level where it’s like,
“How to squeeze your
sugar daddy for everything
he’s worth.” More
because she’s multiple
sugar daddy’s and get
your 10.65 million yen.
There’s one more story
and this is the growth story.
Weak. 65 year old man
was arrested for a sexually
assaulting a woman by
tricking her into thinking
that her womb was full
of bad energy and that only
he could fix it by
filling it with positivity.
So I think you know what all that means.
I don’t need to get into the specifics.
It’s interesting because
they’re calling it sexual
assault, which I agree
it is, but in the moment
the woman was actually
eager, not eager, willing,
agreeable, trying to
find the right word.
The woman was agreeable
to this process because she
actually believed what
he was saying. So what he
was doing initially was
committing fraud that
led to sexual assault.
So if she had had all the
facts, she could have
made a real decision,
but because he was lying
to her, she made a bad
decision, which is why it’s sexual assault,
which I think that is a pretty fair charge.
The woman was introduced
to the man last November
by Anna Queens, who
told her that her life
changed for the better
after paying the man for a
change of life. We don’t
know what the change of
life was. It may be the
same thing where he lied
to her in such a way,
created some sort of mystical
situation and then
sexually assaulted her. The
guy, oh no, is believed to
have committed the crime
by telling the woman
that she had bad energy in
her womb and telling her
you need to put a positive
energy in her in there, only I could
give it to you as one connected to God.
When it was investigated,
Ono denied the charges
saying she didn’t do
anything against her will,
but the Metropolitan Police
Department is investigating
the other woman who
suffered similar damage
in full detail, meaning
that because you have
managed to have sex with
her and she agreed to have
sex with you because
you lied to her to get her
to have sex with you
means you committed fraud,
which means what you
did with sexual assault,
which means now, hopefully he’s
going to get punished in a very real way.