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Japan Speaks Up

Japan Speaks Up posts from Japan, gathered on Discoveries.

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My hands are shaking writing this.

Temple after temple.

This Memorial Day, I want to tell you about a Japanese general most Americans have never heard of.

A Japanese couple, year 6 of fertility treatment. ¥500,000 per IVF cycle. Total: over ¥4M.

Once lost, never returned.

Five children waited for their mother to come home from her morning run.

A papercraft samurai turning aside a hail of bullets with his blade

The America diaries are here

The wandering samurai diaries

Most countries after midnight = dead 💀

50,000 households headed by foreigners are getting full welfare in Japan.

Japan is being sold out by its own government.

Six years. +910,000 foreign workers.

Japan’s government is flooding the country with immigrants.

Is it okay to be angry about this? 😡😡😡

“I’ve lived long enough.”

Japan raised its foreign worker target

Our sacred past is vanishing in flames.

Bro, this is how Japan quietly dies.

I just want to protect my daughters.

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The mic they forget is there. The voice they remember. BOYA mic

Fingerprint. Phone. The key is you. TCL lock

GN16. Nikon. 1s recycle. The night stops being an excuse. Viltrox flash · Gray

42.5mm. F1.7. Lumix. The face falls out of the background. Yongnuo lens

5 pans. Ceramic. PFAS-free. You stop replacing them. Nuwave cookware

Fire the camera from across the room. Yongnuo remote

1200 nits. You see it in noon sun. Viltrox field monitor

Camp coffee that tastes like you meant it. Camping coffee maker