The FREITAR uprising in Japan.

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Thank you For this Nice Post.

Very interesting! Pachen san' Thanks very much....

Yoi otoshi o omukae kudasai!  :D

Interesting read.

the movement continues, albeit an ongoing suppression effort by local authorities to squash the voice of those who seek to be heard outside the Tokyo bubble. It's OK for a bunch of ignoramuses, like at least 50, to rally against "foreigner" crime and visa overstays in Japan (even though most of the crime is in fact perpetuated and performed by Japanese) so the governing forces say OK you can have a march, a rally, that supports the father and mother of a Japan born child to be deported. At least she got to stay, but come on- in the 2nd most powerful economy in the world, in a virtually undetected shadow of invisible control mechanisms and the amount of money spent on social obligation, they couldn't find it in their pockets, or their hearts to grant the family a permanent residence? 

I had a recent conversation with a very well employed middle aged office worker who happens to work for a subsidiary of a very successfull "gaishekei" insurance marketing firm. And because they don't need the new president who arrived early this year, and because they think that they can do the job themselves without any accountability (and they may be correct), that they will try and oust him. They can't understand that there is a corporate mechanism in place with positons of authority and oversight, and that this could be minimal and unabtrusive if they would just focus on their own job. But they simply don't like the guy because he came from the outside. So in support of the FREETERS, many of them just don't have the ability to conform or deal with the inner office politics that exist in most employment constructs. They are much more individual, creative, and freedom of expression minded. They don't fit in, so they make up the dynamic and very colorful fabric of the streets.

It is nice to make seventy to eighty grand a year as an office worker, but they feel slighted when their boss makes five hundred grand a year and acts, well, like a Boss.

The FREETERS on the streets are just trying to survive in a unique city where the imagination, the virtual, the imaginative has a funny way of making itself real. And they would rather live in that world. This is a sub-culture that could a substantial amount of influence, had they the leadership and funding available to organize and monopolize, to survive.

Yes, great article. There's only a few socialists left willing to speak out uncompromisingly it seems. The right has succeeded in shifting the center balance so far over that many feel the need to be apologetic about focusing on their communities over profits. It's eerie to be talking with people who themselves are the very victims of wage-slave culture and see they're unwilling to raise objections to the grinding fist of Corporatism for fear of being labeled "passive-aggressive" and marginalised professionally and socially.

Japan could go a long way to start helping solving its problems by outlawing "key money". As Paschen will know, this is effectively a "free gift" of 1-2 month's rent extorted by the landlord from the tenant every 2 years with absolutely no reciprocal service given. With monthly rents upwards of $1000 that's a lot of disposable income being diverted onto the landed wealthy's cash-pile.

I have heard even tenants themselves lamely excusing this practice by mumbling something about it being a tradition. All very well except when you realize it was instituted after WWII as a means of excluding returning soldiers from drifting to the city. Now it still serves perniciously to keep people pinned to their properties, financially restricting their mobility and freedom.

I like this too.

Very interesting.

great stuff Paschen,your observation skill is really great.it feels good when i read these kind of story of public effort from any part of the world.

Thank you amitjha for the comment. Lets hope they efforts will be rewarded.

surely mr Paschen, rewards will come, i am an indian and know the fruits of efforts of civil dis-obedience movement and non violence.

nice article... too bad about the grammar and spelling

if it were written in standard English, it could be in the mainstream media

you need an editor

It is not always easy to keep it non violent on either sides the tensions and emotions can run high. Yet the will is there and that is a start.

Yes, you may be correct here. I appreciate the input. Then again you are welcome to edit it and let me know, you can even add your Name as Editor.

Further would be the question of what is more important? The message, the information or the medium and the use of Writing rules that change constantly and never seem to be logical. 

As we move into an International, multicultural and multi lingual World what will prevail?

The message and the Information or outdate rules of writing that change from country to country and even with in Countries?

we have been taught since childhood , there is no reasons in the world which will force you to kill any body.well this might seem bit philosphical but this can solve whole lot of problem of world.there is only one mantra that is just love unconditionaly.

I do agree and I know that some cultures are more violent then others in large part due to their upbringing and Philosophy followed as a society, in Religion and Politics as well as business. 

Thank you Milieunet for the read, Comment and Flag, I do appreciate it.

Amit Jha, Well said !

The potential to understand what you have said is the main quality which seperates Human Beings from mere animals in the forest ...

When I lived in India I saw very clearly what you speak of, in terms of the way Indian culture forms Indian People ...

When I began asking myself why and how a country like America could be so different - this is when I began to understand a very terrible truth ...

Ah, good question. The failure was in the fact that it was no longer a socialist system after Lenin, yet became a Fascist rather then Socialist. WWII did not help either nor did the Cold war and Churchill's ambition do destroy the Soviet Union in 1945. Yet it did create a fear in the Western Capitalist System. Real Socialism was actually in Sweden and west Germany. Thank you for the read comment and Flag here. I appreciate it.

Yes, there are similarities with the late 1960 and early 1970 in Europe, However the Freeters are any thing but well of and most are not from well of Families either.  Thank you for the read, comment and Flag, I do appreciate it.

Thank you Emilio for the read, Comment and Flag here, I do appreciate it. Sadly it does seem that way. We may need a new Labour force uprising as we had so many in the 20th century.