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- puzzleworld, on 12/03/2008, -5/+91Of course Japan's economy might not survive! Kamikaze bank has taken a nose dive. Customers of Sushi bank are getting a raw deal. Sumo bank has gone belly up. Employees at Karate bank have got the chop. Origami bank has folded. And finally Hentai bank is feeling the squeeze.
- Burento, on 12/02/2008, -0/+60I don't think people realize just how connected all the world markets really are.
- inactive, on 12/02/2008, -0/+39I thought, for a second, you write "post-wii."
- Tryptomine, on 12/03/2008, -0/+37Something tells me you've been waiting for a long time for an excuse to pull something like that out.
- Dinsdale77, on 12/02/2008, -3/+37This really does suck balls.
- ronaldst, on 12/02/2008, -3/+34Please make sure you always vote the same thugs in office. They have everything under control.
- WMeredith, on 12/02/2008, -0/+26Your eloquence is astounding...
- GeeksSpeakFont, on 12/02/2008, -1/+24the post-wwii japanese economy is pretty fascinating!
- lovemorgul, on 12/02/2008, -1/+23One reason is a definite slowing in the US economy which has taken its toll globally.
- fullback, on 12/03/2008, -3/+25What a stupid, nonsense headline. The average Japanese family has about $115,000 in yen of cash savings, not including other assets. Americans have nothing. It is the US that is in danger of splitting up or disintegrating after next year. You haven't seen nothin' yet. You'll see.
Japan has been around for about 1,000 years before the US was founded. It will be around after the US tears itself apart. Americans have no common goals or cultural threads that tie people together. Politicians keep Americans fighting each other and diversity keeps you polarized. The entire history and culture of America is bound by over 200 years of wars, nothing else. - PeanutCheeseBar, on 12/03/2008, -2/+20Next on Digg: Japanese Economy Plummets, Pokemon Still Popular.
- RoflCoptah, on 12/03/2008, -0/+17that's what she said
- inactive, on 12/02/2008, -1/+17Also why the American economy will suffer.
- hurrayforschool, on 12/03/2008, -3/+16Japan's had to defend itself from worse.
http://api.ning.com/files/-EPx0RRQCN3VRJGT3Fmn7oMw ... - ren1999, on 12/03/2008, -1/+13Speaking as an American, we here in Japan are just fine. Japan has no debt to other countries. Japan's corporations are still loyal to its employees and salaries are still relatively high. Executive salaries are capped. Banks are truly nationalized, not Henry Paulson fake-nationalized. Japanese people speak out and fight back about stolen and scammed money. Japan is increasing trade with Europe and a newer, richer Russia to make-up for losses due to American consumer inability to buy Japanese products. No, it is the U.S. which will not survive this U.S. elite engineered take-the-money-and-run.
Furthermore, as an American, I pay for my Japanese National Health Insurance! I have good insurance for the first time in my life!
If I sound like a bitter ex-patriot, that is because I am. I've worked between executives and the operations staff for 5 different large corporations and I've seen the greed of executives rob everyone blind before they tanked the company and ran. Every corporation is like Enron. They will tank your company to rob you of your pensions. - buzzd1ggity, on 12/02/2008, -2/+14i am already stocking up on canned goods!
- FongoBongo, on 12/03/2008, -0/+11mirror?
- firebirdx01, on 12/03/2008, -1/+10Oh *****- these guys make our Nintendo DSes.
- ren1999, on 12/03/2008, -0/+9I agree. In America, I was living paycheck to paycheck. Here in Japan, I have good savings.
America, wake-up, you are all being robbed. You do all the work yet executives that do none of the work, pay themselves huge salaries. It is time to cap executive salaries and end the corruption and greed. - inactive, on 12/03/2008, -4/+12One reason the Japanese Economy will survive: They're Japanese!
- SemiSarcastic, on 12/03/2008, -1/+8Japan should go with the Lewis Black method of economic stimulation by supporting a "Build A Huge ***** Thing" public works program.
- Mewchu11, on 12/03/2008, -0/+7I don't know, this recession might be photoshopped.
- inactive, on 12/03/2008, -2/+8No, they definitely don't. I was a huge Ron Paul supporter for much of this election, but the isolationist stuff is just pure lunacy!
- Forgorin, on 12/03/2008, -1/+7Yes, please do elaborate. Do you mean that there are people out there who like to see pain, suffering and misery? Or that the guys from the Flikenbot dimension are at it again?
- quaunaut, on 12/03/2008, -0/+6What few people know is that they've also been in a stagnant economy for quite a while, thanks to an abysmal birth rate, thusly making it so that there just aren't enough people to buy much of anything.
God I wish we had their problems... being encouraged to fornicate for the sake of your country. - NomortaL1, on 12/03/2008, -1/+7最低アメリカ人！笑
- godspeed843, on 12/03/2008, -2/+7The new thugs aren't going to do anything different.
- godspeed843, on 12/03/2008, -0/+5Start planting a garden in the spring.
- qhan7, on 12/03/2008, -1/+6yea, because servers can not handle the requests, and give back error 500. They definitely have some Internal issues!
- regeya, on 12/03/2008, -0/+5Their people save, yes. Their country? Their debt is WAY higher than GDP. Many blame the United States. Whether or not that's true, or if it's just the usual brand of America hatred, is something I'd like to see serious debate on.
And just so we're clear, things NEED to CHANGE here in the U.S. That's not entirely a bad thing. - schnikies79, on 12/03/2008, -1/+5There is more to an economy. We are the top producers (and exporters) of Agriculture, IT, heavy machinery, industrial chemicals and a few others.
- JoeF8577, on 12/03/2008, -1/+5hmmm, care to elaborate?
- transfire, on 12/03/2008, -1/+5Has anyone figured out that Keynesian economics blows chunks yet?
- jbmcb, on 12/03/2008, -0/+4Bitch and moan all you want about global economies, it's what is preventing another wold war right now. If China wasn't so dependent on trade these days, they'd have gone bonkers after the collapse of the USSR and taken over as much of southeast Asia as possible.
A global economy can suck pretty bad. World War III would suck much, MUCH worse. - rz8472, on 12/03/2008, -1/+5On the plus side, I'd do Rebekah Manning.
- truthseeker69, on 12/03/2008, -2/+62 months ago, $1USD bought 106 Yen. Today (right now at least), $1USD buys 93.40 Yen. The dollar is weakening against the Yen, their is no doubt. I trade forex, and I am banking on the dollar to continue weakening...it's gonna go up or down with or without my help. However, the dollar will soon be at a low not seen since 1994. Once that support level is tested, it will be interesting to see what happens.
- inactive, on 12/03/2008, -1/+5right, however americans seem to think obama will.... little do they know of his evil plans!
- lurkerz, on 12/03/2008, -0/+3To say that Japan will have an easy ride is bs. If the whole world went thorough another great depression lasting 3~4 years. It would do the worst out of the industrialized nations. How long is 115K gonna last when nobody is buying Toyota's and you have little natural resources. Japans huge dependence on imports is it's weakness.
- Burento, on 12/03/2008, -2/+5Ummm try Google stupid. It is all over the news and all that data is backed up. Fckin troll.
- scoottie, on 12/02/2008, -2/+5maybe they should let more of our products in so that we can make money. Its simple, buy more of our stuff and we get more money to buy your stuff
- inactive, on 12/03/2008, -0/+3right, most people are clueless on topics such as economics and world matters, most people are only familar with the lives of characters in TV shows.
- david468, on 12/03/2008, -3/+6Damn it, if the U.S. ***** up Japan I'm going to be extremely pissed off.
- bulbasuar, on 12/03/2008, -0/+3http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=dnrtfa+
- LeonJP, on 12/03/2008, -0/+3Are you an idiot? Japan has the worlds THIRD LARGEST gdp/debt ratio in the WORLD. THIRD.
You know who is first? Zimbabwe, then Lebanon. The USA is 27th! It has almost a third less debt vs. gdp compared to Japan!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_ ... - LeonJP, on 12/03/2008, -0/+3Funnily enough thats the only thing the government can do (Kansai Airport? Tokyo Waterfront projects? Expressways? Japans own numerous bridges to nowhere? Anyone who has spent time in Japan knows about all the ugly and useless museums that have been erected in bizarre rural locations built with taxpayers money).
- muckemuck, on 12/03/2008, -0/+3that, and they propped up failed banks.. sound familiar?
- hwy9nightkid, on 12/03/2008, -0/+3every company practices 'pro-forma' in some way, it's very sad but true.
- bc289, on 12/03/2008, -0/+3Why is this on the front page? It's horribly written and there's nothing at all substantive in it. They provide only three reasons, all three of which are not surprising at all and look like they were written by a kid in 9th grade. The second reason isn't even a reason for why their economy will go into a recession. The fall of the stock market isn't a cause of the economy going into a recession, it's an effect of it.
Japanese economy might not survive a US recession? The recession right now is global, and there's no secret about this in any of the media. It's not just Japan, it's basically every country in the world. - charlietuna, on 12/03/2008, -0/+2What exactly does the author mean in saying that the Japanese Economy would not survive a US Recession? Is the author claiming that Japan will have no viable monetary system in ten years or is this just a fancy way of illustrating that Japan will have a tough time competing with the rest of Asia as it comes out of the recession? Classic hyperbole in order to sex up an important but otherwise run of the mill story.
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