Japan’s prolonged economic stagnation has resulted in a so-called lost generation; a group of young adults for whom the concepts of life-long employment and financial security are as alien as the opposite was true for their parents/grandparents.
However, that’s not to say many aren’t downsizing and taking advantage of the extra free time instead of giving their life and soul to an uncaring company. Also, it’s encouraging to see that others are ready to publicly question what awaits them, as well as the world around them. Although at the same time, it’s equally refreshing to see that some youthful passions are pretty much the same whatever the circumstances.
Hopefully, this will help with their birth rates more than the unwanted side effects of an improper encounter might bring!
Very true!
Interesting picture!
Future equal Sex? Maybe can help in the population.
Just depends how much of it there is I guess!
At least he (not likely a she) spelled it correctly. A step up from the free-form phonetics of “fuk” that one commonly saw twenty years or thirty years ago. Perhaps it’s the unlikeliest thing of all – the work of a “frustrated” English teacher?
リストラされてる世代は結局大量雇用された屑が殆どだから切られて当然だと俺たちロスジェネは解釈づけるんだろうな。ただ、リストラされても、自殺は電車ではしないで欲しいね。迷惑だから。
Great post! Thought provoking!
I just wanted to say that I stumbled upon your blog while researching some things on my upcoming to move to Tokyo in September, and your pictures are amazing! Great emotion captured in many of the photos. Looking at your photos have really got me excited to take my camera out and snap away!
Kinda bothers me how much I see young Japanese writing in English : (
Just like the UK in the 70s, sounds like punk music will be on the rise and I’m looking forward to that already
Since I started following your site, nothing surprises me more than Nihonjin graffiti. It almost seems an oxymoron to write it out. I had always assumed Nippon would be the worlds last place such stuff would actually appear.