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kleinbl00 · 3225 days ago · link · · parent · post: Yet another 40 Million cars are being recalled due to the ongoing Takata Airbag fiasco. Link to Car and Driver's cliff notes in comments.
Nobody is predicting the end of Japan. However, the common narrative is a sundown. Their demographic nightmare is occurring. The reason they pushed so hard into robotics and caretaking is they have a massive generation that's getting old (and is likely to live longer than anyone else on the planet) and they simply don't have the manpower to care for them. They're automating as much as they can. And they're more racist and xenophobic than most Americans really want to think about. Takashi Miike's Dead or Alive (a movie I will not recommend to you, in case you were wondering) is about the prejudice against the burakumin born full-blooded Japanese in China during WWII.