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<blockquote data-quote="osarusan" data-source="post: 9143768" data-attributes="member: 13950"><p>I'm legitimately baffled by what it sounds like you're saying.</p><p></p><p>You seem to be saying that there was <em>no way for the population of Japan to stay stable</em> unless there was some massive conspiracy involving the "disappearing" of tens of millions of people? This is "aliens built the pyramids" level of conspiracy theory. Just off the top of my head, without doing any research at all, a simple explanation would be something like the birth rate and the death rate were close enough for the population to remain at a stable number.</p><p></p><p>Further, I don't understand why you are making this out to be a "modern political issue" or bringing up the Japanese education system. That's a non sequitur. "I've talked to people from Japan before" also raises some bizarre red flags (<em>"Some of my best friends are black!"</em>). But this is not a political issue, nor is it somehow controversial. We're talking about centuries-past history, and we're all using the internet here and we have pretty much equal access to the same information. I don't know where you developed this bizarre idea of Japan's present and past, but it's <em>not accurate</em>. If you've got some reliable source pointing to a secret 250-year-long program by the shogunate to "disappear" tens of millions of people, please do share it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="osarusan, post: 9143768, member: 13950"] I'm legitimately baffled by what it sounds like you're saying. You seem to be saying that there was [I]no way for the population of Japan to stay stable[/I] unless there was some massive conspiracy involving the "disappearing" of tens of millions of people? This is "aliens built the pyramids" level of conspiracy theory. Just off the top of my head, without doing any research at all, a simple explanation would be something like the birth rate and the death rate were close enough for the population to remain at a stable number. Further, I don't understand why you are making this out to be a "modern political issue" or bringing up the Japanese education system. That's a non sequitur. "I've talked to people from Japan before" also raises some bizarre red flags ([I]"Some of my best friends are black!"[/I]). But this is not a political issue, nor is it somehow controversial. We're talking about centuries-past history, and we're all using the internet here and we have pretty much equal access to the same information. I don't know where you developed this bizarre idea of Japan's present and past, but it's [I]not accurate[/I]. If you've got some reliable source pointing to a secret 250-year-long program by the shogunate to "disappear" tens of millions of people, please do share it. [/QUOTE]
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