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March 2020
*Disclaimer: this is a creative story, not a speculation. I'm trying to project, so forgive me if it doesn't make sense at first. *
I can't help but think Japan has been heading down this road for a long time.
Since May 2010, I have made it my life's work to record social and cultural patterns all over the world, and as an anthropologist, my work has been extensive. I've written books, not only strict non-fiction based on the societies from every place I have visited, but also fictional stories regarding all manner of issues that I imagined might progress to this point.
And now it's happened, the people of Japan have gone hungry now in economic crisis, parallel to the Great Depression in the 1930's. When a country has only 13% arable land and imports most of the soy and wheat it uses, there are bound to be issues regarding how to get food when it no longer becomes profitable to ship the stuff.
It's almost exactly like what I wrote about in my first full fantasy novel years ago. Unfortunately, I failed to come up with a solution then, but hopefully I can come up with a solution now. I'm planning my trip to Tokyo right now, and it might be difficult to get there, but I'm going to do it, hopefully finding the courage to help find a true solution. Japan has been a destination of mine for a while, and I hoped I would not have to visit it under such tense circ**stances, but there is not other option. Hopefully the culture I hoped to endure there years ago is still somewhat intact, but I have to be more realistic than that.
My former fieldwork should help me relate to the Japanese now, and if I'm lucky, maybe the people I come into contact with can work with me to find a solution. That is, after all, how my previous projects came to fruition.
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Comment by Rahul Dewanjee on March 18, 2010 at 1:18am
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very well thought out and written. Definitely +1 for Creativity
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Comment by Felix Albus on March 18, 2010 at 7:25pm
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Impressive Story. Keep it up! Vision+1. Loved it.
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Comment by Philip Wood on March 18, 2010 at 10:38pm
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Interesting. The point about arable land percentages would hold true for other countries, the UK springs quickly to mind.
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Comment by Alyssa Laurel Crum on March 18, 2010 at 10:41pm
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Philip - That's entirely true. Population density can seriously overthrow a country's equilibrium, and makes the situation dire if it goes far enough.
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Comment by Mikhail Shklyar on March 19, 2010 at 10:12pm
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Thanks for opening up. +1 for Knowledge
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