Japan's Abe Is the World's Best Leader

[GDan]

Here is something interesting to consider:
IQ and the Wealth of Nations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Richard Lynn's books are prime examples of bunk science. Such refuse should be discarded.

 

[LeveragedBuyout]

I have to agree with @senheiser on this. Having the BoJ enact yet another QE is not only not original, it's technically not Abe's achievement (if we are to believe that the BoJ is truly an independent central bank). The rest is talk. Abe needs to pass laws and enact reforms--tax reform, labor reform, eliminate trade barriers, immigration reform, etc. It's an immense task, and everyone before him has failed, with Koizumi coming the closest. Koizumi fought the factions of the LDP to enact his privatization and bank streamlining program, whereas Abe is a creature of the LDP. I'm skeptical until I see results. Calling Abe the world's best leader based on his accomplishments so far is like giving Obama a Nobel Peace Prize. Oh, wait....

 

[Reashot Xigwin]

I'm just waiting for the "bubble" to pop. Then as always I will laugh from on top knowing that I was right all along.

 

[senheiser]

Richard Lynn's books are prime examples of bunk science. Such refuse should be discarded.

hes right when he says East Asians > europeans > everyone else but estimating IQ among europeans is completely BS and just shows his Anglo view, see Ireland.


his IQ estimates

pisa 2012 math

TIMSS 2011 math

 

[Aepsilons]

hes right when he says East Asians > europeans > everyone else but estimating IQ among europeans is completely BS and just shows his Anglo view, see Ireland.


his IQ estimates

pisa 2012 math

TIMSS 2011 math

I like to look at things through what we in the field of Industrial & Organizational Psychology refer to as "MQB" or Multiple Question Battery, which takes into consideration an individual's academic strength, intelligence rating, maturity level, ethical standing, cultural openness, organizational interoperability.

Intelligence tests, as you may know, is not the sole basis for hiring an individual anymore as it is a poor predictor in professional capability, communication, maturity level.

In that sense, immigrants are not selected merely for their academic strength in math or what have you; but their acceptance should be dependent on the following:
1) their proficiency in in job duties they are supposed to fill in (engineering, nursing, teaching, manufacturing, etc)
2) their language proficiency in the Nihonggo (Japanese language)
3) must clear criminal back ground check
4) emotional intelligence
5) citizenship capability

 

[Kataria]

I like to look at things through what we in the field of Industrial & Organizational Psychology refer to as "MQB" or Multiple Question Battery, which takes into consideration an individual's academic strength, intelligence rating, maturity level, ethical standing, cultural openness, organizational interoperability.

Intelligence tests, as you may know, is not the sole basis for hiring an individual anymore as it is a poor predictor in professional capability, communication, maturity level.

In that sense, immigrants are not selected merely for their academic strength in math or what have you; but their acceptance should be dependent on the following:
1) their proficiency in in job duties they are supposed to fill in (engineering, nursing, teaching, manufacturing, etc)
2) their language proficiency in the Nihonggo (Japanese language)
3) must clear criminal back ground check

But as a psychologist you must acknowledge that even IQ tests are only proxies for intelligence. They are by no means infallible ;in fact they are quite fallible.

 

[Aepsilons]

But as a psychologist you must acknowledge that even IQ tests are only proxies for intelligence. They are by no means infallible ;in fact they are quite fallible.

Precisely, if you refer to my post, i said that many organizations now implement a wider approach to hiring processes. Tests are implemented to measure intellectual maturity, leadership capability, ethical capability, intelligence test, emotional maturity. We implement a plethora of battery tests.

 

[cnleio]

The great achievement of world's best leader - Abe is to remilitarize Japan military force, and prepare to change original pacifist constitution.

If i not mistake, the former Japanese leaders before 1945 WWII all can be called BEST LEADER !

 

[Huan]

Japan has a major discrimination problem towards foreigners or Gaijin. I heard it's a big hassle for Gaijin people to get a good residence there.

 

[Aepsilons]

Japan has a major discrimination problem towards foreigners or Gaijin. I heard it's a big hassle for Gaijin people to get a good residence there.

I don't think so. Land lords are just very critical to make sure that the tenants are capable of providing proof that he or she can afford rent. Foreigners who come to Japan and cannot provide proof of their financial means to support a 6 month to 12 month contract -- will naturally not get the lease. The same goes for American land lords.

Also, credit check is important.

This is, afterall, Japan we are talking about. A heavily industrialized nation , not a backwater 3rd world state.

Sooner or later, Japanese will regret to let Muslims enter their country. Muslim immigration are like Trojan horse. Short term, it's good for countries that lack human resource like Japan. Long term, it's a real disaster.

Japan has no idea how dangerous Muslims are because there are few of them in your land. Remember: Muslims has the highest birth rate in the world and there is a little Bin Laden hidden in every Muslim's deep soul.

I wholeheartedly disagree. Its wrong to generalize all muslims as such, afterall we are talking about a religious group that number over 1.2 billion. Japan has a very strong relationship with the Arab and Muslim world; our partners are with Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt, Algeria, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia etc. We have over 10,000 Pakistanis living in Japan, over 11,000 Bangladeshis in Japan, we also have Indonesians in Japan, Arabs and also native Japanese who have converted to Islam. Overall, we have around 63,000 muslims in Japan and we have no negative experience. In fact, it brings a rich cultural dynamic in my country.

 

[Tshering22]

He is going to counter the population issue by the following:
1) Addressing maternity resources, which will accommodate family life -- this is essential.
One of the reasons why Japan's population is in decline is because of the work-a-holic character of Japanese people; we don't 'half-a$$' anything. When we commit to a job, we do it meticulously and work towards perfection. Because of this 'uber-dedication', it takes a toll on family and personal life. This of course is manifest that most Japanese women are pressured to delay motherhood to accommodate work demands. So, having a 'pro-feminist' policy will actually ease the burden on Japanese female workers and stimulate child birth and rearing.

I don't think feminist is the right word Abe-san would want. . Make it women and family-friendly corporate culture. Also when it comes to commitment, you guys need to slow down on the 16-17 hour work life structure you have built up. I have seen Japanese people so sleep deprived and weak at the end of the day in trains, it is almost shocking.

Working hard and sincerely is good. But killing yourself off everything else in life is not.

I won't ask you guys to take an example from us, but a little family focus from us Indians could also be something you could appreciate.

2) Japan is considering a 200,000 immigration policy per year. This will offset the population decline , while at the same time bring in the young and brightest professionals from around the world into -- Japan.

Don't. It will destroy your society and bring about confusion like anything in your society. Don't make the blunder of 'multi-cultural, multi-racial heaven' that has caused enough damage in Sweden, Norway, UK and other liberal countries. The strife that it has caused, apart from giving birth to an imaginary guilt industry and a dolanomics culture, is unimaginable.

Don't offer immigration.

 

[kaku1]

By Noah Smith

I was a Shinzo Abe skeptic. That’s putting it mildly. After all, I was still living in Japan when Abe’s disastrous first term in office put a halt to the reform process begun by Junichiro Koizumi, and ushered in a return to the bad old days of prime minister musical chairs that paralyzed Japan in the 1990s.

When Abe swept back into power in 2012, I thought he was just going to try to talk down the yen and give a little boost to stocks, increasing his public support just long enough to ram through a revision of Japan’s pacifist constitution. I thought he was going to ignore Japan’s moribund economy and long-festering social problems in order to throw red meat to his right-wing backers.

Boy, was I wrong. I was wrong, wrong, wrong.

Let me be blunt: Shinzo Abe is the most effective national leader in the world right now. I never thought I’d say this, but he’s an example that the rest of the world should be following.

Abenomics

This time around, Abe didn't ignore the economy. Backed by economic adviser Koichi Hamada and Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda, Abe first implemented the biggest monetarist push in world history. He went the opposite direction of Europe, and -- unlike the U.S. -- he gave every indication that the shift toward monetarism was permanent. The result: Japan has escaped deflation. The stock market is up, growth is way up and even wages are finally starting to rise.

In other words, unlike everyone else in the world, Abe listened to Milton Friedman, and the results are looking good. As the Fed contemplates not whether to taper its quantitative easing but how fast, it might want to look at what’s happening in Japan.

But monetary policy was just the beginning of Hurricane Abe.

Japan’s top social problem is the role of women. The sexism of corporate Japan is legendary, and many millions of Japanese women are underemployed and out of the labor force; yet instead of pushing women back to traditional child-rearing roles, this has mainly just lowered the fertility rate to sub-European levels. But since taking office, Abe -- whose party is famous for sexist gaffes -- has become the most feminist leader I’ve ever seen.

He constantly talks about the need to make women more equal in the workplace -- no small thing in a country where corporations have a reputation for following the government’s wishes. Abe’s detractors dismiss this as empty talk, but talk is never empty, especially when you say things that no one has said before. And Abe is putting his money where his mouth is, with a raft of measures to improve working women’s access to affordable day care.

Already, I can sense a shift. When I lived in Japan 10 years ago, people said that women’s situation would never change, and treated women’s second-class status as an immutable fact of Japanese culture. Nowadays, when I go back, everyone is talking about women’s changing role, and everyone agrees that Abe is the prime mover.

But that’s just the beginning. Abe is moving to cut Japan’s corporate tax rate, which along with the U.S.'s is the world’s highest. The country's government-run pension fund will probably invest more of its money in risky but high-yielding assets (in an echo of George W. Bush’s failed plan for Social Security). Abe has launched a large number of deregulation efforts, and has pushed -- so far unsuccessfully -- for Japan to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which would lower trade barriers. He is beginning to curb the powers of Japan’s entrenched bureaucracy. He has even suggested bringing in 200,000 immigrants a year to supplement Japan’s shrinking labor force.

On the foreign policy front, Abe has surprised me as well. Yes, he angered China and South Korea by visiting the Yasukuni Shrine (where more than 1,000 war criminals are buried), appointing some right-wing historical revisionists, and generally being a nationalist. But recently he has turned his nationalism into something that looks like liberal internationalism, standing up for the various small Asian countries that have been bullied by China’s push into the South China Sea. Instead of being an apologist for old Japanese imperialism, Abe is championing the rule of law and the freedom of the seas.

Michael Cucek, a blogger who writes about Japanese politics (usually very critically), calls Abe an “idealist liberal icon,” writing: “Abe Shinzo should perhaps now be considered the standard bearer of liberalism around the world.” To me, Abe looks very much like Japan’s answer to Ronald Reagan -- an unapologetic nationalist who wants to slash government and make a principled stand against a bullying rival. And unlike Reagan, Abe is a full-throated feminist.

But where Abe really shines is in comparison with previous Japanese leaders. Those of us who watch Japan could be forgiven for thinking that nothing ever changes. At times, Japanese politics seems like the movie ``Edge of Tomorrow,'' where everything keeps repeating and the good guys seem to never win. Koizumi was different, but Koizumi seemed like a flash in the pan. Now here is Koizumi’s protégé, continuing and expanding the work his mentor began.

The rest of the world should be paying attention. For the first time in 25 years, Japan looks like it could be at the head of the international pack. It’s far from a done deal, of course, but this writer, at least, is a Shinzo Abe convert.



Reference: BLOOMBERG

Why this all propaganda, and World Leader? Seriously?

 

[Tshering22]

II wholeheartedly disagree. Its wrong to generalize all muslims as such, afterall we are talking about a religious group that number over 1.2 billion. Japan has a very strong relationship with the Arab and Muslim world; our partners are with Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt, Algeria, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia etc. We have over 10,000 Pakistanis living in Japan, over 11,000 Bangladeshis in Japan, we also have Indonesians in Japan, Arabs and also native Japanese who have converted to Islam. Overall, we have around 63,000 muslims in Japan and we have no negative experience. In fact, it brings a rich cultural dynamic in my country.

Pay heed to what kankan says here. He is right.

See, I wouldn't elaborate much here but as their population in a nation increases, it slowly starts with support, then 'perceived discrimination, then demands, then grants, then whining and soon you have a huge muslim population demanding a separate nation.

Also conversion is a big problem in organized religions. India, Thailand, Bangladesh and even China are examples of what can happen. Also, you must research on the situation of Afghanistan and Pakistan which was not what it is today, without demographic warfare.

Friend, I implore Japan not to make the blunder of encouraging this trend. You have a beautiful culture, a wonderful country and a great society.

Please reconsider thinking along these lines. There are 15 countries in front of you that stand as testimony against your kind and good opinion about them; with solid proof.

 

[vostok]

When the U.S. occupation of Japan finish, then we will give some estimates to leader of Japan as an independent figure.
Russia, too, was de facto occupied country in the 90s. Europe - occupied to this day.