> With one eye on her baby in a pushchair, Minae Kamata operates an arcade machine in a Tokyo suburb, manipulating a claw to grab not a stuffed toy but a pack of toilet paper.>As inflation weighs on Japanese households, huge arcades on the outskirts of major cities are installing claw machines filled with eggs, rice, laundry detergent and other necessities.>The "shop-and-play destinations" merge essential buying with entertainment so that families do not feel a choice between bringing home the basics and treating themselves to a day out.>Kamata, a 25-year-old housewife, told AFP she won her prize after only two tries, at 100 yen ($0.64) per attempt.>"If you're a bit lucky, it's the same as buying at a discount," she told AFP.>The trend is a response to Japan's prolonged wave of inflation, with prices having outpaced wage growth for years.>"Spending on food and everyday products has been continuously declining for five years because these have become targets for budget cuts," said Naoko Kuga, a consumer behaviour specialist at the NLI Research Institute. So "retailers are trying to make purchasing fun to encourage buying" and ease a sense of guilt, she added.https://www.afp.com/en/grabbing-bargain-japans-claw-machines-cash-inflation
>>544892133That’s actually not as bad as it sounds considering two tries is less than a dollar. Still is stupid as fuck
Nips are supposed to be smart. How do they end up that broke?
>>544892240Two tries is actually $1.28. It's $0.64 per attempt.
>>544892133What is the nature of this spam chinamen?
>>544892133This is like some dystopian idiocracy bullshit right here. Why not dispense everything you need through a claw machine: Antibiotics, insulin, food, housing, firearms.>>544892261Stagnant economy, shrinking population. Luckily housing is dirt cheap as long as you don't live in a big city.
>>544892133This has to be satire.
>>544892367It's AFP, not satire. I posted a direct AFP article, even though this was re-posted by multiple other outlets.
>>544892360>Stagnant economy,But how does that happen if you are 120 iq? Use your intellect to find a solution
>>544892341That subhuman is obsessed with Nips and he makes like dozen threads about them everydayhttps://archive.4plebs.org/pol/search/text/Japan/type/op/troll_country/AC/
Isn't this just gambling?
>>544892360Aren't the problem with a lot of Japanese homes is that they're kind of dogshit? Like a lot of lacking even basic stuff like proper insulation and stuff like that. That and a lot of them are in more rural areas too where there's almost nothing out there.
>>544892133I want a Japanese housewife to take my baby out on claw machine runs.
>>544892133THE CLAAAAW
>>544892692The trick is to set a hard limit and learn the machines quickly within that limit. So, yes. Pizza place had a bunch.
Just give me a nihon wife, please god....
Japs are so fucking stupid
>>544892133Never seen this. Sounds like one of those very niche things western media likes to cover to make Japan an exotic and weird place
>>544892133
>>544894043Sounds like you haven't travelled much.
>>544892367>This has to be satire.But it's true. Japan is becoming more and more dystopian, but in a clownish way, since they are not allowed to collapse too fast.
https://youtu.be/Y3rGPXXk8VESame thing happened in England in 1960s.
>>544892133>walk in>press button>get groceries>instant payment>walk outdoesn't sound too bad
>rigged carny games:/>rigged carny games japan:OOOOOOOOOOO
fake and gay and definitely a looney troon HOOKNOSED KIKE NIGGER OP
>>544895434> bait thread> bait thread, Japan
> From now on all inventory in the shop has to be acquired by claw game... > Endless lineups go for blocks on end, massive food shortages ensue. > The only thing that remains true is the claw.> Please sir I just want to buy some eggs for my starving children, thjey haven't eaten in weeks.> YOU KNOW THE RULES PEASANT
>>544892261Japan's stagnated after the West stopped propping up its economy.
>>544892133>toilet paper lootbox
>>544892261USA trade embargo.
>>544892585Do chinks get paid to spam the board or do they do it for free
>>544895640It’s funny the Chinese think this won’t happen to them
>>544892133Japan has become a poor country
>>544894043>>544895458Japs have bad habit of lying to save face.Japan is a poor country now.
>>544892133Humiliation ritual. They deserve it for being US's bitch.
>>544892133>Japanese are using claw machines to get groceries, toilet paper & other essentialsFucking dystopia....
>>544895640>>544897742Fun fact, China was never prepped by West. South Korea and Japan were US's flagship project after Western Europe for fighting communism and showing how good capitalism is. And ofc, it was all scam and unsustainable. China did its own thing.
>>544892133They can just adjust the odds instead of rising prices. Is this the ultimate solution to inflation?
I think we'll see a lot more Japanese women taking huge dumps on camera.
>>544892133Why are nips so obsessed with gambling?
>>544892261America fucked them when they felt threatened. Got them to agree to rebalance the yen and airdropped in american educated economists to push for total western reform, these economists wanted an economic crisis so they could implement a total overhaul, they fucked it up so bad japan became the most indebted nation on earth and the rest is history. Trump saw what they did to japan and wanted to do the same to China but it's too late and China isn't dumb enough to capitulate to a collapsing nation.
>>544892133a lot of people are addicted to these but have too many figures/merch at home
>>544897742>>544897883>>544892133If that is true then we won’t have shills like you attack them everyday eh?
>>544892261their central bank got nuked by the Plaza Accord
>>544898222Americans can't do anything to China, but an American minister went to India and told pajeets that they are their bitch and they won't allow India to produce goods without their approval first. lmao I forgot his name. You can look it up.
>>544898222Japan simply speedran the real estate crisis that's coming for everyone. In 1989 the Tokyo Imperial Palace was worth more than the entire real estate market of California, speculatively speaking of course.
>>544898126Japan is becoming Thailand 2.0>>544898297Hello Tanaka-sama. I make aware so you can fix your poor country. Have a good day.
>>544892539Easy, you print more money than you have economic activity every year.
>>544892133Sooner or later some claw machine autist is going to roll through these places and absolutely clean them out to resell for more.
>>544892133all the good japs died in the war
>>544898442The real estate crisis was a result of them agreeing to liberalise their capital markets in the plaza accords.
>>544895600This just waits for the first appearance of claw yokais
>>544892539Last time someone tried to fix modern banks and economics, we got WW2
>>544892367Idiocracy was a documentary.
>>544892539Doesn't matter if your IQ is 190 if a hunchbacked man with a big nose and a small hat tells you "No." Especially when he has (what was formerly) the world's most powerful military occupying your country for him.
>>544898222>>544898303>>544899342>>544895640wtf is this retarded cope. Shitskin turd world nations are like that because they are low iq not because of muh colonialism or ebil west. But when it comes to japan it's ackchyually muh banking system, western embargo??
its true. it feels like picking them off the tree
>>544892133>I'm a gambling addict>Why can't I afford groceries?
>>544899974The spirit of the old japanese economic model lives on in Korea, taiwan and China, it's fucking obvious they had cracked the code and yet they gave it all up for america
