Rafik

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Rafik

Rafik

@rafik

Internet Policy&Governance. Engineer . Salaryman. Tunisian in Japan. Harlequins, Stade Tunisien, Shining Arcs - D-Rocks . Revolutionary like Gracchus

Tunis/Tokyo Beigetreten Ekim 2007
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@GearoidReidy Btw I really hope Japanese dont get the wrong lessons from European countries. As someone said "We wanted workers, but we got people instead". Europe failed because many didn't invest on integration , parked people on separated suburbs, didn't resolve the colonization heritage
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Gearoid Reidy リーディー・ガロウド@GearoidReidy·
Changed my mind, American interest in Japan was a mistake, destroy the data centers and AI systems lest this conspiracy-brained nonsense gain any further traction.
DataRepublican (small r)@DataRepublican

🧵 THREAD: How mass immigration came to Japan's shores 𝕏 saw a lovely cultural exchange between Americans and Japanese this past week, which got me wondering how and why Muslims came to Japan... so I spent the weekend looking into it. Japan went from officially having "no immigration policy" to a formal system with a cap of 820,000 foreign workers. Japan's Muslim population has gone from ~110,000 (2010) to ~420,000 (end of 2024). There are now 149 mosques. The bill that created this was passed at 4:00 AM in December 2018. The opposition called it a "carte blanche." Deliberations were compressed. It passed anyway. What I found: 🔹 Three consecutive foreign ministers trained at American universities. 🔹 A foundation run by a Trilateral Commission member and a former US intelligence chief. 🔹 A $69 million fellowship network seeding 69 universities in 44 countries. 🔹 A UN framework signed the same month as the 4 AM vote. 🔹 Sixteen bilateral labor agreements managed through a single coordinating body. 🔹 A Japan-specific immigration program drafted by a Japanese national while he was interning inside the US Senate. In July 2025, a party that didn't exist before COVID won 14 seats and finished third in the popular vote. By February 2026, the LDP won its biggest parliamentary majority since 1955, running on tighter immigration. Unfortunately, Americans and Japanese have more in common beyond love of BBQ. They have the mass migration problem in common. Receipts below. 👇 As always, patience as I pull together the thread.

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@DataRepublican @GearoidReidy There are roughly 4M millions , where Muslims with 420k are barely 10% of that total foreign population. Moreover, the top countries are China, Vietnam, Korea, unlikely to be members of Organisation of Islamic Cooperation .
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@R_by_Ryo For once hoping for japan selection to not do well for one game in worldcup :)
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⚽️ Ryo 🇯🇵@R_by_Ryo·
A thing that annoys me is when I get questions about Japan National team's Back 4 vs. Back 3 debate every window ,, if you watch the matches, even playing with a Back 3 nominally, in reality one of the CMs is dropping in so often that it often looks like a Back 4 in practice.
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@sadakiyo99 Roussel est communiste?
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@RomeInTheEast It is unfortunate how it is mostly introduced in so many tweets as hatred toward Islam and Muslims
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ShadowsOfConstantinople
ShadowsOfConstantinople@RomeInTheEast·
Why do you find Eastern Roman / “Byzantine” history so fascinating? What draws you to it?
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Roman History@romanhistory1·
Happy March. Martius was the first month of the ancient Roman year until possibly as late as 153 BC. After that time, it was the third month. Roman mosaic from Sousse Archaeological Museum, Tunisia.
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@mrjeffu People projects their prejudice, JCP is not CCP
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Jeffrey J. Hall 🇯🇵🇺🇸@mrjeffu·
The Japanese Communist Party hasn't been purged from public life. All elected representatives have the right to speak in the Diet. If they didn't, Japan wouldn't be a proper democracy. The JCP has fallen below the seat threshold for some special speaking opportunities. They'll still be able to engage in Q&A with the ruling party during Diet committee meetings. Smaller parties do it all the time. JCP street protests are nothing new. They've been doing street protests for the last 80 years. Its politicians will still get TV news coverage, as other small parties do.
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Melissa Chen@MsMelChen

Japan 🇯🇵 is seriously in its own league Nothing pleases me more than seeing commies purged from public life

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@GearoidReidy Still it is a mediocre show and insult to humor.
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@Colin_P_A_Jones Wait, we had the wrong meaning for all these years ?!!
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Law in Japan
Law in Japan@Colin_P_A_Jones·
“The nail that sticks out gets hammered down” is the common translation of a Japanese phrase that is used to describe a supposed Japanese cultural approach towards non-conformity. The Japanese is 出る杭は打たれる。 I was recently at some event where a Japanese person explained the expression. 杭 actually means “stake.” And hitting a stake is a group effort. One person has to hold the stake, another hits it with the hammer, and yet another to oversees the process. Knowing that actually makes the expression much more descriptive of the cultural phenomenon it describes than the English translation. 😅
Gearoid Reidy リーディー・ガロウド@GearoidReidy

Nails that stick up should get hammered down! Nobody wants dangerous nails sticking out!

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@Colin_P_A_Jones Coming from developing country, I have family registy, I can get even at embassy or any city hall back home the birth certificate which will also include civil status. same to get death certificate. Amazed how some developed countries have issues
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This is question Japanese people probably never think about because they can just get a family register extract from their local authority to prove when they were born or got married and to whom. Moreover the Japanese system makes it possible to prove you are still married to your spouse, which is impossible with just a marriage certificate.
Freely Ashley@TheFreelyAshley

Do you know where your birth certificate and/or marriage license is right now?

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@Colin_P_A_Jones Maybe the PM will be tempted by an overhaul amendment of the constitution to not waste the majority?
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This will be the challenge, I suspect: it may be politically possible to change the constitution to recognize the existence of the SDF. But that would be a substantively meaningless amendment because the SDF has existed for decades. Any substantive amendment that tries to do more than ratify the constitutional status quo will likely be controversial and become impossible to pass.
由仁アリン Arin Yuni@Arin_Yumi

CRA leader Ogawa said that amending Article 9 of the Constitution is possible if it is only to recognize the Self-Defense Forces as a legal entity.

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@B4Btv @mrjeffu Comparison to the tahrir square or arab revolutions shows some ignorance.
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An interesting reflection by sociologist Kinosita Chigaya on the legacy of Reiwa Shinsengumi and what their near-decimation in last week's Lower House elections says about Japanese politics today
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@Nihonpolitics Do they need to make osaka the capital :)?
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@B4Btv @mrjeffu More interesting checking other questions that the top 2 priorities are living cost and social security
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In Kyodo’s first post-election poll, when asked whether the LDP nominating candidates implicated in the slush fund was appropriate, 60.2% answered “inappropriate” (43 out of 45 such candidates won their races on Sunday) Support for LDP is now at 40.8%, down from 43.7%
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Since 2021, the CDPJ, now the CRA, has managed to hold 1 of the 4 districts in Kagoshima, a very LDP-friendly prefecture. This year, Noma Takeshi in District 3, outside Kagoshima City, managed to retain this seat by just over 3,000 votes, surviving in a wave year. Impressive.
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Japanese Politics 🇯🇵🗾⛩️@Nihonpolitics·
🧵🏯In the coming days, I’ll be posting a thread on results across different districts in Japan. Political geography and Japan, a perfect mix. I’ll be using this NHK webpage as a source. 👇👇#5.43/29.6/131.69" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">news.web.nhk/senkyo/databas…
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People who know nothing about Japan or Japanese politics are comparing Takaichi Sanae to weirdos like Bukele, Milei or Orban. Seriously, she’s just a middle-aged woman from Nara with a more conservative-than-average political position in Japan. Nothing more, nothing less.
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@Colin_P_A_Jones What is required for constitutional amendments? Only vote in lower house?
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If sufficient momentum did develop for constitutional amendment, it will be interesting to see whether it is (a) amendments that just acknowledge what is already constitutional (the SDF exists and can be used for self defense) or (b) amendments that include substantive changes, in which case the necessary consensus could be difficult to achieve and the whole exercise could fail.
Japanese Politics 🇯🇵🗾⛩️@Nihonpolitics

The leader of Mirai Team Future, which has won 8 seats, all through proportional representation, hints that it’d make sense to reform the constitution to add the Japanese Self‑Defense Forces to the text. 47news.jp/13840813.html

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@dariubs the email for support for golanh.college is not working. I have an issue with getting the book
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