The old man was saying that men’s voting rights were abolished because while they were practicing politics, corruption was rampant so people were fed up with it and female politicians increased gradually, and the first female prime minister was born and men have not been given that post since then. Now, there’s no need to give voting rights to men. Men are showing no interest in politics, so giving them voting rights is a waste. That’s how a national referendum was held and the decision was to let women in change of politics, the economy and other legislative matters. After losing voting rights, me lost upward mobility ambitions and thus, senior corporate posts are all held by women and men are relieved from hard work. It’s really an easy life for us men, I really think so…
In the present time, which is thirty years after the old man’s prediction, there is no school. Neighborhood private classes do the job, and they teach Chinese as the first language. And now, most women don’t marry. This means monogamy has disappeared and Japan’s male-female relationship has returned to that of the Heian period (AD 794-1185), when men visited women’s houses at invitation to do the job. So women would bear babies of their favorite men, most of them different guys, so the babies look all different too. Some women would wash men’s bodies in the bath and cook meals for men. How nice for us men!
The other day, I heard from the 35-year-old Mr. Miyasaka that he had spotted a lovely slender lady at a local supermarket, so he followed her to the lady’s house. He pulled out a small notebook, ripped a page and scribbled down a haiku and posted it into her mailbox. As you know, smart phones no longer exist now after the government’s stupid policy of compulsory assigning the national residential number to each citizen, and as you remember, that had triggered rampant on-line frauds and all other kinds of crimes. So people quit using the smart phones.
Plus, the world had been hit by waves of economic depressions, and Japan’s living standards backpedaled to the levels of the Meiji era (150 years ago). This is good news, though. People started practicing Tanka and Waka (ancient forms of haiku) to attract ladies’ attention.
Mr. Miyasaka said he waited for a reply poem from the slender lady but waited and waited, the express delivery services do not bring her reply. By the way, the postal service had gone bankrupt a long ago. Mr. Miyasaka said he eventually received a reply, which said she already had a partner, a bald, short, bespectacled, stocky guy!
Now, thirty years after the old man’s prediction, the U.S. and Japan are totally done as world powers, and in their place, China is stealing the show. Buildings in Marunouchi, Shinagawa and other Tokyo business districts are all Chinese-owned. The China town in Yokohama has moved to Ginza and the Akasaka Korea town has become a small China town. In many entertainment and business districts now, the Chinese languages – Mandarin, Cantonese and others, are spoken as common languages and many Japanese office workers are attending the Panda Chinese Language School.
‘Mr. Nakamura, where did your daughter started working?,’ asked a male office worker senior to Mr. Nakamura, both of them attending the school at lunchtime. ”My daughter is working at a Chinese pharmaceutical company in Shanghai and developing an energizer called the Have Affairs with 100 Yang Kiki.’ That’s what Nakamura-san told me the other day.
‘How about your daughter, sir?,’ Mr. Nakamura asked his supervisor, who answered that his daughter is also working in China at a company that breeds giant pandas.
Mr. and Mrs. Miyasaka, who runs the pop-and-mom drug store Miyasaka Pharma, one day held a serious family talk and decided that it no longer makes sense to sell Japanese medicine, so they came up with the idea of handling Chinese herbal medicine. Since most Japanese drug stores already were carrying Chinese medicine, they thought that some kind of gimmick is needed to draw customers to their store. This is what Mr. Miyasaka told me.
The middle-aged couple talked about hiring a couple of Chinese employees but rejected that idea because Chinese labor cost is now the highest in the world and there’s no way a small store like theirs can afford expensive Chinese workers. So, Mr. Miyasaka instead donned an antique China dress and spoke Japanese like Chinese do. And they also painted the store signs in red. A local fish store owner came into the store and asked for the Yang Kiki medicine and Mr. Miyasaka negotiated with he fish store owner’s price cutting request in broken Chinese.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSMVYJug8pA&t=1446s
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