Field report
Count the comments and Japan changes shape.
Under every Japanese news story sits one comment thread — the least processed public voice in the country. I read it to the bottom, count what is in it, and tell you what it says.
Not a subreddit you joined and not a curated feed — just whoever showed up under the article, in public, under a handle.
731
comments read to the bottom
1
thread observed so far
15 yrs
the shelter scene has repeated unchanged
The anger didn't go away. It lost an address.
Every Japanese news story has exactly one comment section attached to it. Not a subreddit you joined — a single thread, ranked by votes. That is why the things algorithmic feeds hide are still sitting there, in the open.
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