Rosu Jene

ロスジェネ
"rosu jene" - a Japanese gairaigo ("borrowed word"), phonetic approximation of the english "lost generation"


-a Japanese meme tagging the waste of talent of the generation that came of age in Japan's "lost decade," the Japanese economic slump between the early 90s and the mid 2000s.

also

-a self-proclaimed "ultra leftist" magazine in Japan

EPI's argument that there is a lost generation in the USA.

Businessweek agrees (with sound). The "scarring" meme is odd...

It's obviously always a challenge for a new generation to find it's distinctive voice (or voices). It seems horribly canned for a union-oriented person to "hope it goes our way" ie into concerted political action of a type our unions can already relate to.

The Obama victory certainly seemed a positive indicator, but we'll have to see how unions can pull their weight in the coming mid-term elections. Halter's loss was both a blow and an inspiration.

More reading on Rosu Jene:

https://www.adbusters.org/magazine/81/big_in_japan.html

The Revival of Kobayashi Takiji's The Cannery Ship, article in JapanFocus. Quote: "It is not that we are exploited, but why and how, and what we must do"