Legitimately the nicest country I’ve ever been to. I would move tomorrow if I could have the same job there that I have here.
Also where
Women are autobanned from the workforce after marriage and in some cases even ENTERING RELATIONSHIPS which is why their birth rates are so low
Where child abuse is allowed to happen because “muh family honour”
Where it’s considered better to commit suicide than to see a therapist for depression or to get treatment for mental illness in general
Where “what the neighbors think of my family” is more important than your family’s actual happiness or even safety
One of the unhappiest nations in the world and the country with the highest rate of depression and the lowest number of mental health institutions
Where murders are classed as suicides to make the country look safer than it actually is
Where it’s discouraged to report a crime of any kind because YOU will be blamed for it happening to you
Where people die from exhaustion so often that they have their own word for it
Where workers sleep at their office, get shit pay, and are forced to be in isolated cubicles with no human interaction and no breaks
Where children at every level of schooling are so overworked in every facet possible with homework, chores, exam prep, and extra curricular, ensuring they have ZERO time to even act like children much less brats
Where suicide rates spike in September because that’s when midterm exams happen
Where children are so rare that they are seen as exotic and fetishised, leading to pedophilia and child molestation being on the rise
The Japanese idol industry… JUST the Japanese idol industry and everything about it
If you’re going to look at Japan, look at it from all sides because the place is NOT a utopia.
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