(08-18-2013, 02:41 PM)Raccoon Wrote: That's just romanticizing a people/culture. They have their problems just like everyone else, some the same and some quite different.To be fair, even objectively, you can say they are in many ways better, in terms of things like crime rates, ratio of total population to incarcerated citizens, income equality, and so forth, all of which Japan ranks very highly in.
On the other hand, living in Japan means dealing with tons of social pressures from every direction, hence the high suicide rates. But if you ask me, that's a small price to pay for living in a place with that low a crime rate.
