Japan is like if you combined 1950s white America with one of Ted’s nightmares :a-guy:
Not really that weird. Japan has very popular popculture music/anime,games. Plus a lot of people that are really into it are younger and a have a romanticised view of it. For better or worse a lot of people think the USA is pretty cool for various reasons (overlooking the bad stuff) same goes for Japan just on a smaller scale. Mind you people are more critical of the US these days.
people should be more critical of japan too.
you can’t even live together before marriage without being shamed.
there are “no foreigners allowed” signs at tons of businesses.
people are expected to work themselves to death.
loneliness is more of an epidemic there than anywhere else on earth.
suicide is sky high.
not enough people have kids to replace the population because life is so terrible.
the culture is extremely sexist and misogynist, similar to 1950s America.
major historical denialism about past atrocities.
it’s just an extremely collectively-damaged mass psychology going on there.
Japan has tons of problems. Im very well aware of that. Its basically a conservative one party state and lets not even talk about work culture. With that said I dont think we will see people be more critical of Japan as long as it stays “mostly” peaceful/non interventionist and as long as the Nation stays stable. (There might very well be instability in Japans future) Simply put as long as Japan doesnt cause problems for other people outside their borders most people wont care how fucked up Japan really is.
Same with South Korea, the UK, Italy, etc. Any country with solid entertainment media will have this effect. China is sort of on a good path with TikTok and Genshin Impact.
