No, thanks.

Japan - where workers don't even know if they are going to get paid and have no redress if they don't. Japan - where stress levels are extreme and 80hr working weeks common. Japan - where the sexualisation of children is everywhere and where it was legal to view child p***.graphy until 2015. Japan - where communities don't really exist anymore and a third of single women live in poverty which means abortion rates are nearly twice that of the UK.

My Japanese brother-in-law is a lot less stressed working and living in London than he was working and living in Tokyo.

Edited by Kermit8 (14 Sep 2017 10.27am)

No, thanks.

Japan - where workers don't even know if they are going to get paid and have no redress if they don't. Japan - where stress levels are extreme and 80hr working weeks common. Japan - where the sexualisation of children is everywhere and where it was legal to view child p***.graphy until 2015. Japan - where communities don't really exist anymore and a third of single women live in poverty which means abortion rates are nearly twice that of the UK.

My Japanese brother-in-law is a lot less stressed working and living in London than he was working and living in Tokyo.

Edited by Kermit8 (14 Sep 2017 10.27am)

No, thanks.

Japan - where workers don't even know if they are going to get paid and have no redress if they don't. Japan - where stress levels are extreme and 80hr working weeks common. Japan - where the sexualisation of children is everywhere and where it was legal to view child p***.graphy until 2015. Japan - where communities don't really exist anymore and a third of single women live in poverty which means abortion rates are nearly twice that of the UK.

My Japanese brother-in-law is a lot less stressed working and living in London than he was working and living in Tokyo.

Edited by Kermit8 (14 Sep 2017 10.27am)

Kermit prejudiced against the Japanese as well as Catholics - what is the world coming to?

Umm,here's what Newsweek had to say about Japan's non fractured society you recommend we emulate:

"Japan, a pillar of technological development and progress, has yet to address race as a pressing national issue. The racial discrimination that exists in Japan is reminiscent of the segregation-based atmosphere of 1950s America, posing a hostile environment for those of non-Japanese origin".

or,as it was put in the Japan Times:

"Japan has a dire problem it must address immediately: its embedded racism.

The country’s society and government are permeated by a narrative that says people must “look Japanese” before they can expect equal treatment in society.

That must stop. It’s a matter of Japan’s very survival.

We’ve talked about Japan’s overt racism in previous Just Be Cause columns: the “Japanese only” signs and rules that refuse entry and service to “foreigners” on sight (also excluding Japanese citizens who don’t “look Japanese”); the employers and landlords who refuse employment and apartments — necessities of life — to people they see as “foreign”; the legislators, administrators, police forces and other authorities and prominent figures that portray “foreigners” as a national security threat and call for their monitoring, segregation or expulsion.

But this exclusionism goes beyond a few isolated bigots in positions of power, who can be found in every society. It is so embedded that it becomes an indictment of the entire system."

Yup,lets have this as a model to aspire to...not.