So safe, largely wealthy, homogeneous culture, clean cities and countryside, with good healthcare and flawless public transportation?

Sounds like a utopia to me.

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hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm 3 hours ago | parent [-]

If you read these blog posts you would think its hell. But everyone is out shopping, partying, drinking, eating out all the time. Onsens, arcades, karaokes, izakayas. Yes getting those services means someone has to work. It is very much a work hard play hard environment. Better then over here in the UK where every retail shop is being replaced by a charity shop and every restaurant is replaced by a fried chicken shop while high streets collapse and unemployment reaches new highs.

	▲	blargthorwars 5 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Sad to see what's happening in London. Brits are becoming strangers in their own country.
	▲	ph4rsikal 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		I am for work often in Japan and maintain a permanent residence there. I certainly think its a better place to live than Europe.
	▲	braza an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> But everyone is out shopping, partying, drinking, eating out all the time. Onsens, arcades, karaokes, izakayas. Yes getting those services means someone has to work. Spot on. I really like Substack as media and I think has been a great complementary in terms of depth; but this article does not have any difference of any slop from mainstream media. Pick one topic, place some term (like late-stage capitalism, social-democracy, democracy), pick-up 2 or 3 bad poins, and build a narrative, and sprinkle some ~hyperlinks~ references that sustain and voilà: now you have some in-depth analysis with a audience craving for it even when everyone knows that is super simplistic and reductionist, does not converge on what books and history says, and with a politically charged piece. All those articles you will never see any kind point of positivity being conceived; it sounds always written by some hypercritical, rational, politically charged, and hyper-contemporaneous in a sense that is not space for nuance and understanding that no simple thing per se can explain a very complex phenomena. For God sake, those guys received 2 nukes 80 years ago and they managed to raise again, and in the meanwhile my country during this time only have 55% of people with sewage.