We also had a Japanese foreign-exchange student for one year, with us, in Park City.
Through my general experience, I've also become a "Japanophile".
Sure, I'm no expert on Japan, but today, I'd like to submit to you all the positive elements I see today, about that country (from the serious to the trivial):
- Very nice, polite people
- Collective vs. Individual
- Honesty
- Timeliness
- Cleanliness
- Beauty without superfluity
- Wonderful children
- Great food
- Impressive infrastructure (buildings, highways, bridges and tunnel)
- Fabulous public transportation
- Excellent, common-sense based, educational system
- Good health care and social programs
- Low birth rate (counter-intuitive, but what the world really needs)
- Smart toilets
- Tiny cars
- Impossibly complex language
- Communication difficulties
- Crowded environment
- Lack of space
- Extreme regimentation
- Excessive urbanization
- Male-dominated society
- Lack of business effectiveness
- Frequent, bad weather
- Earthquakes, Tsunamis and Typhoons
- The Japanese breakfast menu
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