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"The only disadvantages" you say, when I've already given you a few. There are fewer options in the mornings—and one of those fewer options is "getting classes over with" (to bring…

There shouldn't be any self-selection if these people don't exist. We're being told that "adolescents" all require sleeping late, thus school should start later for all students.

I suggested this below, and within minutes was mercilessly downvoted. Apparently statistical averages are to be employed as Procrustes Beds against these deviants who don't conform…

Plenty of adolescents are not "biologically driven to stay up late and wake up late". I woke up at 05:00 or so nearly every morning when I was a teenager—per my internal clock—and …

You're not a morning person, are you? I sure wouldn't have been getting a part-time job or been out playing with my friends at 06:00 in the morning, so, no, I couldn't "use the mor…

Oh, Jesus Christ—so let's force kids into another Procrustes Bed, eh? Let a different tail wag the dog? There are those of us who naturally wake up early (I'm one, and I know plent…

It's both a myth that Japan is, or ever has been, a "monoculture", and quite the leap to assume a "monoculture" would produce such behaviour.

It depends on where you live. There are areas where you never hear of it, and others where being carded once or twice a year is the norm.

Do you have a source for that? It's certainly not the legal case.

You're considered gaijin even if you're born in the country. My half-Japanese children (born and bred in Japan) get called "gaijin" all the time.

I ... am Canadian ... and have never in my life heard anything so absurd. I'm not going to throw away a lifetime of experience because of some ridiculous and obviously false commen…

"... non-life-threatening illnesses like a broken arm can have waiting times measured in months ..." It astounds me that people can hear stories such as this and actually believe t…