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With noise, with garbage sorting, etc... Japanese people tend to follow all rules, written and unwritten. I guess Americans follow only rules that can be enforced (cf. Uber, Airbnb…

It is also culture that plays a big part. I've lived in very high density housing in Japan (20 floor manshion type apartment) and medium density in US (2 level apartment). Higher d…

Processing time for highskilled visa is 5 days guaranteed. It is a refreshing change compared to US h1b lottery.

Perhaps that is true, but some incremental steps have the possibility of making driving infinitely better. Imagine cars that refuse to tailgate, drive at excessive speed, drive wit…

If you have a highskilled visa with 80 points, it is 1 year (however, it takes 10 months after application to get it). High-skilled visas are not connected to an employer and there…

Most gates are automatic now in Japan (with a conductor sometimes checking tickets on Shinkansen after gates). When I was in the US there was a guy handing me a towel in the bathro…

In China, the poor living in rural areas cannot easily move to cities ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hukou_system ). In India the poor can move to cities.

The problrm is that Japanese journals are less competitive. So, second-rate researchers can continue to publish in these and "work" (i.e., look productive). The biggest problem wit…

Just deleted AccuWeather. I am 100% convinced by the blog post -- but the DarkSky App is unfortunately not available outside USA. I really wish that the user could selectively swit…

I said "just" a rural urban thing. No doubt there are more leftwingers/liberals in cities. But it is not nearly as uniform as your experience would suggest. Polling also said that …

Don't for a moment think it is just a city/rural thing (with a bunch of conservative country bumkins). Many people having non-leftwing ideas simply hide it. Since most workplaces h…

I will immigrate to US in Dec. and think it is a vast improvement. H1b lottery is a broken system which is gamed by outsourcing companies.

The current H1b system has a cap, with more applications than positions. This is resolved via a "lottery". If you apply, you have a 30% chance of being selected. Indian outsourcing…

Japan has a backwards view of mental health, and one of the highest suicide rates in the world. Yet public places are immaculately clean. The fact is that western people and law en…

IMHO, Paris is fairly dirty (like 60% San Francisco dirty). Especially the subway is a mess, and there is no law enforcement (e.g. minor children begging during weekday and no-one …

Japan has public pools (run by wards) and they are lovely. The only minor complaint is that sometimes they are overrun with old people ;)

Two questions: 1. What is the harm for different drugs once addicted? (health, possibility to lead normal life) 2. What percentage of people addicted can successfully quit?

Yes, Japanese people drink a lot, and it is a social issue. But there are a lot of functional alcoholics in Japan. > Japanese people also are major users of over the counter drugs …

> whether drug abuse is what lead them to the behavior that you disapprove of. I am pretty sure the needles on the sidewalk is just there because everyone suffers from diabetes, ri…

> It's people like you who don't really care that millions have been imprisoned over a personal choice. Japan imprisons a very small percentage of people compared to the USA. Furth…

You are wrong: it is a big moral failing. Why is it impossible for Westerners not to use drugs, while the Japanese manage not to use it fairly well? Should we set the bar for behav…

Or they get harassed until they quit or kill themselves. Power harassment and maternity harassment is fairly common in Japan.

Zoos had quite big success at breeding back THE African wild dog.

The "war on drugs" was largely won in Asian countries that have proper enforcement (Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, etc...) Just compare the streets of Tokyo to that of San Francisco and…