BBC - Japan was the future but it's stuck in the past


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  1. Sho28 January 2023 at 08:56

    I had come across the article in Japanese by chance and found it here the next day.

    I am with the history. I am a baby boomer.
    There were only mountains and rivers then, but dreams, hopes and future.
    Japan have started from scratch.
    Some Japanese are originally a little serious and some are a little rude and conning.
    The former helped prosperity and the latter ruined function through the generation changing.

    Now young people can get whatever they want.
    They think they could have a happy life as a matter of course.
    They don't need to know how to and what to do.
    And they escape from taking responsibility.

    Japan, where are you going?

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    1. Anonymous28 January 2023 at 10:55

      Good point, Shoji!
      Always getting everything you want is not a good way to live.
      Some degree of hardship teaches us not to expect but to be grateful.

      As for the future. I believe it's everyone's responsibility to help
      society to move forward positively. We need to prioritize the
      more important issues that affect (or will affect) all of us
      & avoid all the trivial distractions that offer very little value to society.

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  2. Shuko4 February 2023 at 01:56

    I've also caught the article beforehand.

    It has so many noteworthy view points. The correspondent could find that Japanese cultural and political movement in the easy way are still ongoing since Nobusuke Kishi escaped the hangman at the chaotic postwar handling, unfortunately we Japanese have been ruled by LDP included Shinichiro Koizumi and Shinzo Abe.

    Mr Wingfield-Hayes has been stayed in Japan 10 years on. The article played a prominent role for the postwar Japan in it. That is so important we don't belong on any mass of cluster.

    We Japanese lost the spirit and the biggest economics of the late 1980s.

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    1. Anonymous7 February 2023 at 06:11

      Yes, I think 10 years is long enough to understand a country well. And perhaps in Wingfield-Hayes's case, simply long enough!?

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