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Originally Posted by Hatredcopter
Japan has a major problem with suicide and bullying, for example. The suicide rate in Japan is miles beyond most other countries.
My point is this: move to Japan because you want to move to Japan, not because you want to leave the United States. I've ran into people in Japan who had a negative attitude about life and said they came to Japan because they didn't like how things were in their home country. Let's just say they didn't fair much better in Japan, either.
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I am in agreement with Hatredcopter. For the first one, I myself was stuck in the train TWICE in a week due to someone jumping in front of our train, one of them was on my way to Omiya and I was in the first coach, I felt the impact and the bump. At first, the efficiency (about a 15 minutes delay) shocked me as something like this will cause a track close down for hours here in Toronto. But later on, my uncle told me that it happen so frequent that people are somewhat ignoring it and treating it as any normal accident: Conductors come out, clean up, switch condunctors, carry on.
As for the second part, Japan sounds cool, and looks cool on picture. A lot of people are attracted by its animate/manga culture, while some is intrigued by its robotics culture. While you do see an extensive exposure of the subjected culture, it is more gear towards a younger generation. Most (someone can correct me, but these are info from my uncle and cousin) Japanese live an adequette life that pretty much "allow" them to live in that fantasy manga world up to a certain age, they will snap out of it and enter the work force and work like everyone else does when they reach a certain age, but extremely long working hours.
So, agree, only go if you want to go because of something practical and sustainable...