One thing I noticed when I first started living in Japan was all the rules that were spelt out.
"You should do this"
"You should do that"
"You shouldn't do this, only when it's that" etc."
Train guards ordering passengers stop emailing on their mobile phones...
My immediate thought's were that it did feel like communism with a large touch of democracy.
How possible is it do you think that Japan will one day fall into the arms of communism?
We now have stories like this:
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Communism on rise in recession-hit Japan