09-20-2009, 08:59 PM
I wonder if it isn't due to the large mass of people in a relatively small area? Personally I have allways suspected some of that behavior was due to the highly formalized public life the Japanese have developed as a way to survive the dense population. It's prolly just a backlash, a way for the individual to express at least something.
It's probably why the Japanese are both shocked and bemused by American's, who's overall informal lifestyle must sometimes come across as mild insanity.
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