[dirtyroboto]

The UK can never base a social system on Japan.
The UK has no family units anymore and the amount of single parent families in the UK is growing fast. The old get farmed out to expensive retreatments at the cost of the house they bought if they are lucky, otherwise end up in subhuman conditions in overfunded (read as "money leeching") care homes.

The amount of drain on the social system in the UK by the lazy, the uneducated, the criminal, the immigrant, the (fake) disabled, the middle class housewives, the children factories (families that make kids for benefits), the ADHD kids (read this as bad diet), the que jumpers (people who lie to get high benefit rankings) and the medical tourists, is beyond comparison.
This free meal ticket for the human leeches listed above is a sure indication that the people it was designed to help will be tossed into the pit with no second thought.

Back to Japan. Where things are also not so good, BUT!
It is very hard for the leech people to do any damage here because it is also hard for regular people. Why come to Japan to get a tiny handout when the UK is giving bucketloads for a housewife about to drop another earner.

The other major thing, that is sadly on the decline in Japan, is FAMILY!
Japan in general has people that care for their own family, no matter how hard.
You shipped your old mum off to the "Happy Nursing Center" cause you didn't like cleaning the shit off of her ancient ass! Pop's is pissing all over the place cause his bladder don't work anymore. Off to the nursing home for Pops!

In Japan it is understood that YOU shit and pissed yourself and done all manor of nasty things when they bought you into the world. When they get old, you are expected to repay the favour.

It is understood that people help people, family helps family. This is the Japanese way (slowly being lost). In the west it is "dog eats dog" and "strong rule weak" which means that if you can't do good, do bad.

I feel that even as Japan looses the fundimental spirit of it's society, it still has a very long way to go before it reaches the UK's level of moral debasement.