ah you know with living in Japan is like with marriage. she pissses you off and there are times you want to chop her into pieces and shove into a can and send back to where she came from, but then again you love her to bits and all those small things she does and you would die of boredome without her annoying nature. First thing my wife said to me after returning from a trip was "could you do something irritating, i really missed that".
Nothing is perfect. I guess it is up to us to make it better. It's called a compromise. But there are things from which i will never back off till there is a bit of breath left in my body, and one of them is giving in to that sickening uniformity and mindless sheep syndrome in Japan. The weather is nice though
