Public Japan – Why Japan Works 公の日本の良さ [AdSense-A] Much of Japan is messy. Its cityscapes are hard on the eye and not by any stretch attractive. Its institutions can be maddeningly officious and unbending. Work for many is endless hours of meetings, obsession with small detail, and hierarchical drudgery. Patriarchy is the gas that powers the nation. Its national politics functions poorly on many levels (the same party has ruled Japan for all but two years since 1955). And yet Japan is on a day-to-day basis a very pleasant, well-run place to live. Public Safety Disorganized crime in Japan is rare and decreasing, thanks mainly to the declining number of young men. Young women can take public transportation and then walk home from a station at all hours. In 2017, there were 306 murders in the entire country (pop. 127 million people). The American city of Philadelphia (pop., 1.5 million) endured 315 homicides in the same year – and it is not the by a long stretch the most violent city in the United States. There are creeps in Japan, there are the criminally insane, and there is of course organized crime – the yakuza – but for the average […]
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