What is it about Japanese people, society, and culture that make their society so different from ours?
Japan is in many ways similar to life in the United States and in other western countries. Like us, the Japanese live in a highly urbanized, technologically advanced society.
However, in spite of the similarities, Japanese society contains some fundamentally basic differences. In American cities we face major problems in our schools’ education quality and graduation rates; serious social problems such as violent crime, mass shootings, drug use, and poverty. Yet in Japan most Japanese live in extremely clean cities, have an excellent education system, superb public transportation, and most citizens experience relative prosperity, as well as very low crime (violent crime is almost non-existent)and drug use rate.