Also, worth noting, suicide rate in Japan is higher, there are currently studies (and results of said studies) that are linking (more and more) increased higher workloads with increasing demand to depression and lack of fulfillment in life.
Japan is like this version of America if things worked out... sideways in time.
They are very communal; reputation, thinking about others and their reputation, how others think of you, putting others before yourself are very big traits over there. That's the social aspect of it. They're very sexually liberal as I understand while maintaining a conservative facade about it.
Economically? Super capitalism. But, they do it right as far as the consumer is concerned.
Work force? Super Capitalism, doing it horribly.
