Japan has very long hospital stays. Ah, it's almost a rest cure. People in Japan who are hospitalized might lie around the hospital for a week or two just to take a rest.
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Japan actually is an aging population, and so as the population has aged, they have had a lot more problems with health.
The aging and decreasing population is a serious problem in many developed countries today. In Japan's case, these demographic changes are taking place at a more rapid pace than any other country has ever experienced.
The recipe to an unhappy life in Japan is to want to be Japanese if you are not. Anyone who wants to penetrate the country is setting themselves up for tears and disappointment.
Japan functions on the basis of everyone sharing certain assumptions, where each person knows his part in a larger whole. The foreigner sits outside and is threatening. If he comes in, that's the most threatening of all.
I have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality.
After the Second World War, people in Japan no longer died for their country, and even that expression was no longer used.
So, Japan as a country has lost its vigor; it feels very much closed in for various reasons.
In the case of the Japanese, they usually commit suicide before they make any apology.
Many of the patients in military and veterans hospitals require long stays, which can place a large financial hardship on families who don't live near the hospital, which is very common.
Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.
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