In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is extremely interesting to live in a private house and to see the externalities, at least, of domestic life in a Japanese middle-class home.
Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.
There is not a lot of separation between work and home life.
It is hard to be an individual in Japan.
You work to earn money. But in Japan, that idea has a bad image, and you're not supposed to say that.
There are still people in Japan who think money is something evil.
A lot of people agree that tidying is connected to how we live, and even though, outside of Japan, houses might be bigger, people have more things than they need.
Compared with the employed, the jobless are less likely to vote, volunteer, see friends and talk to family. Even on weekends, the jobless spend more time alone than those with jobs.
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.
Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
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