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Nothing to be surprised about. This is Japan.

Never will change, until the female gender inferiority and the gender roles (women=stay at home and raise children) will continue to be taught from elementary school, from TV, from society.

In the EU and the USA, the girl-power means to be intelligent and to be at the same level as men. Instead, in Japan the girl-power 女子力 means to be cute, to be able at cooking, to act childish and a little dumb (so that the Japanese man feels comforted and feels stronger).

Just see the role of women in Japanese TV shows, in Japanese society, in Japanese companies (ask a woman colleague, in a company in the EU/USA to stop her work and to prepare tea/coffee for a meeting, and say her that it is a women’s duty, and she will kick your a**)…..just see the over-sexualization of women from a very young age in all media (idols, manga, anime, games.....).

And, it is sad to say but, as a result of this indoctrination, a big portion of Japanese women are perfectly comfortable in this gender-gap condition. Most women like to stay at home, to have a lot of free time, to spend time at joshi-kai女子会 (female-only afternoon party at café or family restaurant), to attend cooking schools, to go shopping.

Japan will never change, also because both the old and the new generations are not interested in their country’s politics.

Most women that do not like this gender-gap move overseas. It is not a surprise that the majority of Japanese living overseas are women.

And, maybe I will be criticized for what I will say now but……not only do Japanese men have to change but also a big portion of foreign men living in Japan. Yes, because several foreign men who married Japanese women like this situation. Many foreign men who moved to Japan are weeaboos searching for a “waifu”, men that like the abovementioned type of girl. Not all, of course, but from what I saw during my two years in a Japanese language school in Tokyo, from what I see in my company (where there are other foreigners), from what I see when I meet foreign-Japanese couples, at least 60% of foreign men wishing to live in Japan are anime/manga brainwashed men and they want to marry a Japanese woman.

It will be great if Biden will reply using the meme of old Captain America from "Avengers: Endgame": No, I don't think I will.

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Can someone explain what it means to be treated but still radioactive? Is that a way to make things sound OK, when they're not?

It refers to the fact that the water was treated to remove the radioactive contaminants (such as strontium90 and iodine129) excluding tritium (that cannot be removed, and tritium is considered to be relatively harmless).

Actually, no.

Home office, telework, may be fine for some, may be doable in some large house in North America with multiple spare rooms.But at this point most Japanese I know have had enough,

Yes, I think the same.

I think that telework and online meetings will finish shortly after with the pandemic, for two main reasons:

1) Japan's work system is deeply based on “presence”, still too many managers/chiefs/supervisors prefer to see their workers at their desks in the office and to control them directly.

2) And yes, also considering the average space of houses, especially in Tokyo, where the whole house is often the size of a single room in the USA/Europe, it is difficult to make the telework as a standard in the Japanese working system.

We have Japanese Civil civil engineering. No reports of major damage. That is not luck. It is the results of Japanese tech and good policy.

Oh yes, the Japanese civil engineers…….the same category that projected and constructed, and underestimated the height of the tsunami barrier at Fukushima nuclear plant?

Maybe the same engineers that placed the diesel emergency engines for the reactors’ cooling systems (of Fukushima nuclear plant) in a low spot, resulting in their submersion and non-operativity during the tsunami?

Or maybe the same civil engineers that project the cardboard-like houses of Japan, that in 2021 still does not have decent insulation?

Yes, really trustable engineers.

Peter Yanev, one of the world’s famous consultants concerning nuclear plants' security and design, was very critical of the design/project/safety of the Fukushima nuclear plant. Maybe he is not in agreement about relying too much on your beloved Japanese civil engineers.

The virus surely increased the stress and the number of suicides, but we all know that the suicides among students are deeply related to the school system.

The solution to the problem is simple: letting students enjoy their young age. There is no reason to overstress them with juku, bukatsu, exham hell, extreme competition, insane school rules....

It is always sad to see elementary students going to juku (yes, it is very common to start juku from elementary school), instead of enjoying their young age as much as possible. We know that without attending juku students have almost no chance to access the best schools, therefore please avoid saying "juku is not mandatory". If the Japanese school system was good, it would not be necessary to attend juku.

How long Japan will continue to ignore that the school system is the root of many social problems in its society?

Japan has the right to do what it wants

@Katsukyun

No, Japan has not the right to do what it wants, simply because Japan is a signatory to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Japan signed the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction in 2014. Signed about seven years ago, but child abduction by the Japan government is still tolerated.

If a country signs an international convention it is expected that the agreement will be observed.

What’s wrong in Japanese society?

Why is it so difficult, here, to let children enjoy their childhood?

Children spend almost 90% (and more) of their childhood in school/bukatsu/juku, and they are also not allowed to freely enjoy their very very very little free time?

By the way, similar complaints about children are not rare in Japan. I heard about it many times since I have friends working in the city hall. This map just confirmed what I already knew. Many Japanese do not even tolerate the laughs of children.

I looked at the map for my area and there is a RED alert saying that the district is URUSAI (noisy) because “Children are playing tag, riding bicycles, skateboards”.

I am sorry to write again a comment I wrote a few days ago, but:

I love Japan, but this is not a good country to raise children. Too much unnecessary stress for children, too much unnecessary competition……the juku….many insane rules. Children have to enjoy school time and their young age. I am glad that we will raise our newborn daughter in Florence and that my wife (Japanese) proposed the plan. Italy and Europe have many problems, no country is perfect, but my daughter will be able to enjoy a freer childhood and adolescence.

Lots of great technology will come from this great disaster that occurred. Humans are amazing in my opinion.

The only promising great energy technology for the future is Nuclear Fusion (hydrogen-based energy). Research is going on especially in Europe.

Unlike Nuclear fission (Fukushima, Chernobyl...), Nuclear fusion does not produce long-living radioactive wastes. Yes, it produces tritium, but within the plant in a closed circuit, (since tritium is necessary to sustain the process) and (even if emitted outside due to a disaster) has a short half-life.

The international ITER project, based in France, is encouraging. EU, the USA, and also Japan are joining the project.

https://www.iter.org/

Besides, many countries not only are joining the ITER project but are also focusing on additional national projects (such as Italy):

https://www.iter.org/of-interest/838

Japan is the worst country for building Nuclear Fission technology and reactors (such as Fukushima). Japan is a country cursed by nature (typhoons, strong earthquakes, tsunami). And, as Fukushima showed, the so-called “always clock working and efficient Japan” is affected by many human errors. It is not a mystery that the first reason for the nuclear disaster in Fukushima was related to TEPCO staff inefficiency and the nuclear-plant site project.

I love Japan, but this is not a good country to raise children, especially if female. Too much unnecessary stress for children, too much unnecessary competition……the juku….many insane rules (such as the abovementioned hair-related one)…….and really really really too much gender gap.

Children have to enjoy school time and their young age.

I am glad that we will raise our newborn daughter in Florence and that my wife (Japanese) proposed the plan.

Italy and Europe have many problems, no country is perfect, but my daughter will be able to enjoy a freer childhood and adolescence and will be able to become a more independent woman.

We will come back to Japan after retirement.