Title: Is Japan a better country than America? - Quora
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Is Japan a better country than America?
Content: If a Japanese person moved to the USA, they could apply to be a citizen and boom, they’re American. An American trying to be a Japanese citizen is possible, but nobody in Japan would ever see you or even your children as Japanese unless you have some sort of Japanese heritage. This is a serious handicap sometimes. It can exclude you from job opportunities, you really can’t have any real participation in Japanese government, and you can even be denied service literally anywhere. Geoffrey Widdison
, lived in Japan
Answered 6 years ago · Author has 10.9K answers and 62.6M answer views
Calling one country "better" than another is always a very tricky prospect. There is no single metric for "goodness". Having lived in both countries for a number of years, I can say that there are things I like about each of them, and things that trouble me. While America's economy is technically better, Japan has lower unemployment, less inequality and better social support systems. The Japanese people tend to be very highly educated, though there's a lot of evidence that this has more to do with a very strong culture of education, moreso than the quality of the schools. America is ob
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Calling one country "better" than another is always a very tricky prospect.