Title: Is Japan a better country than America? - Quora
Headings: Is Japan a better country than America?
Is Japan a better country than America?
Content: This means that things tend to be much harder for people who fall outside the accepted norms. That goes for people of different races, people who are handicapped (physically or mentally), the homeless, people who commit crimes (or are accused of it). In all of those cases, you don't fit into society, and so they have very little sympathy for you. Now, that seems to be changing, but slowly. Another thing that's changing very slowly is the status of women in Japanese society. Things like corporate advancement, government representation and protection from sexual harrassment are just starting to be seen as important. While America is far from perfect on these fronts, Japan is still trailing. There's this old, pervasive sense that old, white-haired Japanese men from the right families are the ones who ought to be in charge, and that's a slow culture to change. There are other serious problems that Japan has to contend with. Suicide is epidemic.