Roadside_Picnic posted:

There are lots of things in Japan that do work well but get no attention. The health care system is excellent, particularly when you consider that Japan is actually not particularly rich by OECD standards. For all the greenwashing, Japan does very well on some environmental issues, particularly transportation, and it's easy to forget how environmentally soviet-style, wrecked and lax Japan was into the 1970's (Tokyo had brown air, people were getting chloroacne from household products, etc).