It's called Japanese Neoconservatism. Read more about it here:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoc...sm_(Japan)

At this point, don't expect anything from anything political, religious, stiff-neck Japanese corporations, and even from Japanese professional baseball teams. They are all utterly fucking hopeless, and I am a native Japanese.

The recent panel discussion revealed to me that Muneo Suzuki, a convicted congressman who had been accused of various "unethical" behaviors in relation to Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was just geneapigged by that powerful ministry to boot him out. When he was being focused by media (who was just satifying the back-door demands by the ministry to paint him black), he was the bad guy and the entire Japan fell for it - just like American fell for war on terror. Suzuki wasn't 100% clean either - guess what, he is a politician in Japan - but lots of accusations were fabricated. Japanese public isn't even aware of that now, because they got other, newer, "threats" to worry about and "scandals" to stick their noses into.

Personally, I would like to be connected with my home country through:

- alternative independent music scene (J-pop? No fucking way)
- Anime
- artistic films
- up-and-coming visual artists
- geek culture
- extramarital sex habbit ;-)

Nothing else interests me about Japan.

Oh, I forgot about Onsen. Hot springs are good in Japan, so is food :-)