I was only quoting the previous commenter there :)
> Shiogama, for example, is primarily centered around the fishing industry. You can imagine what my friend was compelled to get into when he had his heart set elsewhere. Since the tsunami cut deep into the family income, he was a little more accepting of their needs and slowly, but surely, he's growing out of it. It may take years for him to fully integrate into society though.
That was actually my point. That there's a whole side to Japan that isn't like the western culture perceives.
> Also, people need to stop thinking of Tokyo as a "city". It's big and varied enough to be a "county" in the Western sense.
To be fair, that's true for many large cities - even in the west.
I was only quoting the previous commenter there :)
> Shiogama, for example, is primarily centered around the fishing industry. You can imagine what my friend was compelled to get into when he had his heart set elsewhere. Since the tsunami cut deep into the family income, he was a little more accepting of their needs and slowly, but surely, he's growing out of it. It may take years for him to fully integrate into society though.
That was actually my point. That there's a whole side to Japan that isn't like the western culture perceives.
> Also, people need to stop thinking of Tokyo as a "city". It's big and varied enough to be a "county" in the Western sense.
To be fair, that's true for many large cities - even in the west.