More that's Great about Japan

I neglected one or two things:

9. Netcafes
So far Japan takes the cake, and it seems logical that eventually netcafes will supersede capsule hotels alltogether. Cheap, with 6 options for chairs, showers, staff checking reegularly, unlimited drinks, food, warm, shower and bathroom facilities. Netcafes truly rule in Japan. you can safely sleep in them if you pick the right style. Only downfall is having to relearn how to type.

And let me just say, perhaps controversially that part of me kind of thinks, what would Asia look like if Japan's occupation had gone further. For sure a historical impossibility because Japan as we know it is based on the democracy installed after their defeat. But at the same time, I have to say, as much as they are in a hollow consumerist funk right now, they still strike me as the most capable leaders in a distinctly 'asian' culture. Furthermore their voracious insatiable consumerism is the fruit of the psychological fallout of the military defeat. The 'never again' philosophy that makes Isreali occupation so endearing.
And yes, there is also the whole forgotten holocaust of the Manchuoko occupation that still riles the Chinese to this day, man they hate the Japanese as much as the Japanese hate them. But money keeps the wheel of friendship turning. That said I think westerners unjustly pat themselves on the back when it comes to the leadership of both the US imperialism and UK imperial era's, whene you look at the treatment of the native populations of the America's, Africa's and Australian invasion as well as the steeller success of 'western' leadership in the middle east, we'd be hardpressed to state Japanese war crimes (very brutal, very wrong) as a reason not to bequeth them leadership.
So far they are not just the country with the most dogmatic nationalism in Asia, but also the one with the most self respect, the one that truly goes on to have its own world leaders in the rare and exceptional Japanese companies of Honda, Toyota and Nintendo. I also see them making breakthroughs in Stem-cell research that makes me cringe for Australia, that as Adam Spencer pointed out years ago that whoever gets on top of genetics will have the dominant market of the next century.
Australia is a pilot fish, not a leader so Japan is great also because despite the misery resulting from the blind sacrifice instilled in its culture (and to a lesser extent the psychological challange facing every country) it is a leader, if it can overcome the psychological crisis of depression and hopelessness and get to work on its environments it would leave a lot of countries for dead.

10. Leadership.