Bei der Beantwortung der Umfragefrage „Inwieweit glauben Sie, dass Sie in Ihrem Leben Freiheit haben?“ belegt Japan weltweit den drittletzten Platz.

They have a lot of social rules and expectations around what to do in life. The culture is what restricts freedom.

It’s Saturday. I’m at work. There is no work to do. If I don’t come, I won’t get paid. My pay is going to be cut because I need to get a part time job because they don’t pay enough. The yen is so weak I couldn’t leave if I wanted to. Other than that I feel very free.

When you make like $2k usd and do zangyo and bow, it doens’t matter whatever „freedom“ you have on speech etc