Japan is a very stressful country. They worked like slave. The corporate hierarchy is steep, though the workers are generally polite and hardworking, they have to put on a mask to conceal their unhappiness and put on a fake smile. They must compressed their feeling of stress, otherwise is seen as weakling. Thus you see them enjoying the finest things in life when given the chance to let out their emotions. Even a ground of weeds would stunt them and make them feel loved and happy. As a country without "foreign talent" interference, they live a quiet life, learn to be productive and often as a result, able to think out of the box and came out with new inventions (including preparation of simple foods) that wow-ed the world. Such constant success and self-achievement, gave them the supreme mentality among other human races. In contrast, Singapore do not have productivity drive, due to easy access of cheap labour. Our stress and depression is a completely different animal, from those of Japanese work stress. Their stress is how to make Japanese and Japan great. Our stress is how to survive and make ourselves great. Our education is largely based on obedient to the higher up, and memorise textbooks to achieve scholarship. In the hope that someday PAP will take notice and throw you a crumbs for being obedient and academically "successful" - aka the PAPER GENERAL. There is no longer any loyalty here, unlike Japanese. Japanese love Japan, we hate PAP and often construed as hating Singapore. Sad!