Guoping’s Blog

As a foreign student in Japan, I usually talk with Japanese friends, and I could get much information about Japan. But sometimes, Japanese also did not know their country very well. Today I read the overview of Japan, on BBC news.

Japan has the world’s second-biggest economy, but it remains a traditional society with strong social and employment hierarchies – Japanese men have always tended to work for the same employer for the whole of their life.

But this and other traditions are under pressure as a young generation more in tune with western culture and ideas grows up.

Japan’s relations with its neighbours are still heavily influenced by the legacy of Japanese actions before and during World War II. Japan has found it difficult to accept and atone for its treatment of the citizens of countries it occupied.

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