Japan
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considering:
- the hostages there were not warmongers but humanitarians: their presence did not support the occupation
- the hostages were better treated as hostages in Iraq than they were at home
- no one in Japan seems to have the courage to go against public opinion
- that their courage and their sacrificing of personal safety to better total strangers is being interpreted as selfishnessthat's fucked up. Their society needs major reforms and I'm starting to wonder if Japanese society will self-implode soon if it won't.
My opinion is derived from more than just that story. If I didn't know that country still is in denial about WWII, treats all foreigners as shit (even ethnic Japanese raised in other countries) except for white-skinned folks, and intolerant of diversity and individuality, then I'd wouldn't think Japanese society is fucked.
At least in China it's the gov't that oppresses the people. In Japan it's the society doing it.