Foreign travelers visiting Japan often speak of how different the country is from any other country they have ever visited. “It is as if they live on another planet,” travelers might say, referring to idiosyncratic habits and mentalities they have not encountered elsewhere.
If outbound travel is any indication, the youth population of Japan seems to agree with these foreigners when it comes to such a feeling of Japanese exceptionalism.
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