Japan
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It is not common in Japan to question the strict hierarchies. So most people keep working as the company expects and say nothing no matter what happened.
(Photo: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP)
A young man shoots Shinzō Abe dead, and while the whole world wonders what’s going on, life in Japan just goes on. Why the country, which is actually so peaceful, is currently the scene of murder and a shift to the right.
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Thomas Hahn, Tokyo
A Japanese doesn’t think about Japan. At least not in a way that could hurt. And the sociology professor Jun Imai first had to learn to accept the painful truths about his homeland in order to be able to endure its cold side a little better.
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