What are things that should be taken seriously in Japan but aren’t?

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1. The ability of foliage, shade and greenery to cool a city during summer

2. Slow day in the blog room?

3. Wasn’t the exact same question asked today on r/korea?

4. Based on my experience teaching there: days off.

5. Temperature and managing work around it. When you’ve got several kids falling ill with heat injuries every single school assembly and staff having to take days off due to heat exhaustion/heat stroke when AC exists because management refuse to reduce ‘old man grandstanding’ time and set the AC below the functionally useless temperature of 28°C (anything over 27°C is dangerous) then that’s a culture of dangerous negligence.

   In any other civilised country, principals holding 3 hour ceremonies in gyms so poorly ventilated they’re upwards of 30°C where they talk about nothing just to be heard would be facing criminal charges. Here it’s a weekly occurrence.

6. Marginalized group discrimination, multi party democracy, history education

   Basically social attitudes that should have changed in postwar Japan along with the shiny new modernized exterior

7. Equity for women. Period.