Reply #13: Wow, where do I begin? [View All]

[Art_from_Ark]

At the risk of hijacking this thread, I'll just mention that the Japanese economy places far more emphasis on public transportation, including use by huge numbers of high school students (no student drives a car to high school, and many, if not most students go to high schools outside of their home towns). There is also a nationwide system of private tutorial schools, which include everything from "juku" (nighttime schools to help students prepare for college and even high school and junior high school entrance exams), to English and other foreign language schools, to word processor schools, to music schools, to traditional schools for tea ceremony, flower arrangement, and kimono wearing. There are lots of other aspects that I would love to talk about.