In some ways it does. The living accommodations in Japan are very small. I’ve heard some troubling comments on the way marriage and relationships work there, at least in part.
I find some of the society to be worthy of admiration, but I also find parts of it to be troubling.
And that’s why Japan didn’t go whole hog after the Almighty Foreign Dollar like China did.
I’m actually feeling somewhat sad about China here, not just the USA. I think you’re intelligent enough to recognize, as most Christians do, that money worship leads to “all kinds of evil.” Japan wouldn’t embrace some of these evils, even at the cost of halting the money train. If it had, we probably would have seen the results of Japan abjectly sacrificing itself too.
The answer is to try harder to bring a Christian perspective to trade with China. If I may put it this way: Dear China, please stop worshiping our money. We aren’t God and certainly our money isn’t God, although our money does say In God We Trust. Let’s look to heaven and hammer out a better solution to our mutual situation, where you’re prosperous but you aren’t depending on our money for that to be the case. Where you will rise in a real sense, because God did it, rather than in a faux sense, because man willed it no matter what violence happens to God’s creation.