I have many Japanese friends both in JP and local. That society has a big problem with what I believe is arrested development. Not to excuse the same in the US, but the Japanese seem to be proud of never leaving childhood. I think it comes from many generations of cradle-to-grave socialized society. My opinion only.
FWIW, I think this is more about plain old greed.
What surprises me is rule-breaking, not by the scalpers but by the McDonald’s employees.
And the fact that the problems that occurred with the first promotion were allowed to continue during the second.
There’s also the problem of 120 million people in a land mass about the size of Montana. That’s a lot of people with no place to stretch out.
I’ve been there many, many, times. I always find something fascinating about the place. TV channels, where I can’t tell if the intended audience is for adults or kids. The obsession with caricatures & cartoons. The whole “bathing culture”.
There’s much I respect though; low crime, politeness, clean streets, tradition, formality, etc.. And there’s NOTHING they won’t apply technology to! Albeit a bit annoying at times, not knowing which toilet button to push just to flush it!
“I think it comes from many generations of cradle-to-grave socialized society.”
Indirectly. The main problem is small families - no need to learn independence and start your own life when you’re an only-child, just take a crap job and live at home with your parents.
The root cause of their collapsing population, of course, is letting women into what were men-only professions, which often means no time for kids, no interest in kids, no [practical] way to continue ‘career advancement’ with kids at home. Obviously letting women vote forced this system to be set up in the first place.
...and true, one of the first objectives of Socialism was getting women out of the home, and they KICKED ASS in doing that, and so we all get to see the end of Western Civilization.