content: yeah i would take this Zuckerman journalist and medium with a pinch of salt, most people who write about Japan don't get it or only start to get a tiny bit of bit and get spun out and side lined going in a completely wrong direction. However I have been around Asia and I will tell you Japan is sometimes weird, does things that would not be acceptable in the West as normal...vending machines selling beer open on the streets, also selling used school girl panties yes in vending machines, they have that whole constant school girl fetish thing and grocery stores and 711 can be seen selling all kind of flith and porn, or you might find a salary man reading anime tentacle porn manga on the subway...I'm not sure what caused all this maybe the Japanese were always perverted always henna 'otaku'. However I do know this Japan is simply a different culture, the Western American woman will often look like a beached whale once she hits 28 or very obesse beyond 30 while Japanese will often keep their age well into their 40s so they are perhaps more attracted by looks of 'youth' and another thing Japan like to fantasize, play, karaoke, dress up...not just for Comiccon but anytime and they hugely value their privacy, their message boards are ancient where you can say anything like 4Chan and Zuckerberg would be way too much of a gaijin control freak for them. Oh yeah and the elite or globalists or illuminati they also exist in Japan except they operate under a very Japanese way of doing things, they are called the 'Zaibatsu' some new blood and new families have challenged but the major tech companies, building builders, manufacturing groups, computer researchers and services they are mostly all 'Zaibatsu' connect. Old royal Emperor families acting like a kind of underground yakauza gang doing business controliing most of the industries, the Zaibatsu the Financial Cliques Mitsui, Asano, Mitsubishi, Yasuda, Sumitomo, Okura, Furukawa, Kuhara, Suzuki, Fujita the guys building those 'Toyota' trucks...they go back beyond Meji times and the Tokogawa Shogunate cooperative nature of these groups became a major factor in Japan's industry, its computers, cars, tech companies and almost everything is done through the zaibatsu.