To me Japan equals Nikon, my fave!

Otherwise I associate it with mad people working 24/7 and sleeping at the office, manga portraying underage girls being forced into sex, young girls mimicking sex to paying customers behind a glass and sad lonely men gathering at local bars buying drinks to a really young entraineuse.

The Japanese people I have met have all been very kind and courteous but there is something about their whole modern culture that I find somewhat unhealthy...

I had once started studying the language and for a period of time I was very much into Japanese literature. Yet I think that if Mishima was alive these days and saw all these things, he'd end his life the exact same way he did.