Why I'm glad I left Japan (Listening in Japanese video with English/Japanese subtitle)

[paulkienitz]

7. Yusaka Maezawa sums up the awful state Japan has gotten itself into

...he has billions of dollars and is buying his own moon rocket, and still looks pathetic trying to get a girl to go to the moon with him. That's how sad interpersonal relations in Japan have gotten. Fifteen years ago they were found to be the country where people are the least happy with their love and sex lives, with the birth rate falling well below replacement, and things have only decayed further since then, with hikikomori now becoming a household word. If I was from there I'd be darn glad to get out too. (But of course there'd also be tons of stuff to go back and enjoy, too.)

I still kind of want to learn to speak Japanese...