That's a lot of words... for just saying the Japanese are doing like everybody else while taking the lazy approach.
French law are growing faster than fungus in my bathroom... Laws are applied only when needed...
See a pattern here ?
More example:
Sarkozy, agricultural exhibition, 2-3 years ago, drunk like a polish sailors. Go to an old guy to shake his hand, the grandpa turn his bakc saying "don't touch me, you'll make me dirty" and go his way.
Sarkozy's answer: shouting "get the fuck out asshole" in front of the cameras.
Fast forward 2 years later. Cops start controlling ID in a main train station while people wait for the arrival of a local train. An history teacher see them in full swat gears bugging some youth for no good reason and shoot with a pose right out of Monthy Python, pointing finger at them "Sarkozy I can see you, Sarkozy I can see you" (as in, I can see the result of your authoritarian behaviour reflecting on your pawns). The guy got hancuffed right away and spend the night tied to a heater at the local police station, at a later trial he was found guilty and fined for disturbing the peace and excessive noise... In a train station... were worker have to wear hearing protection because of safeties laws...
We always hear bragging aboot how 'democracy'(1) is a wonderfull progress everybody is equal, or even more equal than the other if you are black, gay or any other minority of the day in the spotlight. But I wonder if things were really that fucked up when we have Kings... because... the system lasted quite long... And if people had had food on their plate, 1789 would never had happened... (can I blame capitalism on this ?)
(1) Democracy... the theory that the common idiots know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. AKA dictatorship of the majority... I'd take a republic over that 'warm and fuzzy' bullshit anydays...