Japanese order is severely overhyped in most Western analyses. Women routinely get groped in public, organized crime is a big deal, and political campaigns drive around residential streets with truck-mounted megaphones. I'm not saying it's a bad country, don't get me wrong, but it doesn't match the crystal-pure image a lot of people seem to have.
I think that’s attacking a straw man. Head down to Ginza and watch how people don’t jay walk even though the cross walks are blocks apart. Then do the same thing on Fifth Avenue where people can’t be arsed to get to the cross walk that’s on every block. I don’t think anyone thinks Japan is perfect, but the contrast is stark.
