Tim Rogers, Editor-In-Chief of actionbutton.net, is a guy who has lived in Tokyo for the past five years doing various kinds of work in the video game industry and stuff.
Apparently, it stopped being fun over there for him, and he's written a long essay at Kotaku talking about it. A bit of an eye opener, pretty funny, and just very, very (as the celebrities in the picture-in-picture while they watch video clips say) OMOSHIROOOOOI!
http://kotaku.com/5484581/japan-its-not-funny-anymore
Excerpt:
I think, in general, the Japanese seem to be comfortable stereotyping and being stereotyped. High school students wear uniforms. Everyone knows who they are and what they are up to. In college, people are confused, because they don't have uniforms. They graduate and immediately find an excuse to wear a suit, even to companies with no dress code, so that everyone on the train might know where they stand in their life. They hit eighty, join my gym, and start screaming. That, or they go play pachinko.
If you have a long while to kill, take a read.
