The US is by no means perfect, but to think that human beings could be stuck in such a situation (to literally be worked to death) seems obscene. Here comes my Ignorant American side talking, but to even imagine such lack of opportunity and freedom in a first world country makes no sense to me.
What about the lack of opportunity for black people in the US and the fact that most of the prison population is black?, both opportunity and freedom lacking here too. Just different contexts and cultures.
I find it's often much easier to discuss something when it's phrased as a proposition, rather than a blanket assumption that we must either accept, or argue with the person stating it.
Taking a step back from race, let us focus it on one parent families. While it is possible to successfully raise a child in a one-parent family it is a difficult variable; there is a reason why the news includes single parent as a hardship in their tales. Locating child-care, staying home with a kid who is sick and cannot attend day care, one income wages, and a host of other variables create issues for allocating the one-on-one time necessary to develop the ABC's, numbers, and mannerisms that a two-parent family is capable of; be they gay, straight, black, white, asiatic, hispanic.
The question is how can we, as a society, encourage two-parent families, so we can get people a good start to be successful?
On the website, there are societal factors within Japan that are creating suicidal individuals without any hope for the future:
* Salary careers are no longer as optimum as before, Mr. Tadayuki is taking the same action as those of second born individuals from centuries past, seeking opportunities in other lands. Staying in Japan only creates suicidal thoughts.
* Hostess girls fall into the same trap as strippers, there is so much up front monies to be made that pursuing a career seems dubious for those who are not able to see long term benefits or have requirements that necessitate large up-front monies (drug habits). Getting them off of these careers would require a government or privately run stripper wean off program.
My point being its not seedy to Japanese culture where as to westerners it's often associated with strippers. It's not or at least a large percentage of it is not
I wondered about the seediness level and your comment helped explain it better.