Thank you for writing this article! So balanced yet so interesting too. I never realized that half of that was going on socially in Japan.

I admit, as Westerners , we are captured by anime and manga produced from Japan but we don’t see the True Japan. How beautiful, how robust , how hardworking the Japanese are and they are enduring. I love reading the biographies of mangaka because many of them reveal how hard they work or illnesses they suffer just to please audiences.

Great writing!