21.   It is not only young people who are drawn to tattoos in reaction to the strictures and taboos of Japanese society.

22.   Japanese society has been outstanding in sharing losses, in cutting benefits equally to get through hard times.

23.   Japanese society is unprepared for aiding the unemployed with government programs such as welfare or job training, he writes.

24.   Japanese society ostracizes offenders and demands that they not just be caught but that they also confess and show remorse.

25.   Japanese society demands that offenders confess and show remorse.

26.   Japanese society is consensual.

27.   Japanese society is remarkably honest by international standards.

28.   Most are not here to stay, but to study or work or escape what some see as the restrictions of Japanese society.

29.   Now we learn that sumo wrestlers have been proclaimed the epicures of Japanese society.

30.   Proper appearance and form are important in Japanese society, and being dirty is one clear way not to blend in.