[incompleteCode]

Do you have any citations for this? I'd love to explore in depth what the lateral tech track looks like.

[LeoPanthera]

My husband is Japanese so all my information is second-hand, but if you want to learn about Japan in a non-anime-manga-etc based way, I can recommend the TV channel "NHK World", which is in English, and also English-language Japanese news sources like the Japan Times.

[incompleteCode]

Thank you!

[mcguire]

They have flying cars. See the documentary Red Sun (1993) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rising_Sun_(film)). :-)