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I love the food in Japan. I recently asked a Japanese-American person, who has lived in Japan, how the quality of the food (and everything else) is so high in Japan, so much higher than in the US.

He said that the Japanese have high expectations for quality, but more than that, every person is supposed to contribute to the overall high quality of everything. This is enforced through deep social pressure that governs your entire life.

Needless to say, this is quite unlike the US.