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Re:Where Do the Children Play? by djtango on Monday November 17, 2025 @06:18AM (#45952634)
Seeing tiny tiny kids walking around is one of my favourite qualities of Japanese life, and on the flipside I sensed a quiet but shared responsibility/interest everyone took in making sure no harm befell the child on their journey. One the purest luxuries of living in such a high trust society
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Re:Where Do the Children Play? by mlrtime on Monday November 17, 2025 @06:34AM (#45952720)
It's great, you just need to be Japanese.
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Re:Where Do the Children Play? by elgenie on Monday November 17, 2025 @04:02PM (#45958248)
That feeling of shared societal responsibility probably has at least something to do with the birth rate. Japan is down to just 686K babies born per year from a population of 123 million.
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Re:Where Do the Children Play? by mothballed on Monday November 17, 2025 @05:10PM (#45958943)
This is why so many libraries, etc in US ban kids without parents. No one wants the slightest annoyance of even the possibility they could hypothetically be bothered to assist a child.
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