Le Japon que je n'aime pas

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I suppose it had to happen, this is after all a fairly conservative place. Social innovation isn't a high priority in Japan. One of my students told me how a friend of hers working for JR (the national Rail company) was dismissed when she became pregnant. I was fairly shocked one assumes that the modernist exterior of this place would be reflected in the legal system but it appears not.

Capital punishment is still legal here. In fact when the time comes to execute a prisoner he/she isn't told until the morning of execution and family and lawyers don't get to know until after the state has had its revenge. By any civilized standard that's pretty dire I'd have thought. I worked some overtime at another branch today, my last student asked for help with her college homework. Happy for a change I agreed, it turned out my task was to be the creation of a coherent argument in favour of state sanctioned murder. She had a few ideas that she had written down. I suppose if I had been a higher being (or less worried about losing my income source) I'd have told her why she was so wrong, sadly I'm not so I helped her make sense of her barbaric impulses. Probably the wrong thing to do.