There's a kind of weird unspoken pressure and anxiety that hangs over everything...saturates everything in Japan because that is part of their culture, that's why they have one of the highest suicide rates, suicide also being a cultural practice there. If you lived in Jamaica you might notice a very different attitude, no one really in a hurry, what they call "island time". It's annoying at times for a New Englander, but if you look Jamaica has one of the lowest suicide rates in the world.