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Japan

日本(にほん)(Nihon), the Land of the Rising Sun, is a pretty cool place.

On this wiki, Japan is quite relevant because I adore Japan and almost everything about it. Since the wiki is media-heavy, a lot of that media is Japanese.

Get this: they speak Japanese.

This article will be seriously unorganized for a while.

Japan’s society is often thought of as being collectivist, though really it’s communitarian. This means that the society perceives itself as one big community or family. Communitarian societies (at least how I understand the term) tend to suppress individuality only if it seriously disrupts social harmony. In collectivist societies, individuality tends to be suppressed period.