Blizzardboy | A Kiwi in Australia

A colouring in book for executives. Amusing. Somehow the United States doesn’t seem that different to Japan.

I saw an interesting documentary the other day on reverse urban drift in Japan. It seems that it is becoming increasingly common for Japanese professionals to buy cheaper properties in the country side. Usually in their 40′s these people opt out of the crazy city lifestyle for the peace and tranquility of Japan’s rural areas.

With public transport so effective in Japan, and with a greater number of companies now vying to keep the cream of the crop on their payroles, getting ones’s company to fork out for a monthly bullet train pass is an option. This means that someone can be literally on the other side of Japan and still travel to work in a little over an hour.

Japanese business men who travel this way average about 4 newspapers a journey. Personally the idea of spending 3 hours or more a day on a train going to work doesnt really appeal to me. But it would be better than living in some of the more infamous bed towns.