You mean "glad you don't live in Japan"

And I can fully understand why the culture there is like that. With such a massive population, the only way to earn a decent living when you grow up is to be among the academically elites and get into high school, or better yet, university. In order to maintain this competitiveness the students have to work their asses off and spare no time for relationships. It's not much of a "forced issue". Any mature student knows that he's got no time for such things.

Plus, I've had first hand experience in such a system. It's really stressful and unless you're an idiot with no motivation, you know you got no time for stuff like this. My little cousin lives in China and the social system is pretty similar. I can already see this happening to him even though he's only 12.