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The pandemic has brought Japan's intense 'peer pressure' to light.

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Naoki Sato, co-author of the recently published book "Peer pressure -- why Japanese society is so suffocating." He was commenting on so-called jishuku keisatsu -- "virus vigilantes," people who anonymously confront those seen as flouting prevention and control measures. They have left notes on the doors of many places of business that stayed open during during the pandemic, rebuking the owners and telling them to close.

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 jishuku keisatsu -- "virus vigilantes,"

I think a better translation would be "self-isolation or self-restraint vigilantes (or police)"

My kids were quite paranoid thinking they were being watched as they walked or rode bikes to their friends' houses. I didn't give a hoot. People stare at me all the time anyway. I'm pretty damn good looking.

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Such pressure always comes back one way or another. If you attended physics lessons at school you surely still know that on all forces are equally sized summed up vectors of the opposite force and all pressured parts are in potential waiting for balancing it out with the corresponding pressure, osmosis etc. The same is for society, that’s nothing so very different to expect or estimate.

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