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To: Sonny Blue who wrote (61416)	6/9/1999 12:14:00 PM
From: GST	Respond to of 164684

Sonny - x Japan, yes. Japan is more complicated. There are huge cross currents here -- primarily the collapse of life-time employment and the beginning of what will become huge waves of layoffs and restructurings that will reach in and dump 30 and 40 something males into a job market that has no place for them. Teens use the internet for suicide advice -- how to do it. But at the same time there is a strange sense of 'to hell with it all' in the twenty something crowd that creates an almost parade like atmosphere in the streets. The massive government spending is another factor. But underneath, the message is 'we are dismantling what we had and have no idea what comes next, and we no longer trust big business or government.' But in Japan, that is all there is to trust. 60% of high school students still say their dream is to become a civil servant. Then they dye their hair while and find something totally weird to wear. They see no future. The net will turn this place inside out.