Yes housing is small, so are the roads, so are the cars, so are the cute little refrigerators, so are many things over there that it's proportional. You'd be surprised how big a typical Japanese house looks on the inside than it does on the outside, not to mention, almost everyone of them have enough space for a spare traditional room with tatami mats. Google image this stuff, you might be surprised. I'm 6'3" tall, and I'm saying this, compared to the rest of the population, you'd even have to order special size shoes for me over there. You know what's small and impersonal compared to that stuff when it comes to housing? Our showers/bathroom. Here in the U.S we get a small shower not to mention, it's right next to the toilet. I couldn't take a bath if I wanted to, not to mention it's gross because it's the tub I shower in. Whereas in Japan, you get a whole room as a shower, an actual decent sized bathtub to go with it, and the toilets in a separate room. It's the same for those 6 story buildings full of hundred of homes for people, or mansions as they like to call em. They are bigger than most apartments you'd find in the New York lol.
When it comes to school, it's so vastly different from what our system is, I can't even make a comparison. I kinda wish I had that kind of school life sometimes. Either way, I don't know a single kid that hasn't been stressed from school, anywhere...period. Whether it's from education or social status.
We have our problems too, I feel like our generation has gotten so pressured into going to college, and now look. We got hundreds of kids in debt, unhappy, and would rather kill themselves than work a crappy job that they don't even like. Same with me, I'm a stupid idiot who got pressured into going to college, even though I was already happy with my life and current job at 16. You can guess that the rest didn't turn out so great, I'm not gonna go into that hell hole.
But I'm not debating with you, I hate arguing about anything, rather I'm just saying that sometimes you gotta take things with a grain of salt. It just irritates me because I know that if some foreigner came up to me here in the U.S. and was like "Is it true that you guys don't like sex?" or "Is it true that a lot of people over here are suicidal?", I would be straight up be pissed off. Just imagine if that happened to you in Amsterdam, the whole world thinks you guys don't have sex anymore. No, of course that's not happening right? lol