Japan’s Crime Rate
An experimental fashion designer came up with the idea for camouflage clothing to hide from criminals. She designed children’s backpacks and fake cell-phones with tracking chips as well.
The idea of hiding as a vending machine seems ridiculous but She has sold 20 vending machine skirts for 800$ each. The article in the New York Times explains that the Japanese do not reject new, even ridiculous ideas. The society encourages inventors, no matter how pointless or useless the invention.
Maybe that’s the big reason Japan is more technologically advanced than the U.S. We laugh at ideas that don’t work or seem ridiculous. I laughed when I saw the designer’s slideshow. Japanese society does not laugh at new ideas, and look how far ahead they are.
