日本人の倫理観って結局何？他人に迷惑かけないことだけ？

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2025/06/10

Japanese people’s sense of “ethics” is basically all about not causing trouble to those around them. That’s not necessarily a bad thing—but calling it a “high level of civility” feels misleading. In fact, it often seems like their awareness stops at a two-meter radius around themselves. For example, they’re extremely sensitive to things like not being noisy on trains or not littering in public—actions that cause immediate inconvenience to others.

However, when it comes to more macro-level issues—like creating fair social systems or tackling environmental problems—their interest drops off sharply. They feel little to no responsibility for anything beyond what they can directly see or affect.

Take the issues of aging population, declining birthrates, or climate change. There’s a deeply rooted atmosphere of “someone else will deal with it.” Very few people are willing to become that “someone.” Instead, they focus on doing what’s right in front of them, with little regard for the underlying systems or the long-term future. And that, in itself, is one of the limits of Japanese society.

So in the end, while people may be good at maintaining immediate order, most have no real interest in the long-term sustainability of society or what Japan will look like a hundred years from now. As a result, problems that aren’t yet visible keep growing under the surface. The so-called “high civility” of the Japanese isn’t especially exceptional by global standards—it’s simply a way of preserving peace in the here and now.

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