They don’t value saving people dying of sudden medical issues?
Um… have you paid much mind to American cartoons lately? Because there is some serious influence from anime. Cultural sharing goes both ways in this case.
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My wife is from Japan and we go there every 1-2 years to visit her family and then spend a week as tourists getting away from her family.
Flights can be relatively inexpensive from major US cities provided you avoid New Years or the middle of summer. Its gotten cheaper to go there from the US than it was say a decade ago. I strongly suggest getting the opportunity to go there. Its a fun place to visit and culture shock is way exaggerated.
What it really comes down to is big cities and suburbs are pretty similar wherever you go in the developed world. The biggest cultural difference I have with my in-laws is that my parents are civil service/military background and they are “salary-people”.
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Why don’t we pretend to invade Puerto Rico!
Then we can get the government to care about fixing its infrastructure.
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They have socialized medicine. So maybe?
(Just kidding)
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Well at one point I had people attached to the Polish embassy that I maybe could have crashed with, but they aren’t there any longer. My problem is I am maintaining, not saving much. When I was getting over time it looked like I could have pulled it off, but that dried up 
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