This is #Japan in 1966. My dad was about to finish university, and my mum was in high school.
Just 21 years after the end of the war.
The Tokyo’s highways had just been completed. I remember my dad talking about them. He was already driving, as he was a member of his university's automobile club.
The cars and trains look old-fashioned, but a lot of places are fundamentally the same.
Not that different from today.
No rubbish.
The ladies are wearing nice but practical suits. Slightly fewer people.
My question is: why are other developing countries still not like this, even today?
My grandparents' generation lost everything. We lost relatives. People lost their jobs, so they had to do whatever work they could find.
There wasn't enough food. My dad and our relatives had to go fishing and hunting.
Everybody worked hard. They rebuilt the cities.
You know, most of our major cities were reduced to ashes. We were nuked. Twice.
You weren't nuked.
So why can't you clean up your cities and build functional infrastructure?
A simple question.