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The reason why Japanese people feel freedom when they go abroad is because they just arrived and don't know local rules and culture of the country yet. If you look at social media of Japanese people who moved to Europe, many of them said that they have lived there for more than 10 years and realized that there are actually more rules in Europe than in Japan. Professor Yusuke Narita, a Japanese sociologist and at Yale University, said, "It is a lie that Japan has strong peer pressure and other countries do not. Each country has different peer pressure. When you live in a certain country as a foreigner, you cannot assimilate into that country to the point where you feel the peer pressure, so in many cases there is no peer pressure and you just feel free". In fact, some Japanese, like her, continue to live abroad, but many eventually return to Japan.
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