https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/304563-toyota-envisions-hydrogen-powered-woven-city-by-mt-fuji
Probably one of the most notorious Japanese shortcomings is that they really believe that hard science can solve almost all human problems https://pacheco-torgal.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-japanese-version-of-saving-science.html
In that country, scientists from hard sciences do not even need to ask people what they really want like for instance: "Do you prefer to be helped by an artificially intelligent robot or by a human ?" because they are convinced they already know the answer to those simple questions. And that helps to explain the selfish approach mentioned in here https://pacheco-torgal.blogspot.com/2019/12/exoskeletons-for-older-workerswhen.html
A study published on PLOS One in 2017 showed that some countries have more altruistic research agendas than others https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0169383 In that paper one can read the phrase "‘Japanese model’ centered on engineering and chemistry" that says a lot about Japan and the aseptic chimera-city project mentioned in the first link of this post.
