To your point, there is much repressed anger, since the default attitude is to put up with things not to inconvenience others, a situation arising sometimes sim

To your point, there is much repressed anger, since the default attitude is to put up with things not to inconvenience others, a situation arising sometimes simply out of not speaking out on a problem. Which is wonderful in daily interaction as there seems to be no friction or unpleasantness as is the case often if not always in the West, where everyone complains and fidgets about everything. But, it’s been mentioned already I think, how extreme politeness in Japan can in fact be passive aggression in full force. And there's the occasional explosion of course.