The government has already massively reduced the dependency on seals with no pushback https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/13781455 https://www.asahi.com/ajw/arti

The government has already massively reduced the dependency on seals with no pushback https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/13781455 https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/13781455 The licence fee isn't exactly a Japanese tradition, it was literally modeled after the BBC. There's even an anti-NHK political party A local committee for upkeep of the neighborhood was also a thing in my parents neighborhood in Sweden, and the US has it even more formalized into HOAs