I have to be honest, much as I have enjoyed Thailand and especially the music over the last 23 years, the place is going backward and Thais are completely repressed politically, something foreigners just seem to forget. Few countries hand out 15 years sentences for fb comments or sms messages on opinions, then let off murderers if they are rich. Japan is just so much more civilized, take away the sex for sale industry hypocrisy here and how many foreigners would be interested in Thailand? not many that's for sure. Whats the visa situation long term for Japan if you are older? Any country where people queue up and with no soi dogs and no rubbish all over the place has to be better
Japan is a very special place that's true, pity the Japanese left in 1945, they might have knocked some sense into the silly buggers.