Kunwar Abhay Singh
PERFORMANCE OF JAPAN ACROSS VARIOUS SDG’s and SDG’S are ARRANGED BASED ON PRIORITY.-Abhay Singh
Post Work BY ABHAY SINGH 4 JULY 2022 (UPDATED)
UPDATED INCLUDES THOROUGH RESEARCH RATHER THAN PERSONAL
OPINION, AND PERFORMANCE OF JAPAN ACROSS VARIOUS SDG’s AND
SDG’S are ARRANGED BASED ON PRIORITY.
Soon after the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was agreed, Japan
moved quickly to establish a broad-based, whole-of-society approach to
implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) based on eight
priorities centred around the themes of people, prosperity, planet, peace
and partnerships.Whether it be high-speed bullet trains, the automotive
industry, or the most humble culture in the world, the name of Japan always
strikes up. Geographically prone to earthquakes, Japan is one of the world's
leading economic and technological centers. In my opinion one of the most
well- organized countries.
I remember watching Jeff Bezos say what he learned from Akio Morita from
Japan and how it influenced the building of Amazon:
"Right after World War II, Akio Morita, the guy who founded Sony, made the
mission for Sony that they were going to make Japan known for quality.
And you have to remember; this was a time when Japan was known for cheap,
copycat products. And Morita didn't say we're going to make Sony known for
quality. He said we're going to make Japan known for quality. He chose a
mission for Sony that was bigger than Sony."
Although thinking about Japan developed country, with education so deep
down in their roots, with hard work and passion for being the best in their field,
people in Japan are not mentally happy. The goal that Japan should promote
SDG3 is good health and well-being. According to a survey result, 11.5% of
respondents had a poor mental state deemed severe enough to require
consultations with medical institutions, and 36.6% reportedly felt mild to
moderate stress that could likely grow worse. Stress levels tended to be high
among health care workers and young people aged from in their teens to their
30s. An analysis of the results found that feelings of loneliness, anxiety,
insomnia, and poor work or academic performance, among other factors, had
been the causes of stress among individuals.
This is not good for a developed country like Japan; people there are so
focused on their work that they spend less time on their mental well-being. At
the end of the day, a happy mind and a happy body are an individual's greatest
assets. Japanese passports are issued to Japanese citizens to facilitate
international travel. With 192 visa-free travels, it is the strongest passport in the
world. Its social relations with the other developed countries are impressive.
Japan works with the international community based on the principle of human
security to address global health, including universal health coverage, and
realize a society where the SDGs have been achieved and "no one is left
behind.”Japan has one of the best healthcare systems in the world,
technologically advanced and highly subsidized. It has a powerful social
security system that every citizen contributes to benefit citizens, regardless of
age or status.
However, that does not mean the system is perfect. Mental health is arguably
the weakest link in the well-being of the Japanese, which becomes more
challenging when the relatively conservative society places a stigma on mental
issues it doesn’t understand. That shunning often creates a cycle of negative
influences on community. Education and awareness are lacking, even financial
support. This will be one of the potholes to fill as Japan rides the road towards
2030. Japan still has some catching up to do regarding mental health. The
good news is that many organizations have already begun addressing the
problems and gaps that are uniquely Japan.,
This isn’t the case in India, where family is a big part of an individual; There is a
growing culture in Japan called “ohitorisama,” which simply means the desire to
do things alone.do we know the difference between solitude and loneliness?
Why loneliness is hard to define in Japan and the rising concerns of the
negative impact of loneliness. PHysical exercises should also be promoted.
Japan’s justly famous Meiji Restoration of 1868 provided a blueprint for
economic development for countless countries to follow. It is a tradition that
Japan maintains to the present day as a world leader in sustainable technology
and a partner to countries around the world aiming to end poverty, achieve high
levels of well-being, and ensure human security. Japan became Asia’s first
industrial economy at the end of the nineteenth century through national unity,
visionary leadership, and hard work. When European powers threatened
Japan’s sovereignty in the middle of the nineteenth century, far-sighted leaders
instituted a remarkable policy of modernization that began in 1868.We are now
in the Age of Sustainable Development, and once again we can count on
Japan’s visionary role in achieving sustainable development not only in Japan
but around the world with Japan as a role model and a partner to other
countries. Japan continues to partner with countries that want to advance
rapidly, for example by helping the Government of Rwanda to establish the new
SDG Center for Africa in Kigali,Japan is innovating on how to create new
institutions, technologies, and policies for a society with a significant
proportion of elderly people, a challenge of course spurred by Japan’s very
high longevity. Japan’s breakthroughs in healthcare, support systems, and
quality of life for the elderly will have great benefits throughout the world.
Japan is also pioneering the pathway to a low-carbon economy to fulfill the
Paris Climate Agreement, by deploying Japan’s world-class engineering
excellence to promote energy efficiency, new materials, and new kinds of
vehicles, such as Toyota’s fuel-cell vehicles.
In itself, mental health is a prerequisite for physical health and is strongly
interlinked with other development factors such as poverty, work, and
economic growth or peace and justice. Mental health plays a key role in efforts
to achieve social inclusion and equity, universal health coverage, access to
justice and human rights, and sustainable economic development. For example,
poverty (goal 1) and mental illness are strongly linked, just as economic growth
(goal 8) and safe and resilient cities and settlements (goal 11) depend on an
overall mentally healthy society. As a cross-cutting issue, mental health has
relevance across the whole range of development.
To conclude, Japan is a visionary country, thinking as no one is perfect and
there are traits in every society in the world; japan lacks mental health, and
although they have progressed in technology but some basic fundamentals in
Japan have been ignored. Closeness to family in my perspective can bring end
to these crises in japan, with family being an essential part of your life as in
India, western countries still don't get how mature aged indians still live with
their family, in their tradition being independent is far more critical that your
mental health. However, Living with your family also leads to arguments, since
human nature is like that, to love and fight. But good impacts out qualifies these
impacts.