High density of people , low amount of land , no natural resource so everything has to be imported , they do have coal but coal plants are not great , the loss of the Fukushima plant . They basically lost a fourth of their power product . It wasn ' t just the Fukushima plant , after the incident , they did safety inspecting in all their plants and ended up shutting down most of them until further notice . On top of that , cost of living is pretty damn expensive , again , due to lots of importation to support their population . <| sep |> It depends on the artist and genre I ' m listening to . Usually it takes me 3 or 4 listens to decide whether I like the album or not . Then again , I ' ll only listen to an album that many times if I truly believed there was something remarkable in the first place .