But there is also a place in a young life for noble purposes that include a dedication to the broader society, a love of country and an aspiration to make their own leadership contributions.
Understanding her son's love of travel and valuing the knowledge he could get from such experiences, this modern thinking woman refused to keep her son at home.
Helping and loving others is more important to health than feeling helped and loved oneself. Sounds philosophical but turned out to be scientific fact.
Ordinary Japanese may feel a sting of shame that such a big international brand has come a cropper, but they lost any real affection for JAL years ago.