What's with Japan?

     Okay, so I actually don't know why this is, but I'd like everyone's opinion: what's with Japan?

They've:

• Continued to fish dolphin on a commercial scale despite the fact that biomagnification gives the dolphin one of the highest concentrations of mercury in the animal Kingdom
• Continued to maintain a shrine honoring war criminals from World War 2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasukuni_Shrine)
• Encouraged inemuri (napping on the job) in the private sector, as a means to prove that you are working so hard that you need to sleep while at work
• Just begun to realize the Wii U isn't hitting the sales figures
• Organized mass protests against the airing of Korean dramas on Japanese TV (I might write about the Japanese-Korean relationship in the future; they've got some history)
• Elected a Prime Minister that looks like this:

     So, what does everyone think? How different is the Yasukuni Shrine from the numerous southern High Schools named after Robert E. Lee? What's with the dolphins? Just, like, what's their deal? Leave what you have to say in the comments. And drop a new topic you'd like me to address too, if you like.