Because in the US if you have debts and you don't pay them you can actually go to jail, that's state violence, the whip is just a baton now. You don't go to jail for having debt in Japan.
You won't go to jail for staying a single woman either, you may just be a bit more poor than your peers (but still WAYYYYY richer than the average human being on planet Earth cause the standard of living you're existing within is super high).
Gun sales don't need to be within the populace of the US to be an economic boon, and in fact most of them aren't. Also most gun crime isn't even done with legally owned guns in the first place so any profit that comes from their sales is likely not reflected in the GDP. Gun crime being low is part of safety and stability. You're acting like I only listed profits and not things like safety and technological advancement and so on. Crime statistics being low is one of the other factors which, alongside GDP, makes a country first world. So yeah, more facts to buttress the first world country argument right here.
But yeah to wrap this up because it's gone on for like 20 responses, the actual core difference is that Japan is less individualistic and more collectivist than the west. It's why in ww2 you had the kamikaze pilots suiciding for the good of the nation. In Japanese culture it is seen as noble to sacrifice oneself for the greater good, a big part of why they have such high suicide ratess is that people kill themselves so their family can get the life insurance payout when they find themselves in an economic hole or get fired or something (and it is usually men doing this). So yeah basically the yamato nadeshiko ideal I mentioned is seen as a noble thing, and something admirable, not something that's pitiable or in need of liberation. It is the outsider perspective that paints it in such a light, much like how people who don't know what ethnocentrism is think anime characters are white or anime is made to fetishize asians. It only looks that way to you.
