The Liberal Democratic Party was considering issuing a bill to create military conscription for 18-20 year olds along the lines of European countries or South Korea.It's total fantasy,of course Japan's pacifist constitution wouldn't allow it,no one here would support such a suggestion it was interesting to hear idea being discussed.I've often thought that Japanese young people could do two years of mandatory public service of some kind,for a couple of reasons first Japan has extreme lack of basic,reasonable patriotism that other countries take for granted,even something as simple as singing the National Anthem becomes a major issue,some teachers refusing to sing it at official events.Japan suffers from what's known as heiwa-boke(hei-WA boh-keh ),literally meaning "stupid from too much peace," which is what happens when you live in an extremely safe island country.Performing some kind of required public service perhaps a Peace Corps-like organization where individuals went overseas to help poorer countries would teach Japan's spoiled young people about the rest of the world they'd probably realize Japan great country they live in.Qunli.