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Japan’s population drops by nearly 800,000 with falls in every prefecture for the first time
(www.theguardian.com)
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I mean similar to how in the Western world we like to sit down at a table and have food brought to us, when we really could just get up and get it from the counter ourselves.
Service industry is exactly that. Serving people. Which can be expressed in lots of different ways in different cultures.