We might learn a few things from the Japanese when it comes to "personal responsibility" and be a better society for it.
You're talking about the nation which has yet to admit any blame for having started WWII in the Pacific. The average Japanese will not admit that any war crimes of atrocities were committed and at best will say that, while technically they may have attacked Pearl Harbor, they were forced into it by Roosevelt's embargo of US oil (we were an exporter then) and other raw materials.
The Japanese, for as much as I liked living there, are not any kind of model of personal responsibility.