Hit TV satire reveals how Japanese society has changed

In the series, titled "Extremely Inappropriate", the past isn't rose-tinted: there's smoking on the bus, boobs on television and corporal punishment galore. But modern Japan doesn't get a free pass either. When schoolteacher and father Ichiro Ogawa is catapulted from 1986 to 2024, he scandalises millennials and Gen Z-ers with his disregard for their views on gender, family and labour rights. Implicit in his candid words is a question: is society today, with its good intentions around issues like diversity and work-life balance...