Social critic criticism...the demise of the Japanese bathhouse in a neo-liberalism for-profit capitalism

Lee park Kong
   Japan had a long history of public bathhouses where men and women gathered together (in bathing suits) to wash and keep themselves clean at the end of a night. This was a daily ritual and at one tme there were some 5700 public bathhouses in Japan before the conquest of neo-liberalism and American forces following the defeat in World War II and how quickly America can change a native culture being the leading force of globalism along with the British is an cultural cataclysm and drive of their neo-liberalism order. The demise of the bathhouse in Japan is shameful ans many bathhouses have closed in order to make way for newer cheaper construction with other economic goals in ind instead of keeping and maintaining something costly as would be anything with water. There is no profit to be made form global conglomerates in having Japanese people wash themselves and if tey can't put up a store wit shelving then modern day government wants nothing to do with something like this regardless of the cultural legacy. Perhaps Bed Bath and beyond could somehow work on integrating the communal bath house love there still is in parts of Japan.

I once was lucky to experience the Jap love of bathhouse seeing it when I worked out at a Morton Grove gym back in the nineties and always wondered why all these old sushi goats clogged up the swimming pool and hot tub. the goal of neo-liberalism is to change culture and spending habits and a stroll along an American or European  mall one can see evidence of this as foreign-looking corporate people move about with bags and love of the global insaneess that is sameness. the mall developers and luxury brand empires also have been successful in planting their ideology in other countries; An ideology as insane and destructive as the Islamic State of El Chapo cartel.

Most of the bathhouses surviving in Japan are mo and pop business run by elderly people and in a nation where love of robots is replacing traditional courtship and coupling of man and woman one can expect the younger generation to continue to shun Japanese traditional bath gathering in society which once was such the norm of pre-World War Japan.