Nihon jin ron

I found an interview based article in the magazine "SWAK," published on April 28th, 2011.
http://www.magazine-data.com/women-magazine/swak.html

The person who is interviewed is Yanai Michihiko, who is from Fukushima and a creative designer.
http://public-image.org/interview/2008/05/07/michihiko-yanai.html

At the last two pages, he talks about young generation in Japan, the generation that is said, in general, to be very inactive and ingoing. However, he has a different insight in them. He has been thinking that the young generation in Japan pursuit the real reason to exist, have the will to help others, make others happy, and want to stay strong as themselves...He thinks that young generation in Japan right now poses those aspects many times more than his generation had. Therefore, according to the interview, many actions taken by young generation in Japan, such as going up to North, join volunteering, holding charity event were NOT surprising for him at all.

He also talks about how creators' thoughts have changed after 3.11, and he compares the feeling which he also strongly affected by when 9.11 happened.