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I think it's disturbing that they need something like this, but I don't think it's disturbing that they have it. The way I look at it, the Japanese are so culturally fucked that something like this is good for them.
They have a word for when someone young and healthy works so hard at their white-collar job that they drop dead on the company floor. Not just a conceptual, joking word. This is an actual thing that happens, on a regular basis, and there are charities for the widows of such men. Their grammatical word for "I" doesn't really mean "self" in the way we think of it; it's closer to "the sum of the accomplishments I have achieved in my life." They could use some involuntary emotional exposure.
Besides, is it really weirder than any other corporate team-building exercise? Ropes courses and trust falls?
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