These writers are tapping into a frustration that is almost universal among young people in Japan. Japan's economic bubble has burst and for many young people, a period of great promise seems to be over. They're left with no sense of direction, no sense of what really matters in life.

I heard a little bit of his frustration. I wanted to make a social statement. How do people reinvent themselves when they can't do what they've been doing all their lives? How do they survive?

That [expensive gasoline] becomes another source of frustration when people already faced with hardships feel like they're being exploited.

I know it has been a frustration for some, but I've also seen how its enabled a lot of people who have not had the opportunity to go back to college to have the opportunity to do that,

Captions get cut down or rewritten. That's been a source of long-term frustration (for photographers). People like the audio because they finally get to tell what's really going on in the photo. The majority of photographers here really want to get that information out, and they are frustrated by not being able to.

I'm sure that there were some people who came adamantly opposed and who left that way,