Why does Japan work so hard? | CNBC Explains 

They work long hours, but less productive. So go figure...

MIGSDR less productive so their country is very rich and advanced right?

Watching manga and playing games is considered work by salarymen!

Dangg so true..

@@vickysingson3802 did you even watch the video? They're not in good shape as they were decades ago. Just this morning i heard in CNN that 20% of their population are 70+yrs old. Rapid population decline = people overworking more to make up for the lack of workers. Overworking could lead to karoshi or prevents them to start a family because of the lack of free time which also contributes to the population decline. They're also not that open for immigration compared to other countries. Ofcourse overworking doesn't mean better productivity either.

🤣🤣🤣 and thats how america leads in mass shootings

👏🤣🤣

@@ibejibenson1783 how did u even fit in that uninvited logic ?

@@earthflower7233 😂😂😂😂

@@ibejibenson1783 I'm not even american and I would do the same

😂😂

Thank you for your comment. He didn't imagine the Japanese had this mentality.

You are completely correct.

Thank you for context

Wow! That was such an interesting comment. Can't believe I just learned a lot about Japan in just one comment. Thank you. 😊

For those after-work dinners, does the boss pay for everything?

People are just starting to realize if working 80+ hours of unpaid overtime is the future, then why put a kid through that hell.

Lol

@@YouLose ikr

Hmm thats true

absolutely correct . There future comes from some other countries

Most Japanese can't seem to understand this simple concept..

They work for the betterment of the world and not just for themselves...

Onichannnn

@@vishnupillai300 Yes but the world starts with every single person. Imagine the unhappiness of one person multiplied by millions. That's some serious depression stats.

@@BIZKIT551 I think you (and many other people from individualistic cultures) don't understand the concept of a highly collectivistic society where your personal life doesn't really matter as much as what you are adding to the society. For most Japanese work is their main pathway to add value to their society and hence a very high priority in their definition of success.

bruh

Debt!

They don't pay enough and say it😂💀

It's better than not doing anything at all. Not doing anything leads to mental health issues.

@@hotdog05 Ah, but Japan has a high suicide rate relatively speaking. They also have literal death from overwork as a public health issue. Not forming familial bonds or relationships must definitely also lead to mental health issues.

@@Ioannikios174 Forming familial bonds and relationships is always a choice.

Anything anything

Japan is the one country the world accepts exploitation as work culture. Change the country in the story to any other countries and watch those human right activists roar. I dont like Japanese work culture but my boss is just ENDLESSLY PRAISING THEIR WORK CULTURE. No one disagrees with him when he say the magic word "like the Japanese".

Yes first we should care for our selfs then think about culture or nation

I heard only 7% of the Japanese workers are satisfied and enjoy their jobs. 23% of them feel normal, and the rest, 70% of them are dislike their jobs, and are not satisfied...

Meh. Westerners obsess over Japan too much. Ignoring their own problems.

Model minority myth

Their doctrine is good, and wrong at the same time 😐 Just imagine: if only they value the "contribution to the company's growth" over "time spent there" they would have been the greatest nation in the world, no contest! Because to mold an entire working class of a country to be that workaholic is an amazingly well done job

True that

Thats the problem, that type of understanding. Its working smarter while working hard. Just donating your calories into a bottomless labor pit does not increase your wealth. Take more risks, find something your passionate in first and your hard work will automatically follow as you will become obsessed with getting better at it. Then comes money. But money should never be your first goal or it will usually never work or end bad. Good luck.

Ahmad Ali Baig same with nurses

Stealing and exploitating makes you rich. All the other are BS..

@@npineapple3077 in reality share holders do none real work for the society, they just sit and wait for their investments to bring them money, And they get the most of the wealth created by all others. They re literally useless parasites..

He did, GDP 1950s

He said it though

The reason is that the culture sees long working hours as proof of commitment and energy. It's not like these insane hours are always productive. They tire people though

The long hours are cultural, as he said. It is seen as rude to be the first to leave. In some countries, you don’t leave work until the boss leaves and there are still companies where it is expected that you will go out with your work team after hours to drink at izakaya and karaoke bars. Again, you aren’t supposed to be the first to leave. All of this is due to the cultural idea that the individual is less important than the group: these after work activities are seen as team building activities and are expected. So, you may be “allowed” to leave work at 10 pm, but you are also expected to go drinking until 3 am; go home, get up at 7 am and go back to work for 8 am to do more unpaid overtime getting yourself “prepared to work” by 9 am. It all comes down to cultural norms.

Smart. I do the same but I’m not in Japan lol

Why doesn't everyone else think like you?

You are full of it...tatemae

You don’t even know what Tatemae means.

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i feel like i heard this in trash taste or gigguk video

@@khalilelhoussine5186 it was also covered by The Anime Man and Gaijin Goombah when they collaborated, I think

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True. You've got a native's support.

@Guppy's Gaming Channel yeah, theres a dark side to every country, including Japan

Exactly! I agree with your opinion

They do complain, in a very unhealthy way... Often higher position member judges the lower and uses ''I'm older than you so you should listen to me no matter what''

Yes, from young age the society nurtures fear in them that if you idle for a bit, you are a bad member of society. That's why many workers would pretend doing something in front of PC

@@puurfectlysplendid that is over generalised can you tell me how are young generation with it I'll check it

Cost of living there is very expensive, they probably won't notice but if they took a vacation to other countries they will be suprised how cheap it is.

MUA Toru Does it actually represent this? Timeline of Japanese salaryman:- Birth *WORK* Death

You Japanese? 🤔 I'm not sure if I can agree with all of what you are saying.

Kenneth Louis She actually does appear to be Japanese, Kenneth.

I think because of the social norm as a whole stresses that achievement comes in the amount of work and how well one performs. Outside of that norm, is a lonely departure and failure to produce a flourishing future.

MUA Toru The birth rate is mostly negatively affected by female empowerment, but ultra long working time also hurts.

I dont believe you. Stop trashing the honorable people of Japan.

@Trump supporter Don't be stupid, I have friends who work on a Japanese companies, all they say about it are true. Despite Japanese companies enforcing for long hours of work they are unproductive, you also can't leave even if you are already done. Overtime is common up to 11pm at night. I know this because I once call my friend on the phone and he was still in working at hours 10pm. Constant overtime also leads to mental fatigue, and mental fatigue leads to unproductivity. www.tofugu.com/japan/japanese-work-ethic/ soranews24.com/2015/02/10/despite-their-hardworking-image-are-the-japanese-really-just-as-lazy-as-the-rest-of-us/

@@javier.alvarez764 funny i also have a friend and she told me otherwise. The chinese could never compete with us Japanese, they are jeoulous of Japan highly ordered and functional success

@Trump supporter lol you need to wake up. Japan is maybe the number one in technology in the 1980s, but that was years ago. Btw I'm not white, I also don't like China, but even I know China is economically rising and would soon replace USA as an economic power. Even South Korea is now technologically far more advance than Japan that still use fax machines and flip flop phones. Your country is so honorable that they still don't acknowledge the comfort women aka the sex slaves in WW2, even the inhuman experiments of Unit 731 was coverup by your government, ignored, and pretend that it never happened. Germany is far more honorable, they acknowledge the mistakes of the Nazis, and don't pretend, coverup, or ignore that it never happened. Japan is the only one sabotaging and holding himself that's why China and South Korea got ahead than you. Your country is still stuck from it's old fashioned way, and unproductive work mentality that it got behind, and it will continue to do so unless you people change, and improve your system. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Tx7loRv70y8.html

Companies are only putting up a facade of productivity. In other words, we're actually not doing much during overtime TBH.

They want maximum profits, I'm no socialist or anything but without regulations, companies would all be like that, forcing you to work 12h and paying the bare minimum.

​@@iamfighterman9646 Hi corporate troll *@iamCAPITULATORman* or should that be *@iamCOWARDman* did that massive wedgie you just gave yourself draw blood? It sounded EXCRUCIATING from over here. *If you understood any ANTHROPOLOGY of human societies over the last 200,000yrs or more you would realise that Karoshi working conditions are anything but 'normal'.* _Karoshi conditions are _*_deliberately pathological._* If that's what you prefer for yourself then ENJOY your lifetime of corporate reaming. After all HELL is right here on this earth no-where else. HEAVEN is also right here but you have to work, with fullness of _empathic heart,_ for that to transpire. For 99% of human history on this planet we lived in mutually co-regulating and co-organising societies where the survive/thrive work - yes, even hunting, gathering, planting etc - were kept to an absolute _minimum,_ which is possible when: *(1) you know what you are doing* and *(2) you know the Life-support environment in which you are doing it very intimately, that is, **_you practice sustainable 'totemic stewardship'._* Why did they keep their 'work' (no such societies even had a word for work!) to a minimum? There are 2 main reasons: (1) because humans have large brains which develop slowly, taking years to mature, and which require a very high diversity of inputs to develop properly, it quite literally "takes a village to raise a child". The inputs are: developing 'emotional range', 'cognitive range', mental skills, physical skills, communicational skills, cultural skills, how to navigate by the stars across vast oceans, how to track animals and find the right foods (and medicines) in every season etc. These people also spoke 3,4 or 5 languages of their many different neighbors whom they traded with. (2) because it takes a lot of communicational effort to sustain a mutually co-regulating society full of well developed and highly skilled individuals with minds of their own. So they needed to spend a lot of time with each other to make sure that everyone was healthy and happy. By turning all this effort into socio-cultural activities and celebrations the effort of mutual social control became effortless: "Order For Free" The next time BEFORE you start mindlessly pummeling your qwerty-board how about you "DO YOUR RESEARCH!" as you mordant conspiracists are so apt to holler.........

@@huehue5286 Blame bill clinton and all of the other young liberal democrats who destroyed the New Dealer's FDR Regulatory Economics which has proven itself to be humane and yet allowed Capitalism to operate under FORCED HUMANITARIAN WORKING CONDITIONS.

What work in one country DOES NOT NECESSARILY MEAN IT CAN WORK IN AMERICA! America is different from Japan. American work culture is different from Japan's work culture.

Well said investing is good but investing in the right thing is the actual key to success.

The right choice of investment has always been a big problem for me because I know that picking up the wrong investment will leave a big scar in the future...

Investing in Bitcoin is another way of ensuring steady cash flow, I've been earning every week for a year now.

Is about ten months now I started investing with Patricia E Williams and it's been a good experience all through....

It feels good to know that we still have trustworthy people like ma'am Patricia E Williams , I'm very delighted I was transformed through her platform God bless her abundantly

Seriously bro! You work to make a life, not to give it up to work.

If you work to make a living then what the point of working yourself to dead?

Working with no life or working without life..!!

Hahaha why not compare it to people doesn't want to work not just have useless life but a burden to other

Thats about productivity dude, if people smart like White americans they can work less, but productivity is high

Go Review Agreed, what’s the point of a lucrative career if you can’t enjoy life w/ your spouse and pick your kids up from ball practice?

@@naveygill1793 That's why nowadays they don't even married. Too busy working no time for family!

You never met guys in high finance...? This is literally every front office job on Wall Street.

It's the same everywhere around the world. High pressure and stress for the high earning jobs. Even when you do become top of the top, it's a lot of responsibilities and it becomes even more stress with risks. Even if it is a small business and then you put your efforts into making it better and you will eventually see using more time to gain benefits in growth for the business. Humans are just greedy, but in a good way. We are just explorative creatures. Greed is a way of capturing more than necessary and ignoring if it was right or wrong. All these align with existing psyches we all have potential to tap into from our minds within.

@@Aaron-bh5cp wall street worker are not rich, in fact most of their client are richer than them

South Korea it’s not any better...

@@ChrisHeart-kr1uq You have no conscience and no humanity.

​@@mateotinoco2393It's hell.

It's normal in white collar, but they at least have this privilege of doing nothing. In blue collar jobs you can't hide that you're doing nothing and still have to keep working and some jobs can be gruesome.

Lies again? Get educated work smart

​@@NazriBNo lie?

True

Same here in Indonesia, I heard china same also

@@bachtiari8960 sama. Karena itulah mama gua mau buka warung dari pada kantoran. Karena kerja Kantoran itu Perbudakan Era Modern

@@Samuelrodrigues_ iya gan setuju banget, gw jadi buka start up sendiri, gw coba MNC sana sini sama aja, banyak yang OT gk dibayar. Parah, harus ada yang gerak nih revolusioner

gua aja bayar OT buruh gua per jam.... kata sapa indo gak bayar Ot ?

@@bachtiari8960 not really china is a socialist country and workers can't work more than 8 hours a day

Yes learn from Germany

Extremes is what created every innovation. Everyone crying for balance but they dont really understand its consequences.

Right

Agree

@@missionpupa thats not true.... mindless working depends on the position is useless for the long run... its the crazy people who changed this world if you think about it and its those with balance can maintain that innovation.

Which is kinda correct.

Manish Bharti Manish Bharti Thailand & Myanmar also they don’t want to stay in the office after 5 PM and some time they go back early 15 Mins before 5 PM.

In Morocco people don't come to office at all 😂😂😂

Because it doesn't pay

@Coontash you're so smart🤔

It's funny that they showed this data on ineffectiveness. I'm sure the bosses will work on it 😂

Agreed, i have a coworker who have experience as a consultant at a japanese marketing firm way back ago. The culture of doing nothing in the office until 9pm is very prevalent, the ineffieciency in manhours is like the series "The Office" but way worse.

Yeah I think efficiency is everything

I can tell you they spend 50% of the time in pointless meetings and writing useless reports

@@hailsatyr then why complaint you have pay well even thought you doing useless thing that use small energy, doesn't mean that just you're the one that lazy and being ungratefull

Damn !

and living in poverty and crime?

Some people hate japan and some people love it.

@@FIR2031 Wow! I am appalled by your ignorance. Philippines is a developing country. We might not have those advancement that most rich countries enjoy but we aren't as backwards as you think.

@@FIR2031 so ignorant

Hardik bhai ek bar apne yaha k bpo's me jake dekh...

@@sureshshingare8376 bro how can a person be brainless and work continuously for 8-9 hours at the same time? I myself is an Ex-bpo employee, I was pursuing MBA that time..some of my colleagues were students of CA & CS...specifically talking about my team we had 70-80% engineers from the finest institutions..and yet people still think that we are nothing but losers...and btw not all process requires a personnel to just press enter key and consider the job done...and also don't force me to drag in the economic importance of this sector..so just think about it my brother!!!

Indian Corporate lawyer here, I work in my law firm for around 80 hours per week, Sunday holidays only. I earn good amount of money tho so its all good.

@@vipinchauhan1509 Bhai aap apni jagah bilkul sahi ho even I m a CA student aur mujhe malum hai ki kitna sangarsh hai isme. Par aap khud socho ki hum me aur Dusre developed countries me itna difference kyu hai. Japan to humse bhi piche tha kyu aaj vo itna saksham hai aur kyu hum itne piche hai. Isiliye mai keh rha tha ki humari aur unki soch mai farak hai. Hum apne liye sochte hai aur vo desh k liye sochte hai.

@@hardikjain8986 hamare Rajneta/Mantri, Rajniti aur Government System, Education System British kaal ke hai isliye

What is the industry you work at Japanese company in Indonesia? What is your job title and how is the salary compare to the same factory in Japan?

@@angelsub9184 Yamaha Motorparts Manufacturing Indonesia I was just an operator for melting die casting The comparison i could make is the salary was double than my province minimum salary

The company is always going to be busy lol

Those brave warrior who break free from this mindset is a rebel that called delinquent or yakuza

青鬼TV .

That's dumb. The company really doesn't care about their employees.. Why bother over working, specially if its unpaid.. Hére we call that kissing companys ass.. Next thing you know the companys las you off,.. All that hard work for nothing..

The company should hire more employees if they have shortage of workforce Why on the earth should employees work even on Sunday just because of busyness of company?

Because they have no time for sex

@Ãñky .çhåléō They ain't got oil supply so they can be lazy.

Hentai 😂

@@salmabano3685 Pretty sure they're having sex. The real issue is that young people can't afford to have kids in HCOL areas like Tokyo. This issue is also very real here in the US.

@@salmabano3685 shut up because they has problem about old population

That's it then. No enemy can kill him but die of overwork instead 😂

Don’t forget they have Chakra.

😂😂😂

Shadow clone jutsu lol 😂

Bro Naruto just asking to get cuckold by the neighbor smh

But like 10pm is so late to begin with..

They continue to work anyway using flash light

@@stefamarz 🤣🤣

@@stefamarz as long as they don't turn the lights back on and they've been using fleshlights... Can't have that in orderly Japanese office culture.

Japan working hard are just appearances to impress other countries. Constant overtime only causes mental fatigue, and eventually leading to unproductivity. It's all bullshit, Japanese companies don't allow you to leave even if you are already done. That's why despite their hard working image they are economically high in debt. www.tofugu.com/japan/japanese-work-ethic/ soranews24.com/2015/02/10/despite-their-hardworking-image-are-the-japanese-really-just-as-lazy-as-the-rest-of-us/

I’m an Asian American but it is true, Asia is big on having a facade. It doesn’t matter if you’re rich or poor, it’s all about creating an illusion to other people.

yeah but this is the reality of Japan

Same thing in Chinese company. I usually finished my work at around 3.30pm, but are forced to stay until 6.30pm. Most other workers even stayed until 8.30pm, but I left the office at 6.30pm sharp. Not that it's a problem, but I can't even surf the Internet on my own spare time, because the boss office is behind my cubicle, and he said he don't like seeing me surfing the Internet for random stuff even though there's no work to be done.

Just look at toyota, sony and other japanese companies

Bima Santoso very true!

True

Thank you.

Then they should be ready to get fired, buddy.

They don't care about their family, family values are dead in Japan

From Japan?

@@SaiKiran-en2zm yes

@@SYBMSBSHARMAYASH Do they have holiday on Sunday

@@SaiKiran-en2zm yes only islamic nations don't have cause it is considered first day of the week in their religion

@@SYBMSBSHARMAYASH well shall I guess Uvr brother engineering rght bro

True i seen many people pretending only to work

Corporate communism lmao

Sorry You should mean socialism not communism

Actually.. that's the essence of collective society, which is very common in Asia

@@zeousontuan8101 Why?

Except that lazy people will take advantage of that and leave the burden of work to only a few individuals.

Jeffery Zhang thanks for the insight, interesting!

Man, you are a fucking genius. Great analyze

Interesting. People tend to forget, although Japan is a modern, industrialized nation with an advanced economy, the modernization didnt happen until 1868 during the Meiji era. Whereas Europeans at this time were already over 400-500 years out of the medieval, feudal era. That being said, it wasnt too long ago when Japan used to be a feudal, rural country.

@@drbs2850 You're correct, between feudalism and modernity, Europe had the renaissance and the enlightenment in between. Japan jumped from feudalism directly to modernism, while technology in the country have advanced dramatically over a short time, the culture haven't changed as quickly. Japan still maintains the old hierarchical, collective mentality that survived from feudalism.

Azarello No, this is not the reason why Japan has such advantages. A "modern serfdom" would never directly contribute to this situation. You have to figure out the logic here.

Thanks God..i live in Indonesian...

​@@byanthanos7114You said that like indonesian company praise and gave employee what they deserve... But the truth is it isnt... Majority of every company mindset in the world was and until now is pay minimum for best performance... Sad kid like you dont even know what japan gov gave for their workers, better life, more amenities, better food, etc... So as long as they upping their life standarts to match with the works of their people, i say its worth it... Unlike in your country where workers eat borax and formaline...

@@BJID yes but happy in work is not depend on salary maybe that's the one but living cozy and friendly that's important

just like enojoy our pain .....don't become victum of pain......

You can live longer, but can you live happier?

it's surprising they still manage to live for such a long time. I wonder how much more would they last if they didn't lived so stressfully then

Катерина Лилов Look at the people from Okinawa. Much much slower pace of life and there the longest living people on earth.

But they live longer than wherever you from.

People there eat healthy and have healthy routines which helpd them to work and survive for long.. Japanese people are fit and healthy in compared to others Edit :- people are happy because they are used to it

You work to earn money and spend it all on day offs or holidays. There's no point in working long hours without even enjoying your money just because your boss or your coworkers told you so. If you work from 8am to 5pm then leave at 5pm and enjoy life. Stop thinking about what society tells you to do. Instead, do what you makes you happy. That's all that matters! Japanese work ethics is my inspiration and it pains me to see Japan this way. Watashi wa hontoni nihon ga daisukidesu! So please take care of yourselves fellow human beings!

It would be a waste to have all of the money being waste way if you dont do anything (and u have enought money after rent, retirement money, etc.). Especally if u dont develop a hobby or enjoy something that you are eyeing for awhile or have an interest in. (which i mean in i agree with the person who said to enjoy the money u earned.) Also, I feel like its a waste of money on rent on a place that u spend every little time in (especally if you like to be there longer) and on places/whatever the topic it is u wish u dont want to be/spend on (and others are insisting that you should be there with them, even though it not a must in your mind).

Rework your work hours system and society view about work, like must go home after your senior go home. This alone will raise up happiness and hope.

sandofarms 😂😂😂

u can go to the supermarket at 3am in the morning here bruh, everytime i walk in, the workers are so drowsy/sleepy/tired

Funny, but actually true - that's what the under the arm advertising agency Dentsu said after a young, overworked female employee threw herself off the roof, at midnight last Christmas Eve, after missing the last train . "OK, no more 70 hours overtime a month - now only 65 hours. Yay us!!!" www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/19/business/suicide-overworked-woman-24-prompts-ad-giant-dentsu-trim-overtime-hours/#.WxUjMpUh3mQ

Lmao

Lmao

Wtf is the point of working long hours if productivity is low lol

Yup its true

@@lugh5210 u can see on all over research

Bt still very much more than ours lol their less youth working population is working smartly and r smartly educated using their potential in a right direction while our lazy, uneducated or less educated, unemployed, creating mess on the name of religion just wasting so much time of country type huge youth population is nothing bt just a burden on our country lol. We r very much far away and nowhere related to the word *Workaholic* which our youth population need to be for the sake of country's goodness and nt for personal greed.

The video uses a common measure of productivity as "GDP per hour worked", so it's possible that the Japanese produce just as much as other workers (on a daily basis) but because their culture requires them to stay in the office (to be seen to be working hard) this ironically decreases their productivity!

Me too

Me too, 😅.

*public-private venture

Actually I totally agree with u many Japanese will consider working longer is as a virtue. But what I think is this kind of virtue is to show off to others, or the work really need cost so long time, meanwhile, what I worried about it is that working so long time is terribly to the healthy, and can’t keeping going.

I don't think it is true to think that working long hours are the virtues. Working long hours shows your dedication or loyalty to the company.

上智大学国際教養学部 Thanks for your information, Are you a Japanese?

they have to stop this *respektful* culture and BE NORMAL HUMAN BEINGS.

Dude respect your country man........... it's in crisis......it is the people who need to change that kind of lifestyle......if you're running away what is the use.......???

@@rexracer2852 it's his life, so what's wrong in settling in a better country that serves better, a single individual can't change the corrupt system, pollution, poverty etc in his her own country. If someone wants to change they are killed and murdered in his own country.

@@mubaraking786 Only if someone is Lelouch vi Britanania then hey there's a chance XD

@@rexracer2852 would u want to live in a country where u feel sad and depressed? or a country that grants you happiness and contentment? you decide for yourself. and he is right europe is so many times better than japan when it comes to work life balance

教えて欲しいんですけど、何がそこまで違いました？仕事第一ではない人生観、それに付随する時間の使い方って感じでしょうか。

That,s maybe kanye west answer ..

小泉構文。

Thanks Cpt. Obvious

@@Mepuvio Haha Captain Obvious saves the day.

Own a money making entity and have someone else do the work for you

Incarus Ton That’s true

You have to achieve both.

Work hard is a kind of work smart

Erm, no, working hard and smart does, with luck. I have never seen any smart working people that is not a workaholic (don't count someone who was born on the finish line). They love their jobs though, some kind of obsession. But without luck, many of them failed. Man, especially in this pandemic

Yes ! Imagine being born in fucking Haiti like me with no food no electricity ，no hospital, no good school. I would prefer be a Japanese and putting 20 hours a day and have food

Hold my sushi

*A random person* : but there's nothing *Japanese worker* : exactly

Their overwork is unpaid tho

Japanese worker: I am busy...

Only rich bogans get that, not everyone in Australia is rich.

d sar. Everybody in Australia gets one full months annual leave no matter what your job is. The Employer must pay for it by law. It doesn't matter how rich or poor you are as it's the law. Only the Police, Ambulance and Fire Brigade workers get 3 months annual leave because of the high stress.

John O'Kane I get 35 holidays an year in India . And I can barely use them .

Wow, that is so different than the U.S.

Add on top of that Australia just increased the minimum wage which was already really high

Japan ranks 22nd in the world in hours worked per annum. 22nd!

Gordon Graham Naah mate 😂 not accurate.

light worker,www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/maps-and-graphics/nationalities-that-work-the-longest-hours/

Christopher Wall So true from Japan.

Susumu Kojima there are 127,000,000 separate truths from Japan

they began wearing masks in 2003 with SARS

The employees contribute druing days off. By resting druing days off, they become more productive and better later

Who made them feel guilty? Their boss?

I wouldn't call it teamwork. Your people love bunching up and doing what you're told to do.

don't call your nasty Kamikaze mentality a teamwork.

@@echo7984 Isn't guilt a feeling generated through just yourself? If their boss did it, I think it would be elevated to shaming.

KingRat355 they did. It's not a very individualistic work culture.

Holy Guacamole If it's not individualistic then why is everyone in the subway looking at phones ignoring people around them? Why is no one having babies for the greater good? Maybe there's a different reason?

Krishna Mohan phones to respect the individuals time to decompress? Babies because they work too hard and don't have the work life balance

Holy Guacamole one could decompress better by talking to other people and sharing experiences. Phones only add more strain to the eyes after a long day at work. So that is not the reason. If they are working so hard why is the productivity so low? Maybe they are a society that values conformity. I dont know I'm just guessing. But definetely doesn't seem like just "company/country above individual"

unwarranted peer pressure and culture...are you not listening!!

4-week is a real blessing. Please enjoy it

In my country it's 15days, or 17 days annual leave if u are a manager (including sick leave)...i know that's crazy. And stupid. But that's the reality...if u complain to much it's easy for a company to replace u with millions workers waiting for opportunities out there in asia.

@@herchannel1355 which country u from?.

Schrödinger's Cat Well, if the animators weren't paid literal pennies, maybe things would change a little. Also, I think most studios need more time to release their shows. It really shows.

Because of too much piracy and illegal downloads and streaming sites and fake merchandise. But thats none of my business!

budjet problem

Schrödinger's Cat lol! Thanks for the Monday morning laugh before work! 😂

Yeah !! Oh dragon ball !! Where r u ? 😢

summerrr1 yes that is right

summerrr1 thats why I visit the comment section to know more. Even we dont leave until the boss leaves.

Most of them string 3 hours of work into 12

That's weird work ethic. Why? It's a waste of life time. Everybody has LIMITED time. If employees respect the work hours, the boss should respect his/her employees' life too.

They read Harry Potter with a fake book cover disguised as "Business English Textbook" for 3 hours until the boss goes home.

why they just waste their precious time like that................?

Amen, brother.

I mean, most of the political measures is meaningless. The government understand the problems, however, they DO NOT take effective means but ineffective means and postpone. Their incompetence may be caused by indifference in politics. According to some reports, only 56% voted for the house of representatives, the rest of the people abandoned its right. from japanese univ student

Yeah we need the Hentai! :(

Luis Alberto Pérez Nájera Damn man what did Japan do to you?😂😂

Luis Alberto Pérez Nájera o god dont start an ethnic cleansing on me again hitler. Im not ready yet.

We have chikara, Chakra

Trump will fix the rigged car deals. HAHAHAHAHAHA

That's a good thing. Its probably because they have been more exposed to western cultures. So they see there is a different way to do thing.

I had somebody tell me they don’t want to go back there because of this.

Good. Eventually it will happen. They will move abroad.

Jim Hanbury who does

Problem is that with japan recesition and inflation, is going to be a problem

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The problem is that these are brain washed people! Westerns and americans also bealive in that bulshit that if u work much is good. In my country manh positions even low paid are 6 days ,even 10/12, hours ,this is crazy. That why im my own boss. I get dowble money with less work ,wtf i cant work even 8 hours what about more

ama machan

@@Noname-ni8qm Westerns and Americans don't believe in that bullshit at all. They were the ones who started working smarter first. I don't know in what country you are but you should know better. Man look at the work standards of northen Europe for example. They are paid a good wage and sometimes work 6 hours per day.

Its better to be tired than poor

@ixia nightangle they want to enjoy their culture,not work :)

Maybe not.

@@AverageUsernames Ok

Entrepreneurs tend to have a rather independent spirit and ability to think outside the box. Reinterpret rules and "common wisdom". The Japanese have spent their whole lives obeying both spoken and unspoken rules. They make great technical workers most likely. But their entrepreneurial rate, for some real innovation, is probably much below the average

But on the other hand, if they can bring their newfound sense of "freedom" into their work life, then what you say might be really true

@@Urza26 i mean entrepreneurs like "they got to survive"...diamond is tested through pressure. But yeah, i know how hard is to be entrepreneur while you're a perfectionist.