I've always liked to think of Japan as a close to perfect country. Low crime rates, very high standards of living and education, beautiful women, an amazing cultural heritage and top notch electronic development... I'm pretty sure some of this is true, but there's also the high suicide rate problem, earthquakes, exhaustive working schedules and other bad things...
What are the specifics of all this? How many hours are you guys actually obligated to work and study? Is it really all work and no fun for the average salaryman? Will you really be mean to me if I ever visit you with the intention of working, and probably staying? :(
>I've always liked to think of Japan as a close to perfect country
You should seriously reevaluate how you judge countries which you don't live in. Not to specifically shit on Japan but to think this about any country is just setting yourself up for depressing reality. This is how Japs get Paris Syndrome.
Joshua Taylor
Japanese workers work less hours each year than mexicans
someone post that one pic
Jaxson Williams
Switzerland is unironically the best country on Earth.
Jaxon Gray
>high suicide rate it's higher in eastern Europe and they don't even get memed about it
also I'm sure western countries are much better at documenting it, might very well be that more subhuman beans kill themselves in Africa
Anthony Diaz
>Switzerland is the best country on earth
No. Cars and any form of speed is like the anti christ to them. Lichtenstein is probably the best country on earth.
Jaxson Price
>officially reported hours
Very trustworthy in “death by overwork” Japan where totally the 50 hour law is enforced!
Oliver Gray
i like anime girls too
Christopher Gomez
this is vaduz, the capital and biggest city in L. you can feel the speed of life just by looking at it
Cameron Edwards
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Christian Murphy
You totally right. And I know. I just need to hear it from someone else from time to time... Thanks, btw. You may be right. Specifics: Average mexican works 8hrs 5 days a week for a minimum wage that barely affords to pay for food, electricity, gas (which is very expensive since it is monopolized by just a few companies that don't even give you as many gallons as they are supposed to when you ask the gas-station personel to "fill" your tank) NOTE: A lot of mexicans do have drinking and money managing problems (all drinking and no saving) most, i'd say... but still, salaries are a joke and social mobility is virtually inexistent.
How about Japan? What are salaries, vacations and salaries like?
This I can believe, Brazilian friend
Luis Davis
You don't need cars to live. You only think so because you're from the USA, which is understandable there but as I said, this isn't the reality in Switzerland.
Switzerland is a planet of its own. I miss it a lot...
It's even noticeable how life is much better there when compared to a place like Germany.
>How many hours are you guys actually obligated to work?
Jacob Barnes
It is literally one valley and a weird castle/house on the hillside
Adrian Brooks
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Joseph Watson
dowan't look much better around 5,000 people live in vaduz
Brayden Perez
>officially reported hours
Why are you so autistic you are here 24/7 to post this exact same chart in response to the exact same question?
Japanese officially reported hours are suspiciously always below the declining max work hour per week law.
Ask yourself why this is so. Ask yourself why so many still die of overwork that Japan has its own phrase?
Jack Bennett
Being a gaijin in Japan means while you may never be accepted by some people, you also aren't expected to take on most of the cultural shit including working yourself to death. There are more and more younger Japanese who are rejecting this cancerous corporate culture but they also do at the expense of being kind of shunned in a way. You can live and work in Japan without having to work 70 hours a week and be perfectly happy, financially secure, etc. Basically don't fall for the rat race. There is more to Japan than inner city work life.
Kayden Myers
>muh unreported same thing
Chase Hughes
>officially reported hours They are not officially reported hours Those figures inlcude: paid overtime unpaid overtime hours worked in additional jobs time not worked because of public holidays annual paid leave own illness injuries temporary disabilities maternity leave parental leave schooling training slack work strike labour disputes bad weather compensation leave and "other reasons" and it's only actual working hours for people in employment, in full-time, part-time and part-year workers.
Grayson Bell
>japaneseruleof7 The guy is a tool who writes clickbait for those too cynical for regular clickbait.
Jacob Carter
>There is more to Japan than inner city work life.
Inaka life then? I'd unironically love to live in a small cozy japanese village with "nothing to do".
Cooper Ramirez
There is more to Japan than inner city and the sticks. Suburbs and small towns exist, よ。
Aren't those .... considered Inaka too? Or do you mean places like Aomori or what? Just give me an idea please.
Ryder Flores
I read a bit of this and I saved it cuz i'll mos def read it later. Sounds like what I expected, but, it doesn't really specify what kind of job I'd have to have to earn each salary, except for the "line of poverty" salary that you can expect as an Eikaiwa teacher (You suceeded at crushing my dreams by showing me this: Being a native english/spanish teacher is probably the only job I'll be doing in Japan if I'm ever to take the big leap-of-faith and try me luck there lol)
Evan Wood
>Ask yourself why so many still die of overwork that Japan has its own phrase? karousi is not a epidemiological term (i.e. is not something that you'd find in the DSM-5 nor the ICD-10, and of course is not even being considered for the ICD-11) but a sociological one, and anyways the fact that the Japanese have a term for "death by overwork" doesn't necessarly mean that it's most prevalent there, for example the word "stress" (in its modern sense) is literally a loanword from English in Spanish (estrés) and Japanese (ストレス ) and as you can see it's even written in katakana in Japanese, does that mean that Mexican, Chilean and Japanese people never experienced or experience less stress because they never have a word for it, not very likely, the word "stress" (again in its modern biological sense) was coined by an Austro-Hungarian man that grew up in Slovakia and Czechia and was later naturalized Canadian, does that mean that stress is more prevalent in Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary or Canada compared to the rest of the world or that Japanese and Mexicans workers never felt stress because they didn't have a word for it, seems implausable. Another example, the term "NEET" was coined and popularized by British sociologists and economists, doesn't necessarly mean that NEETS are more common in the UK.
Jayden Moore
the biggest reason why it's less than you think is there are many “old people” and women work few hours per day in Japan
there are too many people thinking like “Japan sure is cheating!”
Jordan Moore
>exhaustive working schedules
Easton Butler
>and study?
Matthew Butler
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Ian Jones
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Mason Baker
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Lucas Green
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Easton Mitchell
>mexiweeb hour please stop
Mason Jenkins
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Isaac Bennett
DO YOU LOVE JAPAN?
Matthew Diaz
no
Carter Clark
it's fine to not love Japan
Joseph Gutierrez
wey al menos hablas japonés o qué pedo? cuál es tu plan o qué?
Jayden Cook
Do you love Japan?
Asher Peterson
Post the craziest most unusual most delicious food in your country, anons!
Adam Ross
no
Cooper Cox
eso de abajo es una tortilla?
Grayson Edwards
I sure, do. Anime is one of the few sources of light and happiness in my life. I owe you guys, that :') Unpopular Cheesy statement incoming: I love the world, actually :D
Carson Morris
you should go back
Nathaniel Cruz
Thing about japanese suburban and rural life is that you aren't so separated from other areas of living.
Juan Wilson
I love japan and I don't care what anyone says it's the coolest country in the whole world
