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@mrsaturday @sugarbell @Moon @izaya classic approach to work is pretty garbage yeh, and having to wear suits sucks, but lots of young people are pretty fed-up with that stuff, so feels like it's changing a bit now
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@mrsaturday @izaya @sugarbell my personal experience is very out of date
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@Moon @izaya @sugarbell I visited in 2003 so mine is very out of date, but after two weeks there I became convinced it's a pretty rotten environment to live in. Very stifling and if you fall through the cracks, you're not getting out.My wife had a high school friend that married a Japanese exchange student and it ended in divorce because of how differently they handle marriage. Family is more of a mutual support system, where the wife supports the husband's career and the husband supports the wife's home life and child-rearing. Distance between husband and wife is to be expected because working those long, grueling hours means you're a good and loyal husband and father. If they never see one another apart from sleeping, that doesn't matter. It's easy to see why so many turn down relationships or check out of society entirely.
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@Moon @sugarbell @izaya Speaking up and "acting out of turn" is also a pretty bad taboo there. Stuff that would make an American rip into their boss, they just shoulder and tell themselves it's a normal part of life. The same line of thinking they have that keeps crime low is the same one making them live out of hotels for months and work 90 hour weeks. You know your place and your place is your worth, so you'd better not do anything that would let you fall a rung or two down the ladder.The social cohesion only looks good to us from afar because we're fed BS from their media and the country's clean and well-kept. It's actually pretty awful once you get down below the surface.
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@sugarbell @izaya japanese don't report their extra hours
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