CONS of living in japan 🇯🇵

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[geekdiggy]

japan: why is our birth rate so low?
also japan:

[QveenRex]

Japan really seems like a beautiful illusion

[RSidd]

Japan became the most advanced nation in the 80s and is still stuck there.

[xcel]

When the idea is good: it's "our" idea
When the idea is bad: it's your fault

[Cyhcguhgb]

I asked my Japanese teacher how she experienced living in Japan. Her first word was "opression" 💀

[thecollector]

I saw this video recently: day in a life of a Japanese office worker.

The office worker in question worked at some kind of ad agency. She and a group of her colleagues spend an hour or more every morning going through hundreds of newspapers and magazines searching for certain topics that concerned their company...

My firm does the same but it takes only few minutes: it's called Google alert.

[JoaoPessoa]

"afraid they'll get pregnant" IN A BABY BUST?!

[remmyfatal]

It's so crazy to me how often I hear about japan harming itself just because older people hate the idea of change! With each passing year a country that seemed so advanced feels as if it's falling behind.

[Mary-shbp]

My godmother’s children are half-Japanese. They live in Japan and when they visited us here in America, I was surprised that her daughter kept getting emails and calls from her boss saying that she should come soon. She was only here for 1.5 weeks because that was the maximum her company gave her. Like, what?! 😅

[madebyvnailla]

Not to mention how the legal system in Japan is actually a joke. If you told an officer you have been assaulted they would straight up laugh at you its quite concerning and declining in Japan’s progress of being a better country. People don’t understand that the reason Japan’s assault rates are low is because women are too afraid to speak up about rape and assault.

[akritiishere]

I interviewed for a Japanese company once and they said I change companies too frequently and should stick to working only in one for at least 7-8 years. Even when my resume clearly said that I had experience of 5 years from only one company.
In my culture, we look for growth in company while in Japanese companies, I think they prioritise loyalty.

[ncl]

Discrimination based on sex and age is still a big thing in many countries

[yuzurucorner]

The ducktape solution thing is so right!! We are so lagging in innovation due to the amount of bureaucratic insanity too. People in power don't care to change anything, or do anything out of the box, so we end up adopting ideas from other people 10 years late.

[immimfromnailsworth]

You're spot on on this one! I also remember the frustration a Japanese American boss had with his sales team who stretched out the working day. "They sit there chatting, just chatting!", he'd complain to me the interpreter.

Oh and the sucking air between teeth has become a habit almost every man in a suit seems to do these days - huge ick while interpreting! Convey your sentiments through words, not bodily noise 💀

[littleblueclovers]

Born & raised in Japan, and 95% of the reason I moved to the US is because I couldn’t handle the work culture. There are so many social rules, cruel employers are passive-aggressive or condescending, and you need to know “keigo” the office language (which is a different and more formal/respectful vocab than regular japanaese, etc)

I love the place, but work life is brutal there (although they tend to be a bit more accommodating for people who look visibly foreign)

[nobreathing]

Explains why the economy is so bad in Japan now. Old habits and out dated work force methods are finally catching up post covid. The country is literally relying on tourism and foreign companies while still complaining about them.

[elishachua]

I wonder what traditional Japanese employers or bosses would think about employees who actually show up everyday until late at night at the office but won't actually work but just hang out most of the time at the office. Because their overtime culture is so unreasonable.

[MrJohnnyYang]

Just came back from japan yesterday, as a tourist, it was beautiful and i loved everything about it. But when i talked to some of the locals about if they love living in japan, they all said no and would rather live in america because it has more freedom. That was a shocker.

[mg]

When i was in school in the 90s in Australia we were taught japanese fornour language elective because everyone thiught japan was gonna be a huge deal in future business

[reneecrotty]

Yep! I’m an Aussie who lived in Japan I only went to Highschool for a few months but I remember thinking they are sooo old fashioned!!! It’s like you are living with a 1950s society with neon lights slapped everywhere to make people think it’s futuristic but they live in the past.