Worst Mistakes Foreigners in Japan Do at Work... Watch before you go!

Avoid these mistakes working in Japan and you might save your work! If you are interested in working in Japan you might need to know these Japan work etiquette tips!

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[jpx]

Worst mistakes foreigners make: thinking Japan is fair to workers... :) Thank you!

[vollstaendingennamen]

no. people having heat strokes because of the attire they have to wear to work does not show how important it is, it shows how stupid it is.

[phased-arraych.]

Sounds like a pain to work as a salaryman in Japan.

[yusalcido]

I'm sorry, but I rather be called a bad foreigner and bullied at work rather than working over time. There are people who are dying because of that, it's not healthy.

[arsenalftw]

So basically, if you want a personal life, don't work in Japan.

[ronsorage]

Asian people have way less Apocrine glands which are mostly in the arm pits and perianal areas. Also in 80 to 90% of east Asian population the ABCC11 gene is non-functional. This not only determines apocrine gland size and activity, but also causes dry type earwax oddly enough. So in those areas there is less sweat and body odor.

[LOGofANIME]

Honestly any desire or interest in working or living in Japan long term just doesn't appeal to me any more. Maybe for a vacation but I couldn't live there with so many rules and roadblocks like that.

[chrisstewart]

Some of these rules are just common sense, some are just stupid but I just can't get over the Japanese expectation of live to work not work to live.

[goldenresin]

This explains a big part of the low birth rates and lack of intimacy in relationships

[rondar]

When you work for a Japanese company you indeed see they work so hard but VERY inefficient. So much hierarchy and approval process is needed for the simplest of tasks. Assertive behaviour is ABSOLUTELY NOT ACCEPTED and can even cause you losing your job. For very simple things or decisions you need to ask before you move and the person you ask, asks to someone else and it goes on. Before you start doing something you spend so much time for planning and making meetings for this. A task that can potentially be done in a couple of hours can take many days in Japan and that is why they need to work so much overtime because they can not finish what they have due to this system. But hey it is their way of work and they don't complain.

[tack]

Thank cameraman for your hard work, climbing up hills and stairs.

[jamesbromstead]

I was working an assignment at one of our contract manufacturers in China, when an issue with a Japanese customer came up. Being the closest engineer, I was told to assess the problem. Well after a week in China, I had no clean cloths, only jeans and polo's (cloths that are acceptable in a factory). Oh and I had no business card left. Oh and to top it off, I am bearded. Yes, I was very much out of place. But the engineers and managers of our customer understood. But still they openly called me the "Cowboy" (did I mention my company was based in Texas?)

[michaelcollins]

Japan sounds like a really bad place to go to work. For me, a job is just job....it is not my life.

[alejandroblanco]

whatever it is, im not saying goodbye to my holidays just so they feel harmony, I don't live to work.

[yunami]

Great and helpful video, thank you! I will start working in Tokyo next year and trying to mentally prepare myself. However, it will be in a German company (I am German), so I will have it a bit easier when it comes to the holiday and overtime rules, which is a huge relief. Maybe working in a company of your homecountry or generally a European company with a site in Japan might be a good alternative for some of you guys? Good luck everybody!

[Primusaur]

Punctuality is not as important as the Japanese would have you believe or they would figure out how to leave work on time and be punctual.

[ojyochan]

How important is not taking vacation? I actually quit my job and they just gave all my work to my coworker. She asked them to hire me back. Poor Hitomi-san 😢

[Xubuntu]

As a neurodivergent person, I've struggled my whole life to fit in to the employement system in the United States. I was in my late forties when I finally found a place where I could survive, if not thrive. I shudder to think what the narrow, rigid, arbitrary norms of Japan do to people whose brains don't fit them. I used to dream of living and working in Japan. Now I'm glad I never went.

[someone]

Typical japanez: "Leave early, look rude. No team spirit"

Me fcking off on time every day: "Osakini baibai desu"

[SIN]

Is nobody going to mention the weird CG thing strolling around on-screen the Holidays section on 3:24? Aight...