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Weird Japan V - Working

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Because I was kept wearing sausages in recent times in the truest sense of the word on the go, with some delay once again a report from the land of hints cats, cell phone charm and Toilettenschlapfen, where soy sauce to Munich white sausage eating (again, a dark side of globalization) and the English language daily outrageous cruelties inflicted (who guesses what Makudonarudo, Datsu Baa, Banira Soosu and Kyandi are, can get a Hello Kitty cell phone chain!).

Today I want to address the issue, which the Japanese devotes about 90% of his life: work. As my colleague has a little expressed succinctly: "The Japanese like to work!" - "Like work" translates as 10 to 12 hours of work per day, at times also on the weekend.

"Pfoah!" Thinks now of the Central European officials and frightened before the nightmarish conditions. But wait! Not so fast! How could I know of several books on Japan, though the Japanese workers spend the most time, in a comparison of work, what the average Productivity in this period concerns, however, he finds himself in the midfield but again ... in effect means that the Japanese (of course, the Japanese girl, really, but because of the patriarchal and macho corporate structure rather the Japanese) as the Europeans, his 8 hours work and 4 hours mainly so that spends, but not to leave even the first to place of work - because industry is only about working hours, performance is defined. I imagine in practice something like this before: in

site Otemachi. Photo: Coala.

also the Japanese population in recent years, plagued by the scourge of rising unemployment - but unlike other countries, will find only discussed loudly on employment offensives, one can observe the actual implementation on every street corner. An estimated 10 percent of the Japanese population of working age working as a street or billboard or as a guide and a further 5% will be paying to have them yell at passers-by.

Ok, he works as a guide - but he has a lightsaber!

It is a sickening sight, under how inhumane conditions, the residents have to work one of the richest industrialized nations of the world:

A combination of Job unworthy billboard and Barker.