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    Japans tödliche Hektik erlebt eine düstere Rückkehr

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    1. Gadshill on

      3am is pretty much insane.

      > Takaichi summoned her team for a meeting. With a casual 3am calltime. She also urged her labour minister to relax the rules on overtime work.

    4. arqoi_ascendant on

      >“I’ll abandon work-life balance.”

      >That was Japan’s new far-right Prime Minister’s victory speech vow.

      “Our demographics are so bad we’re losing a million people every year, and you know what? We can do worse. In fact, I promise to make it worse! Just for the love of the game.” 10/10

    5. helican on

      >“I’ll abandon work-life balance.”

      How can people be that stupid? _No life, just work until you can’t anymore and just die from overwork or commit suicide. Sounds like a good deal?_
      Not to mention the toll it takes on ones mental health. Look up karoshi.

    7. Acrobatic-Celery-474 on

      Let them. Japan’s societal collapse will be studied forever. How one of the most prosperous countries on earth died out. How Japanese people became extinct.

    8. k_shigure on

      Worked in Japan for well over a decade and there’s nearly zero correlation between hours on the job and productivity. It’s pure theater.

    9. eightbitfit on

      Well isn’t this ironic. We hired the lawyer in this video to take care of an issue in our former company in Japan. Most ironic perhaps for readers here is the problem wasn’t with the Japanese office, or Japanese management or work rules – it was an American CIO who caused the trouble.

    10. big-papito on

      Seems like Japan was JUST leaving behind this performative hard worker bullshit, but I guess it’s harder to kill a tradition over there than it is Thanos.

    11. ertaboy356b on

      Just make mandatory overtime 300% of the base rate. Let’s see if that overwork culture won’t disappear overnight.

    13. litetaker on

      I know this is not the most important observation from the article, in fact it’s not even about the content of the article but its formatting. Why are all the paragraphs so short, have only 1-2 sentences? Feels like the entire article was written with a lot of help from AI.

    14. Ok_Camp_7051 on

      Weird how it’s easier to see and solve other’s problems more than our own. 

    15. Roselily808 on

      Doesn’t Japan have an problem with people committing suicides?
      If I had to work insanely long hours where I wouldn’t have any free time to spend with family nor tend to hobbies, I’d want to kill myself too.

      I cannot imagine that the productivity is all that better with the long work hours.

    16. Tess47 on

      I worked for a Japanese company in the US and I will never ever buy a Japanese vehicle.  Ever ever.  

    20. noisyboy on

      It is such a weird combo of factors. Japanese are not making enough babies. They don’t want immigrants. They don’t like too many tourists. But they need working people. So who did they choose? Somebody who won’t bring in people from outside and instead will make them work harder. So lesser and lesser people, more and more people getting old who keep working harder till death. Basically an ever expanding country-scale old age home without the retirement or fun and games bit. Makes total sense.

    21. lfo_jimmy on

      I’ve recently gone from relatively high positions in engineering firms, consulting firms and public service to a home business, and I think I can confirm what I’ve always suspected:

      Healthy humans have 4 to 5 hours of good, productive sit-down desk work in ‚em per day, including non-personal phone calls, ideally in one stretch.

      Past that, everything is social transaction.

    22. liquidmini on

      Couple of years pass…

      „Why has the birth rate dropped to nothing?“

      And yet still politically, venomously anti-immigration. 

    23. JohnTomorrow on

      Japan, since its cultural inception, has been all about groupism. On an island wracked by natural disasters, you had to work together or you’d go under, and their culture evolved under that premise – support the collective, deny the individual. Cue modern day, and this is what happens – people wiling their lives away waiting for their bosses to knock off so *they* can knock off, then going out drinking with their boss because thats just what you do to build camaraderie, sleep for three to four hours, rinse and repeat.

      No wonder they’re abandoning their culture for a better life abroad. You cannot stay sane in that situation. But with something so systemic, can they adjust before they do irreparable damage?

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