I'm a foreigner working in a Japanese factory, it's the blue collar hell, people easily work 10 or 12 hours of heavy work, some even pass out while doing so. Ironically, if you work faster and finish your job before the overwork time, you won't make as much money and you're seen as a lazy person, this is a problem that needs a profound change in mentality, people are taught since childhood to be company robots and sacrifice everything for work, it's a brainwash that you can't just get rid off by just changing a law.
If you die due to overwork, it will only take a few months for your boss and co-workers to forget about you. Our number ONE priority should be our HEALTH not our work.
It is just so heartbreaking the photos of people just sitting after work and dying there and a white mark around their bodies. It is just so sad to see it. South Korea and Japan are so so similar.
Indeed and yet, I have to wonder, did they get permission to show those? Otherwise it's technically illegal, they have to at least blur the faces out. Though, the fact they would show such images at all seems almost disrespectful to the dead...
I remember how my lab members at uni were shocked when I left the workplace at 6 pm just earlier than sensei. It was culture shock for me too)) I tend to think "work smarter not harder". Nice film, Vin, thanks
Japan currently ranks 27th in the world for hours worked per annum. Most people in the West have a skewed view of working life in Japan because they see a documentary highlighting sectors such as finance, marketing or agriculture in which overtime is rampant throughout the world. Such documentaries or UA-cam videos cast their cameras on these sectors and claim "This is Japan"...when that is only a part of Japan. It's estimated that 70% of Japanese workers commute to work by train. Japan Rail's statistics reveal that the evening hour between 5~6pm is the busiest in train stations throughout Japan. This data corroborates OECDs data which shows that Japan ranks 27th in the world for hours worked per annum and that the average Japanese worker works 40 hours per week. The Internet is rife with misinformation that gets perpetuated as truth by dint of repetition. You can't find a video on Japan without the comment section being full of comments on Japan's toxic work culture and rampant overtime. The thing is videos about father coming home at 6 Monday to Friday, going to his sons baseball game on Saturday and his daughters piano recital on Sunday don't get made, because they don't make for very compelling documentary material. It's the same thing with the suicide rate. Currently it's 15.3 persons per 100,000. By comparison America's is 16.1...Belgium's is 18.3. South Korea's is 28.6. Where are the videos of Belgiums suicide crisis. Perhaps you could explain why foreigners fetishise Japan's suicide rate. Is it's association with Samurai culture or the Yakuza? Is it that people want to have something negative to say about Japan because people heap praise on it as a cohesive society? What is it exactly that a country that ranks 25th in the world for suicide rate gets so much attention for suicide rates? I'm not trolling...I'd really like to understand the mindset of that focus.
Wait in Japan your pay is based on how long you've worked at a particular company?! I mean I can see the logic behind it but at the same time that means if you get fired for some reason you're forced to start all the way back at the bottom again! It also means you can never quit or find another job if you decide you would rather work for a different company or if you find your current boss/company to be exploitative. That's messed up.
Say what you want but I'll take a society with internet cafes manga and real music over society with drugs murder and deep-seated racial hatred any day
Lmao now this comment you are delusional. Get out of your glorified idealized version of this country. Internet cafe are mostly used by salary men TO SLEEP IN becayse they dont have enough time to go home to their families after work, people also live in cafes because rent in toyko is extremely unaffordable. Japan has murder, drugs AND rascism actually if you are a foreign person which im assuming you must be you will not be accepted in Japanese society. Your ignorance is sad but just goes to show weebs only glorify what they dont want to understand.
@@msmaria5039 Both of those statements are true and there are more. I was planning to eventually move to Japan and live their for a while, but decided to just stay there for a few months on a student Visa.
Isn't it worth it though? all that hard work and you get to see the tangible results of it because you and every other citizen tries to be good he gets to live in a society that is as well as it is!
Sure its cool and all til your start working, and your boss hate you (verbal abuse), and you cant leave that work + you are so overworked that you would rather die
I'm a foreigner working in a Japanese factory, it's the blue collar hell, people easily work 10 or 12 hours of heavy work, some even pass out while doing so. Ironically, if you work faster and finish your job before the overwork time, you won't make as much money and you're seen as a lazy person, this is a problem that needs a profound change in mentality, people are taught since childhood to be company robots and sacrifice everything for work, it's a brainwash that you can't just get rid off by just changing a law.
Japan become a rich nation but at a high cost. This is why so many manga have the protagonist dreaming of a nice peaceful life.
A lot of mangaka has been arrested of phedophelia.
And protagonists dies due to overworking
@@zenithchan1646literally average isekai tropes
If you die due to overwork, it will only take a few months for your boss and co-workers to forget about you. Our number ONE priority should be our HEALTH not our work.
Sad but true.
It is just so heartbreaking the photos of people just sitting after work and dying there and a white mark around their bodies. It is just so sad to see it. South Korea and Japan are so so similar.
Indeed and yet, I have to wonder, did they get permission to show those? Otherwise it's technically illegal, they have to at least blur the faces out. Though, the fact they would show such images at all seems almost disrespectful to the dead...
@@RainbowEssence-c3w they all look the same anyway
I remember how my lab members at uni were shocked when I left the workplace at 6 pm just earlier than sensei. It was culture shock for me too)) I tend to think "work smarter not harder". Nice film, Vin, thanks
Thank you Bota! 🙏🏻
Being a rich country is not good.
We succeeded, but at what cost?
happiness
@@kaito9907death
Japan currently ranks 27th in the world for hours worked per annum. Most people in the West have a skewed view of working life in Japan because they see a documentary highlighting sectors such as finance, marketing or agriculture in which overtime is rampant throughout the world. Such documentaries or UA-cam videos cast their cameras on these sectors and claim "This is Japan"...when that is only a part of Japan. It's estimated that 70% of Japanese workers commute to work by train. Japan Rail's statistics reveal that the evening hour between 5~6pm is the busiest in train stations throughout Japan. This data corroborates OECDs data which shows that Japan ranks 27th in the world for hours worked per annum and that the average Japanese worker works 40 hours per week. The Internet is rife with misinformation that gets perpetuated as truth by dint of repetition. You can't find a video on Japan without the comment section being full of comments on Japan's toxic work culture and rampant overtime. The thing is videos about father coming home at 6 Monday to Friday, going to his sons baseball game on Saturday and his daughters piano recital on Sunday don't get made, because they don't make for very compelling documentary material. It's the same thing with the suicide rate. Currently it's 15.3 persons per 100,000. By comparison America's is 16.1...Belgium's is 18.3. South Korea's is 28.6. Where are the videos of Belgiums suicide crisis. Perhaps you could explain why foreigners fetishise Japan's suicide rate. Is it's association with Samurai culture or the Yakuza? Is it that people want to have something negative to say about Japan because people heap praise on it as a cohesive society? What is it exactly that a country that ranks 25th in the world for suicide rate gets so much attention for suicide rates? I'm not trolling...I'd really like to understand the mindset of that focus.
Capitalist 101.... Japan is way ahead of our time...
Wait in Japan your pay is based on how long you've worked at a particular company?! I mean I can see the logic behind it but at the same time that means if you get fired for some reason you're forced to start all the way back at the bottom again! It also means you can never quit or find another job if you decide you would rather work for a different company or if you find your current boss/company to be exploitative. That's messed up.
BEST LIFE= DYING FROM ACCIDENT WITH TRUCK AND GOING TO ISEKAI !!!
Say what you want but I'll take a society with internet cafes manga and real music over society with drugs murder and deep-seated racial hatred any day
Lmao now this comment you are delusional. Get out of your glorified idealized version of this country. Internet cafe are mostly used by salary men TO SLEEP IN becayse they dont have enough time to go home to their families after work, people also live in cafes because rent in toyko is extremely unaffordable. Japan has murder, drugs AND rascism actually if you are a foreign person which im assuming you must be you will not be accepted in Japanese society. Your ignorance is sad but just goes to show weebs only glorify what they dont want to understand.
Brainwashed by Japanese media and entertainment?
Japan is rather cold to foreigners who go to Japan to live. It's really hard to immigrate to Japan.
both describe japan lol
@@msmaria5039 Both of those statements are true
and there are more. I was planning to eventually
move to Japan and live their for a while, but decided to
just stay there for a few months on a student Visa.
Isn't it worth it though? all that hard work and you get to see the tangible results of it because you and every other citizen tries to be good he gets to live in a society that is as well as it is!
Do you realize Japan has the highest suicide rate IN THE WORLD?! No society is perfect dont glorify this issue.
Sure its cool and all til your start working, and your boss hate you (verbal abuse), and you cant leave that work + you are so overworked that you would rather die