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If there's any international wonder why the Japanese allow themselves to be immersed in such a bloody hard-working job culture, so much so that death by overwork had to actually become a SOCIAL PHENOMENON and not a case of "duh, cause and effect?", I found one reason why.
Holidays. The Japanese are shitting federally recognized holidays out their asses. And if they're not excuses to tell people to finally not go to work for once, they're excuses to throw big-ass festival bashes in their local schools and/or neighborhoods.
(On a related note, I'm pretty sure "taking it easy" is a socially recognized crime in the Japanese corporate world.)
We Americans are even lucky to get one holiday per month that allows for anything as long as a three-day weekend, right? The Japanese laugh at such weak attempts to say "Thank you" to American citizens, because while there's the single-day holiday here and there every once in a while, there are also two weeks of back-to-back holiday fun, colloquially known as the "Golden Week" and the "Silver Week." Man, those Japanese really sure know how to say, "We don't want you dead from work fatigue overload... yet!"
American capitalism would either probably collapse, or see a super-spike in profits if it had a similar thing.
By the way, Silver Week is actually next week. I'm pretty excited, because it means I get to SLEEP IN for a week, instead of force myself to wake up inbetween the hours of 6am and 7am every goddamn weekend.
Holidays. The Japanese are shitting federally recognized holidays out their asses. And if they're not excuses to tell people to finally not go to work for once, they're excuses to throw big-ass festival bashes in their local schools and/or neighborhoods.
(On a related note, I'm pretty sure "taking it easy" is a socially recognized crime in the Japanese corporate world.)
We Americans are even lucky to get one holiday per month that allows for anything as long as a three-day weekend, right? The Japanese laugh at such weak attempts to say "Thank you" to American citizens, because while there's the single-day holiday here and there every once in a while, there are also two weeks of back-to-back holiday fun, colloquially known as the "Golden Week" and the "Silver Week." Man, those Japanese really sure know how to say, "We don't want you dead from work fatigue overload... yet!"
American capitalism would either probably collapse, or see a super-spike in profits if it had a similar thing.
By the way, Silver Week is actually next week. I'm pretty excited, because it means I get to SLEEP IN for a week, instead of force myself to wake up inbetween the hours of 6am and 7am every goddamn weekend.