Why does Japan work so hard? | CNBC Explains

1. Advertising suicides could be common enough considering the lack of work life balance

2. well im not sure if they need people to boycott their companies to "save them", we always assume "boycotting sweat shops product" and "banning companies with poor employee rights" can save the poor employees. We do that to all other companies from all around the world, japan is the special one that we accepted it was "their culture".

3. I find it hard to believe that they have low productivity vs other G7 nation considering that they lead in innovation and automation

4. PAP say this is not correct. Only Singaporeans work hardest, they attend meetings all day and only make collective decision so no one gets blamed and everyone prays to LKY

5. …exactly..why..work for a sob thats gonna f@k ur future..
   can only be for stupidity if they dont move away…to another country

6. As a matter of fact, Japanese people are getting girlfriends and living their lives happily ever after, while the loser non-Japanese who are jealous of Japan are delusional about Japanese people working 18 hours a day
   Japan's working hours and suicide rate are both below the European average

7. It's crazy. Nearly ever study shows that over-working is counterproductive. Yet big corporations still do it.

8. That's why they can produce a state-of-art car like toyota. I hope they never change.

9. Its all they know

10. Most of case, Constructive stuffs that Japanese workforce do against to these issues is nothing.

    How do they deal with it?
    it's with "Sharing complaints by with the drinking alcohol with colleagues" as like the reporter picked up in this video.

11. 仕事サボってるけど給料もらえてるわ。。

12. Japan must be the first country in history to have a work vice rather than a work ethic. 😆

13. Where my lazy foreigners at ✊

14. China is better

15. Me on my way to work at dentsu night shift😂😂

16. I am Japanese, and there are indeed too many unnecessary tasks and meaningless long meetings in Japan. The old notion that long hours of work are virtuous should be abandoned. Few companies allow employees to leave on time, and overtime is almost always expected.（When you actually check the option 'companies where you can basically leave work on time' on job search websites, only a few companies remain.）

    While some issues could be resolved if each worker could efficiently work without being swayed by others, in Japan, standing out or asserting oneself strongly is not welcomed, so one must navigate relationships with others carefully to avoid disrupting them.

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18. I miss my wife

19. Next Video theme – "Why americans are so lazy ?"

20. I googled 'dentsu suicide'.
    And Wikipedia asked me 'which one'.

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