There are things we have to do the old way and I think that's bad.
A single person has too much work to do.
My work starts at 8:50 but I am at work from 7:30
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Japanese can't say clear yes or no
I think that's a problem of Japanese People
What can Japanese not say? - Americans say what they want
when they want to say it. We should too.
We are too stiff. - Stiff?
That's the impression I have. Foreign Xmas is so colorful
and such. - It certainly is. - I admire that. - Do adults
not celebrate Xmas here? - Not much. Just a dinner
More colorful? - A bigger xmas tree and such
Make it more sparkly. I wish we had that.
How was your last Xmas? - We ate sushi?
Wow Sushi for Xmas how Japanese! Merry Christmas
here is some fatty tuna. - We are not as friendly
i think in Japan. - Friendly to strangers? - Yes and also
between girls and boys there is a wall.
You can't just hang with boys? - I feel like I can't
Pre-set notions are too strong. There are ways
how things have to be done.
When you go to University you have to apply for work during that time.
I dislike pre-set notions like these personally
I don't think I HAVE work straight after uni.
I want to choose where I want to go, like America etc
I don't like that we have to do things the traditional way.
I think that's a common trait and people don't dare to stray from the path
I wish we would understand that we all can live more freely instead
It's better. - Being different is difficult?
It's better than before. - But the life in the US is very different to the US
And the distance we put up between people
Our culture can be a pain sometimes
it's so different. - What's bad about US culture then?
I think the streets are very dirty there...
Nobody seems to clean them. Maybe there are big income differences
or something. So many homeless people are there,
the economy seems to be bad. Also its a freedom loving society
and I'd be worried to get sued for something small.
So it's easier to live in Japan but it's less fun here.
That's a Japanese thing.
I think Japanese people should be able to take more holidays
We Japanese work way too much. I don't think we should
have to work that much. I sometimes wonder myself. - So in Japan
it's still hard to take holidays, thinking of colleagues and such
is that still a problem? - The work a single person has to handle
is often too much. That means
that if one person wants to take a day off, another person will
get double the workload to do.
I think we should split the amount of work better - Instead of one
person having too much. - Yes too much.
I hate the rush hour trains. - You have to be on them. - I do.
Oh no what train? - The Chuo Line. - That's always delayed in the morning
It's generally at least 5-10 mins delayed. - Do you have a rush hour tip?
Go early. - Earlier than anyone? - I leave the house at 6
What? - No way! - My work starts
around 8:50 but I arrive
at 6:30 - Wow you go super early to work. - That's my plan
And so you miss rush hour. Can you go out earlier because you arrive early?
No I can't. - What? You change your life cycle around the train rush hour
I do. - I can't change it but our winters are so cold.
Haha - Those were our questions. Thank you
Thank you again (sorry director edited that in twice)
Three things that foreigners generally hate about Japan: One of them is KAROUSHI
that is the word for "the death through work" in Japan, Japanese people
work so much that the death through work has become an actual word
because many people suffer or perish from that. Some people
work here so much that they get sick, there is lots of depression and lots of suicides as well
because people work a lot more than the average in other countries. That is a very sad
fact that many people criticize. The government tries to change this by makin for example
unpaid over time a thing that shouldn't happen in companies...
they try to track down on it, still many companies make their workers work a lot
of extra hours. Hopefully in the future we can crack down on that and people work
more human hours. Number 2 connected to that is vacation. Japanese
people generally don't get as many holidays and if they do, they sometimes
save them up instead of sick days - instead of taking a sick day they take their holiday
which means in the end people do not take consecutive days off. There are
general holidays, vacation days on bank holidays and similar but
other holidays are not taken. They are saved up and at the end of the year you have to either
use them up or they expire, I have seen people around me just having their holidays
expire because they couldn't find a date off. Takin two weeks off in a row is almost
unthinkable. Most of my Japanese friends said if they took two weeks off in a row,
their seat wouldn't be on their desk anymore when they came back from that holiday and that's again another sad
fact that people work a lot and they can't take holidays to balace that out. So
I hope that's a thing we can change about the future of Japan because I think a people would be a lot
happier if they got a little bit more time to rest. Number 3, sticking with
the working hierarchy is a big thing here in Japan. Which means the person that is
older and has done a certain job longer is higher in priority and his hierarchy.
That is generally not a bad thing, I agree with the "respect your elders" thing
however in many jobs and companies, it is that the head of the company is very old and
very high up and doesn't catch up to the newest trends, which means new ideas and innovative
new ideas sometimes never reach the top, because they can't make it understood.
Certain things like... how do you explain to someone the benefits of YouTube when
a certain person never watches YouTube, doesn't use it or maybe even don't interact
much with the internet. These kind of things can block new creative and innovative ideas so I hope
in the future things will change a little bit up, so people of all generations can raise
their opinions more easily in a work environment. These were a couple of things that are
not so good about Japan. But still we love this country very much. Constructive criticism
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