And the Japanese who remind you now and then that you will never be japanese in their eyes. Or the Buses that go round Tokyo once a month and chant stuff like "Japan for Japanese" and "Foreigners out". Japan is polite but still not pro migration.
@@whynot-bh6if Jesus lmao. I lived there for 6 years and never had experiences like you must. People that don’t like foreigners are a dying breed. And any incidents like this are fairly infrequent and grossly blown up. On the contrary I was invited to family Christmas celebrations at a local family owned izakaiya, invited into peoples homes, always included in pretty much everything. Everyone always friendly with me, even yakuza fairly friendly with me. And as for the Japanese that remind you you’ll never be Japanese… wellll…. You’re not! Haha. Simple as that. But it never stopped people from asking me either A: if I was part japanese(I’m Mexican and white), or B: that I must have been Japanese in my previous life. If you flow with Japanese culture your time is amazing.
@@whynot-bh6if there is a trade off. Diversity in western country brought crime, dirty city, and racial tensions. Sure there is open mindedness but good luck feeling safe in a diverse neighborhood.
tbh working rights is WAY WAY better than the US if you're a permanent employee (no idea how it compares with EU tho). I won't argue about civil rights though, xenophobia is basically everywhere, it's just mostly hidden by politeness.
Not really about rights at all. Working rights are pretty great, and I'd like to know your opinion on what major civil problems you see. Tbh, the hardest part is just the social working culture. It's pretty toxic, but as soon as you're not a grunt anymore that is mostly gone.
@@KoiKoy56 It’s the social scene for me. That country seems to be filled with pedophiles and sex offenders to the pint that it’s so normal. Groping, sexualizing young girls especially in anime and nobody does a anything about it. Cheating is also very normal and something people even laugh at. But hey, I’ve never been there so this is all conjecture.
@@iamunknownperiod3355 if you think that japans working rights is better than the US you are out of your mind. Or y are just a hater of my country. Either way f you
That’s exactly in my mind too. She said, “maybe she wants to” it means definitely a big NoGo. “I am not fit for the work system” means the work system is shit! 😂
I doubt she offended anybody watching. Many Japanese, especially young ones, hate the work culture as much as anybody. Probably more since they have to deal with it.
I’m Japanese who used to work overseas (never worked in Japan until recently). I always heard that the work culture could be so cruel. Now I am actually experiencing it everyday. Japan is such a beautiful country to visit but still haven’t felt that it’s a good country to live.
I’m Swedish and to me she doesn’t sound Norwegian, she sounds like a native German speaker to me! But yeah same case for all of our countries, all of our benefits are hard to beat 😅
Mad respect for anyone who can figure early on that they don't fit into a working system/culture. Took me years to realize that it's okay to look for better opportunities or not be into that hustle culture
@@samurai_8917nah there is a word "improvement" to describe that. Woke is when you inject divisive things into public space such as transgender issue in a beer commercial etc.
@@Tonixxy its only divisive to you because you dislike or outright hate trans folks, if you ever actually stopped to talk to a trans person or befriend one youd realize they dont stand to gain anything by being trans and all they want is to be treated like humans.
This is why it's probably best to have a solid work-from-anywhere kind of job via a laptop. That way you can still enjoy the culture, without the need to be in the thick-of-it in terms of work. I still would love to visit one day. Either by trip or travel while working.
They place too much value on working to the detriment of the body, the family, and to mental health. They're literal slaves in this system, it seems. Life is short, and Japanese put much emphasis on obtaining luxuries or working, like much of Asia, not realizing that value in life has nothing to do with material possessions. Having free time is always better than working long days for a company.
@@willp.8120 Well said👍👍👍. I am Asian. Yes, you got that right. Value of a human being or his/her life has nothing to do with how many possessions one has. Sadly many asian countries follow a materialistic way of life. Only a certain percentage of some of those asian cultures refuse to participate in that shallow and toxic mindset. Some western cultures have more people who follow minimslist life style than many asian cultures. East or West I refuse to participate in workoholic and materialistic way of life. I was born and raised in Asia and immigrated to Europe later. Europe is materialistic too 😢😢 but I feel people have more work/life balance and I know many people who are into a minimalist life style.
I worked for a certain japanese gas company for the entire duration of my contract and the expiration of my visa. I was asked many months in advance to start the paperwork to renew my visa but i was done after just a few years. I love Japan, its a fantastic place but as a Dane, you'll always be an outsider and I desperately needed to go back to a sane working schedule that allows you to sleep a full 8 hour cycle.
And at the end of the day they aren't wven paying you much. At least in yhat third wolrd country of US of A you have opportunity to earn significantl ammounts
The USA has definitely become a third world country on the city streets. The stores currently remain fully stocked, but should that ever change...yikes
I work for a Japanese company and the toughest issue I notice is that I am the only one who speaks up against things that I don’t agree with. The problem is that even other foreigners are not helping with any change, they are just accepting their fate and whenever I tell them that we should express our concerns I find myself again as the only person speaking up. I remember one day that Chinese guy apologizing for taking a 5 days holiday to go to his country as if he was committing a crime by demanding his paid leave. They just complain and complain without making any effort, while they can, and that is also frustrating. Recently, I have become hopeless about the situation and I even doubt if my decision coming to Japan 8 years ago was the correct choice.
@sumiben5211 I’m truly sorry for you. It takes an enormous amount of courage and fortitude to upend a stable life in your native country and move to a foreign one, and the Japanese Showa-era suicide work culture doesn’t appreciate that. Fie on your gutless co-workers, as well. I wish you the best, no matter what your decision.
I live in Japan for about 23 years and I learned the key to living a good life in Japan is NEVER WORK FOR A JAPANESE COMPANY at least get some experience and then start your own business, you will have more control over your life and you’ll be thanking yourself later, but if you want to work for a company long term in Japan for the most part you will regret it even if you get a high salary life is short and freedom is precious. Become your own entrepreneur, then you can have a fantastic life in the country.
Working with japanese is tough, but you will learn a lot. My first job was in a japanese company. They did teach me everything, business manners and so on. Best education you can get. No german company did educate me like that. I worked in a japanese company 3 years, until i had to move to a different city. Good point is, they are very professional, its never boring, you will not feel overqualified, get career options, best education, strong team work (company is more important than the individual, working as team Important -less rivality), team events as eating, drinking together. Furthermore, usually japanese companies pay for your train ticket or they pay the gasoline from you car, which you use to go to office. Bad points: They expect you to do overtime, probably without payment. They like to controll/watch intensly what you work on, and if the work amount is good. You have to work exactly according to their rules or explain why you want to improve the workflow. Then everybody would have to follow the new workflow. Sometimes team events/customer visit are often and they expect you to come, which is actually not paid work (even so they pay food and drinks, but you dont get money for the time you spend). If you are a man, its more difficult to say no to drinking alcohol without being judged. Some japanese companies dont raise the salary up so much. If you are young, it doesnt matter how good you are, they would not put you in leading positions.
@@xxx9208 Ich habe japanisch mit Wirtschaft studiert. Es gibt gefühlt tausende Berufsbezeichnungen für meinen Job. In Japan würden sie OL sagen (office lady). In Deutschland Sales Coordinator oder Sales Administrator. Momentan habe ich den Titel Service Admin, denn ich bin der Abteilung Service zugewiesen. Jede Firma macht irgendwie ihr eigenes Ding.
There was a girl who lived in Korea and she said the same thing as far as the team events that happen outside of work that was basically unpaid work as well and it was expected of you to show up and drink as well and you were judged if you didn't. That's when I knew these kind of cultures were not for me I am vehemently against drinking for my own personal self I hate it and have no desire to being a culture that pressures you as a fully grown adult to do something like that just to fit in.
I worked with a guy who lived in Japan for like four years working as a teacher. The way he describes Japanese society, you get the impression is that the men are basically slaves to their jobs.
Not to mention all of the BS you have to do after work with your work colleagues. Very often after 10 hours of working you have to sit in some bar and get drunk with them. Otherwise you will be Parias.
That's exactly it... no one should have to dedicate their lives to their corporate jobs the way that Japanese companies expect you to. Even being forced to go drinking after you have worked a 12 hour day is criminal. I don't want to drink with my colleagues, especially not my boss. The work/life balance needs a heavy shift. Ikigai? Where? Because I don't think that even exists in Japan. Would love to live and work in Japan but would never work for a Japanese company.
Granted though, as an American, we have no guaranteed sick days, holiday, insurance, etc. Not even job security in general. I know people who are working three jobs right now to make ends meet. I know people who barely get to spend time with their kid because they have to work and do everything else as well. Everywhere is broken in some way, you just to figure out what you can handle.
@@DirectlyHere well, when I was in the USA my boss treated me with care also I had tons of sick days off and then I went through a Japan faze and wanted to work here So much that now that I work here the coolest Part is I sleep 4 hours a day if lucky the bad part YOU WILL BE THROWN OUT LIKE A POS in a instant with the boss yelling at you then trying to smack you with anger for missing due dates or just sick days be prepared for very low wages
I’m working in japan for year and a half now as a nurse. As they say japanese really workaholic and idk if its the culture. I was told that i can’t get 5 days holiday which is so common in my country to take vacation and off job for 5-10 days. But in japan it was like a crime to take a lot of yasumi or holiday. My bf came to japan to see me so i asked for 5days off but you know what i took 2 months work like a dog for 5days week and yet they mocked me they said i am egoistic because of me taking day off make them work more for covering me. And when i sick they can’t just easily said yes you can take a rest and going home early but they will say whats make u hurt do you have a medicine if you dont have they will gave you one so simply put they gave you medicine so you cant go home and they push you to work. Or one day i got feeling so sick and i want need a rest so i called my boss to say sorry i can’t come to work and yet what he say is whats make u feel sick and can you stand up and walk if you say yes i can they will make u go to work or if u say no they make u to go to hospital😂
It's sound like my mom she will send to me to school no matter how much sick I was or what happen to me sh will give me medicine tell me to take it in school
My sister in christ if you work in the medical environment is going to be tough almost anywhere you go. For example in Italy doctors are underpaid and work 6 days a week with turns of 12 hours and they often sleep in the hospital.
I worked 20 years for a major Japanese biomedical company and loved my job. Yes, many frustrating experiences but that would be in any company. But I certainly was given enough freedom to express my opinions openly. My job satisfaction came from helping this company develop their international business and developing friendships within the company. I became a 課長 and eventually returned to the US to help open up a US branch office. Absolutely no regrets because I think it was the perfect job for me. My advice is this. If you have skills and abilities that a Japanese company would value, you will be appreciated. I certainly took advantage of the fact I was not Japanese and so did not regularly work overtime. However, if there was a claim against a product with a major customer I had no problem working into the early morning to help resolve. The reason they hired me was because I wasn't Japanese and I used that to help change the company for the better, especially in getting rid of unnecessary work by simply refusing to do it!
@@zyriously983 There are a lot of IT jobs. I heard somewhere you only needed N3 level. However, if you are hired by a foreigner company it might be different. But that's where I found in the internet
@@zyriously983 It helps to know how to communicate in Japanese. Knowing the lingo with N3 is generally enough nowadays (it used to be N2 but companies are waking up to how N2 isn't enough). You just have to avoid job agencies that target foreign talent because they often lead to black companies. I know because I experienced that. Once I started using agencies that locals used, it was much easier for me
I had no idea "unnecessary work" was such a Japanese thing, but I can attest to it as well. I worked for a Japanese company with a branch in the US, and was shocked by the amount of extra steps they had in production that ultimately didn't change the product whatsoever if skipped or modified. Even after discovering this they insisted we MUST do it the way they'd done it before but we refused, to their confusion.
I lived and worked for almost 20 years in Japan and do not recommend it to Western men. Sure, go and stay a while and have a good time while accomplishing what you intended, and then leave promptly.
Very smart decision for a young adult. Usually young adults are tricked into thinking it's "cool" and "prestigious" to work in big companies where such companies over employ younger adults because it's a known fact younger workers will tolerate bad working conditions more so than adults in their mid 30s and onwards who know better about the system etc.
If you are an employer, the common theme is to try to stay away from the young ones as they have no motivation to learn and work and as you rightfully pointed out all they are there for is the easy pay. No matter how much you want to impart knowledge and experience to them, they be asking for high pay and over promising at the interviews, when it comes to the grind they wont have a clue and don’t make an effort to make themselves as efficient as possible. Why bother learning and completing tasks in 2 minutes when you can spend 2 hours or even 2 days is the new motto these days 😮💨
Same. I'm in Japan now for vacation. I'd love to live here, but I couldn't imagine working here. I love my job and conditions back home too much. Working at home andhaving vacations here is probably better than working here and never having vacations.
Left after 7 years in Japan. It was such a weird experience to feel alive again after years of burnout, depression, mental breakdowns. I had the best years and most fun years of my life in Osaka but my advice would be to leave asap and not try to tough it out when you start spiraling. It’s not worth it. All my expats friends are leaving too, 5 years seems to be the cutoff.
Worked for a Toyota subsidiary in the USA. They wanted seven days a week for months on end. I asked several of the Japanese nationals that worked for six month stints here what they did as a hobby. They all looked at me like I was crazy. Pretty much all they do is work.
I heard about the conditions of work in Japan and how hard it would be until I came from Brazil to Japan and actually worked here. And then I realised that actually who is not used to work like this and complain are the Europeans that finish work at 17h in their countries and have time to even have hobbies (It wasn't always clear for me why and how it was normal for them practice some sport or do some art rather than the professional knowledge) 😂😂😂😂 It is easier for me to survive in Japan in a way that I would never be able to in Brazil. I work 16 hours per week here and can rent an apartment and live really good. In Brazil I worked 10 hours per day and my salary didn't pay even a decent rent, imagine a life.
I just saw the short on your channel doing sign language. Did you learn ASL or another version to use in Japan? I know there's different versions. Is that the work you do? I'm considering this (ASL) field. Any help is appreciated! 💛🌟
@@TheStepmonkey yeah, that's the problem of most people, they all think Japan and Tokyo are synonymous so all them just move to there. So of course that with the amount of people living in the same place in such a small country will be hard. This is hard in any country actually. Try to live in New York and São Paulo and it is the same.
Thank you for this comment. Finally, somebody who understands real life in Japan. Interviewing in posh areas of Tokyo...of course everything will be so expensive and neat. And in some countries, medical bill, tuition...it's so expensive to just live an ordinary life.
Long term resident here: working in Japan is a nightmare, period. Long hours, high expectations on you to have no life outside of work, having to keep the peace with b|tch@ss coworkers when they should be put in their place, low salary, long commute or having to live in a shoebox. It is rough if you’re not self employed and making racks
@@elodieelvira7913 I'm also a long-term resident and I've experienced what you've described when I was an ALT. I'm not self employed but I learned my lesson and It's way different for me now
@@marcogonzalez1795 As an ALT it was very much a "traditional Japanese company" that valued loyalty over anything else. It was deflating and unmotivating. But where I am now, I start at 10am, finish at 7pm and we get paid even with Japan's infamous "expected overtime". The pay in Japan is lower than in Australia for the same job but after things like rent, utilities, etc. I found that disposable income is about the same. When I started at my current place, they greeted me with open arms - there's a really long story behind that but I feel valued where I am now compared to before and they actually listen.
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It was just my feeling, but i often felt aggressed by this weird question. Almost everyday, just based on what your face looks like, you have someone asking you why you stay in Japan or when will you leave…without asking anything else about your situation. It makes me feel that I must leave once my stuff is finish. Even If I think that most of people ask those questions just because they have no subject of talking
Based on his interviews from previous videos, I'd assume she was probably the one to bring up to the conversation the fact that she'd be leaving the country the day after. Your point still stands though
As a Taiwanese once traveling to Japan with my best mate for ten days without buying WiFi in 2014, i cannot imagine myself living in Japan either. It's a lovely place to travel and have fun, but working and living, sorry, I'll pass.😅
Working for japanese company ruined my health so bad in a lapse of 7 years. I'm still young but after that much stress and overworking left me with the health of a 60 yo Why I didn't I leave earlier? In my country they paycheck was double than average wave and social pressure from friends and family Now all my money goes only to medical bills and medical debts
I went as a tourist and only seeing everyone, from the guy who sweeps the street to the guy who prepares your breakfast, be stiff and perfectionist to the point of barely any spontaneity, made me realize that Japan is a hard place to live for many. Westerners idolize it but many wouldn’t last a day in such a strict culture.
A few years ago the New York Times did a profile on a group of young break dancers who performed on the streets and on subway platforms for fun and tips. One of the group was a young Japanese woman, only a year or so in America. She explained that it’s unimaginable to do the same in Japan.
The feudal system was never abolished in 1878. All they did was kill off the Samurai. Everything else was retained, just morphed into something modern.
The good things about Japan are the great food, transportation, everything is fairly cheap but the working wage is very low and the apartments are very small too. Not to mention if you are a foreigner the jobs are very limited.
I did the exact same thing in Japan for four months as well in fall 2022, but I studied at Tsuru University. Great experience, but studying to become a teacher, I heard that being a teacher in Japan is pretty tough.
You need to spend more than 4 months to fully appreciate Japan. When I moved there, I was pretty meh for about 6 months until a friend who had been living there for years showed me the real Tokyo. I ended up living their for 6 years. Japanese culture and society is nuanced. There are layers of subtleties. There are also significant barriers that require time and patience to overcome. I also had no knowledge of Japanese pop cultures (weeb, otaku, anime, manga, etc) prior to my arrival. I was also there in the 90s. Surely many things have changed there, but it’s like going home for me when I visit and the quintessential Japanese / Tokyo essence remains.
I became a permanent resident of Japan and worked in Japan for 14 years, but I left because Japanese law encourages Japanese companies to hire foreigners for only 2 years 355 days or to classify them as independent contractors so foreigners even with permanent residence can never become permanent employees.
Personally, as a black female going to Japan has always been a dream of mine. Yea you could say I want to go because of its anime and culture and benefits but ik my life there would be hard. The Japanese are tolerant but doesn’t mean they like you. I know Japanese people will give me looks because of my skin color but I think if I bring a friend preferably Japanese, can speak fluently and I understand and respect their culture life can be a little more easier for a black person like me!
It's so cool to learn what stereotypes are actually a factor and need to be taken into account. That might sound a tad negative, but that is how cultural assimilation works.
back in the 1980s, working for a Japanese company was pretty nice, profits were high, bonuses were big and it was easy to get promoted and gain that precious seniority. You still had the high stress work culture but the payoff was big. Then the speculation bubble burst and it all started to slowly erode. Over the next 30 years company profits dropped, working conditions got worse and promotions and seniority took longer to get with less benefits. It now royally sucks to work for most Japanese firms.
The youth of Japan is so stressed under inflation, & a difficult work culture, that they do not want to get married, & couldn't afford to raise a family. They are severely depressed, & lonely.
@@annanguyen345 Unfortunately the leaders of the modern world are getting together & planning things against their own countrymen, the world around, like inflation, scams, crime in the name of law, non availability of jobs, costly food, shelter, housing, taxes, electricity, water, and so on, the list is endless. This shall trigger severe depression, suicidal tendencies, and last but not the least civil unrest and revolution, which shall lead to assassination of several politicians and govt.officials. Assasination of the Japanese President Shinzo Abe, is the first & foremost example of public aggression.
@@hun3408 well not exactly but some of ur assumptions are right😅,most of Japanese think like having enough financial support is the best gift that they can give to their family.. i know many people opposes this but sometimes i would personally support this when i see families ,, 1st enjoy their life and later broke financially after 2 or more kids born...
This is the same exact reason I don't want to work in Japan. Even if you give me high pay. NO. I just travel around Japan whenever I can. It's such a beautiful country, but work is toxic.
I just discovered your channel, and I love how you take the time to listen and capture the various perspectives of all kinds of people. More people need to be like this, and maybe the world would be a better place. ❤
Sure it may be the case where many companies here have a problematic work culture still, but there are also many good companies where you can balance work and life. IMO it depends more on what kind of work and company you’re at than simply whether it’s in Japan or not.
When you're young they tell you lots of lies about do what you love them you'll never work a day in your life. I tried my hardest to do that but I failed over and over and over again until there was nothing left for me to love. All my old friends got married and had families and only think of me once in awhile. So without work my days have no meaning anymore. My heart has withered and turned black, so I might as well lend my hands and my brain to an honest days work. At least there's some dignity in that.
I'm from Brazil i think that working in Japan could be a good idea, considering that Japan is a great country. Here in Brazil we have several other worse problems in addition to poor working conditions. Maybe my opinion can be common in emergent market countries.
Can you imagine seeing yourself living in Japan in the future? A friend of mine who has lived in Japan for 2 years for work (her work sent her there) said heck freaking NO. It’s not about racism. She’s white, young, smart and very pretty and had money. She said the culture is not her thing. She told me a story of her accidentally hurting a lady friends feeling a apologized and couper of days later, the lady friend still won’t talk to her and being very moody and rude. She said: First, it was an accident. Second she sincerely apologized. Yet the friend thought she didn’t apologize enough. Like she was supposed to keep apologizing over and over for something that happened by mistake and that she was already sorry and apologized for. She said that’s just 1 incident but there are countless incidents. Also she believes women have too much power in Japan. She has traveled the world and she said Japan is the only place she does not want to visit again. She just doesn’t believe in the way they do certain things.
I don't care who gets offended by this. But people thinking Japan is a Utopia are fking m0rons. Weebs so in love with anime and Japanese girls that they ignore all the other factors.
funny, my friend was the oposite reaction. He left to japan at 18 years old from EU zone and 6 years later he became japanese citizen (he had to abandon his old passport). He loves it there. If you are an introvert and like organized working conmditions you can love japan.
The offending people in Japan thing is annoying. A simple accident or miscommunication can result in someone never wanting to interact with you again (and we are talking about the most minor things and incidental errors!)
Most Asians can fit into the Japanese work culture coz most Asian countries have similar working conditions. Westerners especially Europeans who have a great work life balance wouldnt really find themselves a good fit in the Japanese work culture.
It’s normal to take home your work here and even when you receive the job description when you apply for a job, there is a mandatory 20-40 hours overtime for a month.
Why do so many people,some of whom are even half Japanese and know the language feel so out of place in Japan? Does the culture exclude outsiders or leaves them alone to themselves? Why do I never see a non Japanese or half Japanese person on your channel saying they want to live there ?
Japanese culture is very racist. If you aren’t Japanese, you will never make it there. Plus foreigners are not subservient like Japanese people are. They don’t like that. Never going back.
@ak2849 It is both of those, but primarily the first. I sometimes believe that if the Japanese government could get away with instituting Sakoku (the Edo bakufu isolationist policy) again, they would. The only thing stopping them from implementing it is that they could no longer take advantage of foreign workers. (which Japan so desperately needs), while giving them nothing in return. Not even a sense of belonging.
My first job after university was in Japan. Yes, it was tough, but the Japanese work ethic has been with me since. I feel like every place I worked thereafter was an easy workplace, and my colleagues and employers are always impressed. I credit my work habits to my time in Japan.
I think as a foreigner is more interesting and enjoyable, as a local that's on the grind all day every day, maybe not so much. I lived in Japan for 2 years so that was my experience
Reminds me of a friend. He was a HUGE weeb and obsessed with Japan, even as to study in Japan. He's Asian so he looks pretty blended with native Japanese. Two years later, he returned to his home country. I heard he couldn't finish college, he was lonely and couldn't handle living in there anymore. Even his blind obsession can't sugarcoat how hard it must've been for him..
I lived and worked in Japan for a few years and potentially whiny and demanding people aren't recieved very well by employers. Even if your arm falls off they still expect you to show up to your job.
Same girl - my semester in Kyoto exceeded my expectations. But it also confirmed my suspicions and worries about the downsides of moving there permanently as a foreigner.
The key is to not live in cities :/ I live outside of the big cities and hours are normal like European and you can feel like how was Europe before as well, a sense of community and security. Not like what we have right now in the EU with the amount of illegal immigration. Working in Big cities in Japan is like working in California. It's just plain stupid to make a choices like that, specialy when the GOV help you to move outside of the cities :/
Japan was an amazing choice for me as an entrepreneur who speaks fluent Japanese but yeah I could see how someone dependent on a paycheck who doesn’t speak fluently wouldn’t live here permanently
It is a very hard cultural change for non-Japanese. I don't recommend trying. But it is not as bad as people from other places like US or Europe think, I think they are used to not working hard so it is hard for them.
No I think japan just treats workers like shit. You cant look at the rest of the world and claim 'oh they're all wrong, we're actually in the right' xenophobic freaks bro.
I would just say try to ignore it I doubt everyone is like that in Japan it most likely just the older generation, the newer generation is more accepting
I think it in a lot of cases it probably also has something to do with the fact that even though people in Japan are nice to your face, when it really comes down to it, that niceness is only ever superficial. On anything lower than the barest, most surface level, you'll never ever EVER be anything more to them than just some gaijin foreigner. You're not allowed to ever feel like you belong, and that is INCREDIBLY alienating and hard to cope with.
To be honest it feels like they barely are friends with other japanese people as well. It's certainly worse with foreigners but it's not like they're completely different with their people either
I would love to live in Japan. However I have heard from people who were sent over there for Work from Ireland and UK, that the OT is ridicolous, even if there is nothing to do its frowned upon going home before 7pm...
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She sounds german haha
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@@Tibioodamn right my man every dude who knows just knows how woman be talking with different accents haha😂
What's her @?
People quickly realize they want to work for a living, not live only to work.
True
Japan is passing a lot of laws to change their work system and they are becoming better than the US
Yes work to live life
"Live only to work" is the reality of many Asian countries.
sadly most people live for a working instead
Work to live, don’t live to work. Life is too precious for that.
The best way is to figure out how you can play while you work. Find something where you never separate your work life from the rest of your life.
No you should enjoy your work and live to work..
No, you’ve got it upside down.
100%. If you disagree you’ve been brainwashed
Not everyone is Elon musk
Everyone is weeb about Japan until you engage in its toxic work culture.
Yamete kudasai!!!
And the Japanese who remind you now and then that you will never be japanese in their eyes. Or the Buses that go round Tokyo once a month and chant stuff like "Japan for Japanese" and "Foreigners out". Japan is polite but still not pro migration.
@@whynot-bh6if Jesus lmao. I lived there for 6 years and never had experiences like you must. People that don’t like foreigners are a dying breed. And any incidents like this are fairly infrequent and grossly blown up. On the contrary I was invited to family Christmas celebrations at a local family owned izakaiya, invited into peoples homes, always included in pretty much everything. Everyone always friendly with me, even yakuza fairly friendly with me. And as for the Japanese that remind you you’ll never be Japanese… wellll…. You’re not! Haha. Simple as that. But it never stopped people from asking me either A: if I was part japanese(I’m Mexican and white), or B: that I must have been Japanese in my previous life. If you flow with Japanese culture your time is amazing.
@@whynot-bh6if there is a trade off. Diversity in western country brought crime, dirty city, and racial tensions. Sure there is open mindedness but good luck feeling safe in a diverse neighborhood.
@@whynot-bh6ifJapan is going to have to start embracing immigration. The population is getting older and young people aren't having kids.
"Fit into the system" xd a polite way to say "I like basic civil and working rights" xd
LOL, basically that's its not basic in other countries 💀
tbh working rights is WAY WAY better than the US if you're a permanent employee (no idea how it compares with EU tho). I won't argue about civil rights though, xenophobia is basically everywhere, it's just mostly hidden by politeness.
Not really about rights at all. Working rights are pretty great, and I'd like to know your opinion on what major civil problems you see.
Tbh, the hardest part is just the social working culture. It's pretty toxic, but as soon as you're not a grunt anymore that is mostly gone.
@@KoiKoy56
It’s the social scene for me.
That country seems to be filled with pedophiles and sex offenders to the pint that it’s so normal.
Groping, sexualizing young girls especially in anime and nobody does a anything about it.
Cheating is also very normal and something
people even laugh at.
But hey, I’ve never been there so this is all conjecture.
@@iamunknownperiod3355 if you think that japans working rights is better than the US you are out of your mind. Or y are just a hater of my country. Either way f you
She said hell no in really a good manner without hurting anyone’s feeling😂🫶🏽
That’s exactly in my mind too. She said, “maybe she wants to” it means definitely a big NoGo. “I am not fit for the work system” means the work system is shit! 😂
I doubt she offended anybody watching. Many Japanese, especially young ones, hate the work culture as much as anybody. Probably more since they have to deal with it.
I’m Japanese who used to work overseas (never worked in Japan until recently). I always heard that the work culture could be so cruel. Now I am actually experiencing it everyday. Japan is such a beautiful country to visit but still haven’t felt that it’s a good country to live.
THHEYY ARE ALL GOING TO KOREA SEOUL
@@brucehur2051 Out of the frying pan and into the fire, then...
U-S-A Nuff said...
@@williamperry01 Haha really...
@@williamperry01our work culture is hardly better lol
She's Norwegian, right? I don't blame her. We have a lot of benefits here that don't exist in Japan.
I’m Swedish and to me she doesn’t sound Norwegian, she sounds like a native German speaker to me! But yeah same case for all of our countries, all of our benefits are hard to beat 😅
sounds german or french. The big test would be saying words with a W or V.
But yes, work-life balance in Europe is amazing.
Definitely German
I speak German, she sounds german
DEF GERMAN
Mad respect for anyone who can figure early on that they don't fit into a working system/culture. Took me years to realize that it's okay to look for better opportunities or not be into that hustle culture
Yeah woke culture is trying to teach people the world should change for them
@@creationbear1809 Woke is when you try to improve the world for the better instead of trying to justify and conserve a broken system
@@samurai_8917nah there is a word "improvement" to describe that.
Woke is when you inject divisive things into public space such as transgender issue in a beer commercial etc.
@@Tonixxy its only divisive to you because you dislike or outright hate trans folks, if you ever actually stopped to talk to a trans person or befriend one youd realize they dont stand to gain anything by being trans and all they want is to be treated like humans.
@@Tonixxy people existing isn't divisive
Japan is a beautiful country but it seems extremely tough and unforgiving
Country yes, people not so much, first year happy then after years I'm mentality sick now
@@user-jv7mx2wn9f and why you get unhappy after 1 year ?
This is why it's probably best to have a solid work-from-anywhere kind of job via a laptop.
That way you can still enjoy the culture, without the need to be in the thick-of-it in terms of work.
I still would love to visit one day. Either by trip or travel while working.
They place too much value on working to the detriment of the body, the family, and to mental health. They're literal slaves in this system, it seems.
Life is short, and Japanese put much emphasis on obtaining luxuries or working, like much of Asia, not realizing that value in life has nothing to do with material possessions.
Having free time is always better than working long days for a company.
@@willp.8120 Well said👍👍👍. I am Asian. Yes, you got that right. Value of a human being or his/her life has nothing to do with how many possessions one has. Sadly many asian countries follow a materialistic way of life. Only a certain percentage of some of those asian cultures refuse to participate in that shallow and toxic mindset. Some western cultures have more people who follow minimslist life style than many asian cultures. East or West I refuse to participate in workoholic and materialistic way of life. I was born and raised in Asia and immigrated to Europe later. Europe is materialistic too 😢😢 but I feel people have more work/life balance and I know many people who are into a minimalist life style.
I worked for a certain japanese gas company for the entire duration of my contract and the expiration of my visa. I was asked many months in advance to start the paperwork to renew my visa but i was done after just a few years.
I love Japan, its a fantastic place but as a Dane, you'll always be an outsider and I desperately needed to go back to a sane working schedule that allows you to sleep a full 8 hour cycle.
And at the end of the day they aren't wven paying you much. At least in yhat third wolrd country of US of A you have opportunity to earn significantl ammounts
The USA has definitely become a third world country on the city streets.
The stores currently remain fully stocked, but should that ever change...yikes
@@Tonixxy Sure there are parts of the USA that needs work, but it's a stretch to say the USA is a third world.
I work for a Japanese company and the toughest issue I notice is that I am the only one who speaks up against things that I don’t agree with.
The problem is that even other foreigners are not helping with any change, they are just accepting their fate and whenever I tell them that we should express our concerns I find myself again as the only person speaking up. I remember one day that Chinese guy apologizing for taking a 5 days holiday to go to his country as if he was committing a crime by demanding his paid leave. They just complain and complain without making any effort, while they can, and that is also frustrating.
Recently, I have become hopeless about the situation and I even doubt if my decision coming to Japan 8 years ago was the correct choice.
@sumiben5211
I’m truly sorry for you. It takes an enormous amount of courage and fortitude to upend a stable life in your native country and move to a foreign one, and the Japanese Showa-era suicide work culture doesn’t appreciate that. Fie on your gutless co-workers, as well.
I wish you the best, no matter what your decision.
If I were the Chinese guy I would have left for Shanghai
Shanghai is fun and cool
I live in Japan for about 23 years and I learned the key to living a good life in Japan is NEVER WORK FOR A JAPANESE COMPANY at least get some experience and then start your own business, you will have more control over your life and you’ll be thanking yourself later, but if you want to work for a company long term in Japan for the most part you will regret it even if you get a high salary life is short and freedom is precious. Become your own entrepreneur, then you can have a fantastic life in the country.
Exactly
Exactly
True. I worked in a hospital and that was not much different from what i was used to in western europe......or if it was, i just didnt notice
Good advice for good life in every other country.
I couldn’t agree with you more😂.
People working for Japanese company are called shachiku literally meaning corporate slave.
It's always intriguing to learn about the experiences of people living in different parts of the world.
Working with japanese is tough, but you will learn a lot. My first job was in a japanese company. They did teach me everything, business manners and so on. Best education you can get. No german company did educate me like that. I worked in a japanese company 3 years, until i had to move to a different city.
Good point is, they are very professional, its never boring, you will not feel overqualified, get career options, best education, strong team work (company is more important than the individual, working as team Important -less rivality), team events as eating, drinking together. Furthermore, usually japanese companies pay for your train ticket or they pay the gasoline from you car, which you use to go to office.
Bad points: They expect you to do overtime, probably without payment. They like to controll/watch intensly what you work on, and if the work amount is good. You have to work exactly according to their rules or explain why you want to improve the workflow. Then everybody would have to follow the new workflow. Sometimes team events/customer visit are often and they expect you to come, which is actually not paid work (even so they pay food and drinks, but you dont get money for the time you spend). If you are a man, its more difficult to say no to drinking alcohol without being judged. Some japanese companies dont raise the salary up so much. If you are young, it doesnt matter how good you are, they would not put you in leading positions.
Was machst du beruflich?
@@xxx9208 Ich habe japanisch mit Wirtschaft studiert. Es gibt gefühlt tausende Berufsbezeichnungen für meinen Job. In Japan würden sie OL sagen (office lady). In Deutschland Sales Coordinator oder Sales Administrator. Momentan habe ich den Titel Service Admin, denn ich bin der Abteilung Service zugewiesen. Jede Firma macht irgendwie ihr eigenes Ding.
Thank you for your insight!
Thank you for sharing ❤
There was a girl who lived in Korea and she said the same thing as far as the team events that happen outside of work that was basically unpaid work as well and it was expected of you to show up and drink as well and you were judged if you didn't. That's when I knew these kind of cultures were not for me I am vehemently against drinking for my own personal self I hate it and have no desire to being a culture that pressures you as a fully grown adult to do something like that just to fit in.
I worked with a guy who lived in Japan for like four years working as a teacher. The way he describes Japanese society, you get the impression is that the men are basically slaves to their jobs.
Not to mention all of the BS you have to do after work with your work colleagues. Very often after 10 hours of working you have to sit in some bar and get drunk with them. Otherwise you will be Parias.
Men should be slaves to their job. Just not their boss. If you're not building wealth, you're building death.
@@ScarletEdgeisn't that the best?!!😊
@@ScarletEdgewhy would they want to do that? Is it really true that all the other employees want to drink as well?
Like the US then
That's exactly it... no one should have to dedicate their lives to their corporate jobs the way that Japanese companies expect you to. Even being forced to go drinking after you have worked a 12 hour day is criminal. I don't want to drink with my colleagues, especially not my boss. The work/life balance needs a heavy shift. Ikigai? Where? Because I don't think that even exists in Japan. Would love to live and work in Japan but would never work for a Japanese company.
Granted though, as an American, we have no guaranteed sick days, holiday, insurance, etc. Not even job security in general. I know people who are working three jobs right now to make ends meet. I know people who barely get to spend time with their kid because they have to work and do everything else as well. Everywhere is broken in some way, you just to figure out what you can handle.
@@DirectlyHereI think best option is Europe about working
Sounds similar to working for an American company tbh
@@DirectlyHere well, when I was in the USA my boss treated me with care also I had tons of sick days off and then I went through a Japan faze and wanted to work here So much that now that I work here the coolest Part is I sleep 4 hours a day if lucky the bad part YOU WILL BE THROWN OUT LIKE A POS in a instant with the boss yelling at you then trying to smack you with anger for missing due dates or just sick days be prepared for very low wages
Really? To the point of Suicide? I don't think so. The work won't kill you but shootings at work might.
I’m working in japan for year and a half now as a nurse. As they say japanese really workaholic and idk if its the culture. I was told that i can’t get 5 days holiday which is so common in my country to take vacation and off job for 5-10 days. But in japan it was like a crime to take a lot of yasumi or holiday. My bf came to japan to see me so i asked for 5days off but you know what i took 2 months work like a dog for 5days week and yet they mocked me they said i am egoistic because of me taking day off make them work more for covering me. And when i sick they can’t just easily said yes you can take a rest and going home early but they will say whats make u hurt do you have a medicine if you dont have they will gave you one so simply put they gave you medicine so you cant go home and they push you to work. Or one day i got feeling so sick and i want need a rest so i called my boss to say sorry i can’t come to work and yet what he say is whats make u feel sick and can you stand up and walk if you say yes i can they will make u go to work or if u say no they make u to go to hospital😂
😂😂
It's sound like my mom she will send to me to school no matter how much sick I was or what happen to me sh will give me medicine tell me to take it in school
Sick mentality they have. Run away while you can.
My sister in christ if you work in the medical environment is going to be tough almost anywhere you go. For example in Italy doctors are underpaid and work 6 days a week with turns of 12 hours and they often sleep in the hospital.
What country is you talking about? In my country, you need at least 6 month working records to have guaranteed off days
I worked 20 years for a major Japanese biomedical company and loved my job. Yes, many frustrating experiences but that would be in any company. But I certainly was given enough freedom to express my opinions openly. My job satisfaction came from helping this company develop their international business and developing friendships within the company. I became a 課長 and eventually returned to the US to help open up a US branch office. Absolutely no regrets because I think it was the perfect job for me.
My advice is this. If you have skills and abilities that a Japanese company would value, you will be appreciated. I certainly took advantage of the fact I was not Japanese and so did not regularly work overtime. However, if there was a claim against a product with a major customer I had no problem working into the early morning to help resolve. The reason they hired me was because I wasn't Japanese and I used that to help change the company for the better, especially in getting rid of unnecessary work by simply refusing to do it!
Do I have to be fluent in Japanese to get a Job there and how hard is it to get one? (As a Computer Scientist)
@@zyriously983 There are a lot of IT jobs. I heard somewhere you only needed N3 level. However, if you are hired by a foreigner company it might be different. But that's where I found in the internet
@@zyriously983 It helps to know how to communicate in Japanese. Knowing the lingo with N3 is generally enough nowadays (it used to be N2 but companies are waking up to how N2 isn't enough). You just have to avoid job agencies that target foreign talent because they often lead to black companies. I know because I experienced that. Once I started using agencies that locals used, it was much easier for me
I had no idea "unnecessary work" was such a Japanese thing, but I can attest to it as well. I worked for a Japanese company with a branch in the US, and was shocked by the amount of extra steps they had in production that ultimately didn't change the product whatsoever if skipped or modified. Even after discovering this they insisted we MUST do it the way they'd done it before but we refused, to their confusion.
You ever think about moving back?
I think japan and korea are same, nice countries to visit but not to live in
どこの会社も、仕事が終わった後で飲み会を強要するわけではないよ。 今は珍しいとおもう。
Because people don't like being overworked to the point of suicide
True. Japanese used to drop dead from overwork, no one cares. Literally, you'll work until you die and people would just step over your body lol
And dock you a days pay for dying on the job. 😄
Like Amazon Warehouses
🙈where do you people read this crap. Japanese work less hours on average than the USA and some European countries
@@JosephLedbetter Lmao. I got a job at Amazon, and it's quite literally the easiest job I've ever had.
@@camd4648 nice but workers have died in Amazon warehouses from heat exhaustion
I lived and worked for almost 20 years in Japan and do not recommend it to Western men. Sure, go and stay a while and have a good time while accomplishing what you intended, and then leave promptly.
seems like a good place for a couple years, hustle, learn a good work ethic and absorb the culture but leave before burnout hits
No such thing as burnout- only for weak minded foreigners. Look at all the life long Nigerian migrants. U see them complaining? Lol
Very smart decision for a young adult. Usually young adults are tricked into thinking it's "cool" and "prestigious" to work in big companies where such companies over employ younger adults because it's a known fact younger workers will tolerate bad working conditions more so than adults in their mid 30s and onwards who know better about the system etc.
Yup, we older workers realized that working harder doesn't earn us more money. It's all a scam, otherwise we wouldn't be "valuable" to the company.
If you are an employer, the common theme is to try to stay away from the young ones as they have no motivation to learn and work and as you rightfully pointed out all they are there for is the easy pay. No matter how much you want to impart knowledge and experience to them, they be asking for high pay and over promising at the interviews, when it comes to the grind they wont have a clue and don’t make an effort to make themselves as efficient as possible. Why bother learning and completing tasks in 2 minutes when you can spend 2 hours or even 2 days is the new motto these days 😮💨
Same. I'm in Japan now for vacation. I'd love to live here, but I couldn't imagine working here. I love my job and conditions back home too much. Working at home andhaving vacations here is probably better than working here and never having vacations.
Left after 7 years in Japan. It was such a weird experience to feel alive again after years of burnout, depression, mental breakdowns. I had the best years and most fun years of my life in Osaka but my advice would be to leave asap and not try to tough it out when you start spiraling. It’s not worth it. All my expats friends are leaving too, 5 years seems to be the cutoff.
Worked for a Toyota subsidiary in the USA. They wanted seven days a week for months on end. I asked several of the Japanese nationals that worked for six month stints here what they did as a hobby. They all looked at me like I was crazy. Pretty much all they do is work.
Many would tell me drinking
I heard about the conditions of work in Japan and how hard it would be until I came from Brazil to Japan and actually worked here. And then I realised that actually who is not used to work like this and complain are the Europeans that finish work at 17h in their countries and have time to even have hobbies (It wasn't always clear for me why and how it was normal for them practice some sport or do some art rather than the professional knowledge) 😂😂😂😂
It is easier for me to survive in Japan in a way that I would never be able to in Brazil. I work 16 hours per week here and can rent an apartment and live really good. In Brazil I worked 10 hours per day and my salary didn't pay even a decent rent, imagine a life.
I just saw the short on your channel doing sign language. Did you learn ASL or another version to use in Japan? I know there's different versions. Is that the work you do? I'm considering this (ASL) field. Any help is appreciated! 💛🌟
Depends, do u live in Tokyo? Cause rent is high in that area...
@@TheStepmonkey yeah, that's the problem of most people, they all think Japan and Tokyo are synonymous so all them just move to there. So of course that with the amount of people living in the same place in such a small country will be hard. This is hard in any country actually. Try to live in New York and São Paulo and it is the same.
@@maylin1986 no, it was Libras, from Brazil, but if you learn the Japanese one you are gonna be above of even Japanese in Japan
Thank you for this comment.
Finally, somebody who understands real life in Japan. Interviewing in posh areas of Tokyo...of course everything will be so expensive and neat. And in some countries, medical bill, tuition...it's so expensive to just live an ordinary life.
"Tough working conditions." Now there's an understatement. lol.
Japan: try not to jump off your office building’s roof challenge (impossible)
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"tough working conditions"??? You work 6 AM to 9PM, then are expected to go out after work and get drunk with the boss. WTF??
@super batarang not everyone believes in an afterlife.
@super batarang Important to who? To you maybe, having kids is a waste of time and super f**king selfish. No one wants to be born here
@super batarang Can't get a woman or a house without a good job.
@@Mwoods2272 True unless you go pickup a woman from the mountains or some poor neighborhood
@@Mwoods2272 You'd know.
I'd like to see what long-term residents have to say - hardly anyone ever talks to us
Long term resident here: working in Japan is a nightmare, period. Long hours, high expectations on you to have no life outside of work, having to keep the peace with b|tch@ss coworkers when they should be put in their place, low salary, long commute or having to live in a shoebox. It is rough if you’re not self employed and making racks
@@elodieelvira7913 I'm also a long-term resident and I've experienced what you've described when I was an ALT. I'm not self employed but I learned my lesson and It's way different for me now
@@randomjapan can you elaborate? what is different?
@@marcogonzalez1795 As an ALT it was very much a "traditional Japanese company" that valued loyalty over anything else. It was deflating and unmotivating.
But where I am now, I start at 10am, finish at 7pm and we get paid even with Japan's infamous "expected overtime".
The pay in Japan is lower than in Australia for the same job but after things like rent, utilities, etc. I found that disposable income is about the same.
When I started at my current place, they greeted me with open arms - there's a really long story behind that but I feel valued where I am now compared to before and they actually listen.
@@elodieelvira7913 damn, what kind of job do you have?
Japan is working itself into oblivion
Look at that happy face, haha. 90% of chance she won’t fit.
Live in Japan for work and being an international student is two different things.
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It was just my feeling, but i often felt aggressed by this weird question. Almost everyday, just based on what your face looks like, you have someone asking you why you stay in Japan or when will you leave…without asking anything else about your situation. It makes me feel that I must leave once my stuff is finish. Even If I think that most of people ask those questions just because they have no subject of talking
Based on his interviews from previous videos, I'd assume she was probably the one to bring up to the conversation the fact that she'd be leaving the country the day after. Your point still stands though
Yes, once your stuff is finished you leave. That's how a VISA works and how one should work.
Its simple, the Japanese are extremely insular and racist. The last place I would ever go to.
“The people are nice, the food is bussin, but all the office buildings have suicide nets”
If I move to Japan it will be in the countryside and I’ll make furniture, I’d hate to work for a Japanese employer
It's amazing to see two people in Japan, one from another country, both having a conversation in English so that I can understand it!
I can confirm, it is ROUGH!!!
As a Taiwanese once traveling to Japan with my best mate for ten days without buying WiFi in 2014, i cannot imagine myself living in Japan either. It's a lovely place to travel and have fun, but working and living, sorry, I'll pass.😅
Working for japanese company ruined my health so bad in a lapse of 7 years. I'm still young but after that much stress and overworking left me with the health of a 60 yo
Why I didn't I leave earlier? In my country they paycheck was double than average wave and social pressure from friends and family
Now all my money goes only to medical bills and medical debts
But how come the Japanese have the longest life span?
Maybe you are not mentally tough enough?
@@BabylonGateLA are u for real? Have u ever worked in japan ? Do u know how is it like to work there? That’s like the dumbest question ever
@@sublime9525because of the food they eat 🙄and it’s their gene basically.
@@BabylonGateLAlol you can’t say that to a person with illness. this is just rude
I went as a tourist and only seeing everyone, from the guy who sweeps the street to the guy who prepares your breakfast, be stiff and perfectionist to the point of barely any spontaneity, made me realize that Japan is a hard place to live for many. Westerners idolize it but many wouldn’t last a day in such a strict culture.
A few years ago the New York Times did a profile on a group of young break dancers who performed on the streets and on subway platforms for fun and tips. One of the group was a young Japanese woman, only a year or so in America. She explained that it’s unimaginable to do the same in Japan.
she said hell to the nah in the most polite way possible, japan aint for me honey😂💅
Salary doen't chage over 30 years in Japan. If I were foreigner, I would not live here.
It's like that in Latin America too 😢
@@luisyau_re Oh, I didn't know that. We're struggling to live our daily lives😔
If i would live in Japan i would live far away from the big cities.
Perfect foreigner. Everyone should respect the culture they visit rather than trying to colonize and change it as an outsider
The feudal system was never abolished in 1878. All they did was kill off the Samurai. Everything else was retained, just morphed into something modern.
Who would work overtime without getting paid?
The good things about Japan are the great food, transportation, everything is fairly cheap but the working wage is very low and the apartments are very small too. Not to mention if you are a foreigner the jobs are very limited.
I did the exact same thing in Japan for four months as well in fall 2022, but I studied at Tsuru University. Great experience, but studying to become a teacher, I heard that being a teacher in Japan is pretty tough.
In Japan their work / employment hours are extreme and bad for them mentally and physically.
You need to spend more than 4 months to fully appreciate Japan. When I moved there, I was pretty meh for about 6 months until a friend who had been living there for years showed me the real Tokyo. I ended up living their for 6 years.
Japanese culture and society is nuanced. There are layers of subtleties. There are also significant barriers that require time and patience to overcome. I also had no knowledge of Japanese pop cultures (weeb, otaku, anime, manga, etc) prior to my arrival. I was also there in the 90s. Surely many things have changed there, but it’s like going home for me when I visit and the quintessential Japanese / Tokyo essence remains.
When it’s girl: will you come back
When it’s guy: when you leave
Lol search up "A galaxy next door" they aren't even trying to be subtle about it...
@@thevisitor1012 The 2023 anime?
@@EnderViBrittania yes
I became a permanent resident of Japan and worked in Japan for 14 years, but I left because Japanese law encourages Japanese companies to hire foreigners for only 2 years 355 days or to classify them as independent contractors so foreigners even with permanent residence can never become permanent employees.
Personally, as a black female going to Japan has always been a dream of mine. Yea you could say I want to go because of its anime and culture and benefits but ik my life there would be hard. The Japanese are tolerant but doesn’t mean they like you. I know Japanese people will give me looks because of my skin color but I think if I bring a friend preferably Japanese, can speak fluently and I understand and respect their culture life can be a little more easier for a black person like me!
I talked to alot of Japanese and Indian living in Japan yeah work culture is HARD.
It's so cool to learn what stereotypes are actually a factor and need to be taken into account. That might sound a tad negative, but that is how cultural assimilation works.
But i worked in japan for about 2 years and then leave job and get out from japan, and after 2 weeks im feeling i wanna go back to japan, lol
back in the 1980s, working for a Japanese company was pretty nice, profits were high, bonuses were big and it was easy to get promoted and gain that precious seniority. You still had the high stress work culture but the payoff was big. Then the speculation bubble burst and it all started to slowly erode. Over the next 30 years company profits dropped, working conditions got worse and promotions and seniority took longer to get with less benefits. It now royally sucks to work for most Japanese firms.
Japan is the best country for holiday, not for school or work. Too much pressure
The youth of Japan is so stressed under inflation, & a difficult work culture, that they do not want to get married, & couldn't afford to raise a family. They are severely depressed, & lonely.
@@annanguyen345 Unfortunately the leaders of the modern world are getting together & planning things against their own countrymen, the world around, like inflation, scams, crime in the name of law, non availability of jobs, costly food, shelter, housing, taxes, electricity, water, and so on, the list is endless. This shall trigger severe depression, suicidal tendencies, and last but not the least civil unrest and revolution, which shall lead to assassination of several politicians and govt.officials. Assasination of the Japanese President Shinzo Abe, is the first & foremost example of public aggression.
@@annanguyen345 Is that why Japan has a decreasing birth rate, but not America?
@@hun3408 well not exactly but some of ur assumptions are right😅,most of Japanese think like having enough financial support is the best gift that they can give to their family.. i know many people opposes this but sometimes i would personally support this when i see families ,, 1st enjoy their life and later broke financially after 2 or more kids born...
I lived in Iwakuni for 2 yrs as a teen. I would love to spend the rest of my life there
Owner wants their staff to work hard but the compensation is not worth it
This is the same exact reason I don't want to work in Japan. Even if you give me high pay. NO. I just travel around Japan whenever I can. It's such a beautiful country, but work is toxic.
I just discovered your channel, and I love how you take the time to listen and capture the various perspectives of all kinds of people. More people need to be like this, and maybe the world would be a better place. ❤
Sure it may be the case where many companies here have a problematic work culture still, but there are also many good companies where you can balance work and life. IMO it depends more on what kind of work and company you’re at than simply whether it’s in Japan or not.
When you're young they tell you lots of lies about do what you love them you'll never work a day in your life.
I tried my hardest to do that but I failed over and over and over again until there was nothing left for me to love.
All my old friends got married and had families and only think of me once in awhile.
So without work my days have no meaning anymore.
My heart has withered and turned black, so I might as well lend my hands and my brain to an honest days work.
At least there's some dignity in that.
What career did you pursue? I would love to hear your story. Sounds very relatable.
Hopefully Japan realizes this hurts their demand for foreign workers
Its Good Na This Forgein Workers Work Less Wants More Vacation And Money
@@prashantgurung2635 haha we barley get a vacation here in japan haha
@@mickeypros Go Back to Your Own Country na
The work force in Japan is the main reason some of us find it difficult to pursue a life in Japan until we have retired.
I'm from Brazil i think that working in Japan could be a good idea, considering that Japan is a great country. Here in Brazil we have several other worse problems in addition to poor working conditions. Maybe my opinion can be common in emergent market countries.
Can you imagine seeing yourself living in Japan in the future?
A friend of mine who has lived in Japan for 2 years for work (her work sent her there) said heck freaking NO.
It’s not about racism. She’s white, young, smart and very pretty and had money. She said the culture is not her thing.
She told me a story of her accidentally hurting a lady friends feeling a apologized and couper of days later, the lady friend still won’t talk to her and being very moody and rude.
She said: First, it was an accident. Second she sincerely apologized. Yet the friend thought she didn’t apologize enough. Like she was supposed to keep apologizing over and over for something that happened by mistake and that she was already sorry and apologized for. She said that’s just 1 incident but there are countless incidents. Also she believes women have too much power in Japan.
She has traveled the world and she said Japan is the only place she does not want to visit again. She just doesn’t believe in the way they do certain things.
I don't care who gets offended by this. But people thinking Japan is a Utopia are fking m0rons. Weebs so in love with anime and Japanese girls that they ignore all the other factors.
funny, my friend was the oposite reaction. He left to japan at 18 years old from EU zone and 6 years later he became japanese citizen (he had to abandon his old passport). He loves it there. If you are an introvert and like organized working conmditions you can love japan.
The offending people in Japan thing is annoying. A simple accident or miscommunication can result in someone never wanting to interact with you again (and we are talking about the most minor things and incidental errors!)
@@hannah60000 right
Most Asians can fit into the Japanese work culture coz most Asian countries have similar working conditions. Westerners especially Europeans who have a great work life balance wouldnt really find themselves a good fit in the Japanese work culture.
It’s normal to take home your work here and even when you receive the job description when you apply for a job, there is a mandatory 20-40 hours overtime for a month.
Ask her to reply in a sentence without the word 'like'
Work to live , not live to work life is short so earn enough need fulfil & remaining time spend with love one.
Why do so many people,some of whom are even half Japanese and know the language feel so out of place in Japan? Does the culture exclude outsiders or leaves them alone to themselves? Why do I never see a non Japanese or half Japanese person on your channel saying they want to live there ?
Japanese culture is very racist.
If you aren’t Japanese, you will never make it there. Plus foreigners are not subservient like Japanese people are. They don’t like that. Never going back.
@ak2849
It is both of those, but primarily the first.
I sometimes believe that if the Japanese government could get away with instituting Sakoku (the Edo bakufu isolationist policy) again, they would. The only thing stopping them from implementing it is that they could no longer take advantage of foreign workers. (which Japan so desperately needs), while giving them nothing in return. Not even a sense of belonging.
Let's be honest Japanese don't like foreigners to live there also. Visit? Yes, but see you everyday? No.
She saying I’m not working like that bro
My first job after university was in Japan. Yes, it was tough, but the Japanese work ethic has been with me since. I feel like every place I worked thereafter was an easy workplace, and my colleagues and employers are always impressed. I credit my work habits to my time in Japan.
Japan is the most depressed place you can ever find yourself
I don't like Racist Countries. I lived in Korea and Vietnam 7 yrs. Japan Never
I find that hard to believe. I feel like north Korea or being a Christian in Afghanistan or Nigeria would make Japan seem rather pleasant
I think as a foreigner is more interesting and enjoyable, as a local that's on the grind all day every day, maybe not so much. I lived in Japan for 2 years so that was my experience
South Korea laughing in the corner
sales kpop?
Reminds me of a friend. He was a HUGE weeb and obsessed with Japan, even as to study in Japan. He's Asian so he looks pretty blended with native Japanese. Two years later, he returned to his home country. I heard he couldn't finish college, he was lonely and couldn't handle living in there anymore. Even his blind obsession can't sugarcoat how hard it must've been for him..
After one year abroad here I really like Japan but I will always want to return to my home country
I think Japan defines the saying. Japan is a nice place to visit but you do not want to live there.
I lived and worked in Japan for a few years and potentially whiny and demanding people aren't recieved very well by employers. Even if your arm falls off they still expect you to show up to your job.
I remember my last day in Japan, I was heart broken but 💯 sure I’m coming back ❤
Same girl - my semester in Kyoto exceeded my expectations. But it also confirmed my suspicions and worries about the downsides of moving there permanently as a foreigner.
The key is to not live in cities :/
I live outside of the big cities and hours are normal like European and you can feel like how was Europe before as well, a sense of community and security.
Not like what we have right now in the EU with the amount of illegal immigration.
Working in Big cities in Japan is like working in California. It's just plain stupid to make a choices like that, specialy when the GOV help you to move outside of the cities :/
Internet Law: to Japan and Korea only as a tourist
Imagine that. Life isn’t one giant summer abroad experience
Japan was an amazing choice for me as an entrepreneur who speaks fluent Japanese but yeah I could see how someone dependent on a paycheck who doesn’t speak fluently wouldn’t live here permanently
I don't wanna work for any East-Asian companies
It is a very hard cultural change for non-Japanese. I don't recommend trying. But it is not as bad as people from other places like US or Europe think, I think they are used to not working hard so it is hard for them.
No I think japan just treats workers like shit. You cant look at the rest of the world and claim 'oh they're all wrong, we're actually in the right' xenophobic freaks bro.
Translation: I am lazy
The French and Japanese attitudes toward work are polar opposites.
Abroad in japan said that Japan has been mistaken for nice when it’s actually polite.
I don't even wanna go to Japan anymore with the whole xenophobia thing.
I would just say try to ignore it I doubt everyone is like that in Japan it most likely just the older generation, the newer generation is more accepting
It’s how they keep their country the way it is , and most people are pretty nice you can see in his videos
@@iralgaming4375 so shitty?
@@iralgaming4375 yes, they're even more accepting of tourists, settlers not so much.
@@puneethvenkatrao332 that's why I colonized instead.
Do you like working to death?
No?
Nevermind
I think it in a lot of cases it probably also has something to do with the fact that even though people in Japan are nice to your face, when it really comes down to it, that niceness is only ever superficial. On anything lower than the barest, most surface level, you'll never ever EVER be anything more to them than just some gaijin foreigner. You're not allowed to ever feel like you belong, and that is INCREDIBLY alienating and hard to cope with.
To be honest it feels like they barely are friends with other japanese people as well. It's certainly worse with foreigners but it's not like they're completely different with their people either
I would love to live in Japan. However I have heard from people who were sent over there for Work from Ireland and UK, that the OT is ridicolous, even if there is nothing to do its frowned upon going home before 7pm...