Thanks Fads for your thought provoking content. I started watching your content a couple of years ago and I am glad to see you gain a significant audience. You deserve it. You are intelligent.
I lived in Japan for about a year and believe their cultural practices is what is causing the population decline. Ex 1. I taught at an Eikaiwa, where I had a 2 year old student. She was a model student, and picked up English quickly. One day, she started to cry. I did my best to get her to calm down, but failed. I got one of the local staff to assist. Later on, the staff member mentioned that she cried because she was stressed out. Befuddled by that answer, I asked for clarification. She said she goes to piano lessons, pre school, ballet, and another English school in addition to ours. She does this about 6 days a week. Similarly, my other older students had hectic schedules like this. Ex 2 On another day, I had a class with a middle aged, male student. He was a typical salary man, who that day, had returned from a 1 day business trip in Tokyo (2.5 hrs by bullet train away from my school in Osaka). The poor guy was visibly exhausted, yet showed up and we got through the lesson as best we could. Unfortunately, he still had work the next day (and rest of the week), plus family responsibilities (including taking his kids to club/sports activities, etc) through Sunday. Ex 3 Prior to going to Japan, I met a Japanese expat in the US in a language exchange group in my hometown. We kept in contact, even after we both lived in Japan, though in different cities. She ended up getting a job for a hotel chain (she studied hospitality in the US). During my first 6 months in Japan, she mentioned that her company had relocated her around 6 times (if not more), each time in a different city. Later, while having a discussion with a coworker, I mentioned her relocations. My coworker said Japanese companies do that to test the employee's loyalty. Although I can go on, I believe these three examples show that life in Japan (for locals) is tough. Since childhood their schedules are filled up with little to no R&R, companies make them work crazy hours, and they make it hard for people to socialize (and hence low marriage rates as well as people not dating as much). Until the culture truly changes, they're sadly locked into a bleak future.
Thanks Fads for your thought provoking content. I started watching your content a couple of years ago and I am glad to see you gain a significant audience. You deserve it. You are intelligent.
I missed the stream due to my horrible sleep schedule, but I am glad I am able to watch it in full afterwards. Keep it up! You are a treasure.
I feel sorry for keeping on missing your streams. The shedule (i.e. the stream starting at 1:30 am at my local time) is just really difficult.
I lived in Japan for about a year and believe their cultural practices is what is causing the population decline.
Ex 1. I taught at an Eikaiwa, where I had a 2 year old student. She was a model student, and picked up English quickly. One day, she started to cry. I did my best to get her to calm down, but failed. I got one of the local staff to assist. Later on, the staff member mentioned that she cried because she was stressed out. Befuddled by that answer, I asked for clarification. She said she goes to piano lessons, pre school, ballet, and another English school in addition to ours. She does this about 6 days a week. Similarly, my other older students had hectic schedules like this.
Ex 2 On another day, I had a class with a middle aged, male student. He was a typical salary man, who that day, had returned from a 1 day business trip in Tokyo (2.5 hrs by bullet train away from my school in Osaka). The poor guy was visibly exhausted, yet showed up and we got through the lesson as best we could. Unfortunately, he still had work the next day (and rest of the week), plus family responsibilities (including taking his kids to club/sports activities, etc) through Sunday.
Ex 3 Prior to going to Japan, I met a Japanese expat in the US in a language exchange group in my hometown. We kept in contact, even after we both lived in Japan, though in different cities. She ended up getting a job for a hotel chain (she studied hospitality in the US). During my first 6 months in Japan, she mentioned that her company had relocated her around 6 times (if not more), each time in a different city. Later, while having a discussion with a coworker, I mentioned her relocations. My coworker said Japanese companies do that to test the employee's loyalty.
Although I can go on, I believe these three examples show that life in Japan (for locals) is tough. Since childhood their schedules are filled up with little to no R&R, companies make them work crazy hours, and they make it hard for people to socialize (and hence low marriage rates as well as people not dating as much). Until the culture truly changes, they're sadly locked into a bleak future.