Japan's brutal work culture takes a toll

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http://atimes.com/atimes/Japan/JAP-01-100214.html



Japan's brutal work culture takes a toll
By Heenali Patel
Feb 10, '14

The system is debilitating an entire nation; when will the Japanese take action?

The end of last year saw a spotlight turned on women's working rights in Japan. While Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's "Womenomics" plan may yet bear some fruit, reports in the media suggest that the government has a great deal to answer for concerning workers rights in Japan as a whole.

The Japanese were shown in a recent survey by Expedia as having the highest rate of job dissatisfaction out of 24 countries, including Brazil, India and Thailand, for the sixth year running. Meanwhile, Abe is calling for a loosening of the country's strict migrant worker controls as a part of his economic recovery program, yet thousands of migrant workers in Japan continue to be abused and unprotected by law. The biggest and most obvious questions remain.

Who benefits from a system that is clearly failing the majority of the Japanese population? And how can a country hope to treat its foreign workers fairly when its own citizens feel held back by a scanty set of working rights?

[Laelth]

1. k&r for labor. n/t

-Laelth