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  1.  @arreng2364  This is one of the scariest things that breaks my heart about Japan. Explains in many ways why Japanese animation focuses a lot more on the middle school, high school and college days outside of fantasy and sci-fi. Because it was one of the days where people had the most social interactions and could make the most friends more easily outside of work, which makes it a perfect melting pot for diverse stories. We in the West, because of the demands of work, have also started to feel this connection, And that’s probably why anime is just increasing in popularity, on top of its greatest social awareness outside of being just considered a niche culture, which it never truly was. It was always just hidden behind a curtain. There are very few animated stories actually focus on the working life culture, except the ones where you can truly connect to it and ones where the characters are able to escape that working life with some more diversity. Something that can shine in the darkness. But yes, it just clearly goes to show that there is a huge break between Japan’s school life culture and its working culture. Almost as if school is meant to be a bubble world where it gives you a break from the working world, before throwing you into the deep end. of course we know that’s not always the case as plenty of students still trying to get part-time work where they can, even when sometimes they are not allowed to. japan’s schooling system though, especially when viewed by us who don’t live in the country, can definitely feel like it’s way too stressful as well. Their level of tests they have to do over more practical skills for a more diverse working culture, on top of how hard they have to work in additional hours and the actual level the test run on is so cruel. Many of us would view these exams and they would seem like they are met people many years older, asking to answer formulas that just don’t seem to have any relevance whatsoever to real life unless you intend to go into the sciences. asking them to downgrade exams sounds like something that will be very hard to get across to a Japanese government official, but I could imagine many teachers backing it. Although there’s no knowing how the parents would react, considering they had to go through very hard exams and they would probably think it was essential that children did the same, unfortunately. Critically in Japan, most of all, they need to increase pay, lower working hours, and at school they need to stop giving them such majorly unnecessarily hard questions and give them more time off. There…feeeeew…DONE. sorry that was long, but just had to get that off my chest.
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  2.  @xyanide1986  I really don’t know why the government is just continuing to just keep doubling down on the status quo when they can see it’s clearly not working. Here in the UK, things are not easy, but at least we are free and actually feel like we have a good amount of free time to actually live our lives outside of work. At least for those who actually have a good work life balance. It does mean that things are uncertain always down the line, but it also means that plenty of good opportunities come along for our country mainly through diversity in working. Japan just keeps trying to do the same thing and somehow expecting different results. That’s literally considered one of the definitions of insanity. Japan needs to critically put long-term real changes into its country and to hell with those of the old generations who complain because it is different. It’s in the old people putting pressure on the young, or younger, and it being a domino effect that doesn’t change. Only through diversity can Japan really break it’s single culture style of work ethic. There are many good people who are trying to change things, but without enough diversity in Japan it is just killing itself. I’m sure the fast majority of us love Japan, but a lot of it is also breaking our hearts. We want the country to survive, but if it is unable to evolve, it will not survive truly in the 21st-century. They need more people from outside Japan and this needs to be now in the many hundreds of thousands or probablyEven millions. The Japanese government corporations can I just have it all one way anymore. They need a mix of people, and even if it does bring about change that they are uncomfortable with, like people working less hours and having to pay people more, for the greater opportunities and freedom of expression that will bring to Japan, it would all be worth it.
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