Often comes with a job title change and people notice those sorts of things in Japan.

Be Japanese

Have dead-end job in back of office

No work to do, no upward mobility, no future opportunities

Collect a steady paycheck every two weeks. Feels-Good-Man.jpg

New PM takes office. Goes full MAGA nationalist. Picks trade wars. Starts fights with neighbors. Alienates people inside our own sphere of influence even.

Oh shit, bros. Looks like its another All-Ramen month again.

This would be considered power harassment in Japan and you can sue for it. Companies try to do it anyways though.

Boss can't fire me because i'm japanese

well obviously this is not real

No idea why people don’t want to pump out more than 2.1 units per woman.

People living in significantly worse conditions have historically produced significantly more children.

But the modern post-industrial lifestyle discourages people from having children primarily because of easy access to birth control. That means you can fuck without risk of having babies. For young people, this is a no-brainer. Condom use, UIDs, and hormonal birth control have tanked teenage/early-20s birth rates everywhere it has been introduced. Combine this with good health care, globally, and many people no longer fear they will lose half their children to some infant malady or childhood accident. Low Child Mortality -> Lower Propensity to Have Kids.

If you want higher rates of reproduction in your population, you need younger people having babies. And you need more people convinced that the kids they do have won't live to see adulthood.

Say what you will about the current Trump government, but we're definitely moving in those directions.

I wonder if that balances out with the tariffs. Maybe I could start buying stuff from there again.

I don't know the full story, but that is apparently somewhat true. That's why you'll hear in games and manga that someone in a fairly auspicious position will get punished by cleaning toilets or something.

I see. That's incredibly based then?

There are things like this in the USA, too, usually for people who have contracts that make them unfirable, but still fuck up something huge at work. Most famous example is probably the NYC Dep't of Education "Rubber Rooms" that they euphemistically call "Reassignment Centers."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reassignment_center

IMO they're all skippable except for the original trilogy of A New Hope, Empire Strikes Back, and the Star Wars Holiday Special.

Right-wing bullshit propaganda. Freedumb of screech for beta males who can't recognise they're being controlled by wealthy, Christian nationalists, but freedom of choice for women is a problem.

The earlier women have kids, the greater the chance they will not have a degree, be successful earlier in their carrier and the greater risk of being controlled, and that's exactly your goal. You and your kind just want obedient, subservient women who don't talk back and suck your tiny stinky peckers when you need it.

Keep your pedophile hands away from the kids. Grow a modicum of self-respect to stop bending over backwards to suck Epstein class dick and spreading their filthy propaganda.

No, you prefer to be "realist." Others have the will to fight. Any attempt to get others to conform to your lack of fight for workers rights is class sabotage.

Don't be one of those wage slaves telling others not to fight for freedom because it's illegal and the beatings aren't that bad anyway.

They expect to own you until the day you die.

Interviewed for a job there. They asked how long I would want to work for them. Told them I'd absolutely love to work for them as long as they can host my visa, and I'd love to even become a citizen.

That... Was not the right answer.

The interview was over from them on.

I still do not know what I said wrong. They don't allow remote work so... Do they want me to become an illegal just to work for them?

But that exact thing happened in USAmerica when they did it? Who could've predicted this result!?!?

I'm so at my wits end with hiring managers that I would just email "okay so what was the right answer??"

holy straw man.

You don't think I should call human children fuck trophy's? You must be pro police brutality.

Jfc I clocked you perfectly it seems.

And not the Ramen Shop kind

Sure you did. What are you, a cop that pulls over minorities by "clocking" them by instinct? GTFO

I live in a country with much better worker's rights then Japan or the US. I've gone through disputes with employers. I can tell you that it's rarely worth the battle. And if you do "win" you wouldn't want to work at that place any longer. If it's about something that could pay out big, it's usually better for your mental health to have left that place a long time ago.

Being realistic is knowing when it's better to move on and find a better job. Sticking around just so you can "win" a legal battle will just make your life miserable.

From what I understand about Japanese work culture, no, I don't think that would be a realistic option.

They can but it's unusual. They have an honor system and expect people to quit. They'll go as far as sticking people in a room with nothing to do and not able to sleep until they give up, essentially adult time out.

Probably the visa aspect. Japan is like famously racist and xenophobic.

Fucken hell, its not right wing to want a birth rate above replacement. I swear you people are hell bent on occupying the most unpopular positions of all time.

I swear you people are hell bent on occupying the most unpopular positions of all time.

LMAO. yes, you pedophiles are occupying the most popular opinions of all time "fuck the kids (literally) and take away their contraception, mkay"

Courts are now work culture, are they?

Put the justice boner away. If you make a name for yourself as the whistleblower, you will tank your career.

I don't agree with it. I don't think it's the way the world should work. But I recognise you can't go guns blazing and not expect to get shot down.

You have to pick your battles.

It's not whistle-blowing, what in the world are you talking about? 😩

I can't, this is too dumb for me. Should've know with a username like that.

Way are you telling me that Japan has worse worker rights than USA?? that's wild, how the fuck can you fuck up more than the US of A

I read the whole thing as a psyop from Russia and China. How to break up NATO? Get its members to disrespect each other

The new PM started on Oct 2025, clearly according to the graph the economy was already bad by then

Way are you telling me that Japan has worse worker rights than USA

I did not say nor implied that. I said that people should not expect worker rights, or any rights, to be universal among countries, much less the whole judicial process and its consequences.

Whether Japanese worker rights are better or worse than USA/EU, I do not know.

Incoherent schizo babble

Her party (the LDP) has been in power (except for like 4 years) for 6 decades straight. Turns out classic liberals (ie conservatives) don't have any answers when things start going to shit.

60 IQ reponse

I believe what they're saying is you can't use work assignment to pressure someone to quit as a way around labor protections.

As with a lot of legal stuff, the intent matters.

The new PM started on Oct 2025

The Liberal Democrats have been in charge since 2012.

I just looked it up and 26 out of the nation's 28 presidents have all been LDP. They have dominated since 1955.

In other words, Japan has also seen tremendous growth under the LDP. So it seems a bit reductionist to judge the party based on the performance of the past 10 years.

So in your comment why did you call out just the new PM? And the LDP has dominated since 1955, so Japan did quite well under them too, for many years.

All I know are black companies where staff dies from exhaustion lol.

On the other hand company cannot fire you easily and they do have special rooms for workers they wanna let go, with menial and useless jobs assigned to basically force you into quitting.

Also quitting is so socially frowned upon that people hire other people to handle that for them.

Japan has had a "Lost Decade" of economic stagnation since the 1990s.

That's crazy

My bad

I don't know much about Japanese work or family culture, but.... Why does everybody hate you, including your wife AND kids? Either you're a giant piece of shit, or everybody else is.

I assumed it was the typical boomer "my family hates me" dynamic, a.k.a OP is indeed a shit

It’s unusual because it’s a pain in the ass for the company legally. And the honor system is more like hey please quit or we’ll try to make life hell.

Better than being homeless whilst trying to find a new job

Japan is weird I'm not sure if it's still this way but at one point homelessness or a resume downgrade would be a legitimate hard decision.

You... Literally said the thing and then did the thing.