Indonesia is keen to benefit from its young population, and its role as one of the largest suppliers of migrant workers is likely to ‘grow substantially’ in the future.
They’ve tried to improve working conditions vis a vis anti-karoshi laws and schemes but Japanese social norms would have to change to resolve that (e.g. “face time” and the idea that you shouldn’t leave before your boss.) and that clearly isn’t happening.
Japan needs its population to bang so that they have labor, but that isn’t happening, so gotta resolve it another way.
And they won’t bang because working conditions are fucked.
There’s no need to improve working conditions if you bring in replacements however.
I heard the whole “drinking after work with your job” culture is slowly disappearing, but not fast enough.
Who has time to start a family when work takes over 2/3rds of your day?
They should just do Friday after work drinks like here in the Netherlands. It’s too much to go out during the week.
They’ve tried to improve working conditions vis a vis anti-karoshi laws and schemes but Japanese social norms would have to change to resolve that (e.g. “face time” and the idea that you shouldn’t leave before your boss.) and that clearly isn’t happening.