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I live in Japan and thought is was low on the list. I live here because I think it’s the best place to live in the world right now. The money goes a long way compared to when I lived both in Brazil and Europe, all public services are top notch, free education until end high school is almost a reality for the entire country now, health care is cheap and good, basically free for my kid. The downsides of Japan are a little xenophobia and woman/gays rights. As a foreigner here I feel zero social pressure the Japanese feel so I can’t comment on that. The workaholic culture is overly exaggerated in my 10 years here, I worked late maybe three months in total. Japan is a workers job market, it’s a dumb personal choice staying in a black company. With the recent reforms All stats point to it being exaggerated with USA and even Nordic countries working more in average.
Comment by pastor_pilao at 10/03/2025 at 05:10 UTC
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Japan is great, if I could choose anywhere to live keeping the same job my first choice would be sao paulo and my second osaka.
However I don't think it's exaggerated. Pretty much all Japanese people I worked with in thr US (which already is full of workaholics) had a pretty big culture shock in terms of working hours. A friend of mine could just not get used at all to not stay at work past 7pm and not come on the weekend. I made fun of him for months when he asked where he could buy supplements to eat when he didn't want to leave the lab for 24h and thus couldn't have food.
Not sure If this is more common amongst people in the top universities in Japan but my sister lived in Osaka for a while and most of her friends who were more normal people would have 3-5 vacation days a year.