Japanese Youngsters Scream on Mayday

Hi, everyone!! How's your holiday? It's 3:50 pm here in Japan and time to deliver my today's column:

"Don't throw away nonpermanent employees!!" "Pay overtime wages!!" "Pay the amount with which we can live!" "Don't rake off!!"

A demonstration by nonpermanent employees, mainly youngsters, was staged in Tokyo, Shinjuku on April 30 that was one day before Mayday. Japanese mass media reported it.

The Japanese youngsters who are said to be quiet have finally started to show their anger standing together. Many of them are dispatched workers or so called freeters (kind of part-time workers).

Current Japan's economy is largely supported by those who belong to dispatched workers or freeters, but their treatments are cruel.

In the article about this topic of Asahi newspaper today, there was an opinion of 50s man who lives in a park, "Recently, many youngsters have come to me to ask them to stay here one after another," He continued, "The life between living outside and not is getting near."

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The Reason Why Japan's "Companies" are Reviving

Hi, everyone!! How's your weekend? It's getting warm here. Okay, it's 7:13 pm and time to deliver my today's column:

Companies in Japan, especially big firms, are starting to talk tough. They boast the management efforts to make their businesses firm. However, it will be true that their efforts are concentrated on the hard reduction of labor cost that is skeptical thinking of the law.

Asahi newspaper reported today that Hitachi is under query that they may have done deceptive direct employment.

Reportedly, a factory of Hitachi has almost thrown away the labor management of contract workers who were changed from dispatched employees at the same employment agency. The wages and working conditions were same as before. It is said that Worker Dispatch Law is about to lose the meaning.

Yes, Hitachi is a well known company, but even this sort of company is using almost unlawful ways to reduce the cost and maximize the profit. That's why the stock index is getting strong, but consumer price will not get strong. Money does not run from companies to individual citizens.

Under this crazy condition, it may be difficult to complain some youngsters who say with no hope, "Workers are losers."

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Behind Statistics, What's Going on in Japan?

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Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfares announced that current 20s-30s generation would be able to get pension (employee pension) more than 300.000 yen even though the low birth rate goes on as they expect. Hokkaido newspaper reported it today.

To put it simply, 99.9% of Japanese youngsters will never believe it. And furthermore, the article mentioned that the Ministry prospected that real wages will keep going up by 1.5%. How ridiculous! Their calculation said that the average wages of men after tax will be 620.000 yen per month in 2041 when current 30s reach 65 years old. Please somebody, call doctors!! Bring the government officials in their department to ER!! Soon!!

Whew...I cannot understand them, totally. Yesterday, I wrote about youngsters who have lost motivation to get ahead in society. Youngsters are completely fed up with the rotten society. How can the youngsters get motivated healthily? Fake and misleading information is enough!!

Oh, it may be, probably...possible that the dubious increase of wages in the future based on the ridiculous calculation is public declaration of bankruptcy that will cause hyperinflation...If so, the average wages will increase though it never means the true growth. Wow... Of course, I hope not...strongly...

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Lost Motivation, What are Japanese High School Students Feeling in Current Japan?

Hi, everyone in the world! How're ya doing? It is 3:30 pm here in Japan. Please enjoy today's column as follows:

"We don't need to get ahead..." That is the typical opinion of current Japanese high school students. Mainichi Newspaper reported on April 24 that it was found that the motivation to get ahead in Japanese high school students is low, according to an investigation for motivation of high school students in America, China, South Korea, and Japan.

One of the questions was, "Do you want to succeed in the world?". The percentage of students who answered, "Yes, I strongly think so." was as follows: 34.4% in China, 22.9% in Korea, 22.3% in America, 8% in Japan.

I can quite understand this situation. People, especially, Japanese youngsters are quite suffering and struggling under a stodgy society. They are sensitive enough to know that current society and coming future are quite different from the past Japan where relatively majority of citizens could live positively by getting a wave of steadily growing economy.

When youngsters start to give up for their futures, it will be the time for the country to slip into a melancholy decline.

P.S. Having said that like above, actually, I don't think that Japanese youngsters are totally paralyzed. I can feel some buds in the depth of their mind that may be next theme of my second book.

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Today's Column from Japan:Towards a Beautiful Country?

Current Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe is setting a policy called, "Towards a beautiful country". However, many cases that are opposite to the policy are swirling around.

Today's case is one of them. It was found that a well-known firm dealing with frozen food, Katokichi, was suspected that they had been doing fake round transactions just on bills for 6 years until 2006. The total amount is said to be more than a couple of ten billion yen.

Umm...This sort of cases is no more surprising to Japanese because it's been happening quite often recently.

One of the problems that makes Japanese youngsters headache in finding a job is that they have to find a company that is earning, "ethically".

How about in your country?

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