Japan in 1961. Changed life of a Kyoto family 昭和京都

An American educational film showing how the life of a Japanese family changed since WW2. It is surprising that in the film none of the cultural monumental treasures of Kyoto are shown. See my other video clips on old Japan and Kyoto in 1952.
and my other 1000 clips by searching KZbin with 'michael rogge'
Website 'Man and the Unknown' michaelrogge.com/Homepage/

[@NoName-jy8gg]

I’m a Japanese. My grandma said this is rich Japanese people’s Life style

[@yahwehsonren]

OrangePork 01 really??? But look so good

[@gracewilliams338]

That's right. This is a very rich family.

[@spacecat6022]

I think many documentaries about many countries tend to always either represent the rich people or the very poor people, very rarely the people in the middle.

[@piccadilyroad66]

I'm quite agree with you, maybe they were middle - up class family (almost rich at that time).

[@yytyytg]

propaganda middle class just like modern family or any show about modern people's life

[@michaelijsbrand]

I have more clips on old Kyoto. In the coming months I hope to have clips of their ancient temples. Search with 'michael rogge kyoto'

[@HacksignKT]

very nice...

[@sanjeevkoirala5114]

I just saw it today really appreciate your work Just going through your videos gives hell lot of information and knowledge of how time flies and how the world has developed

[@agdoombagdoom8540]

Definitely share them danke

[@mirapokharelsapkota6078]

MichaelRogge :onegaisimasuおねがいします🙏🙏

[@user-wi2go5yy7i]

Incredible…Highly appreciated! I was born just 7 years after this film at Nara.

[@kuro6381]

京都市民ですが、近所の街並みが写っていてびっくりです！ちなみにこの鮮魚店は、いまでも ひっそりと営業されてます。となりの八百屋はサイクルショップになってます。

[@tarotokyo8377]

住所とか最寄り駅でいえばどのあたりですか？

[@kuro6381]

京都市上京区の北野天満宮近くの上七軒バス停あたり。上七軒は 京都で有名な花街です。ここではかなりいろいろな場所が近所のように 編集されています。

[@jun-5303]

セルンイレブンそばの交差点の角のトコやね。地元の人御用達の魚屋さんやね。

[@crisaguiar2063]

Great past

[@jpguthrie6669]

The Nakamura family was not an ordinary family of 1956, but quite well-off, you could rate them among the top 1% of income earners of their era. Most people in Japan in those days lived much more modestly, extremely few could send afford to send a child to university, let along spend 13000 yen for a jacket at Daimaru.

[@yahwehsonren]

JP Guthrie daimaru supermarket.i remember that long ago.near my place

[@ymhr312]

@@yahwehsonren Not Daimaru Supermarket, I'm afraid, but Daimaru Department Store.

[@SSN515]

@Raza Khan they were the imperial supermen who conquered the lesser devils in the greater east asia co-prosperity sphere!

[@jpguthrie6669]

@Raza Khan I have lived a long time in Japan, my family is Japanese. No one remembers the pre-war era with fondness. Was Japan backward before the war? In those days the top 1% owned most of the country, most of the industry, and most of what the country produced. The Japanese worked hard, and for long hours, but they were poorly paid, and, in the prewar years, paid the highest taxes of any country on earth. If one didn't work, or contribute to the economy, one starved, and death by starvation in those days was not an uncommon experience, poor families drowned children they could not afford to feed, read about the history of the "Kokeshi" dolls which are such popular souvenirs. MacArthur changed all of that. Japan's farmland was confiscated from the handful of landowners and given to the farmers who lived on the land. Smaller industries were freed from the bondage they endured prior to the war, when their business and production were owned by the Zaibatsu. What did Japanese say about MacArthur in the early days? They had a joke which went "Why is MacArthur like a navel?" The answer was "Because both are above the chin." The word "chin" has two meanings Japanese, the more common being "penis," and the less common being the personal pronoun for the Emperor in the odd Imperial dialect. The Japanese were not backward in the prewar years, but they were light years better off under MacArthur's constitution. No one today longs for the old days, expect the right-wing lunatics driving around in their speaker trucks playing old IJA marking songs, and dreaming of Japan ruling Asia.

[@Makkaru112]

@Raza Khan Japan wasn't innocent either. Stop this America bashing mate.

[@miyubail]

I was born in 1956. 13,000 yen back then was like someone's entire paycheck for the month. It would be like $1300 nowadays. I don't know if the decimal was correct. Anyway, I surely enjoyed this vid. Reminds me of when I was growing up in Japan back then. By watching this lady's house with big gated entry, trail, and nicely sculpted garden trees, they were probably very wealthy.

[@deadwaterrose]

miyubail z

[@ChristinaWintherLolk]

According to currency exhange rates, ¥13.000 JPY was only around $36 USD back in 1961 and with today's inflation, that ¥13.000 would be worth around $116.

[@ChristinaWintherLolk]

and according to statistics, the average japanese earned approximately ¥300.000 a year in 1961, this family seems to be more wealthy compared to the other japanese households with their luxury and the position the father has at the company, so they would probably earn more and spend more.

[@96NightRider96]

miyubail psh thats like my paycheck

[@christopherd6399]

@@ChristinaWintherLolk thank you!

[@tomkoro]

裕福なご家庭の一幕って感じ。

[@akaiikaka9155]

70年代頃まで、デパートなんかでプラモデルを買うと、お子様柄の包装紙で箱を包んで紙紐を巻いてくれた。嬉しかったな。

[@haouseiso1683]

昭和36年にしては素晴らしいキッチンだ。

[@Snebleh66]

When I visited Japan I loved the way they wrapped up and put a sticker on your purchase, and those cute money trays

[@gracewilliams338]

Not sure why people are arguing in comments like little children. So silly. Us, Japanese appreciate what USA have and offer, and we have a very good relationship with them. Quit arguing, please. I loved this film, btw.

[@lylehsaxon]

Someone 17 in 1961 would be nearing 70 now... I know several people here (in Tokyo) in their mid-sixties, so this is kind of a way to see how things were for them when they were young. For a long time, the focus was always on how much Japan has become modern, but the country is so thoroughly modern now, that the traditional things have an attraction for young Japanese not unlike foreign tourists. Great to see this type of material. Thanks for posting!

[@kapatidtomas]

Lyle Hiroshi Saxon To me this is also a reminder how Japan although rich. Should stay like this. But again if Complexity8 grows deeper ans roughly, You recieve Younger Tourists.

[@damonemx]

Nearly 80 now

[@HacksignKT]

almost 80 now...

[@aqdassyed6572]

70?? Are u from future

[@yourlocalfbiagent8872]

god bless

[@yanomami51437]

この当時としてはわりと裕福な家庭ですね

[@koalaoyaji3]

娘のキミコさんが大丸で買った赤のジャケットにお母さまは13,000円払ったとナレーションで言っています。1961年当時の大卒の初任給は15,700円だったそうです。

[@paulaharrisbaca4851]

In 4th grade, we learned about Japan and also, of course (because I went to a public school in California) California's history. I wanted SO BADLY to make my room into a Japanese style room and I started sleeping on the floor. But I had too many things in my room to become minimalist. My 4th grade teacher took us on a field trip to a Japanese restaurant in San Francisco, where the whole class had a room and a server in a kimono cooked our sukiyaki for us on a hibachi. I thought it was awesome, except for the noodles, which were chewy and I kept choking on them. (I thought they'd be like chow mein noodles or spaghetti, but they were those curly transparent noodles. I kept choking on them and had to pull them out of my throat, to everyone's amusement. We were 9 year old kids, after all). Boy I loved that whole class. The restaurant we went to is sadly gone. It was at Fisherman's Wharf and it was called Tokyo Sukiyaki House. Some stupid chain restaurant, Hooter's, I think, took over their location.

[@tarabooartarmy3654]

All the places I have fond memories of from childhood are gone. So sad. 🙁

[@oops14314]

​@@tarabooartarmy3654it's really sad .⁠·⁠´⁠¯⁠`⁠(⁠>⁠▂⁠

[@AvinashKumar-cy5xo]

I love the way they eat😊

[@cckkenny]

I like to see old Japan history video very much. Thank you so much!

[@wishicouldshowmyname5815]

陳志堅 Me, too!

[@nao6959]

Clothes were very expensive so they had only one jacket.

[@phillipesteele2021]

+Minty Honey ??

[@PaschanTOPs]

I don't know if a family's daily routine qualify as "history" but that's ok.

[@oldanimeTV]

Me too

[@carriesoul]

当時としては、もの凄くお金持ちの家ですね。17歳の子供に、赤い皮のジャケット15000円。現在の価格にすると日本円で多分15万円ぐらいですね。（もっと高いかも？？）そしてその娘さんは、京都大学の医学部志望。めちゃくちゃ秀才です。貴重な動画、ありがとうございました。

[@odysseyspace4052]

これ　ドキュメンタリー？　この　お父さんって見たこと有るような気がするんですが。俳優さんにいませんでしたかね。娘さんも…当時の　この暮らしは　かなりのものですよね。私も当時は幼子でしたから　これ見て　驚いてます。

[@deozmusic5696]

東京は日本の首都ですか？

[@user-nx6xn8gn9s]

このお姉さん現在80歳くらいなんだ。 弟くんも70近いと考えると、すごいの観させてもらってる気がする。

[@cherrykamino]

そうですね〜

[@gattun.natukasi]

当時でこの生活は上流の家庭ですね This life is an upstream home then.

[@lemonarry]

But, how much of this is more 'acting' than just pure & simply daily living, knowing that they are being filmed?

[@Darapenaa]

Yaa..they looked so natural

[@delicioushitlist]

Prolly a propaganda film if we’re being honest

[@wip1664]

This is I think a promotional video. Directed by westerners, edited by easterners. It was only less than 20 years since the atomic bomb was dropped, and Japan with its allies lost the last world war. And I do believe that the family portrayed themselves as more "western" than they actually were. In those days, western ideals = progress.

[@taddbebad]

As you notice they were all actors and actresses, the role of the father Toshiro Nakamura was Kozo Yamamura, he made appearance in a lot of 60's, 70's films and Japanese period dramas on TV.

[@LuciferDono]

woah!!

[@siuman1124]

So its 1,300 and not 13,000.

[@gracewilliams338]

I was born in Kyoto, and brought up there. My auntie lived in Gion area. So this video brought back many memories

[@amihiroshi576]

May i ask,Were there lots of geisha in gion back then?

[@amihiroshi576]

Im only half japanese my father was born in hiroshima,my mom in new york i was born and raised in the U.S..ive been in japan for only three month and that was a long time ago.i pretty much always feel home sick for a place ive never even lived in.

[@barbararamires1191]

Was your aunt a geiko?

[@magicaries4193]

Lol 😂

[@amihiroshi576]

@Arty Splash i thought "hiroshi" was a japanese name.

[@jomonhinapi24]

昔のこういう家、良いな…

[@Dilley_G45]

11 years after upload I found this. ThanK you very much

[@tita1858]

冷凍食品などの保存食が普及してない時代、買い貯めせずにその日に買ったものはその日中に食べると、何度も店に足を運んで全て自炊して主婦の方々は大変そう。

[@jun-5303]

京都のお家は始末（節約）するの考え方が徹底しているんで、今でもネギ一本から、人参一つみたいな買い方してる人いてますよ。結構裕福なお家やけど、ご飯食べのおかず見てると質素ですわ、ほんで魚屋さんでお魚買うてる時に使ってはるの蜜柑入ってたネットですわ！、究極のエコバッグやね。無駄なモンは買わない、代わりに着るモンとかは、大丸・高島屋でエエ品物を買うてますね。

[@iiykk9313]

今の主婦が楽しすぎなんですよ

[@wastubalivisual]

even 20 yrs after this movie was made, having a television was just a dream, 2 yr after finally we bought our first tv made in japan named National ...its shows how far the technology gap was back then...

[@virg0_lem0nade]

thank you for posting this

[@albertocastilho9298]

You have such a wonderful collection of films! I'm watching your uploads every day!

[@ToruKun1]

Seeing Kimiko's derpy braided pigtails sticking straight out of her head...now I understand why that weird hairstyle was so commonplace on girl characters in old manga, it really existed!

[@desertwind6923]

no. Manga and anime came first. Japanese style came later (satire/sarcasm)

[@greas1233]

Everything in manga and anime has some sort of inspiration of real life, most media are like that, granted upped to 1000.

[@ToruKun1]

@@greas1233 What I mean is, I thought it was an abstract exaggeration of like, "Eh, I can't really draw hair so here's some bullshit", not something modeled from real life.

[@frostychocolatemilkshakes2944]

The Pippi Longstocking braids?

[@scottbert9556]

I enjoy these films very much. Thank you again.

[@bigbongtheory363]

Culture..culture.. growing up in a strict Filipino household, if I was that Japanese boy, and I was eating like that? My mother would hit my head ! ' Why are you in a hurry, you glutton!" 😅

[@Rin-le7cx]

Bee Cy the way he put his hand on his head. (Lazyly) considered disrespectful esp on the table.

[@meooowww3672]

Come on y’all he was just a kid

[@PallasAthene12]

For real, he's got bad table manners even by Japanese standards. Sticking empty chopsticks in his mouth after his soup, stuffing another mouthful before he'd finished the first... Ugh! I was expecting them to say something instead of benevolently indulging him in front of the camera.

[@michaelijsbrand]

@ikilledAeris So do I ! Alas, I hear little of the persons who appear in my clips.

[@mcmlxii4419]

Wow...this video blows my mind because it was made the year BEFORE I was born. Didn't think there was anything THAT old still around! Lol. Thank you, Michael Rogge, for sharing this! Fascinating indeed!

[@profloor-restore1955]

I Like to think Kimiko is still alive and made a good life for herself!

[@paulbali9998]

imagine having to be a person, to live a life?! thank you for this window onto a very different world!

[@edumation]

Thank you. Can't wait to see them!

[@scottjones3966]

I like this. It's like the old Life magazines and National Geographic magazines came to life.

[@user-ux9kb3wk7d]

おそらくこの時代は貧しい人もたくさんいたと思うけど、人様に迷惑かけるなとかしつけはしっかりしてたと思う。 サザエさんみたいな家庭が憧れですね。

[@user-pj5go4xf7o]

ご近所さんには立ち止まってお辞儀で挨拶。 今はそこまで丁寧な挨拶はご近所にはしないですからね。 やはりこの時代の人達は礼節を重んじていたのでしょうね。

[@user-te3bt3cx4o]

波平が車買わされるエピがあったとおもうが？

[@user-vu4tu5gh9w]

この時代に大学行けてるってだけで すごい‥裕福な家系やね。

[@user-vo5hz8kj2o]

親ならちょうど戦前でしょ。この時代でこの生活レベルは、裕福というより元々の家系がいいでしょうしかも京都。東京より上流家庭が多い

[@Mtneko]

Thank you for sharing !

[@reyse1973]

I hope kimiko became a doctor !

[@georgewells5322]

A fascinating insight into a different world and time . And yet being a teenager in the sixties I recognise many similarities. I wonder if Kimino achieved her dream of going to University? I hope so . A wonderful film ☺👍

[@oportozhao1242]

Kimino may still living in Kyoto if she was like 18 in 1961, she is 80 years old now

[@user-if2iv3iy5t]

こういう家庭憧れる

[@user-te6oi4mb2o]

Что же тебе мешает так жить?

[@AdEsguerraVlog2021]

Enjoyed rhis video. thanks to the information .

[@kinakk6260]

Beautiful

[@adel-711]

I wish that I could back to those days where respect and honor exsisted. I have watched this video at least 100 times.

[@BushidoIslander8689]

Amazing!

[@Candyy248]

Life is way better now...

[@Allan-et5ig]

michaelrogge - great stuff!

[@user-by3dl9gm8g]

現代より服の包装が丁寧だな。現代は、紙袋か袋にいれるだけ。

[@user-hn1bq3sy9b]

Dank, i still remember when my grandmother used to tell me that family was everything in Japan, i'm 32 almozt 33 and most of my pairs have not even have a first girlfriend, and i'm the very last of very very few, in a 126.8 millon population to still wear kimono as a daily wear.

[@xm01]

Makoto Shimabukuro Family is the most important gift in life. I‘m happy that you appreciate it! And that you still wear kimono as a daily wear is good too! In Arabia not so many people wear the traditional Arabian Gulf clothes like earlier!

[@usmansheikh7717]

Thank You!

[@henripitot9137]

Thank you

[@jihokeem1831]

i love this film

[@krug-kr2vh]

まず最初に出て来たナカムラさんの部下がかなりのイケメンで草

[@kramseyr2800]

I love this documentary! Thank you so much for uploading. I watch it every night before I go to bed, almost. I'm American by the way, lol.

[@nami9078]

４年前のコメントですが、今も毎晩見ているのですか？ 気になります😄

[@fro0o7ELF]

How respectful family though father ,and how wife respects him as the family man when she’s treated him so nicely 👏🏻

[@Jakegothicsnake]

There is a bit of a lack of affection between the family, especially the father. I feel like the father should be greeting the children by hugging them and the wife giving him a kiss.

[@cainlies250]

@@Jakegothicsnake this was 1961

[@jeyansurijeysu7255]

I visited Kyoto in 2001. The house i stayed is similiar to this. Kyoto is very clean.

[@youngnope4664]

This family must've been well off.

[@meanwhileinjapan2265]

@Raza Khan Why are you spamming this? we get it.

[@thanhkhuongtrinh4503]

Very nice ! Thanks

[@kirisamereimu36]

帰宅後はお父さん着物ってサザエさんみたい。

[@souravsen5773]

Nostalgic. Love from India :)

[@kapatidtomas]

"This isn't Imperial or Weaboo Japan. This is what we call *Normal Japan* " -Me

[@Rififi50]

Thomas Gabriel N. Laconico's/TGN.L's MPCCATHUPP Ah yes, the life of a rich family in the early 70s. Clearly the everyday imbodiment of a _normal_ life.

[@user-op3ln2lb5lpekapeka]

北朝鮮(^3^)/

[@-gemberkoekje-5547]

There is no Weaboo Japan

[@markhenley3097]

The Late Showa Era (best Japan).

[@Nahoko_Satomi]

I do concur that 👍

[@TheHitfmdj]

I like old video,Watching from china ,thank u so much

[@jun-5303]

京都でも相当裕福なお家やね。住んでるの吉田神社の近くなんかな？。お父さん島津製作所かなんかの重役さんやし、娘さん京大行ってはるし。 60年後の今、80近いお年やと思いますけど、どんなお祖母ちゃんになってるのか気になりますわ。

[@user-rh9qd9ml4e]

オムロンにお勤めの方ですね にしても動画内の娘さん、1944年生まれで京都大学医学部に進学するとは凄まじい才女ですね笑

[@jun-5303]

お父さんオムロンにお勤めやったんや？。娘さんの生まれたころが気になってました。お父さんは、軍需産業の重要なポストについてて兵役免除になってたんかな?、とかいらんコト考えてました。（笑）

[@jun-5303]

娘さんが大丸で買われたマルーンのブルゾン　¥13000が令和の時代にナンボするんかちょっと調べてみたら・・・約4.3倍になるらしくて、なんと￥55900！。どひゃーですわ、（笑）子供の為とは言え、56000円をポンと現金で払えるのは凄いですわ。

[@user-vz4wp8ow8h]

Love Japan

[@Nina.92]

Beautiful 🌸

[@adammiller6747]

This is so interesting i can't stop watching all of what you have uploaded❤🎉 Arigato gozaimasu 🙏🧎🏽

[@michaeluchida9696]

This is a very rich family... during this time period, there was only one TV and one phone in my grandmother’s village. Also many families could not afford to send all their kids to high school let alone their daughters (usually only older male siblings went).

[@michaelijsbrand]

@wickedlady4180 Thanks for the update. I wonder if they know of this clip.

[@user-fy1wn8wb6d]

ここの家は戦前から裕福な家庭と見た

[@conservativemike3768]

What’s remarkable is not only the social changes since Meiji, but the PHYSICAL changes. Their protein intake increased 10 fold since 1860, and with it their height and body shape. My wife, for example, is a curvy 5’8” in height, and would have been considered a giant a mere century ago when many women barely topped 5 ft. Her brother is 6’3”. As a trivia comparison, the Mitsubishi Zero aircraft was built for a male pilot about 5’4” tall.

[@user-bg1sy6zn4c]

Women over the ages have increased in height substantially

[@conservativemike3768]

@@user-bg1sy6zn4c / The old saying goes, “after a man gets married he gets smaller and his wife gets bigger.”

[@alina3254]

​@@conservativemike3768you re so funny dude. So funny and wise, with modern ideas, kind words, wit. Indeed women get bigger. Bigger brains to judge fucking i**s lile you

[@yuemi8760]

品のあるお母様 家の中でもお着物でシンドそうだな〜私だったら寛げない(*_*) 慣れなのでしょうか

[@bubblegumlie4918]

Idk why but those types of videos are very interesting 👁👄👁

[@dec-vt100]

this is wonderful

[@user-li8lv4ik8s]

私が生まれる少し前の頃です。これは中流家庭ですね。私の家も私が4、5歳の頃まではそこそこに恵まれてたのになぁ。。

[@ashwin3133]

i liked this documentary

[@silviamileto9401]

💗Grazie, deliziosi questi video💗

[@jarednicolaiparnadainova631]

I somehow enjoyed watching this..

[@kapatidtomas]

Great Posting as well!, This is the only video i will think about Japan and it's Old Tribute

[@limeyfigdet7460]

This feels more like a movie than a documentary. Style has changed.

[@bubblegumlie4918]

The little boy eating tangerines in from of the tv is something that will never change xD

[@user-jx9ce6fz3g]

理想的な家族

[@ralex65]

Wonderful video of time since gone! As a detail, it seemed that the young daughter had seamed stockings.

[@sabinacomert6752]

Nice video

[@mohamadtarek2090]

I miss these days really 😢

[@5sazie]

beautiful life

[@wickedlady4180]

Kiyoshi went on to head a large corporation, and Kimiko is now a rocket scientist :p

[@orange-bl6ej]

洋服高っ！ お金持ちですね

[@xx_kc.9149]

I am a natsuki from harajuku! Lots of love!

[@kaladar5377]

Wow, i watched a japanese movie. I like japanese culture very much, love from India.

[@mknm1349]

0:50 Watching carefully, it's apparent that Mr. Nakamura works for Omron at their Nagaokakyo, Kyoto Central R&D Lab which had just opened in October 1960. The company very much exists and diversified into multiple markets after this video was made.

[@bruceli4092]

Hello Mr. Rogge. This is a lovely video clip. I am wondering how we are able to reach you if we want to show it for exhibition purposes? Thank you.

[@davehue9517]

Beautiful views and life.. the women are very graceful and beautiful as they go through their day... must have been a great time for them..

[@mamepi5028]

0:50 この会社は立石電機（今のオムロン）ですね。

[@duangchitphanchamfar6893]

What a rare movie footage

[@mugiyuzu8399]

貴重な映像。市電いいなぁ。ところで家のつくりは東京スタイル。京町屋ではないのね。

[@damedesuka77]

Help, I can't stop watching these videos. I'm not even Japanese and I wasn't even born yet at the time this footage was made 😂

[@goksi5883]

I believe in this moment as I’m watching this old documentary....the sister and young brother still alive .

[@didindodon8251]

I Love kyoto japan" from Jakarta city, indonesia..😊😊🔰🔰👑👑

[@Tubingenstr]

Thank you for your uploading. I was born early 1960's in Japan. I've been a business traveler in Europe and USA since 1990. Even before WW2, there was no rigid system to promote high ability worker to become a manager. In my feeling, Japanese company is much easier to become a manager from a worker. European/Amarican company hire a manager as a manager and worker as a worker. What do you think?

[@samurdhiperera7405]

I think it is true for all of Asia. The West has very rigid employment rules. (Speaking from first hand experience as an engineer trying to get an entry level job in the West).

[@wip1664]

European/American businesses is Big business, corporate. Asian businesses were always small business/proprietorship until the mid 80's. However, due to population growth from the 60's onward, there are simply not that many jobs to meet demand, for everyone, everywhere. Western countries were better off, more advanced, and therefore can create jobs. Whereas Asian countries could not do the same without affecting their society as a whole. The Eastern countries caught up in the 80's and 90's, and also began creating employment through big business/corporation. Furthermore, the population growth continued everywhere. As long as there is population growth, there will be "job growth". But by the 90's, technology peaked, and job security became threatened. There is this huge population that is better served by technologies/proven innovations than by human workers. So now, not only are corporate jobs dwindling, the "blue collar" jobs are also reduced via machines, technologies, etc. Corporate jobs are not well defined, therefore it is easy to over-hire. Only when the financial statements start to consistently show loss year after year would a big company dismiss employees. It does not look good for companies to fire people or lay people off. The economy of the entire population would fall into recession or worse. Whatever "recession" means to a population. Economics of the last century after the world wars only made sense/served its purpose for a short time. It appears that "economics" has not changed much, to my dismay and astonishment, post Y2K. Today is mid 2021. With global issues, such as climate change and Covid, that is difficult if not impossible to contain, ??? I don't know what to say to end this overdone analysis. Going back to respond to your comment, Japanese companies like proven workers of whom they have witnessed the ability and capability to work/to be responsible...to carry the more critical positions.

[@BabyBugBug]

Agreed.

[@conservativemike3768]

The group culture dominates Japanese employment behavior, though this is changing due to massive demographic and technological changes. We’ll see it evolve dramatically as the population drops to about 80 million by 2060, at which point the pendulum will swing again as quality of life issues increasingly dominate Japanese decision making.

[@kevp9601]

I Love Japan. 😀

[@co4251]

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