Lack of career mobility has been cited nunerous times of why their is this problem exists to begin with. It is very difficult if not impossible to move one com

Lack of career mobility has been cited nunerous times of why their is this problem exists to begin with. It is very difficult if not impossible to move one company to other mid-career, especially past certain age (job listing in Japan may can list upper age limit), as Japanese hires are very focus on graduates on given year. One reason is because it is not easy to fire people, one wouldn't find opportinities elsewhere, so they are often forced to put up with their situations without much controls. People who get sent to those "do nothing" room (they call it many ways to sounds politically correct, things like "career development department") are those company wishes to fire. There are scandals on these time to time, but instead of letting them watch TV all day it usually consists of meaningless tasks or simply forbidding to do anything to force them quit voluntary, but these are certainly newsworthy extremes. I will omit reasons for long hours as these are discussed elsewhere in other threads.