As a Japanese, The author took the average number without considering the situation. The article said Japanese has average work time of 1,713 hours per year. No

As a Japanese, The author took the average number without considering the situation. The article said Japanese has average work time of 1,713 hours per year. Not much Japanese people work like that. There are either over-worked full-time workers or under-worked part-time workers. Full-time workers work more than 2000 hours per year. part-time workers work about 1100 hours per year. The ratio of pert-time workers are increasing that's decreasing the average work time in Japan. You see, there aren't many Japanese work 1700 hours per year. Just a over-working anti-productive workers and under-working poor workers who can't find the full-time job for some reason(school, child, tax, disability) Bogus article.