No idea why you think workers in Japan, as the general rule, are working 40 hour weeks when it's famously much more than that. For example[1]: > Nearly one qua

No idea why you think workers in Japan, as the general rule, are working 40 hour weeks when it's famously much more than that. For example[1]: > Nearly one quarter of Japanese companies require employees to work more than 80 hours of overtime a month, according to a 2016 government survey. Those extra hours are often unpaid. The article also mentions the lack of holiday or workers taking holiday, which the government tried to force happen via legislation[2]: > Japanese workers are so reluctant to leave their offices that they took less than half their holiday entitlement in 2013. The government now wants to raise that total to 70 per cent by 2020, according to the Yomiuri newspaper. > At present, employees are entitled to a minimum of 10 days paid leave annually, with the figure increasing one day for every year that they work to a maximum of 20 days a year. [1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/01/japan-has-some-of-the-longest-working-hours-in-the-world-its-trying-to-change.html https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/01/japan-has-some-of-the-longes... [2] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/11333843/Japan-announces-new-laws-to-force-workers-to-go-on-holiday.html https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/113338...